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Devo's first live show was in 1975 opening for Sun Ra and things were chaotic: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/15k9kf/devo_hired_as_a_joke_to_open_for_

• artsytrashcan 4y ago
  I prefer to see Mark Mothersbaugh's being known primarily as "The Rugrats Guy" to most Millennials as something akin to karmic justice for his antics. See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco.
  • p_j_w 4y ago
    >See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco. This won't be a surprise for anyone who knows much about him. Mark Mothersbaugh was a punk/new wave guy (though obviously not exclusively) and most punks had a visceral hatred for disco.
• Rochus 4y ago
  unfortunately the video is no longer available
  • dmix 4y ago
    Couldn't find the video but found this on wikipedia: > The earliest known live performance of the song was on Halloween night of 1975, opening for Sun Ra.[3] The released recording of this version is seven minutes long.[3] However, according to a 1997 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, they performed a half-hour rendition of the song as a joke to annoy the crowd: "We'd play 'Jocko Homo' for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, 'Are we not men? We are Devo!' for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists."[4] Edit: here's the audio only version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82j12E3cpS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82j12E3cpS4 It probably looked something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcp8osYmU88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcp8osYmU88
    • Rochus 4y ago
      thanks