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[kip_w]

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My great pal geckoman has located an online viewing copy of The Greatest Music Video Ever Made, namely Devo's "Are You Experienced?" This was only ever shown on TV once that I ever saw -- I saw it first at a presentation by Doug Smith at the 1984 Dallas Fantasy Fair. I wouldn't have seen it on TV if Geck hadn't called and told me to put a tape in -- just in time, too! Thanks to him, and thanks to Weird Al for showing it, and thanks to Devo for making it. Watch it several times. Sorry the quality's not great, but you're still ahead of where you'd have been if it hadn't been available at all.
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Comments

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Greater even than "Hymn of the Nations"?

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Perhaps I should have said it was my favorite, but it's hard to imagine anything better.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

That's seriously twisted. I'm never gonna hear surf music again.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Deaf to surf? Egad! That mean you won't be able to hear the Tiki Tones covering "Ghost and Mister Chicken?" Or Jan & Dean doing "Popsicle"?

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

I saw that video before a Devo concert in the mid-80s, and had never seen it again. Thanks for the link!

(The show was great by the way. I think it was the Total Devo tour but we called it the Bitter Has-beens tour. With affection of course. They sang an acoustic version of "Jocko Homo," long before MTV Unplugged patented kind of thing, and a kick-ass version of "Somewhere" from West Side Story. There was a girl a few rows ahead of us whose head was so tall and pointy she looked like a conehead. I spent the whole show trying to figure out how she did it, until finally she moved her head while dancing and a plastic cup fell out! She had had the cup on her head, with her hair pulled up over it into a pony-tail on the very top.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The girl ahead of you sounds like a miracle of style. Sorry I missed that! I got another Devo bit from WFMU -- Devo and Neil Young. Audio only (it's from a movie or something they did together). Haven't listened to it yet, it's a little long and I want to be able to appreciate it.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful. I've never seen it before.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

It's a complete account of a facet of the cultural history of the sixties, encoded for easy embedding in your cranium. The blonde teeny boppers; the kids watching at home. Yup, that was the sixties, all right.