Mothersbraugh acquired his first Model D in the mid-'70s and quickly took to incorporating it into Devo's early sonic oeuvre. You can hear our recreation of Devo's "Smart Patrol" Minimoog Arp at the 10:00 mark here. As hinted at above, Devo's entry into the world of electronic instruments came via the Moog Minimoog Model D.
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Like any synth pop or new wave band of the 1980s, Devo's synthesizer arsenal is full of many and varied instruments.
What follows is an exploration of the synths used by Devo, and the studio techniques they used from the late 1970s into the early 1990s. Like many bands of the 1980s, Devo later notably adopted the Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer and sampler for much of its mid-'80s output. Indeed, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh was one of the early adopters of the Moog Minimoog Model D synthesizer. In the studio, Devo used all sorts of instruments, especially of the electronic variety. The band could always be found traveling just ahead of the cultural and musical curve. This experimental ethos could be heard in the idiosyncratic punk of their 1977 track "Gut Feeling" (as heard on Wes Anderson' The Life Aquatic), as well as in the goofy synth pop of "Whip It," with its lyrics inspired by the parody songs and poems in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. From its earliest days at Kent State University amid the anti-Vietnam protests, to the band's 2010 album, Something for Everybody, Devo pushed itself to the extreme frontiers of pop music. While Devo envisioned its name, music, and visual brand as expressing the concept of devolution, the band's audiovisual genius has always been one of evolution. The Horace Mann Theater is at 120th Street and Broadway.Devo (1979). For information and reservations, call 6783278 between 1 and 8 P.M. Shepard, who is known for his unconventional works dealing with rock lore, myths, drugs and violence, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama for “Buried Child.” The plays, which constitute the first production of the new Center for Theater Studies at Columbia, are “The Tooth of Crime,” “Mad Dog Blues,” “Melodrama Play,” “Cowboy Mouth” and “Killer Head.”
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But unless they manage quickly to broaden and deepen their style, their appeal can only be transitory.įive Dramas by Shepard To Be in Free RepertoryĪ series of five plays by the Pulitzer Prize‐winning playwright Sam Shepard will be presented free in repertory at Columbia University from Aug. Perhaps Devo will still get lucky and have a novelty hit to attain, however briefly, the mass success that's so far eluded them. It was a cute notion and it filled a limited need. When the bulk of ‘those songs appeared in the second half of Saturday's set, they still’ helped bring things to a fevered if slightly overwrought climax.īut the new songs sound derivative of the old, and in any event just how wide a range can one aspire to with so limited and gimmicky a concept? Not very, to judge from Devo's case.
Not important or moving, maybe, but at least exciting and quirky. That idea is shared with a number of other groups, above all Kraftwerk, and posits a sort of rock played by robots to stiff, poundingly mechanical, hythms, the phrases'short and choppy and the musical textures tricked up with daubs of modish electronics.ĭevo has been, going for several years now, and the songs ‘on its first album, which presumably represent the best of its first and brightest inspiration, are really clever. More and more, Devo seems like a one‐idea band whose time has passed. Still, this writer didn't really enjoy it all that much. ‘The crowd was on its feet most of the time toward the end and seemed rarely bored the performers went through five costume changes and worked up a fine sweat, and lots of energetic rock music was pumped out into the hall. Saturday evening's Devo concert at the Palladium was a success.
THERE is a school of thought that argues that the proper judgment of any pop‐music event, and perhaps of any event whatsoever, should be based solely on a dispassionate reporting of the audience's ‘response.
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