DEVO Live 1980 is a DualDisc

DualDisc

DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America...

 release (and technically, the fourth DVD

DVD

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 release) by pioneering New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

/Alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Devo

Devo

Devo is an American band formed in 1973 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales . The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult...

.

The release documents a performance by the influential quintet during their Freedom of Choice

Freedom of Choice

Freedom of Choice is the third album by New Wave musicians Devo, released on May 16, 1980. It saw the band moving in more of an overt synthpop direction, even though guitars still played a prominent role....

 tour, when the band was gaining mainstream success on the strength of the Freedom of Choice album and their first major hit single "Whip It

Whip It

"Whip It" is the title of a 1980 single by the American New Wave band Devo. It appears on the album Freedom of Choice. There were two 7" single releases of "Whip It", one backed with a remix of the track "Snowball" and one backed with "Turn Around"...

". It was shot by director/cameraman Joe Reis and his Target Video

Target Video

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 team in Petaluma, California

Petaluma, California

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, using three video cameras.

The set list is similar to that of the full DEV-O Live

DEV-O Live

DEV-O LIVE is a live EP by the New Wave band Devo. It was recorded during the Freedom of Choice tour of 1980, at The Fox Warfield Theatre. Initially only six songs from the show were released on an EP in 1981, intended for airplay use...

 album (as released by Rhino Records

Rhino Entertainment

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' Rhino Handmade imprint in 1999 and as a regular Rhino CD release in 2005), which was recorded within a few days of this concert. Deviating from the previous album is Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games....

's alter ego Booji Boy

Booji Boy

Booji Boy is a character created in the early 1970s by American New Wave band Devo. The name is pronounced "Boogie Boy"—the strange spelling "Booji" resulted when the band was using letraset to produce captions for a film, and ran out of the letter "g"...

 singing "Tunnel of Life", preceded by the infamous footage of Booji Boy's head accidentally being "crushed" by a steam press.

The DVD

DVD

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 side of the DualDisc features as a bonus, B&W video footage of Devo opening for themselves as "Dove, The Band of Love".

A short clip (one camera angle) from this concert, of the band performing "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)", was previously seen on the band's 2004 DVD release Live in the Land of the Rising Sun

Bassist/songwriter/vocalist Gerald V. Casale provided the following note for the DualDisc's back cover: "This lone artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too."

The DualDisc release is available in both jewel case (CD) and Amaray (DVD

DVD

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) packaging.

There has also been a DVD only release without any CD audio.

DVD side

1. "Freedom of Choice Theme Song"
2. "Whip It"
3. "Snowball"
4. "It's Not Right"
5. "Girl U Want"
6. "Planet Earth"
7. "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)"
8. "Secret Agent Man"
9. "Pink Pussycat"
10. "Blockhead"
11. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
12. "Uncontrollable Urge"
13. "Mongoloid"
14. "Be Stiff"
15. "Gates of Steel"
16. "Freedom of Choice"
17. "Jocko Homo"
18. "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
19. "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy"
20. "Come Back Jonee"
21. "Tunnel of Life"
22. "Devo Corporate Anthem"

CD side

1. "Whip It"
2. "Snowball"
3. "It's Not Right"
4. "Girl U Want"
5. "Planet Earth"
6. "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)"
7. "Secret Agent Man"
8. "Pink Pussycat"
9. "Blockhead"
10. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
11. "Uncontrollable Urge"
12. "Mongoloid"
13. "Be Stiff"
14. "Gates of Steel"
15. "Freedom of Choice"
16. "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
17. "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy"
18. "Come Back Jonee"

Musicians

• Mark Mothersbaugh
  Mark Mothersbaugh
  Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games....
  
   - vocals, keyboards, guitar
• Gerald V. Casale - vocals, bass, bass keyboards
• Bob Mothersbaugh
  Bob Mothersbaugh
  Robert Leroy "Bob" Mothersbaugh, Jr.,, or "Bob 1", is the lead guitar player and occasional vocalist for Devo and younger brother of lead vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh...
  
   - vocals, lead guitar
• Bob Casale - rhythm guitar/lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Alan Myers - drums

Technical personnel

• Joe Reis - director, producer, main cameraman
• Mike Varga, Geoff Falasca - editing
• James W. Kelley - animation
• Bob Casale - DVD and CD audio mastering
• Chris Seyer, Big Round Sound Productions - alternate DVD audio mastering

External links

• MVD's page on Devo Live 1980
• Club Devo - Official website
• Devo Live Guide - Comprehensive guide to Devo's live performances.
• Devo Live 1980 Review