Devo 2 LP Set Live in Seattle 1981 / New Traditionalists
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Devo 2 LP Set Live in Seattle 1981 / New Traditionalists
Sealed LP set on the Booji Boy Records label relesed for Record store Day 2012. LPBOOJI001. 2LP SET + Two 12” posters. A rare recording of DEVO live in concert during their 1981 “New Traditionalists” tour, extracted from DEVO’s archives, and unreleased until now. For this tour, DEVO donned the self-designed plastic replicas of Reagan’s lacquered hair look and got to work on synchronized treadmills placed in a stage set featuring a back lit, fast food abomination of a Greek temple with Ionic columns. DEVO were through bein’ cool even though they never started. The look, the show and the songs mutated beyond their satiric underpinnings into something strangely captivating to many and very threatening to others. Once again DEVO struck a raw nerve and served as a cultural litmus test. The press heaped big helpings of praise for their originality and vicious attacks on their “ungodliness” in equal amounts. This 2 LP set was cut from a cassette recording of DEVO’s show in Seattle, WA show in November ‘81. DEVO archivist Michael Pilmer (aka Devo-Obsesso), found the tape in a shoebox full of cassettes in Bob No 2’s home fifteen years ago, which he immediately transferred it to DAT. Afterward it promptly disappeared in the flotsam of Devo history. Here resurrected it stands as a testament to Prince’s claim “Devo, you guys are crazy!” Yes, crazy tight and relentless like Caucasian James Browns on marching powder. Enjoy. Tracks : Opening Theme, Going Under, Through Being Cool, Jerkin' Back n' Forth, Soft Things, Pity U, Girl U Want, Planet Earth, Whip It, Race of Doom, Set Change Countdown, Super Thing, Uncontrollable Urge, Mongoloid, Jocko Homo, Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA, Gut Feeling, Gates of Steel
Payment is by Paypal only / Postage : UK £4 / Europe £9 / USA £12.00 / Japan & Australia £12. All vinyl is posted out in thick cardboard mailers with extra stiffners.
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