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Seats were comfortably cushioned and seemed to have more legroom than some of the space-stingier large venues around town.īest of all, Devo sounded great at loud volume in the room.įestival Pass: Looking back (and ahead) at Ohana and the quietest music festival around From the concession stands to the bathrooms, it gleamed.ĭepending on the configuration, it can hold as many as 6,000, though the design provided great sightlines from anywhere in the theater. This was just the seventh show held at the YouTube Theater, which is part of the Sofi Stadium complex in Inglewood, and as such still had that new venue smell about it. After a break for Mothersbaugh to change into his Booji Boy alter ego, an encore of “Beautiful World” served as a farewell. The show peaked with “Gates Of Steel” and “Freedom Of Choice,” the latter the title track of the album where both first appeared. The band then launched into “Jocko Homo,” which includes the call-and-response lyrics, “Are we not men? We are Devo,” the band finished the extended version in grotesque monkey masks as Mark Mothersbaugh devolved into a dancing, grunting primate. “But we’re here to exorcise that tonight.” “I feel like we went through a wormhole into an alternative universe,” Casale continued.
“Yeah, we don’t have to look far for the evidence. “How many people here tonight think de-evolution is real?” he asked the affirmative cheers of the crowd. That long history together makes for a musically tight performance as one song slipped into the next - a pair of covers, the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and Johnny Rivers’ version of “Secret Agent Man,” and a pair from their debut album, including “Uncontrollable Urge,” among the mid-show highlights.ĭevo also delivers a show, from the visuals that filled the screen behind them as they played to the costume changes they made during the night - vaguely authoritarian-looking black outfits to start, yellow tearaway hazmat suits, and black T-shirts, shorts and kneehigh socks among them.Ĭasale paused at one point between songs to note the similarity between current events, including the pandemic, and Devo’s original view that the world is in trouble of de-evolution - that is, more or less falling apart - if we don’t wake up and make changes before it’s too late. Drummer Josh Freese has been in the band since 1996, long enough to feel like an old friend by now, and Josh Hager on guitar and keyboards joined in 2014 after the death of original member Bob Casale. Songs such as “Peek-a-Boo” and “That’s Good” followed, but very quickly the set shifted to numbers such as “Girl U Want” and the band’s biggest hit, “Whip It,” songs even the most casual fans recognize from the opening notes.ĭevo’s core remains singer-keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh, singer-bassist Gerald Casale, and guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh.
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