Devo - Live In The Land Of The Rising Sun - Japan 2003 DVD (1 Disc) (UK)

Starring: Devo
Dvd Release: 31st January, 2005
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Devo was a rock music band from Akron, Ohio whose music mingled kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, satirical social commentary & thinly veiled sexual allusions in discordantly synthesized pop songs that often featured unusual time signatures. They proved hugely influential on new wave music & to a lesser extent on punk rock & geek rock. The bands deliberately constructed geeky image also enabled them to expound often provocative commentaries about the state of American society and, like Frank Zappa, beneath the clownish exterior there was serious musicianship & social & political content -- founder member Gerry Casale had witnessed the killing of students at Kent State University when National Guard troops infamously opened fire on demonstrators in 1970. Are We Not Men? period, matching plastic hairdos, masks & the signature flower pot hats for Freedom of Choice. Mothersbaugh also donned a baby mask to create his famous alter-ego, Booji Boy, who symbolised the infantile regression that Devo saw in so much of American culture.