Posted on 02/17/2010 12:15:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise
...Thirty-five years after the group's first album -- and two decades since its last -- Devo is back with new music and a look to replace their iconic energy dome hats.
Devo will have a world stage for the debut when it performs Monday night, February 22, at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia...
"When you think about 1980, if somebody would have showed you in a crystal ball 2010, you would have thought it was a bad joke," Casale said. "De-evolution happened and now everybody agrees. They don't think we're crazy. They know that it was true."
Devo began after Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh met as art students at Kent State University. The group wrote its first music in May 1970...
...corporate America appears to be the primary target of its social satire.
"We're playing ball with corporate society," Casale said.
The band has re-signed with Warner Brothers Records and hired an ad agency to help shape its image, he said...
Instead of being an art band targeting a niche following, Devo is now using focus groups to choose which songs to include on its next CD and what clothes to wear onstage, he said.
"We want to know what you think," Casale said. "Just like CNN says 'What do you think?' We want to know."
"There's color studies going on, different costumes being shown to people, different mixes of songs, and we're letting people kind of direct us toward a final product," he said.
The goal is for Devo to "penetrate every nook and cranny of our technologically advanced pop culture in the coming year," a recent news release said. "With an arsenal of new songs, videos, fashions, apps, toys, games, live performances and more, we will reach out to create something for everybody..."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I don’t know where that comes from, but he was definitely there when I saw them. This was around 1998 or so.
And they are doing corporate satire?
Whip it good.
Actually Devo was popular in the later 70’s.
Wow, is that a Moog Key-tar? Cool!
I’m not too accurate about times back then. Maybe I discovered ‘em five years after the fact. 70’s, 80’s all the same to me now. Blondie was big back then, too. Debbie Harry. Yeah!
Amazing for a group that publicly dissed their first “corporate” sponsor, Honda.
He’s been with the world
and I’m tired of the soup du jour
he’s been with the world
i wanna end this prophylactic tour
afraid nobody around here
understands my potato
guess I’m only a spudboy
looking for a real tomato
Does Viacom-Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” qualify as “corporate satire”?
I have a Yamaha KX 5 Keytar. 
Touch sensitive with a "pitch bar" on the neck also it had the coolest interface ever:
Its called the Breath Controller, you could literally turn the Keyboard in to a wind insturment and get awesome synth Sax sounds as well as Realistic Brass sounds with the attack and feel of a wind insturment!
I've had my Yamaha for almost 30 years and I almost bought the Moog then but when they showed me the Breath Controller for Yamahammer it was no contest!
I went to high school with Mark and was in the same class with his younger brother. We were all a bit warped back then but only a few of us made any money at it.
LOL
Devo was big in 1980....
We didn’t run trade deficits back then, the Federal Government that Reagan wanted to prune was much smaller, illegal immigration was nothing, Wall Street was fairly small. Was there any version of Windows back then?
Say what?
Windows 1.01 escaped into the wild on November 20th 1985.
February 10, 2010
U.S. Trade in Goods and Services - Balance of Payments (BOP) Basis
Value in millions of dollars
1960 thru 2009
Balance Exports Imports
Period Total Goods BOP Services Total Goods BOP Services Total Goods BOP Services
1960 3,508 4,892 -1,384 25,940 19,650 6,290 22,432 14,758 7,674
1961 4,195 5,571 -1,376 26,403 20,108 6,295 22,208 14,537 7,671
1962 3,370 4,521 -1,151 27,722 20,781 6,941 24,352 16,260 8,092
1963 4,210 5,224 -1,014 29,620 22,272 7,348 25,410 17,048 8,362
1964 6,022 6,801 -779 33,341 25,501 7,840 27,319 18,700 8,619
1965 4,664 4,951 -287 35,285 26,461 8,824 30,621 21,510 9,111
1966 2,939 3,817 -878 38,926 29,310 9,616 35,987 25,493 10,494
1967 2,604 3,800 -1,196 41,333 30,666 10,667 38,729 26,866 11,863
1968 250 635 -385 45,543 33,626 11,917 45,293 32,991 12,302
1969 91 607 -516 49,220 36,414 12,806 49,129 35,807 13,322
1970 2,254 2,603 -349 56,640 42,469 14,171 54,386 39,866 14,520
1971 -1,302 -2,260 958 59,677 43,319 16,358 60,979 45,579 15,400
1972 -5,443 -6,416 973 67,222 49,381 17,841 72,665 55,797 16,868
1973 1,900 911 989 91,242 71,410 19,832 89,342 70,499 18,843
1974 -4,293 -5,505 1,212 120,897 98,306 22,591 125,190 103,811 21,379
1975 12,404 8,903 3,501 132,585 107,088 25,497 120,181 98,185 21,996
1976 -6,082 -9,483 3,401 142,716 114,745 27,971 148,798 124,228 24,570
1977 -27,246 -31,091 3,845 152,301 120,816 31,485 179,547 151,907 27,640
1978 -29,763 -33,927 4,164 178,428 142,075 36,353 208,191 176,002 32,189
1979 -24,565 -27,568 3,003 224,131 184,439 39,692 248,696 212,007 36,689
1980 -19,407 -25,500 6,093 271,834 224,250 47,584 291,241 249,750 41,491
1981 -16,172 -28,023 11,851 294,398 237,044 57,354 310,570 265,067 45,503
1982 -24,156 -36,485 12,329 275,236 211,157 64,079 299,391 247,642 51,749
1983 -57,767 -67,102 9,335 266,106 201,799 64,307 323,874 268,901 54,973
1984 -109,072 -112,492 3,420 291,094 219,926 71,168 400,166 332,418 67,748
1985 -121,880 -122,173 294 289,070 215,915 73,155 410,950 338,088 72,862
1986 -138,538 -145,081 6,543 310,033 223,344 86,689 448,572 368,425 80,147
1987 -151,684 -159,557 7,874 348,869 250,208 98,661 500,552 409,765 90,787
1988 -114,566 -126,959 12,393 431,149 320,230 110,919 545,715 447,189 98,526
1989 -93,141 -117,749 24,607 487,003 359,916 127,087 580,144 477,665 102,479
1990 -80,864 -111,037 30,173 535,233 387,401 147,832 616,097 498,438 117,659
1991 -31,135 -76,937 45,802 578,344 414,083 164,261 609,479 491,020 118,459
1992 -39,212 -96,897 57,685 616,882 439,631 177,251 656,094 536,528 119,566
1993 -70,311 -132,451 62,141 642,863 456,943 185,920 713,174 589,394 123,780
1994 -98,493 -165,831 67,338 703,254 502,859 200,395 801,747 668,690 133,057
1995 -96,384 -174,170 77,786 794,387 575,204 219,183 890,771 749,374 141,397
1996 -104,065 -191,000 86,935 851,602 612,113 239,489 955,667 803,113 152,554
1997 -108,273 -198,428 90,155 934,453 678,366 256,087 1,042,726 876,794 165,932
1998 -166,140 -248,221 82,081 933,174 670,416 262,758 1,099,314 918,637 180,677
1999 -265,090 -347,819 82,729 965,884 683,965 281,919 1,230,974 1,031,784 199,190
2000 -379,835 -454,690 74,855 1,070,597 771,994 298,603 1,450,432 1,226,684 223,748
2001 -365,505 -429,898 64,393 1,004,896 718,711 286,184 1,370,400 1,148,609 221,791
2002 -421,601 -482,831 61,230 977,470 685,170 292,299 1,399,071 1,168,002 231,069
2003 -495,035 -549,012 53,977 1,020,190 715,848 304,342 1,515,225 1,264,860 250,365
2004 -609,987 -671,835 61,848 1,159,233 806,161 353,072 1,769,220 1,477,996 291,224
2005 -715,269 -790,851 75,582 1,281,459 892,337 389,122 1,996,728 1,683,188 313,540
2006 -760,359 -847,260 86,901 1,451,685 1,015,812 435,873 2,212,044 1,863,072 348,972
2007 -701,423 -830,992 129,569 1,643,168 1,138,384 504,784 2,344,590 1,969,375 375,215
2008 -695,937 -840,252 144,315 1,826,596 1,276,994 549,602 2,522,532 2,117,245 405,287
2009 -380,661 -516,974 136,313 1,553,061 1,045,575 507,486 1,933,722 1,562,549 371,173
U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division.
NOTE: (1) Data presented on a Balance of Payment (BOP) basis. Information on data sources and methodology
are available at www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/press.html.
Thanks. First time I paid attention to anything about PCs was when Windows 95 was released and people were lined up at stores for the Mid Night release. All that media hoopla got my attention. Bought my first PC in 1997
Cato Institute "America's Maligned and Misunderstood Trade Deficit"
Your own data shows that we run trade deficits in an unbroken string since 1976. (That little "-" symbol denotes a Negative number under total.)
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