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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 was off by four years, I said 1980 and they say 1976. Not much difference. At least I had a good idea when we started running trade deficits.
When did you think it was??
I read half of that Cato Institute article.
Do you and your family run a trade deficit? Are the credit card companies after your ass? Are they cutting your line of credit due to lack of credit-worthiness?
Wait you said we didn't run a Trade Deficit in 1980.
When did you think it was???"
76-77 because we studied it in Senior Government we talked about the foreign cars starting to take over the market as well as the Japanese electronics.
We've had our credit lines cut, but we have never had a late payment. They aren't after us but that is because we pay as agreed.
“Ultimately, every penny of very debt must be paid – if not by the borrower, than by the lender.” CV Meyers
I doubt you know who he was but you can look him up
OK and how does this relate to you being 100% wrong when stating that in 1980 we didn't run a trade deficit?
Is this non sequitur an attempt at deflection from you error?
(Oh and for the record I have his book "The Coming Deflation")
I also have over 30 economics books that I've read cover to cover several times including "The Wealth of Nations", "The Mystery of Capital" as well as Keynes and Hayek and Von Mises and Friedman, just to name a few.
Get real/.... I was four years off. You better have something better than that
I see, so when you wrote:
Devo was big in 1980....
We didn’t run trade deficits back then,
Where does your claim of "four years off" fit in?
Your statement was a claim we didn't run trade deficits back then, however be we did run them back then in fact we have done so every year since 1976.(FYI 76-80 is five years) But we also had trade deficits prior to 76.
So your claim of four years doesn't work no matter what criteria you apply. Is math (along with economics) not a strong subject for you?
>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...”<
Sure sounds like they’re going for the “bigger the business, the better” type of poking fun at corporate America.
Dorks.
The money is in limited edition $80 fashion shirts (either mass marketed through Target like the Bowie clothing line was or direct order from a band website).
You can download an album or concert video but the “new” plastic hat and collectors action figures must be purchased before supplies sell out.
goodbye idiot
Nice comback Potsie...
Mothersbaugh’s big gig lately has been appearing on the Nick Jr. kid’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba” doing drawing. He’s actually an accomplished artist.
}:-)4
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