Oh No
The 80s were really the period in my life where I came into my own, musically speaking. Up until then I was pretty much listening to whatever my brother was listening to he would buy records and play them in our room, and so I listened (and generally liked them). I didn't really have "my" music until the very late seventies and early eighties.
No band is more responsible for the divergence into my own musical taste stream than Devo. They remained my favourite band throughout the eighties; I have all their albums on my iPhone; when I am out and about in Second Life, I'm the annoying guy wearing the energy dome in the 80s clubs pushing the DJ to spin some Devo. I have a Devo Seal_Clubber icon!
There was an article in Sunday's entrainment section that they are releasing a new album in 2010 called Fresh, and I rejoiced. The article also mentioned that the band was planning a North American tour, playing select albums in their entirety. "Wow," I thought, "I hope they make it to Toronto."
Which is why I was so incredibly dismayed to read in this morning's edition of that very same paper that Devo played at the Phoenix Tuesday and Wednesday night. For the first time (and likely last time) in 25 years, my favourite band from the 80s played in my town, and I missed it. Last night's gig sounds like it was particularly spudriffic: they played Freedom of Choice easily my favourite album in its entirety, and followed up with an encore of Beautiful World, one of my favourite songs from the New Traditionalists album.
I'm so fucking bummed about this. It would have been spectacularly useful if Sunday's article had mentioned "Oh, and they're playing in YOUR TOWN this week". I certainly would have attended the Freedom show, and may have gone to the Are We Not Men show as well.
Fucking fuckity fuck.
No band is more responsible for the divergence into my own musical taste stream than Devo. They remained my favourite band throughout the eighties; I have all their albums on my iPhone; when I am out and about in Second Life, I'm the annoying guy wearing the energy dome in the 80s clubs pushing the DJ to spin some Devo. I have a Devo Seal_Clubber icon!
There was an article in Sunday's entrainment section that they are releasing a new album in 2010 called Fresh, and I rejoiced. The article also mentioned that the band was planning a North American tour, playing select albums in their entirety. "Wow," I thought, "I hope they make it to Toronto."
Which is why I was so incredibly dismayed to read in this morning's edition of that very same paper that Devo played at the Phoenix Tuesday and Wednesday night. For the first time (and likely last time) in 25 years, my favourite band from the 80s played in my town, and I missed it. Last night's gig sounds like it was particularly spudriffic: they played Freedom of Choice easily my favourite album in its entirety, and followed up with an encore of Beautiful World, one of my favourite songs from the New Traditionalists album.
I'm so fucking bummed about this. It would have been spectacularly useful if Sunday's article had mentioned "Oh, and they're playing in YOUR TOWN this week". I certainly would have attended the Freedom show, and may have gone to the Are We Not Men show as well.
Fucking fuckity fuck.