Members cobalt-60 Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Not sure how well known this is, but I just saw it today and felt like sharing. This starts out kinda cool, but just gets progressively more badass. Neil Young is coked out and pogoing all over the place, Mark Mothersbaugh's doing his creepy ass Booji Boy thing in a goddam crib screwing up all the lyrics, the other guys are all looking equally weird, and it culminates in a amazing noise jam. Apparently Neil was obsessed with Devo for awhile, and wanted to tour with them as his band. My, God, that would have been awesome. Out of all the crazy {censored} he did then, why not that? He did however make, essentially, a feature length Devo music video called Human Highway, spending three mil of his own money. Kinda cool. This came from that period... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=740771 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Supreme Pancake Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 He did however make, essentially, a feature length Devo music video called Human Highway, spending three mil of his own money. Kinda cool. This came from that period... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=740771 Couldn't be further from the truth. The movie's primary setting is the last day on Earth at a small gas station-diner in a fictional town located next to a nuclear power plant. The characters are diner employees and customers including Young Otto (Dean Stockwell) who has received ownership of the failing business by the Will of his recently deceased father. One employee, Lionel Switch (Neil Young) is the garage's goofy and bumbling auto mechanic who dreams of being a rock star. "I can do it!" he often exclaims. After some modest character development and a collage-like dream sequence the story ends with a tongue-in-cheek choreographed musical finale while nuclear war begins. Youtube use to have some of the videos from this movie but it looks like they removed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Supreme Pancake Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Oh![YOUTUBE]5BOz12CN7tM[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aliensporebomb Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Not sure how well known this is, but I just saw it today and felt like sharing.This starts out kinda cool, but just gets progressively more badass. Neil Young is coked out and pogoing all over the place, Mark Mothersbaugh's doing his creepy ass Booji Boy thing in a goddam crib screwing up all the lyrics, the other guys are all looking equally weird, and it culminates in a amazing noise jam.Apparently Neil was obsessed with Devo for awhile, and wanted to tour with them as his band. My, God, that would have been awesome. Out of all the crazy {censored} he did then, why not that? He did however make, essentially, a feature length Devo music video called Human Highway, spending three mil of his own money. Kinda cool. This came from that period...http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=740771 I'd heard stories about that video for years and finally get to see it. Thanks. Utterly crazed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodhonk Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seifukusha Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 very cooooooool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billyjackranger Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 wow. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tenine Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Listen to Trans by Neil Young, 1984 IIRC.Great album, though most NY fans hate it.Very DEVO-esque. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 hahahahahhah This is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hivedestruction Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 This is pretty righteous.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RadioSilence Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Listen to Trans by Neil Young, 1984 IIRC. Great album, though most NY fans hate it. Very DEVO-esque. i'm a huge NY fan and i love Trans. i love the fact that when people get used to what he's doing he's switch it up and do something totally unexpected like an album filled with synths and vocoders. and when his record company got pissed off with what he was doing and told him to "just make a rock and roll record" he went and made Everybody's Rockin' contrary old bastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tenine Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Also worth a mention - Arc.For me, much more interesting than (insert hipster drone band here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(album) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mitre Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 I love Neil. And Dennis Hopper and Russ Tamblyn. Devo's okay. But Human Highway is an AWFUL, AWFUL movie. There's a reason it went unreleased for so long. There are a couple of high points in the film, namely Neil and Devo playing "Hey Hey, My My" and the whole cast jumping around on shovels dancing and singing "Worried Man" Otherwise, it's so, so, so bad. I'm sure it'll come out on Archives Volume 3 or something, and I'll buy it, but...ugh. I sat through it once, and never again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodhonk Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 that video reminds me of this movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobalt-60 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 Forbidden Zone is awesome. God bless 80s money pit vanity projects. This is pretty righteous.. That's a pretty apt way to describe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coma Larkin Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 I agree w/ this entire thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members H.R. Shove and Stuff Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 That movie looks positively dreadful, although I would still watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Supreme Pancake Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 I love Neil. And Dennis Hopper and Russ Tamblyn. Devo's okay.But Human Highway is an AWFUL, AWFUL movie. From what I understand Journey Through the Past is even worse. I still want to see both though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodhonk Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 That movie looks positively dreadful, although I would still watch it. kinda like 200 motels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RitalinCupcake Posted October 1, 2009 Members Share Posted October 1, 2009 That was awesome. How have I gone all these years and not known that this existed? I've vaguely heard of Human Highway but had no idea about the Neil/Devo combo. Any other great pairings I should know about like maybe Dylan and the B-52's doing Rock Lobster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobalt-60 Posted October 2, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 2, 2009 That was awesome. How have I gone all these years and not known that this existed? I've vaguely heard of Human Highway but had no idea about the Neil/Devo combo. Any other great pairings I should know about like maybe Dylan and the B-52's doing Rock Lobster? I know, that's what I thought too, how the hell did I not see this before. Hm. There is a team up of proto-ravers the Silver Apples with Jimi Hendrix playing Star Spangled Banner. Unfortunatley, the synth, which is awesome, mostly drowns out Hendrix's guitar. [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mitre Posted October 2, 2009 Members Share Posted October 2, 2009 kinda like 200 motels. Also very bad, but I'm a huge FZ fan, so I can't help but watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wulver Posted October 2, 2009 Members Share Posted October 2, 2009 .......the {censored} was that, Neil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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