Neil young , Human Highway. Neil Young always way ahead of his time just like DEVO. Someday maybe people will catch on. Neil is hard to keep up with but always spot on.
At age 50 as a 30+ year fan I was asking myself this very question! I've never been a fan of Neil Young but I thought I'd seen even the most obscure of everything that is the genius of Devo. This shit is a trip to put it mildly!
@@combatgirl38 I only vaguely remember hearing about this. I'm a big Neil Young fan and love the 1st two Devo LPs. Bizarre is the only word I can think of. SO glad I got to see it.
'Booji Boy' singing lead vocals and Neil Young playing lead guitar. Booji Boy /ˈbʊɡi/ is a character created in the early 1970s by the American new wave band Devo. The name is pronounced "Boogie Boy"-the strange spelling "Booji" resulted when the band was using Letraset to produce captions for a film, and ran out of the letter "g". When the "i" was added but before the "e," Devo's lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh reportedly remarked that the odd spelling "looked right." In concert, Booji has performed several songs: - "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" - performed live in concert in 1977 and 1978. In 2000, a studio version was recorded for the compilation Pioneers Who Got Scalped. The song originates from the Japanese film The War of the Gargantuas. - "I Need a Chick" - performed at some shows in 1977 and 1978. - "Red Eye" - performed on the 1978 tour, and seen in the film The Men Who Make the Music. _ "In Heaven Everything Is Fine" and "The One That Gets Away" - performed in 1979. "In Heaven" was originally part of the soundtrack of the David Lynch film Eraserhead. - "Gotta Serve Somebody" - performed with Devo's alter-ego Dove, "the band of love." A live recording appears on the compilation album Recombo DNA. _ "U Got Me Bugged" - performed at two shows in late 1979, and again on the Hardcore Devo tour in 2014. - "Tunnel of Life" - performed in 1980. Video of this performance appears on the Devo Live 1980 DVD. (The instrumental version of this song, which appears on Hardcore Devo: Volume Two, is entitled "Booji Boy's Funeral.") - "Beautiful World" - performed since 1981. Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booji_Boy Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Highway
I'm going to build a time machine, so I can go back to 1982 and play this on my FM radio show in North Carolina. To match Neil Young with DEVO in performing this song is twisted and priceless. I saw this in my feed this morning and played it as I got up. What a great day to be alive!
Well I'm going to build a time machine too and go back to 1995 and play this on my pirate radio station in the south suburbs of Chicago! Jolly Roger Radio - Anchored at 88.1 when we weren't not sailing across your FM dial!
Like another commenter, I’m 60 and never knew about this video. I knew DEVO were on stage with Neil Young during his tour at this time but I never knew anything about this video. DEVO were instrumental in changing my attitude towards music at the time. In fact my first ever concert was DEVO at the Santa Monica Civic, summer of 1980. I was hooked! Next The Cars, The B-52’s, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Plasmatics, PiL, X, etc etc. So much great music.
Neil Young has recorded with DEVO and with Rick James (They were in a band years ago in Canada). Can you imagine what a Neil Young/DEVO/Rick James concert would have been like? I think it might have opened up a wormhole to a different dimension. Too bad we can't find out.
they must've seen Roxy Music in the early 70s and said how can we be weirder. And then succeeded. I'm so happy and proud that Devo is an American band.
Just when I think there is something that Neil Young hasn't done and couldn't be more awesome, I am proven wrong. And Devo is loving jamming with Neil Young, because who wouldn't?
@@johns9969Buddy had tix for a NY show. His wife had to work on short notice so I went along in her stead. We're both NY fans, him moreso, but we ended up walking out too. Art of Noise was the opening act. Lived up to their name. maybe that's where the trouble started. Neil was performing with Crazy Horse. The end of every tune was like a flashback to my youth, playing in garage / basement bands. BRAMP! BRAMP! RRAMP! BRANGDANGADANGADANGA FRAP BOOM CHUCK BUGGA BOOMP DIP THUMPADA THRUMPADA BRANGADANGADANGADANGADANGGGGGGGGG BADUMP BOOM CHUCKATA CHUCKATA BRANGANADANGADANGA.... and so on for, as you say, an eternity. Sheesh. After a while we looked at each other and got up to walk out. To the tune of "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" - one of the tunes I'd have loved to have stuck around to hear - I was singing "Keep on wankin' on the gee-tarrrrr." We're both still Neil Young fans but I guess we were hoping for a bit more magic and a bit less wank. Not in the right mood(?) We _had_ taken all the necessary steps to get there. Maybe it was the less than stellar seats. Anyway, no shade on Neil's songwriting catalog, recordings, ethics and aesthetic... just a bit on the wanking. 😁
It was...., I've owned it until the VHS transitioned to DVD. Yet, i believe my father found a copy of the DVD format As well, Neil did the soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, awFUCKINmazing!!!
Love how early Neil Young was onboard with the punk wave, this was recorded in 1978, the same year DEVO's debut came out. This song, as I understand it, was largely inspired by Young's interaction and collaboration with DEVO, so he seems to have understood that this is what was next in rock music. "The King is gone, but he's not forgotten; this is the story of Johnny Rotten" in particular really feels like a passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Neil Young was as punk as could be.
I’m not sure why I have never heard of this before. How does insanity like this manage to fly under the radar? I love both Neil and Devo. This was amazing. Now I have to find the movie.
Neil understood this aspect of rock in its infancy. So here we are - rock legend Neil Young together with DEVO featuring Booji Boy in his crib jamming unashamedly on his electronic keyboard to Neil’s anthem HeyHey MyMy. Classic collaboration! ☢️
OMG!!! Two of my favourite artists playing one of my favourite songs. This is insane. The only thing missing here is The Residents playing quirky keyboards with their massive eyeballs on.
The energy in that room must've been crazy!!!!! Love it. Thank you 🙏 Devo&Mr. Young. And whoever recorded this once in a lifetime moment. Thank you for sharing it whoever put this on here!
I should thank you for this post! I watch it whenever I need to shake out my brain. For everyone else...this jam is a glorious centerpiece from the 1982 movie HUMAN HIGHWAY, a dream project of Neil Young's made during his live-fast years. A lot of his manic energy was involved in its production as a quirky dystopian apocalyptic comedy musical, co-starring Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper (four years before they made BLUE VELVET). HUMAN HIGHWAY is a fascinating document, both uneven and stunning--plus you get to see Dennis Hopper twirling with a shovel on his shoulder as he linedances with the ensemble of performers.
Devo and Neil had a unique connection. I was not aware that this particular connection even existed, though! Brilliant! Long live Devo! And Neil, thanks for the Devo props!
@@user-gh8wt2zi2n Yep, Dave Mothersbaugh went to Kent State to avoid going to the Vietnam war (His brother went, I think he still alive and was in Devo)
Even when Neil plays a one-note solo, he varies the phrasing, & the tone of the notes with vibrato & his Bigsby tremolo bar, so that it never becomes dull. He do it h here; he most famously pulled this trick out onna solo fer "Cinnamon Girl"... all hail Old Black! 🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃
What?? Blown away that I missed this. As a Dane Devo got me to the bones when discovering at my local library as a 13 yo boy in start 80ies, and caught up on every of their vinyls available in Europe...I thought? But Human Highway?? I must've lived under a rock...embarrassing. 10000 x thanks for upload! **edit** Now 21st time I rewatch this with the unequivocally experience; If you're down with the flu, down with the blues, down with the clueless, down with this devolutionized world, or whatever down-down, this is your hay-day-hey-hey instant medicine.
Another one of those oldies, 66, who had never heard of this collaboration before reading a story on American Songwriter about the meaning behind the song. I own most of Young's music from Harvest (1972) to Mirror Ball (1995), managed a Musicland store back in the 80s, even own Devo's Freedom of Choice and read Jimmy McDongough's Shakey but had never heard about this song. This is why I love ROCK N ROLL, you can always discover new gems that bring beauty and meaning to life. Long live Neil Young!
I've not listened to Devo since 1981-ish. I had the blue vinyl. I just listened to "are we not men" and ..mind blown. Next, this. I am speechless to say the least. I also listened to Live Rust a lot and i never knew this existed. Punk really was my first true experience of music as a kid. Next search is Caberet Voltaire
Even better than Sid Vicious'? With the original Johnny Rotten lyrics? However! This is differently the MOST INTERESTING & Rocking! If I do say so myself!
This is absolutely awesome. I think I've seen this video before when it first came out. Many years and lots of partying makes me forget some things. This cover and video of the cover is deserving of The Smithsonian.
This is old, I don't remember seeing the film Human Highway. I do remember hearing this recording when it came out, maybe an edited version on early MTV. Excellent! I'm sure a lot fans hated it, I loved it. Reminds me of Run DMC's collaboration with Aerosmith with "Walk this Way", saving Aerosmith's career. Although, Neil never needed anybody to save his career, he just admired Devo like the rest of us.
Some of Devo’s other covers don’t rise to the standard of this and Satisfaction, but their cover of Head Like a Hole does IMO. th-cam.com/video/LhL8Sl3dWl8/w-d-xo.html
I remember reading about this at the time, but this is my first time seeing it. Everything I'd expect it to be, creative, musical and slightly over the edge. Wonderful!
Saw Devo 4 times in the day, 80's, Neil a whole bunch, including the Luve Rust Tour. He just keeps getting better. And Devo, boy could they ever ROCK!!!
_Very much_ in the true spirit of rock 'n' roll. This is the first time I've heard it so it's too late to play it at my wedding, but they can still play it at my funeral.
This is amazing and much better than the album version that was released, and I say that as major fan of Neil Young's. This version with DEVO was exciting, experimental, crazy, chaotic, energetic, electric, and with the driving energy of rock 'n' roll.
@@brockn7878Neil is in the entire video playing guitar! Just because Mothersbaugh is on vocals, doesn't suddenly mean Young's not an active part of this.
It should be remembered that Gerald Casale was actually at Kent State at the time of the murders that Neil memorializes in "Ohio". He was a friend of both Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause (two of the murdered students) and was standing right near Krause when she was shot to death.. So his working with Neil is very full circle, indeed.
I'm speechless after watching this. Like half the commenters, I'm an old dude who never knew anything like this existed. Crazy and brilliant with a blazing guitar solo at the end, descending into fantastic noise!
This is why TH-cam is so worth it when out of nowhere, a gem like this appears. Never heard it, never heard of it, and now I can never forget it.
Right? Jeeiz fkn christo that was!
HERE HERE!
have you seen the whole movie Human Highway yet?
I legitimately think this is the pinnacle of human creativity.
Yo, me too!!! Thought the same thing since first heard it, it’s like DEVO and Neil channeled a sonic Cthulhu entity together ❤
So said a fucking moose
INDEED
Amen.
How am I now almost 60 and just seeing this for the first time? Props to the youtube algorithm in this case.
I don't know, but wow it floored me !
It's a gloriously mad jam.
Made my day!!!!
Wtf I'm 60 Just Seeing This 4 The First Time Lol
Same
My God...68 years old and never knew this existed before today. Just outstanding. Thank you Neil and Devo!!
Greatest moment in the history of early 80's rock.
same
Holy Shit...Get OUT. Is this legit?
Neil young , Human Highway. Neil Young always way ahead of his time just like DEVO. Someday maybe people will catch on. Neil is hard to keep up with but always spot on.
@@ilostmypicklenot the product of an AI, well, at least not as we know them in 2024 😉
71, and it's new to me!
This makes more sense now than it did 40 years ago.
Donald Trump: The greatest example of Devo's theory of De-evolution.
(Trump even had a Secretary of Education named Betsy DeVos.)
@@iliketowatch. who was an Amway billionaire
EXACTLY.
@@iliketowatch. YES. Yes he did.
@@iliketowatch. Lol didn’t think it could get worse than Trump and out rolls Biden! Devolution is real.
How in the hell did this old man never hear of this collaboration. Outstanding.
At age 50 as a 30+ year fan I was asking myself this very question! I've never been a fan of Neil Young but I thought I'd seen even the most obscure of everything that is the genius of Devo. This shit is a trip to put it mildly!
From Neil's film Human Highway th-cam.com/video/qyEd1uJN21I/w-d-xo.html&pp=gAQBiAQB
I hear ya!Love Neil Young and Devo and never knew this existed 😮
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
@@combatgirl38 I only vaguely remember hearing about this. I'm a big Neil Young fan and love the 1st two Devo LPs. Bizarre is the only word I can think of. SO glad I got to see it.
Greatest unknown moment in Rock and Roll history.........
i'm 100 years old today and just discovered this. Keep on rockin in the free world! - Jimmy Carter
Mental.... i am going to take a hero's dose and watch again
😂😂😂
How’d that work out for ya?
@@AnEclecticMan awesome ..those Teachers know how to rock...Thanks for asking
i dont think i could handle it haha
'Booji Boy' singing lead vocals and Neil Young playing lead guitar. Booji Boy /ˈbʊɡi/ is a character created in the early 1970s by the American new wave band Devo. The name is pronounced "Boogie Boy"-the strange spelling "Booji" resulted when the band was using Letraset to produce captions for a film, and ran out of the letter "g". When the "i" was added but before the "e," Devo's lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh reportedly remarked that the odd spelling "looked right." In concert, Booji has performed several songs:
- "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" - performed live in concert in 1977 and 1978. In 2000, a studio version was recorded for the compilation Pioneers Who Got Scalped. The song originates from the Japanese film The War of the Gargantuas.
- "I Need a Chick" - performed at some shows in 1977 and 1978.
- "Red Eye" - performed on the 1978 tour, and seen in the film The Men Who Make the Music.
_ "In Heaven Everything Is Fine" and "The One That Gets Away" - performed in 1979. "In Heaven" was originally part of the soundtrack of the David Lynch film Eraserhead.
- "Gotta Serve Somebody" - performed with Devo's alter-ego Dove, "the band of love." A live recording appears on the compilation album Recombo DNA.
_ "U Got Me Bugged" - performed at two shows in late 1979, and again on the Hardcore Devo tour in 2014.
- "Tunnel of Life" - performed in 1980. Video of this performance appears on the Devo Live 1980 DVD. (The instrumental version of this song, which appears on Hardcore Devo: Volume Two, is entitled "Booji Boy's Funeral.")
- "Beautiful World" - performed since 1981.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booji_Boy
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Highway
Appreciate the context!
I'm going to build a time machine, so I can go back to 1982 and play this on my FM radio show in North Carolina. To match Neil Young with DEVO in performing this song is twisted and priceless. I saw this in my feed this morning and played it as I got up. What a great day to be alive!
Well I'm going to build a time machine too and go back to 1995 and play this on my pirate radio station in the south suburbs of Chicago! Jolly Roger Radio - Anchored at 88.1 when we weren't not sailing across your FM dial!
Who's still here in 2024?
Just found this!
Never left
Your mother is here. With me.
You already know, toobz.
eye m
I love it when people don't take themselves too seriously.
Neils hilarious.
Absolutely!!! If you can't get silly, WTF are you even doing?❤
Neil has so much fun here im beaming im sure the strings were buzzing and out of tune on Old Black and he does not care.
If you think for one second either Devo or Neil Young don't take themselves seriously, you've missed the point
@@shwnsll5947right you are. different types have different ways of expressing it
This was one of the most psychedelic moments in rock n roll history
Naw it was nae,😂
surreal is a better word for it
How about, 7th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson?
Agree with the 7th Floor Roky comment below (I mean above). This was a weird mashup. Before Mashups.
Watching this finally triggered one of those flashbacks that they have been promising us for decades.
Like another commenter, I’m 60 and never knew about this video. I knew DEVO were on stage with Neil Young during his tour at this time but I never knew anything about this video. DEVO were instrumental in changing my attitude towards music at the time. In fact my first ever concert was DEVO at the Santa Monica Civic, summer of 1980. I was hooked! Next The Cars, The B-52’s, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Plasmatics, PiL, X, etc etc. So much great music.
Neil Young has recorded with DEVO and with Rick James (They were in a band years ago in Canada). Can you imagine what a Neil Young/DEVO/Rick James concert would have been like? I think it might have opened up a wormhole to a different dimension. Too bad we can't find out.
I can definitely imagine what it would sound like in the green room “zonkkkkkkkkk, zoooootttt!”
COCAINE is a hell of a drug!!😃
DEVO is a hell of a drug
@@KarlLind that tour bus must have been wild
They should have performed on Chappelle's show.
they must've seen Roxy Music in the early 70s and said how can we be weirder. And then succeeded. I'm so happy and proud that Devo is an American band.
Those 2 early Roxy lps, and Eno did play a role in punk and Peter Hamill
Never know what you'll find along the human highway.
Just when I think there is something that Neil Young hasn't done and couldn't be more awesome, I am proven wrong.
And Devo is loving jamming with Neil Young, because who wouldn't?
Complete with the famous Neil one-note solo. Love it.
King of the one note lead.
@@dwaynesbadchemicals You really gotta commit to choking that thing out. 😜
I totally read this comment right as he started his solo! Yes!
Pearl Jam opened for Young. His 1st number a 1 note solo for an eternity. Walked out. Had school yhe next day.
@@johns9969Buddy had tix for a NY show. His wife had to work on short notice so I went along in her stead. We're both NY fans, him moreso, but we ended up walking out too.
Art of Noise was the opening act. Lived up to their name. maybe that's where the trouble started. Neil was performing with Crazy Horse. The end of every tune was like a flashback to my youth, playing in garage / basement bands. BRAMP! BRAMP! RRAMP! BRANGDANGADANGADANGA FRAP BOOM CHUCK BUGGA BOOMP DIP THUMPADA THRUMPADA BRANGADANGADANGADANGADANGGGGGGGGG BADUMP BOOM CHUCKATA CHUCKATA BRANGANADANGADANGA.... and so on for, as you say, an eternity. Sheesh. After a while we looked at each other and got up to walk out. To the tune of "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" - one of the tunes I'd have loved to have stuck around to hear - I was singing "Keep on wankin' on the gee-tarrrrr."
We're both still Neil Young fans but I guess we were hoping for a bit more magic and a bit less wank. Not in the right mood(?) We _had_ taken all the necessary steps to get there. Maybe it was the less than stellar seats. Anyway, no shade on Neil's songwriting catalog, recordings, ethics and aesthetic... just a bit on the wanking. 😁
This is a weird fever dream,....and I don't want it to end !!!!
Hmmm. It does feel like something imagined and not real. Weird Fever Dream. Great name for a band, if they're anything like this video!
Surprised this was never put out on a physical release. So good. We need to beam this into outer space.
It clearly CAME from outer space!
😂😂😂😂
@@davidzachmeyer1957 It penetrated my inner space!
It was...., I've owned it until the VHS transitioned to DVD. Yet, i believe my father found a copy of the DVD format
As well, Neil did the soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, awFUCKINmazing!!!
Scare away hostils.
Love how early Neil Young was onboard with the punk wave, this was recorded in 1978, the same year DEVO's debut came out. This song, as I understand it, was largely inspired by Young's interaction and collaboration with DEVO, so he seems to have understood that this is what was next in rock music.
"The King is gone, but he's not forgotten; this is the story of Johnny Rotten" in particular really feels like a passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Neil Young was as punk as could be.
I’m not sure why I have never heard of this before. How does insanity like this manage to fly under the radar? I love both Neil and Devo. This was amazing. Now I have to find the movie.
I first bought it on VHS
It was a movie made by Niel Young apparently.
....Shakey pictures presents a film by Neil Young..........HUMAN HIGHWAY ..
@@Fectual back when vhs movies were $80.
@@yuvgotubekidding $8 on the clearance rack
This insanity! Those spuds brought out the punk in Neil. Great collaboration.
Holy JESUS!!!!! How is this the first time I'm seeing this🤯?! Devo is just genius. Wow💞💓💫😎👏👏👏
We're going to need a bigger like button 😮
If you just found this like me in 2022 - I think there is still time to tune in, turn on, and drop out
2026
Neil understood this aspect of rock in its infancy. So here we are - rock legend Neil Young together with DEVO featuring Booji Boy in his crib jamming unashamedly on his electronic keyboard to Neil’s anthem HeyHey MyMy. Classic collaboration! ☢️
He did it again with Pearl Jam 10 years later. Neal has been in a lot of music scenes. Legendarily talented!
Neil Younf and Neil younger
It never gets any more original than this. Very Psychedelic. Impressive.
I saw Neil Young for the first time this summer. I’ll see Devo for the first time next week. ❤❤
Holy Shit. This IS Rock and Roll. Its very essence! Thank You Neil and Devo. (And Booji Boy!)
Speechless just speechless. Took 76 years to hear this Gem.
OMG!!!
Two of my favourite artists playing one of my favourite songs.
This is insane.
The only thing missing here is The Residents playing quirky keyboards with their massive eyeballs on.
Oh, you've got to add the Primus cowboys from "Winona's Big Brown Beaver" video to this mix!!
@@davidgibbs381 Oh yeah, I love "Winona's Big Brown Beaver"
Slap Bass from Mr. Claypool.
... and the treadmills
Could agree, Booji Boy is doing a good job, though!
The energy in that room must've been crazy!!!!! Love it. Thank you 🙏 Devo&Mr. Young. And whoever recorded this once in a lifetime moment. Thank you for sharing it whoever put this on here!
Neil wasn’t as good as this when we saw the great man in Liverpool in the 1970s . If only he’d had Devo with him 😀
Incredible, terrifying and yet totally unnecessary all at the same time. I still love it.
What is exactly necessary in art?
No, it's very nessicary.
Neil young was never necessary, just thought he was. Southern man would give him something to make him feel important, then feed him to the hogs
Playfulness has its consequences. Pan can be off and on like anything. HU Shanti Pax Peace.
DEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVO!
I should thank you for this post! I watch it whenever I need to shake out my brain. For everyone else...this jam is a glorious centerpiece from the 1982 movie HUMAN HIGHWAY, a dream project of Neil Young's made during his live-fast years. A lot of his manic energy was involved in its production as a quirky dystopian apocalyptic comedy musical, co-starring Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper (four years before they made BLUE VELVET). HUMAN HIGHWAY is a fascinating document, both uneven and stunning--plus you get to see Dennis Hopper twirling with a shovel on his shoulder as he linedances with the ensemble of performers.
It is like my youth just got re-booted. Hell yeah… and thanks for reminding me I am alive 🙏🏻
Devo and Neil had a unique connection. I was not aware that this particular connection even existed, though! Brilliant! Long live Devo! And Neil, thanks for the Devo props!
Kent State, Ohio. Mothersbaugh was there when the students were shot dead by National Guardsmen and Neil Young sang about "Ohio".
Also, eventually Neils Manager was theirs. He got them on Saturday Night Live (the manager did).
It was st.Kurt who so dubbed Neil Young: Godfather Of Grunge, for such as thus.
that's the connection, Ohio!
@@user-gh8wt2zi2n Yep, Dave Mothersbaugh went to Kent State to avoid going to the Vietnam war (His brother went, I think he still alive and was in Devo)
When Geffen says they want another "Harvest"...
Yeah this wasnt IT, suffice to say-
Take it fellas
😂
Says the non musician, who has never released anything music
Lol isn’t that funny 😂
It is an Unknown classic in our time
All us old dudes are totally stoked with this.
Greatest all time music video
Why have I just run across this? It may well be the greatest thing on TH-cam.
Even when Neil plays a one-note solo, he varies the phrasing, & the tone of the notes with vibrato & his Bigsby tremolo bar, so that it never becomes dull. He do it h here; he most famously pulled this trick out onna solo fer "Cinnamon Girl"... all hail Old Black! 🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃
THIS is freaking mesmerizing.
Why have I never heard this before? Incredible!
Same here, first time seeing this
You guys must have never seen his Human Highway film.
Your Mom's basement has lead-lined walls and lots of radon.
So scary!
@@michaeltaylor4984 If you mean me, I'm 58 and was around at the time!
This movie is like a dream you have after tripping all night
So, TERRIBLE?
From Neil's movie "Human Highway." Such a classic!
What?? Blown away that I missed this. As a Dane Devo got me to the bones when discovering at my local library as a 13 yo boy in start 80ies, and caught up on every of their vinyls available in Europe...I thought? But Human Highway?? I must've lived under a rock...embarrassing. 10000 x thanks for upload! **edit** Now 21st time I rewatch this with the unequivocally experience; If you're down with the flu, down with the blues, down with the clueless, down with this devolutionized world, or whatever down-down, this is your hay-day-hey-hey instant medicine.
Another one of those oldies, 66, who had never heard of this collaboration before reading a story on American Songwriter about the meaning behind the song. I own most of Young's music from Harvest (1972) to Mirror Ball (1995), managed a Musicland store back in the 80s, even own Devo's Freedom of Choice and read Jimmy McDongough's Shakey but had never heard about this song. This is why I love ROCK N ROLL, you can always discover new gems that bring beauty and meaning to life. Long live Neil Young!
This is perhaps one of the best things I have ever whitenesses. Fantastic!
Couldn't Agree MORE!!! Beautiful! This World is Beautiful!!!
I'm 48 days old and this is new to me. Thanks algorithm!
I've not listened to Devo since 1981-ish. I had the blue vinyl. I just listened to "are we not men" and ..mind blown. Next, this. I am speechless to say the least.
I also listened to Live Rust a lot and i never knew this existed. Punk really was my first true experience of music as a kid. Next search is Caberet Voltaire
What happens when talent collides with insanity? Genius.
there are moments like this and when nirvana played at a radioshack in the late 80's that remind that life really is beautiful
he is in a baby bed... makes me happy this colab does
Man, fr, this is the best version of Hey Hey My My for me
Even better than Sid Vicious'? With the original Johnny Rotten lyrics? However! This is differently the MOST INTERESTING & Rocking! If I do say so myself!
@@rebelwalzt for sure it is!
This is so far ahead of its time and foundational to so much music that came after it. Wild
The song grooves toward entropy. :)
Love them both. Never thought I would get to see them play together. Great stuff!
WoW!!! After all these years I'm just now seeing this!!!
🧐 see , how you were protected ( ? )
Never knew this existed, great version of song.
This was my introduction to Neil Young, and sent me off on a NY tangent
I just watched this powerful, incredible performance in a Sunday night and I’m mesmerized. Cheers from Brazil
Pure genius collaboration.
Incredible! Big name N.Young collaborated witH DEVO.Low-Tech DEVO used Prophet#5.
This is absolutely awesome.
I think I've seen this video before when it first came out. Many years and lots of partying makes me forget some things.
This cover and video of the cover is deserving of The Smithsonian.
This is old, I don't remember seeing the film Human Highway. I do remember hearing this recording when it came out, maybe an edited version on early MTV. Excellent! I'm sure a lot fans hated it, I loved it. Reminds me of Run DMC's collaboration with Aerosmith with "Walk this Way", saving Aerosmith's career. Although, Neil never needed anybody to save his career, he just admired Devo like the rest of us.
Masterful!! Gave Neil the idea to re-record his folk rock anthem with a punk edge .
But he's so NOT punk. Total sell out to Big Pharma money.
This did come first, actually.
Well Hey Hey My My ( into the black) is hard rock not folk. And My My Hey Hey ( out of blue) is folk.
Is this a song about a Johnny Rotten? Rotten Johnny Johnny Rotten
How so? The acoustic and electric versions came out simultaneously.
Happy birthday Neil🤘🏿😝
I had no idea how much I needed this. Thank you
That was awesome! Watched it twice and sent it to my buddy. Not related but he's fighting cancer good vibes to my friend Paul would be appreciated.
I love this, but whatever Neil does is gold! 😘💕
Devo unquestionably made 2 of the greatest covers/re-imaginings of class rock songs ever. Satisfaction and this one. Am I missing any?
th-cam.com/video/qonTIZGu27w/w-d-xo.html
Some of Devo’s other covers don’t rise to the standard of this and Satisfaction, but their cover of Head Like a Hole does IMO. th-cam.com/video/LhL8Sl3dWl8/w-d-xo.html
"Secret Agent Man"?...
th-cam.com/video/bA9FiL7mz_0/w-d-xo.html
@@jerrygilbert6733 I sometimes thought it was "Secret ASIAN Man"
"This is a story 'bout Johnny Spud" haha this is so perfect, thanks.
Neil Young kicks ass no matter who he plays with.
Sublime. I saw Neil on the Trans tour, and this is so much better.
And now I know what a David Lynch daydream might be like.....
Love Neil Young. Love Devo. Perfect. Hey hey my my. Rock n roll can never die.
I remember reading about this at the time, but this is my first time seeing it. Everything I'd expect it to be, creative, musical and slightly over the edge. Wonderful!
Wow! I never knew this existed! Talk about obscure.
MUST be released on vinyl, or even on cd, OUTSTANDING...!!!
I remember this.
Still mind blowing..
"And you want all baby.."
Little Richard
Saw Devo 4 times in the day, 80's, Neil a whole bunch, including the Luve Rust Tour.
He just keeps getting better.
And Devo, boy could they ever ROCK!!!
_Very much_ in the true spirit of rock 'n' roll.
This is the first time I've heard it so it's too late to play it at my wedding, but they can still play it at my funeral.
Crazy jaming ;) talented and funy dudes, I love them all.
Music will never be this great again...
My God it's full of stars
luckily Neil didn't jam this with Metallica...
my god, it would've been full of Lars
I used to watch this on Laserdisc and told many people how great it was. Thankfully it came out on DVD finally!
Bruh....... This is everything
It feels like the weirdest dream, watching and listening to this. Devo skills.
This is amazing and much better than the album version that was released, and I say that as major fan of Neil Young's. This version with DEVO was exciting, experimental, crazy, chaotic, energetic, electric, and with the driving energy of rock 'n' roll.
It's super cool, wow !
Y
Do you mean By devi. Neil isn't involved
@@brockn7878Neil is in the entire video playing guitar! Just because Mothersbaugh is on vocals, doesn't suddenly mean Young's not an active part of this.
It should be remembered that Gerald Casale was actually at Kent State at the time of the murders that Neil memorializes in "Ohio". He was a friend of both Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause (two of the murdered students) and was standing right near Krause when she was shot to death.. So his working with Neil is very full circle, indeed.
Neil is SO locked in. Love the artistry.
How have I ever seen this! I would think someone would have bootleged this years ago. So cool !
This is one of those videos you would see at 3am after the bars and you would question all reality! Great Great video!!
This is as weird, mental and awesome as i suspected it would be before i even listened to it.
Wow 😳 I had no idea this existed. Just brilliant! Neil got right into it.! So cool 👍.
I'm speechless after watching this. Like half the commenters, I'm an old dude who never knew anything like this existed. Crazy and brilliant with a blazing guitar solo at the end, descending into fantastic noise!