{"product_id":"devo-nitrous-nightmare-halloween-live-1975","title":"Devo - Nitrous Nightmare: Halloween Live 1975","description":"\u003cp\u003eFuturismo are proud to present DEVO’s NITROUS NIGHTMARE, Halloween Live ‘75.\u003cbr\u003eNever before released, or heard in it’s entirety, this legendary live performance is presented here in it’s full chaotic glory on 2xCD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe live release all hardcore Devo fans have been waiting for, Nitrous Nightmare demonstrates a band harnessing their artistic greatness in the purest of forms.\u003cbr\u003eThis mythic performance captures Devo perfecting some of their most iconic concepts in the raw.\u003cbr\u003eExpertly restored, this live recording makes for a thrilling experience, it also captures Devo as a lightening rod for hostility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Halloween 1975, Devo took the stage at the WHK Auditorium in Cleveland, in a supporting capacity for jazz legend Sun Ra, to perform for a raucous crowd dressed in the finest of Halloween cliché.\u003cbr\u003eAlready riding high on Nitrous Oxide and booze supplied by the sponsoring radio station, this unaware horde was expecting to see a slick cover band churning out renditions of Bad Company hits, only to be subjected to an act of subversive performance art that would send the growingly aggravated crowd into eventual meltdown.\u003cbr\u003ePhysical threats ensued, but Devo played on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActing as a live companion release to Futurismo’s much lauded Art Devo, the tracklist featured here showcases the origins of de-evolution theory in a live setting.\u003cbr\u003eThese songs would become some of their most famous material, with this recording believed to be the very first time ‘Jocko Homo’ was performed in front of a live audience; the full 12 minute version documented here is sure to please fans, even if it displeased the urban hippies and horror masked onlookers that evening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhilst Devo may have felt they were trapped inside a negative energy vortex during that era, it is clear in retrospect that the band was using this energy to carve out the genesis of a sonic and visual art that has truly stood the test of time.\u003cbr\u003eThe music performed that evening would mutate culture for decades to come, long after the denizens of the auditorium packed away their cheap vampire costumes and returned to their day jobs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Futurismo","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":57831009583436,"sku":"BLX-14366","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/5053760149958.jpg?v=1781691280","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/devo-nitrous-nightmare-halloween-live-1975","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}