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April 17, 2007 at 2:55 pm #24275glwParticipant
http://www.clubdevo.com/mp/images/discog/fashions/domes.jpg
Any ideas? Or is it a one-off custom jobbie?
(I reckon the bass is a carved-up Gibson Ripper, btw)
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July 3, 2007 at 8:11 am #689321bassleftParticipant
Congrats on tracking down the Devogit, glw. Anoraky it may have been, but this thread got my nylon rustling I have to admit 🙂
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July 2, 2007 at 3:40 pm #68880glwParticipant
From what I’ve heard, bands have to pay a lot of tax to play in Australia. I think that might be part of the problem.
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July 2, 2007 at 6:16 am #68874MichaelParticipant
Cool, nice find.
Thats my gripe with you Brits. You get to see all these bands that wont ever be returning to Au.
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July 1, 2007 at 5:40 pm #68890glwParticipant
We have closure!
(Well I do anyway. I don’t think anyone else could care less.)
The Devo “Blue Potato” guitar is a custom-built Ibanez.
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June 27, 2007 at 4:53 pm #68865glwParticipant
I saw Devo last night at Shepherd’s Bush. They were looking a bit older and greyer (and a little fatter in a couple of cases) than they are in the pic I posted at the top of this thread, but their playing was absolutely spot-on. Very entertaining and totally barmy.
They didn’t have the strange-shaped guitar that I was so interested in either, so I couldn’t get a close-up look. Guitars used were a Steinberger bass (strung right-handed but played left-handed), an Ibanez Talman electric, and a couple of early G&L guitars that sounded fantastic. (I say early G&L because they had a simpler headstock design – without the little pointy bit, if you know what I mean).
There was another bizarre carved-up looking guitar that was used on one song for a rather manic solo and then some mechanism was triggered to break all the strings. I didn’t quite see how he did that.
Mark Mothersbaugh (the singer) also played guitar on “Satisfaction” – it was left-handed Strat (played right-handed) with effects pedals gaffer-taped to the body. Also, it seemed to have the 2 centre strings missing.
Bit of a trainspotter, aren’t I?
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May 1, 2007 at 4:20 pm #68876Lou_RankoMember
Devo are magic. And you try telling kids today with their bloody Spice Girls.
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April 27, 2007 at 6:40 am #68917MichaelParticipant
Here’s a little snippet of info on Devo guitars I got from the Devo FAQ ( http://cluefree.org/devo/Personnel.shtml )… may help with other models.
Devo Guitars and Basses
Devo had an effects box built for them called the “Devobox”; I’d appreciate any info on it…
– Bob 1 has used plenty of different guitars. These are the ones I can recognize:
– A “lobotomized” Hagstrom. You get a great view of it in the “Satisfaction” video.
He used an Ibanez Iceman in the live version of “Red Eye” on The Men Who Make The Music.
– Looks like a Fender Mustang in “The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize”.Jerry has used Steinberger and Gibson (or Epiphone?) 4-string bass guitars, in addition to numerous bass synths. The bass he plays in “Satisfaction” was a Ripper with the horns sawed off.
Mark plays a Fender Telecaster in the “Satisfaction” video. (Most of them don’t require quite that much cable, though.)
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April 26, 2007 at 11:49 pm #68894GDaddyMember
The neck (what you can see of it) looks Les Paulish, as do the pick ups and bridge. Maybe they had a deal with Gibson? I really don’t know, but the axes (and the band ) are pretty weird.
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April 23, 2007 at 4:30 pm #68888glwParticipant
Yeah, but I was asking about the guitar, not the bass.
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April 23, 2007 at 7:13 am #689221bassleftParticipant
I stumbled unexpectedly over this line in Wikipedia:
[quote]Jerry Casale can be seen using a modified Ripper in Devo’s Satisfaction video[/quote]but the Ripper in the video looks less hacked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny7CkvfjI4The headstock does look very similar so maybe it was further modded (if I’m not mistaken, the lefty is playing with upside down GDAE strings – I hate that). Those hats in the pic were worn in the “Whip It” video (directed by Gerald V Casale, apparently) but Jerry ain’t playing and the guitar used is different.
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April 22, 2007 at 5:08 pm #68930lee_UKParticipant
The neck and headstock looks like a Gibson EB3 or is it an EB0??
But it think it has ‘Custom’ written all over it.
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