00:00 [music]
00:02 Hey, we're Devo.
00:03 And you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:06 [music]
00:08 We played here 28 years ago for the closing ceremony in 1996.
00:19 And all the heat went out that day. All broke.
00:22 And we came out in 1920s prison outfits that I had rented.
00:26 And it was hilarious because we were freezing and had to pretend like we were really having a good time.
00:32 We did as good as we could with a vision and a message that resonates with kids today, which is fantastic.
00:40 Hopefully, it liberates them from feeling depressed or feeling powerless.
00:47 Yeah, all the things that make you feel like you're crazy and that the world is too much.
00:51 It gives you a place to find solace and re-energize.
00:55 We gave voice to disenfranchised people and marginalized people, artists, musicians, and people that weren't fitting in.
01:03 And they were getting, you know, threatened and beat up by jocks.
01:07 And Devo was suddenly there for them to give them hope.
01:10 I think it was just like how relevant they feel looking back.
01:15 You're looking at it with a 2023 lens, they still feel as like current today as they did 50 years ago.
01:21 The spirit that they had in the 70s and 80s is still there today.
01:24 It's one of those things that I remember them.
01:26 I mean, it was one of the VHS tapes that we had when we were growing up that was incredibly inspiring.
01:31 But to see the material again and really live in it, you just appreciated it in a new way.
01:36 The earlier footage, the better. When we were very young and...
01:41 Everything that we saw out there, the world, it was both insane and wonderful.
01:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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