Jocko Homo: Difference between revisions

According to the liner notes of ''[[Hardcore Devo: Volume One|Hardcore Devo]]'', "Jocko Homo" was first demoed in 1974,<ref name="Hardcore 1 LP liners">{{cite AV media notes |people=[[Devo]] |title=[[Hardcore Devo: Volume One|Hardcore Volume 1]] |publisher=Superior Viaduct |year=2013 |id=SV024 |type=LP liner notes |location=[[San Francisco]]}}</ref> as one of [[Mark Mothersbaugh]]'s first solo compositions for the group.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} The earliest known live performance of the song was on Halloween night of 1975, opening for [[Sun Ra]].<ref name="Mongoloid liners">{{Cite AV media notes |last=Casale |first=Gerald |author-link=Gerald Casale |others=[[Devo]] |title=[[Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years]] |publisher=[[Rykodisc]] |location=[[Salem, Massachusetts]] |id=RCD 20209 |type=CD liner notes}}</ref> The released recording of this version is seven minutes long.<ref name="Mongoloid liners"/> However, according to a 1997 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, they performed a half-hour rendition of the song as a joke to annoy the crowd: "We'd play 'Jocko Homo' for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, 'Are we not men? We are Devo!' for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/devo-mark-mothersbaugh,13471/ |title=Devo (Mark Mothersbaugh) |website=[[The A.V Club]] |date=1997-07-09 |access-date=2016-10-13}}</ref>

 

 

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