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8 October 2025

  • curprev 21:2121:21, 8 October 2025 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 5,349 bytes −6 : Tag: Source edit
  • curprev 21:1921:19, 8 October 2025 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 5,355 bytes +529 <ref> ::[https://muckrack.com/alan-di-perna/articles Alan di Perna]. “Oh, no it’s DEVO – again” : Digital Cartooning, ''Music & Sound Output'' (1988, June) ::Photography by [https://annsumma.photoshelter.com/about Ann Summa] :::...A fully realized instrumental called “The Shadow.” It dated from a month and a half before the album was finished and was accompanied by a note that read “Final version will have vocals.” </ref> Tag: Source edit

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  • curprev 18:3618:36, 14 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 4,667 bytes +52 [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1025828-Tommy-Gear Tommy Gear].
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  • curprev 18:3018:30, 14 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 4,533 bytes +877 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screamers Tommy Gear]. “total DEVO”. ''Roland Users Group'', v.6 #2. (1988). <blockquote> Jerry said, “Some people got the wrong idea about Devo, thinking it was negative or dangerous. That view is just really wrong!” <br> “...The trouble may have come from our sense of humor and use of irony in trying to present a total picture.” Mark Mothersbaugh agrees: “Holier-than-thou preaching about universal love or the spiritless messages about selfish desires in Tag: Source edit
  • curprev 17:5317:53, 14 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 3,656 bytes +11 *The chorus of this song is lifted directly from the famous poem "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]" by T.S. Eliot. <ref>"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot. ''Shmoop'' [Text of the Poem]. <br> https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/hollow-men/poem-text.html ([https://web.archive.org/web/20240514174928/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/hollow-men/poem-text.html From archive.org]).
  • curprev 17:4817:48, 14 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 3,645 bytes +126 <ref>''The Hollow Men'' by T.S. Eliot. ''Schmoop'' [Text of the Poem]. <br> shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170314121918/http://www.shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html From archive.org]).</ref>
  • curprev 17:3817:38, 14 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 3,519 bytes +24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart#1988_prostitution_scandal
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  • curprev 18:3218:32, 13 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 3,488 bytes +734 '''Production:''' *Mark and Bob 2 said a layered combination of sounds became the sound like horns.<ref>Tommy Gear. “total DEVO”. ''Roland Users Group'', v.6 #2. (1988). <br> <blockquote>"MM: That sound was layered with MIDI - I don't remember the name of all the patches..." <br> "BC: ...that was created by combining a sample from one of the S-50s and the JX-8P with the guitar.<br> On that we used the GP-8 rack mount Guitar Effect Processor, which produced a really radical sound on its own, bu Tag: Source edit
  • curprev 18:1818:18, 13 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 2,754 bytes +265 *Other DEVO songs refer to the Jungian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20(psychology) Shadow] self, including Peek-A-Boo!
  • curprev 18:1218:12, 13 May 2024 HappyGuyDevotee talk contribs m 2,489 bytes +542 *"'''The Shadow' is kind of about everything and anybody''." - Mark (1988).<ref> Tommy Gear. “total DEVO”. ''Roland Users Group'', v.6 #2. (1988).<blockquote> "MM:'''The Shadow' is kind of about everything and anybody. It's about Jimmy Swaggart, it's about Ronald Reagan, it's about everybody because it talks about how there are two sides to each person. There's no reason to pretend you are only one thing, because people are also the things they don't want to be - sort of the Jekyll and Hyde in p

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