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Comment by Brent Steele on May 5, 2009 at 4:06pm

Sorry to flood the page on my first day....but I gotta know...is Coker still kicking?

Comment by John Scot Sheets on January 8, 2009 at 12:40pm

Blake is Memeber 41 of Muncie DIY! Welcome Blake!

Comment by Scottie on November 29, 2008 at 6:05am

Fuckin' A, I love being half right! But hey, that second set is all killer, innit? But I understand they had an album to sell. Speed Racer slays, however...

Ok, well, At the Drive In played at Stevie Ray's to 30 people (and I still don't really care for them or their spawn) but I was drinking Schaefer in the woods in Richmond. Lotsa "important" shows missed. Whatever.

And per Emens, I saw the Violent Femmes (94?), Bob Dylan (97?), and Rollins' spoken word (97). And whatever, also.

Comment by Chris Cruzan on November 27, 2008 at 8:26am

Neil was great at Emens. It was the 'country tour' featuring Rufus Tibadeau on fiddle. I believe David Allen Coe was the opening act for this tour.(International Harvester?).The Brubeck show was with the Twyla Tharp dance troupe and it was very DM worthy.I also had the fortune of seeing the one and only Frank Gorshin in 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' Gorshin was a true star, and the fact he chose to visit us lowlifes in Muncie is a testement to his coolness.

Comment by John Scot Sheets on November 27, 2008 at 4:54am

Good work Ron, that kinda rings a bell. Neil Young was great at Emens. Best show I ever saw there was Cab Calloway, but he didn't do the song Reefer Man.

Comment by Ra Bob on November 27, 2008 at 3:41am

Ah yes, here it is. It was billed as "3-Devo." And Emens Auditorium was one of many campus auditoriums around the country where you could pay to see the live broadcast (with 3-D glasses) the night before Halloween of 1982:
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Set List of 3-DEVO
LIVE SHOW: October 30, 1982
At Warner Beverly Hills Theatre,
“Hollywood“, California

Time Out For Fun • Patterns • Speed Racer • Big Mess • Peek-A-Boo • Out Of Sync • That’s Good • Freedom Of Choice Theme • Whip It • Girl U Want • Planet Earth • Explosions • Deep Sleep • Jocko Homo • Mongoloid • Uncontrollable Urge • Gates Of Steel • Smart Patrol • Mr. DNA • Gut Feeling • Booji’s Beautiful World

http://boojiboysbasement.com/audiopages/A071.html

“3-DEVO,” was a live pay-per-view concert which was broadcasted in 3D to various colleges and cable TV.
3-DEVO was broadcast live on 10-30-82 and
as an edited re-broadcast 10-31-82.
http://boojiboysbasement.com/audiopages/A071.html

Comment by Ra Bob on November 27, 2008 at 3:40am

Ah, Mark is right. But so is Scottie... There WAS a Devo show at Emens auditorium in the fall of 1982... but Devo didn't play THERE. The show was someplace else and they had a big screen in the auditorium... it was an early attempt at a 'virtual concert' years before anybody had heard the term "virtual reality."

So Devo played someplace (can't remember exactly where) and there was a LIVE SOUND AND VIDEO link up... and if you paid the money, you got to watch DEVO on a big screen and hear it through the Emens Auditorium sound system... but they weren't actually in Muncie....

I remember being really excited about this show when slick posters were plastered all over BSU campus. (It was definitely the french fry in the donut graphic). A bunch of other folks also were excited... Then we found out it was just a glorified live television broadcast that you had to pay to see... I didn't go. I only know one person who did go... and he said it was cool, innovative, but nothing close to seeing the band for real.

So it's not anybody's imagination that there was a massive advertising campaign and tickets were sold to see Devo at Emens Auditorium in the fall of 1982. That really did happen. But Devo never set foot in Emens... or Muncie, as far as I know... at least, not at that time.

Comment by Mark Urschel on November 26, 2008 at 8:32pm

Scottie,

Scottie, Devo did not play Emens. I had a bunch of friends that were totally into Devo in the early eightys and I would have been at this if they werer there. (Steve S & I were roomates in the dorms that year). I think they may have played the Holiday Star Theater in Marlville, IN in 82 or 83 buth that's probably as close as they got to Muncie. Muncie was definatly not ready for Devo, even in 82. Neil Young did play Emens in the early 80s and I saw Dave Brubeck there and it blew my mind. Henry Rollins played the No Bar but the other bands you mention did not. There were, however, a number of amazing shows at the No Bar. Many by band that have been long forgotten.

Comment by Scottie on November 26, 2008 at 7:52pm

I read years ago about that Devo show, saying it was some kind of Spring Fling event, but poring through Devo fansites, I've found absolutely no mention of their playing. I guess that's another one chalked up to scene tall tales. Over the years I've heard all kinds of shit that went down at the No Bar, including Black Flag, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Free Kitten, and a pantheon of others who clearly never played here.

Comment by John Scot Sheets on November 25, 2008 at 6:49am

I remember falling asleep during The Altanta Rhythm Section show at Emems.

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