{"id":2447272,"date":"2019-08-07T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868593"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:06:42","slug":"devo-set-desert-daze-gig-deny-farewell-tour-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/devo-set-desert-daze-gig-deny-farewell-tour-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Devo Set Desert Daze Gig, Deny \u2018Farewell Tour\u2019 Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the Desert Daze festival released its lineup<\/a> earlier this week, it shocked many Devo<\/a> fans by announcing not only that the group was making a very live appearance, but that it was part of their \u201cfarewell tour.\u201d It turns out this was also news to Devo, who are emphatically denying any such tour is happening.<\/p>\n

\u201c#1 If we were going to do a farewell tour we would not call it a farewell tour,\u201d Devo bassist Jerry Casale emailed in a statement to Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201c#2 If we were going to do a Beginning Was The End tour it would be Devo choosing when and where to make the announcement.\u201d A rep for Desert Daze declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Devo haven\u2019t toured since 2014, though in 2016 they played three songs at a Los Angeles charity gig and in June 2018 they played a complete set at Burger Boogaloo in Oakland, California. \u201cIt\u2019s my fault we don\u2019t tour,\u201d Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh told Rolling Stone<\/em> last year.<\/a> \u201cJerry would be the first to tell you. I love writing music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil Mark changes his mind about playing shows, there\u2019s nothing happening,\u201d Casale said at the time. \u201cWe get offers constantly. The money being offered is obscenely good. And I love playing. I wish we\u2019d at least do a \u2018The Beginning Was Really the End\u2019 tour, like a farewell. I think it would be smarter than just fading away. At least we could die with our boots on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his opposition to touring, Mothersbaugh did say that the idea of one last tour did intrigue him. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind doing another tour to be honest with you,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we it ahead of time and did it right, I would like it to be kind of a wrap-up. I\u2019m hoping we can do a \u2018Stick a Fork in It tour \u2014 but I don\u2019t mean the band. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even if such a tour is a possibility, Casale says it is not happening this year and it\u2019s not starting at Desert Daze, no matter what the poster says. \u201cPerhaps 2020 before our next presidential (selection) would be a perfectly relevant time for Devo to take the stage for one final campaign 40 years after the release of Freedom of Choice<\/em>,\u201d he wrote to us. \u201cSince elections are now rigged by right-wing judges, rampant gerrymandering, voter suppression, and manipulation of the Electoral College to sabotage the popular vote Devo\u2019s canary in the coal mine warning about the loss of liberty and cultural Devolution is more dire than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devo have not yet announced who will be playing drums during their Desert Daze set, but Fred Armisen took on the role at Burger Boogaloo last year and he\u2019s booked to play a comedy set at Desert Daze, making him a very strong candidate. Earlier this year, he told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> he\u2019d be more than happy to tour with them in the future. \u201cI would throw my Devo hat in the ring and say, \u2018Of course, I would love to do it,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut that\u2019s up to them. They\u2019ve had different drummers: Josh Freese and Jeff Friedl and some brilliant people. That\u2019s up to them, but if they ever asked me I\u2019d do it in a second. In a second!\u201d<\/p>\n

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When the Desert Daze festival released its lineup earlier this week, it shocked many Devo fans by announcing not only that the group was making a very live appearance, but that it was part of their \u201cfarewell tour.\u201d It turns out this was also news to Devo, who are emphatically denying any such tour is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 22:44:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}