Sunday, July 26, 2009

So will we have to wait for "Archives, Vol. 2" before we can see the whole movie?

When The Human Highway, Neil Young's rarely-seen 1982 film, was being shot sometime in early 1978, an announcement was made at the Mabuhay Gardens that they were looking for extras for Neil Young's movie for a scene where they played the audience at a Devo show. A lot of San Francisco punks showed up as extras (including my late girlfriend Maati, who was also filmed shooting pool in another scene that may or may not have been used), and I always wondered whether their antics made the final cut. Anyway, this is the first time I've seen the Devo vs. Neil rendition of "Hey Hey, My My". Neil's messy intensity meets Devo's kinetic stiffness in an exciting way. We need to see more footage of this odd clash of scenes.

UPDATE: Aw gee, Neil pulled the video.

3 comments:

IanSchultz said...

I've seen the Devo / Neil Young jam, it's on the dvd of all the Devo videos.

IanSchultz said...

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=37326976

this is the video Devo did with some clips from the film.

J Neo Marvin said...

Great stuff, but what I really want to see is my friends and acquaintances hamming it up for the cameras. Hope those scenes didn't get left on the cutting room floor...