The Dr Pepper Summer Concert Series in Central Park was a cheap haven for rock music of all kinds that was inexpensive and a subway ride away from Queens where we lived. Orchestra seats were $4.50, balcony $2.50 and if you could not get a ticket or just did not care to pay, you could hang out on the rocks beyond the outer fence and hear the show just fine. We would go to anything and everything , finding ourselves in the vicinity of the park two or three times a week usually. It was the equivalent to today’s sheds where some of the same acts still roam but cheaper and most acts in their creative prime. I know I attended the Devo concert somehow, someway but I have no particular recollection of this particular show. Devo famously helped Neil Young coin the phrase “Rust Never Sleeps” and appeared in Young’s eclectic film masterpiece “Human Highway.”. Devo’s Mark Mothersbough further went on to create music for the Rugrats cartoons launching a whole new generation into de-evolution.

I Can’t Get Me No Satisfaction

Rock on!

GQ