Devo were booked by their soundman in 1975 as a joke to open for experimental jazz artist Sun Ra at the WMMS-FM Halloween Party.
The results were hilarious in retrospect, but at the time some attendees were so upset with Devo, their music, and their antics they were forced off the stage with the threat of violence.
This was a bit out of the ordinary for the powerful Cleveland rock station who fancied itself a bit of a rebel, whose sassy buzzard was its mascot.
But Devo that Halloween were intentionally obnoxious.
The soundman, Eddie Barger, knew people at the FM station and billed the relatively unknown New Wave pioneers as a Bad Company cover band.
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