Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years

Tracks 1 through 9 are culled from this show. According to Casale, the day after the show, once arriving back in Akron, the band began to receive phone calls from record labels.[2]

In 2014, Jackpot Records issued this set as a limited edition LP of 2000, Live at Max's Kansas City - November 15, 1977, including newly recovered audio of David Bowie introducing the set that night, and new liner notes by Casale.[3]

Tracks 10 through 13 stem from this set, a performance of Devo opening for the Dead Boys. Devo and Dead Boys fans began to clash in the audience, and the Dead Boys' Cheetah Chrome started a fight when Mark Mothersbaugh approached him during Devo's performance of "Jocko Homo". This was only the second Devo show to feature the five-man lineup that the band would continue with for the next ten years, including guitarist Bob Casale and drummer Alan Myers.[2]

The remainder of the disc is a very early Devo concert. The band had jokingly billed themselves as a cover band in order to garner a slot opening for Sun Ra at WHK-FM's annual Halloween party and appeared as four characters: Booji Boy (Mark Mothersbaugh), Clown (Bob Mothersbaugh), Jungle Jim (Jim Mothersbaugh) and Chinaman (Gerald Casale). This show featured the first ever performance of "Jocko Homo", during which Devo invited the audience to invade the stage, which resulted in them verbally threatening the band.[2]

An alternative account of the evening states that the crowd became angry because Devo refused to stop playing and the headliner, Sun Ra, never got to perform.[4] However, Casale states that the venue cleared out following Devo's set and that the band went on to watch Sun Ra's "incredible performance".[2]