Among my earliest music related memories is seeing the music video for #devo single "whip it". It was 1980 and I was attending 3rd grade at Cheektowaga Central Elementary school. We were latch key kids, but occasionally my mom would drive my sister and I to school. Those mornings gs were special because she would often buy us egg mcmuffin sandwiches at the McDonald's across the street from the school. Even to this day if I taste one of those sandwiches I'm transported back to those mornings and I can smell pencil shavings and vinyl folder binders. I remember we had a "field day" that year at the school, it was a day where the students participated in athletic events. I recall two things: being super proud of my standing long jump blue ribbon and singing "whip it" to myself for the duration of the day. Being only eight years old I didn't get the sexually overtones of the video, but I did appreciate the singer's proficiency with a whip. Come to think of it I can't remember how u even saw that video as MTV hadn't happened yet. I imagine one of my uncles introduced it to me at my grandmother's west side house. I remember when I was older and bought this devo album I was suprised at how guitar oriented the songs were, I remembered them as a synth band. Thankfully one of my Co workers likes the band so I get to hear this stuff once in a while.
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