Alan Myers

Alan Myers

Born: December 29, 1954
Died: June 24, 2013
in Akron, Ohio, USA
Alan Myers was the third and best known drummer of the new wave band Devo, having joined the band less than a year after its founding and prior to the release of their first album. Myers remained with the band for over 10 years and performed on all of their best-known releases. He died of brain cancer in 2013 at the age of 58.

Movies for Alan Myers...

Devo Live 1980
Title: Devo Live 1980
Character: Himself
Released: August 30, 2005
Type: Movie
"This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too. " - Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma
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Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Title: Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Now, the complete truth can be told...Devo, the seminal New Wave audio-visual concept band made a career out of setting to music video their Dada-gone-camp theory of de-evolution and its riotous rebuke of corporate culture. Punk/New Wave mad scientists Devo were among the few bands to understand the music video's potential as art form during its infancy in the eighties. Their brilliant and bizarre videos were compiled on VHS and then on laser disc; that long out-of-print disc, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, has finally arrived on DVD, which should please longtime fans of this eclectic outfit.
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We're All Devo
Title: We're All Devo
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it, the character of Rod Rooter (Michael W Schwartz) is reviewing Devo's music videos for Big Entertainment. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Donut Rooter (Laraine Newman) is a fan of the band. Donut discovers the videos after asking her father for money to get an abortion (though this is not explicitly stated). Two excerpts from the storyline were included in the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and DVD (both out of sequence) but the rest is exclusive to this videocassette. "Theme from Doctor Detroit" was also not included, and is unique to this tape. (Wikipedia)
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3-DEVO
Title: 3-DEVO
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
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Human Highway
Title: Human Highway
Character: Nuclear Garbageperson
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Title: Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO's first home video release. Features live footage from the band's 1978 "Duty Now for the Future" tour.
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Pray TV
Title: Pray TV
Character: Dove band member
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
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De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Title: De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
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Are We Not Men?
Title: Are We Not Men?
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A documentary about DEVO
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Devo - Full Concert 1978
Title: Devo - Full Concert 1978
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Part of Chorus (La Première Émission Rock D'Antoine De Caunes), a broadcast series operating 1978-1981 in France covering live appearances mainly by American and English bands.