SIMI VALLEY, CA – Earlier this week, noted ISKCON historian, Bhakta Charlie, reported in his article “Meltdown… So What? on Sampradaya Sun, that he was aware of senior devotees, who, when “faced with the Y2K (year 2000) crisis/impending doom, went so far as to purchase rubber Radiation Suits.”
While the fact that senior devotees purchased radiation suits is undeniably true, also true are the allegations that Bhakta Charlie purposely failed to state that these senior Srila Prabhupada disciples actually bought the radiation suits to complete the costuming of their Krishna conscious Devo cover band.
DEVOtee, a band dedicated to the propagation of Vedic philosophy though electronic new wave music and red plastic “energy domes,” has just recorded their first album Q: Are We Not Karmis? A: We Are DEVOtee.
Their fall tour will kick off with a few promo spots on Japanese TV, but will head to small venues stateside in November.
While the motivation for such a blatant attempt at slander remains a mystery, sources close to Bhakta Charlie report him to be the sound engineer behind rival Krishna conscious synthesizer-based act Four Old Dudes Kickin’ Ass on the Stage, a band who many feel have out-lived their mantra rock relevance.
DEVOtee’s first single, “The End of the World Is Near (And I Feel Fine Because Home is Really Elsewhere),” a Devoesque cover of the similarly-titled REM song, promises to be a chart topper, marking DEVOtee’s place atop the Hare Krishna synthpop world.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Rati // Oct 3, 2008 at 9:27 am
hahhahahhahhahhhaa!!!!!! Great reporting!
damn sound engineer…figures!
2 Dwija // Oct 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Ah, now it all makes sense. It’s so obvious. Take a look at the new and “improved” version of Bhagavad Gita. Instead of Krishna holding His transcendental conchshell, Panchajanya, it shows Krishna holding, guess what?
A whip!
Que music, and…….
“Crack that whip
Give the past the slip
Step on a crack
Break your mommas back
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When somethings going wrong
You must whip it
Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
Its not too late
To whip it
Whip it good”
Many years have gone into the preparation for this DEVOtee band. Must be Krishna’s arrangement prabhu. Or is it just a group of upstarts derangement?
3 Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) // Oct 4, 2008 at 3:52 pm
When I read an article like this I can’t for the life of me understand what it’s all about. It makes me feel really old.
4 Prabhupada Only // Aug 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm
DEVOtee, watch out! Spawned by the increasing rise in hate mail directed to GALVA by the fundamentalist Hindu extremists, we’ve decided to start a Gay, Hare Krsna horror-punk, Misfits tribute band called Hate Breeders. Our first Blu-ray – Rahu Attacks! – due out on Plan 108 Records Sept. 1, features the songs 20 Yonis and Smarta Zombies on the flipside.
“I turned into a Golokian, woah oh oh. I can’t even recall my name, woah oh oh. Times I never hardly sleep at night, woah oh oh. Well, i turned into a Golokian today. I turned into a Golokian woah oh oh. i can’t even recall my friends and family woah oh oh. times i only chant and cry all night woah oh oh. well, i turned into a Golokian today…”
5 astottara // Jan 25, 2010 at 5:26 pm
wow. this is really inspirational. i know no one is going to take me seriously but really.. cyber-sanga rules. and i thought i’d never say anything about the internet being cool after being a teen in the 90s.
anyway. this is a very crucial enquiry.
does DEVOtee actually exist?
because if it doesn’t, it should. I can put my cyber post punk doom metal side project on the side and make some synthpop.
6 bhakta raj prabhu Dasa // Mar 1, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Yes prabhus…
~Simply let us all be whipping it.