That was no small feat to get the Stones/Jagger to approve because the Stones almost NEVER allow their music to be covered.
I just saw Devo last week perform at the Best Buy Theater in Manhattan. It was a real treat because they only played material from their early "Hardcore" years, most of which had never been performed before. Back to their avant garde roots. Jerry played his flipped Steiny. Here's an article about the show:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2 ... hardc.html
Side note: Jerry's early basses were righty Gibsons. The one in the video is a righty Ripper bass he sawed the horns off of. He also played a righty EB0 bass flipped too. Then there was that red "potato" bass he played with a Gibson neck. It's never been clear to me whether or not this bass was created using parts from his EB0 or not, or whether or not he still owns either Gibson bass.
With Ripper:
With EB0:
With custom red:
). Tony Basil dated Jerry Casale for a while, and since Spazz was friends with Devo he was recruited. he also toured with Bowie on his Glass Spider tour as dancer/sometimes keyboardist too. Here he is in Tony's rendition of the Devo song, "Be Stiff" doing what he does best: