When the article, titled 40 years ago, there was a riot at a Devo show in Riverside: Here’s what happened next, came out this week, I was so excited to see that for the most part, I was Mr. Larsen's primary source. As my friend, Karen, said, "OMG, you ARE the article". He used all of my photos from the original blog post. To view the article, in its awesome entirety, click here (though you might have to disable your adblocker).

Here is a sneak peek, where I'm introduced to the reader:

That’s a long time ago, but through the magic of the Pop Culture Time Machine we were able to find someone who was there, excitedly waiting outside the theater, when the second show got called off and devolution broke out on the sidewalks of Riverside.

“Whenever you went anywhere, that was the tape you played,” says Denise Saffell Haerr about “Freedom Of Choice,” the third album by Devo, which arrived in May 1980. “It was the perfect beach music. It encapsulated the summer of 1980 for me.”

My blog has introduced me to some pretty amazing people and has given me unique opportunities I wouldn't have otherwise had. Reminiscing about this four decades ago event, with an enthusiastic reporter, was pretty amazing indeed.