Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — Director and counterculture legend John Waters introduced Devo by telling the crowd, “They were before new wave, ahead of industrial, before the word ‘alternative’ was coined. This band was no media invention, it was a grassroots movement that everybody here has embraced. David Bowie loved…

  We’ve reached two milestones: The ’80s, and modern music. This is the first time we have hip-hop, punk and metal in the top five. While rappers had been performing through the ’70s, the first two widely-released singles (Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” and Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”) didn’t come…