Casale of DEVO filmed one of the band's videos at Kent Student Center. He also knew Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause and was at the shooting when the two were killed during the May 4th 1970 protest. He was also a member of SDS. Interesting. http://www.burr.kent.edu/story/peters/index5.html Excerpt from end of article: "Moving backward, looking forward If you ask Casale whether de-evolution is still happening today, you will get a very direct answer. “I never thought there could be a worse incident or a worse time at that point in my life. I saw visions of a fascist America,” Casale says of the early ’70s. “I’ve lived long enough to say I was wrong. I think the country we live in today is far worse than the one I lived in then. I would give anything to go back and be in that time again.” When the members of Devo aren’t working at their day jobs, they take their message of de-evolution to the road. The band hopes to tour with the B-52’s this summer, although Mothersbaugh and his wife’s plans to adopt a child from China may cut into tour time. Plans are being made for Mothersbaugh to bring his art exhibition to the Akron Art Museum in 2007. Casale is returning to his blues roots with a record he hopes to put out with Warner Brothers this year. Jihad Jerry and the Evil Doers, as the project is titled, may even make an appearance in the clubs if demand is high enough. But, “Mine’s not a holy war,” Casale says of his project’s title. “It’s a war on stupidity, as futile and vanquished as the war on drugs.” Several of the band’s costumes were on display several years ago at the Fashion Museum, but signs of Devo around Kent State are few and far between. Perhaps this is not entirely surprising, since the group’s legacy is one of artistic agitation and anarchy. “Nobody had a name for (what we were doing),” Casale says. “They weren’t labeling it — except troublemaker.” " .
Devo rocks... I loved their first album. I also read this book about them, it was pretty sweet.... We are all Devo.
