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  Encyclopedia: Mark Mothersbaugh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Mark Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950, in Akron, Ohio) is an American musician, composer, singer, and painter.
Mothersbaugh was a singer, keyboardist, and founding member of the New Wave rock group Devo.
Co-founders Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Bob Lewis were students at Kent State at the time the National Guard shot and killed students at a protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia--the 'pivotal moment' in their founding, according to Casale.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mark-Mothersbaugh   (1302 words)

  
 Are We Not Men We Are Devo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band had come into contact with Eno when they managed to hand a demo tape to David Bowie when he played a show in Cleveland.
Bowie and Iggy Pop became fans of the band and Bowie went to see them perform in Kansas City after Mark Mothersbaugh stated in an interview that he would like either him or Brian Eno to produce their first record.
Bowie announced to the crowd during the interval that he would be producing them that winter in Tokyo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Are_We_Not_Men_We_Are_Devo!   (586 words)

  
 Devo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer and synthesizer player, and Gerald V. (Gerry) Casale, the group's bassist have been members of Devo since its inception.
Mark Mothersbaugh has gone on to considerable success writing and producing music for television programs (starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse and perhaps most famously with Rugrats), video games, cartoons and movies (most famously working alongside director Wes Anderson).
His company, Mutato Muzika, provides employment for Devo guitarists Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale: the former works as a composer, and the latter as a recording engineer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devo   (1689 words)

  
 Devo
In the late 1960s, Kent State students Gerald Casale, Bob Lewis and Mark Mothersbaugh formed a half-serious theory of "de-evolution," holding that modern society was degenerating into mindless conformity and preprocessed Madison Avenue rhetoric.
And the Bob Lewis interview, in which he describes the events that led up to his 1978 lawsuit against the band for theft of intellectual property, is fascinating.
Supposedly the Wipeouters were a surf-rock outfit formed in 1967 by Mothersbaugh and the two Bobs, and this is new recordings of songs written in that era.
www.warr.org /devo.html   (1323 words)

  
 Devo - Interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Ohio, Elvis, Jan and Dean, Michael Jackson, Andy ...
It was the band that Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh and I were in when we were in junior high.
The second time, Bob McKendrick who is now head of the sheriff department of our township, was skipping me across the water I realized that I could change the angle of the way we were skipped.
Bob Casale came up with the name, but the reason we got back together was because I had been asked to write a theme song for a television show called Rocket Power.
www.juicemagazine.com /devo.html   (2708 words)

  
 Cornerstone Magazine :: DEVO Interview (Bob Mothersbaugh)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Recently, we had the opportunity to talk to Bob Mothersbaugh of the new wave rock group, Devo.
Okay, there's schools of esoteric teaching that claim that the gospel drama, whether it really happened or whether it was a well‑thought out play or something, talks in the deepest sense about the true meanings of life.
We've experienced the gospel to be the truth, Bob.
www.cornerstonemag.com /pages/show_page.asp?215   (1275 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: DEVO's Mothersbaugh to Receive TV and Film Scoring Award
Mothersbaugh also has over 400 commercial credits, and is the co-owner of Mutato Muzika, an umbrella company that is home to a full-time staff of composers and music editors including Bob 1 (Mothersbaugh) and Bob 2 (Casale) of DEVO.
The singer (Mothersbaugh) revels in the pressure that seems to come from outside his body: "Got an urge, got a surge, and it's out of control." By ceding sovereignty to his urge, the singer is liberated from responsibility for his actions: compulsion as liberation.
Mothersbaugh holds his urge up to the light like something to be admired: "I wanna tell you all about it, uncontrollable urge makes me scream and shout it." Pressure and release propels the song to its giddy conclusion, the celebrated urge never identified, left in its generic glory.
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/04/13/145957.php   (1153 words)

  
 MuteWeb,Texts,Interviews,Mothersbaugh MIX Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Mark Mothersbaugh is carved into the big turkey of history as a founder of the indelible Devo, the international New Wave void-filler of the '70s and '80s.
MOTHERSBAUGH: It's a film term, when in the old days two seconds before picture started there would be a pop on the visuals and an audio pop so that they could line it up on the KEM tables.
MOTHERSBAUGH: There are some projects where people request me. On commercials, it used to be just me, but now it's turning out that my brother Bob is beating me out on some of the demos.
www.nvg.ntnu.no /devo/Texts/Interviews/Mothersbaugh_MIX_Interview.html   (2420 words)

  
 Revolutionizing Fashion: The Politics of Style: DEVO
Cast from the original mold, this plastic Energy Dome was spray-painted red and fitted with band-member inserts for stage-use by Bob Mothersbaugh on the late '80's "Total Devo" Tour.
Mark Mothersbaugh was an art student at Kent State University during the tragic shooting of protesting students by the National Guard on May 4th, 1970.
An entire generation was left to reflect on the tragic event and Mothersbaugh's conclusion was that we were de-evolving.
dept.kent.edu /museum/exhibit/70s/devo.html   (176 words)

  
 MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
But talking with Mark Mothersbaugh — the once and future mastermind of Devo, currently enjoying a second career as a television and film composer — you have to suspend disbelief even more than with most musicians, 'cause he's always got some tall tale he's trying to lay on the poor, unsuspecting press.
Bob Mothersbaugh has a regular gig scoring the popular Rugrats animated series for Nickelodeon, the original theme for which was written by brother Mark years ago.
Bob Casale is the studio's technical guru and principal engineer — he cut The Wipeouters' disc, works regularly with Mark and has engineered Devo's sporadic projects since their fourth album, New Traditionalists.
mixonline.com /mag/audio_mark_mothersbaugh   (1755 words)

  
 "S-RWF" The Big White - Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is one composer who has much experience with scores for films, television series and games.
Mothersbaugh doesn’t strive towards sentiment, except when strings underscore a very good scene where Barnell is very emotionally speaking with his wife about her disease.
Mothersbaugh also trusts on a certain death music theme (more a motif actually), that I prefer to call the dead body music and is recognized by particular, loud percussion running along other instruments.
www.robin-williams.net /scores/bigwhite.htm   (472 words)

  
 Baby Talk: Making Music-and Mayhem-For Rugrats
Mothersbaugh then returns to Mutato Musika, 3/4-inch dub in hand, where he has Tuesday and Wednesday to write, commonly turning in 12-hour days (he'll score the A act of an episode on Tuesday, the B act on Wednesday).
Mothersbaugh says the samples he's tailored around the kids are all very similar-except for Angelica's.
Mothersbaugh laughs at the idea of emulating Carl Stalling, the legendary composer of classic Warner Bros. cartoons.
millimeter.com /mag/video_baby_talk_making   (1583 words)

  
 DEVO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Mothersbaugh also donned a baby mask to create his famous alter-ego, Booji Boy, who symbolised the infantile regression that Devo saw in so much of American culture.
The core members of the group are Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer, guitarist and synthesizer player, and Gerald V. Casale, the group's bassist and main songwriter.
Mothersbaugh has gone on to considerable success writing and producing music for television programs, video games, animated cartoons and movies.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/de/Devo.htm   (970 words)

  
 :-: MARSDUST :-:
From the innovative and quirky sight and sound to the all-expanding work in scoring movies, commercials, cable programs, and video games Mark Mothersbaugh is still making music and tipping his red dome cap to the world.
All the gentlemen at Mutato, Josh Mancell, Albert Fox, Bob Mothersbaugh, and Bob Casale, work on separate projects but also work together as a team.
Mothersbaugh is responsible for scoring the TV show MD's.
www.marsdust.com /devo.htm   (1368 words)

  
 Grooves Magazine - Book Reviews: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The bleak environment ultimately shaped the cynical philosophy of local boys Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Jeff and Bob Casale, and Alan Myers.
The musicians moved to New York, struggled before rising to mainstream success, and then succumbed to the excess of the drugs and rock n' roll lifestyle that brought the group to the same inescapable fall it predicted for the rest of the species.
Dellinger and Giffels are quite thorough with their insightful research into the upbringing of the musicians, noting how ethics of self-reliance, hard work and creativity were instilled in the Mothersbaugh brothers at a young age.
www.groovesmag.com /bookreview_item.php?id=00000053   (514 words)

  
 Devo Music, News, Concerts, and More from SonicBreakdown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Co-founders Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Bob Lewis were students at Kent State University at the time the National Guard shot and killed students at a protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia - the 'pivotal moment' in their founding, according to co-founder Gerry Casale.
Devo were pioneers of the music video; the video for 'Whip It' became an early staple of MTV — and their many promotional films and video clips are important landmarks in the development of this genre.
The core members of the group are Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer and synthesizer player, and Gerald V. (Gerry) Casale, the group's bassist and main songwriter.
www.sonicbreakdown.com /artistDetails.do?selectedArtistId=566   (1669 words)

  
 Devo / Aug. 6, 2005 / Los Angeles (House of Blues)
General Boy (Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh's dad) introduced the various types of people who could be found at a Devo concert.
A: We Are Devo!." Bob Casale's subtle up-down/front-back movements with his guitar neck were reminiscent of the unique robotic choreography for which Devo was famous.
Towards the end, Bob yanked back on his guitar's whammy bar and intentionally snapped the strings to the fans' cheers.
www.photoserve.com /bb/livereviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001017803   (828 words)

  
 Mark Mothersbaugh MP3 Downloads - Mark Mothersbaugh Music Downloads - Mark Mothersbaugh Music Videos
In keeping with Devo's dehumanized, automaton image, Mothersbaugh obscured the details of his upbringing, although it is known he co-founded the group in 1972 with keyboardist Jerry Casale, a fellow art student at Kent State University.
Mothersbaugh then moved into composing commercial jingles and soundtracks, scoring the children's television favorites Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Rugrats in addition to feature films like Bottle Rocket, Happy Gilmore, and Rushmore.
Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's...
www.mp3.com /Mark-Mothersbaugh/artists/4253/biography.html   (291 words)

  
 biology - Devo
Mothersbaugh also donned a baby mask to create his famous alter-ego, Booji Boy (pronounced Boogie Boy), who symbolised the infantile regression that Devo saw in so much of American culture.
Devo were pioneers of the music video — the video for 'Whip It' became an early staple of MTV — and their many promotional films and video clips are important landmarks in the development of this genre.
The core members of the group are Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer, guitarist and synthesizer player, and Gerald V. (Gerry) Casale, the group's bassist and main songwriter.
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Devo   (1154 words)

  
 Angelwear: Celebrities Making a Difference
The group is probably most well-known for their early MTV video for "Whip It" where the brothers Mothersbaugh and Casale donned fl shirts and pyramid-like red plastic headgear, wielding long bull whips in the setting of a small Texas border town.
Bob currently creates music for TV shows and commercials, including The Rugrats, as well as soundtracks.
Click to see Bob Mothersbaugh's greeting card designed exclusively for Angelwear to benefit: Save The Children.
www.angelwear.com /celebs.php?celeb=MothersbaughB   (204 words)

  
 MuteWeb,Texts,DEVO Biological Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Nicknamed "clown" by his friends when he was in high school, Bob developed the rudiments of his present day volatile stage antics by crashing cars on the backroads of Akron, Ohio for fun and relaxation.
Personality profile: Forthright, honest and technically inclined, Bob left his position as radiologist and joined DEVO, rebelling against the medieval standards and lack of ethics in his former high-paying profession.
Reputed bouts with delusional fevers left Bob with a mistaken identity that he was Kirk Douglas.
oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no /devo/Texts/DEVO_Biological_Report.html   (457 words)

  
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And guess what, they are still ahead of their time, only spokesman Mark Mothersbaugh says that time has only proven that the "theory," is now confirmed fact.
Mothersbaugh was cagey, but did note that the group had contributed two songs to the just released Supercop soundtrack.
The band's twisted reworking of "Secret Agent Man" remains one of their most distinctive performances, while moody pieces like "Triumph of the Will," "Pink Pussycat," and "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise" (the latter resulting in a classic video featuring a flying newborn) reveal DEVO as the supreme musicians they were.
www.filmliteraturemusic.com /devo.txt   (779 words)

  
 Marvin Memorial Library: Ohio Music: Devo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Casale and Mothersbaugh saw American society as rigid and encouraging its members to behave as clones, as machines, stifling any areas of ambiguity.
The pair were joined by Mark's brothers Bob on lead guitar and Jim on electronic drums.
Mark Mothersbaugh, in a move similar to the presenting of onstage theatrical characters by Peter Gabriel in his Genesis days, brought Booji Boy to life by donning a baby-faced mask to represent infantile regression.
www.shelbymm.lib.oh.us /ohiomusic/devo/devopage.html   (447 words)

  
 BMI Hands Out Over 100 Awards at Annual Film/TV Gala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
One of the most unique and prolific contemporary composers in film, television, interactive media and commercials, Mothersbaugh was a founding member of influential rock group Devo, parlaying his avant-garde musical background into the world of scoring for filmed and animated entertainment.
With over 100 credits in the medium including over 400 commercial credits, Mothersbaugh is also co-owner of Mutato Muzika, an umbrella company that is home to a full-time staff of composers and music editors.
At the dinner, Mothersbaugh was honored by some of the directors he's worked with, as well as by the characters from Rugrats.
bmi.com /news/200405/20040513a.asp   (835 words)

  
 Wipeouters: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Future Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, and Robert Casale formed the band for fun in Akron, OH, back in 1966, inspired by the likes of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dick Dale, the Trashmen, and the Ventures.
The group never broke out nationally (that was never the intention), as the bandmembers went their separate ways by the '70s, as Mark went to Kent State University with Robert Casale's brother, Gerry.
With Mark Mothersbaugh handling synths/vocals and Gerry Casale the bass/vocals, the duo invited their brothers to join the fledgling group (both playing guitar), with drummer Alan Myers eventually rounding out the group and leading to a recording contract with Warners by 1977.
www.music.com /group/wipeouters/1   (404 words)

  
 Beat Sheet
By Julene Snyder WEST HOLLYWOOD - Smack in the midst of the hipster-heaven portion of Sunset Boulevard, not far from the Viper Room and just a short walk away from the Whiskey A Go-Go, is a round building so screamingly puke green, it transcends its own hideousness.
This magnificent blight on the block is Mutato Muzika, the place where Mark Mothersbaugh - front man of the seminal new-wave band Devo - spends his days recording and producing music, making art and keeping "devolution" (the notion that humans are progressing in a backward fashion) on track.
Now that technology allows musicians to work more independently of music industry hubs like L.A. and Manhattan, Mothersbaugh says he'd like to be free to make music and art from anywhere on the globe.
www.well.com /~julene/beatsheet/2001bs/03-06-2001.html   (2165 words)

  
 MobyGames - Bob Mothersbaugh
Bob Mothersbaugh was credited on a game in 1999.
Bob Mothersbaugh has been credited with the roles Sound.
Bob Mothersbaugh has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Activision Publishing, Inc..
www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,42530   (153 words)

  
 The Wipeouters, History and Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Mothersbaugh tells LAUNCH that the group was better than the Beach Boys and that their impact is massive, whether anyone realizes it or not.
Around 1967, when Mothersbaugh, his brother Bob, and Bob Casale (Bob 1 and Bob 2, respectively, in Devo parlance) were in junior high in Akron, they formed the Wipe-Outers.
Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Mothersbaugh, and Robert Casale have reunited as a surf-rock outfit under the moniker the Wipeouters.
www.tonecasualties.com /data/CT/wipeouters/reviews.html   (4215 words)

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