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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Interview with Gerald V. Casale of Devo
By tracking the erosion of human analytical skills, erosion of personal freedom, number of physical diseases, and food and water supply contamination commensurate with geometric population growth and reliance on technology and weapons of mass destruction, we concluded that the quality of life for the mass wad is indeed devolving.
Gerald: Exactly, the terms of labeling typical of politicians and the media are at the root of the problem.
Gerald: It was a load of the most exquisite crap that had the good sense to make fun of itself, unlike The Backstreet Boys.
www.acidlogic.com /devo_int.htm   (1340 words)

  
 Shoot: Director Gerald V. Casale joins Pandemonium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At press time, Casale was in the midst of his final assignment at Crash: a client-direct package for the Artist Direct Network, a music Web site that offers news, information and merchandise related to musicians such as Madonna, Beck, Aerosmith and the Backstreet Boys.
Casale is also skilled in post and visual effects, which further explains his interest in Pandemonium.
Kitrilakis described Casale's work as "good advertising" across the board, and said the association made sense on several levels.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DUO/is_40_40/ai_57472257   (759 words)

  
 Devo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The first lineup included Gerald Casale (bass), Mark Mothersbaugh (keyboards), Bob Lewis (lead guitar), Bob Casale (rhythm guitar), Rod Reisman (drums) and Fred Weber (vocals).
Gerald Casale was strongly influenced by American Blues music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devo   (1597 words)

  
 :-: MARSDUST ONLINE :-:
Casale owns Outta the Box, his own company directing music videos and commercials.
Casale enjoys many of the classics in life.
Casale listens to all types of music, but his tastes aren't much for much music out now.
www.marsdust.20m.com /devo.htm   (521 words)

  
 c h i c a g o I N N E R V I E W
Casale, the self-proclaimed "live and let live" hippie, turned militant when the National Guard killed two of his friends during the infamous 1970 Kent State massacre which left four students dead and nine wounded.
Since 1991, Casale exists within "a family of man more de-evolved than ever," and is still very involved in music.
Casale considers a Devo reunion on occasion but Mothersbaugh prefers to leave Devo with the nineties and focus forward on his current project Mutato Muzika; a company that produces music for video games, television shows and movies while managing the Devo Web site.
www.chicagoinnerview.com /archives/aug05_devo.htm   (668 words)

  
 CMT.com : : Biography
In addition to co-founding one of the most popular bands of the entire new wave era, Devo, Gerald V. Casale is also an acclaimed director of music videos, having worked with some of rock's biggest names.
Casale also began directing videos for others again in the '90s, including clips for Rush ("Superconductor"), the Foo Fighters ("I'll Stick Around"), Soundgarden ("Blow up the Outside World"), and Silverchair ("Freak" and "Cemetery"), among others.
Although Devo has been known to sporadically reunite for the odd live date, Casale continues to work at Mutato Muzika, although he contributed bass to a song on David Byrne's 1997 solo outing, Feelings, and took part in a Devo offshoot project, the surf-based Wipeouters, in the early 21st century.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/id_1275672/bio.jhtml   (359 words)

  
 Interview with Gerald Casale of DEVO (6-12-05) - Music Midtown-Atlanta, GA
Casale is the bass guitarist, co-songwriter (along with Mark Mothersbaugh) of most of Devo’s material and director of nearly all of Devo’s videos.
Gerald Casale: (laughter) Yeah, people would expect that we are just kicking up our heels going ‘we were right’ but it’s not really true because ours is a cautionary tale.
Gerald Casale: We never had money to finish them and only used them as background in sync with us live at a time when nobody had done anything like that.
www.earcandymag.com /devo-2005.htm   (2154 words)

  
 Devo - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Devo became a cult sensation, helped in part by their concurrent emphasis on highly stylized visuals, and briefly broke through to the mainstream with the smash single "Whip It," whose accompanying video was made a staple by the fledgling MTV network.
Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh both attended art school at Kent State University at the outset of the 1970s.
The whole concept was treated as an elaborate joke until Casale witnessed the infamous National Guard killings of student protesters at the university; suddenly there seemed to be a legitimate point to be made.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,422968,00.html?src=search&artist=Devo   (953 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - A whip off the old
block from Devo
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If you believe the band's co-founder, Gerald Casale, the answer is just about everything.
Casale, who took part in the bloody 1970 demonstration at Kent State University, sees Devo's recent tour as a reminder that we're equally troubled today.
But Casale says there's no reason to discount a serious idea just because it's coming from a musician in a wacky outfit.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/music/v-pfriendly/story/214663p-184843c.html   (361 words)

  
 Dada Devotee - page 1
Music video pioneer Gerald Casale, co-founder of the New Wave art-rock band Devo, brings his quirky sensibility to the small screen.
Before embarking upon his career, Casale was an art major at Kent State University, where he was introduced to cinema production in a class taught by underground filmmaker Richard Myers.
Casale later made the acquaintance of fellow musician Mark Mothersbaugh, and the pair soon enlisted drummer Alan Meyers and their respective younger brothers both named Bob.
www.theasc.com /protect/aug98/devo/pg1.htm   (620 words)

  
 Digital.Hollywood
Gerald V. Casale, Director, Pandemonium: "Before DEVO made records, we thought of ourselves as sort of a clearinghouse for ideas.
Gerald directed all 20 of the pop group’s music videos including beautiful world and that’s good.
Soon after, Casale took his directing skills into the commercial market, feeling the genre was now part of pop culture.
www.digitalhollywood.com /LAMondayTwo.html   (1848 words)

  
 Shoot: Gerald Casale: are we not directors? - spotmaker - Special Report: Directors/Spring Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
We were trying to stage 'a happening,'" says director Gerald Casale of Crash Films, Santa Monica, as he describes a recent shoot in New York's Times square.
Casale studied studio art at Kent State University in Ohio, where he met Mark Mothers-baugh, later partner and co-founder of Devo.
Casale plans to keep shooting spots, but his wider interests include directing the pilot of a USA Network series called Monster Smasher, written by Bob Engels (Twin Peaks).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DUO/is_n13_v39/ai_20632552   (900 words)

  
 Scribe's Report 08-11-03 - DEVOtional 2003
Casale is one of the original members of DEVO, and the other main spokesfreak and songwriter with Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh.
An impromptu collaboration with Casale at the end of their set was possibly the high point of the event in terms of sheer infectious energy.
Casale thought that was a bad idea because, in his opinion, the U.S. is now THE WORST IT'S EVER BEEN, facism-wise.
www.subgenius.com /bigfist/fun/devivals/DEVOtional2003/DEVOTIONAL_2003ScribeRpt.html   (1350 words)

  
 Devo
I was into Devo when I was a 13-year old Atari-playing nerd, and living proof that you could enjoy their improbably catchy, lurching mock rock without any understanding of their ironic or subversive intent...
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.
www.warr.org /devo.html   (1323 words)

  
 ICWF Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It is his knowledge and love of the game that distinguishes him as the top man in his position in the sport of professional wrestling; and his rather wholesome manner that makes him the constant butt of Gerald Casale's insults.
Gerald started out as the bassist for Devo, did a stint as a record producer for a time, and somehow wound up doing color commentary for the ICWF, a job he doesn't seem to like too incredibly well.
Not only that, but endure the endless fat jokes spewed his way compliments of Gerald Casale.
www.icwf.org /staff.asp   (305 words)

  
 Devo: The Complete Truth About De-evolution
Commentary by Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh.
Gerald V. Casale calls Devo a “post-modernist protest band” during his commentary to Rhino Records’ DVD release of “The Complete Truth About De-Evolution.” For most of the uninitiated that don’t understand that statement, Devo will always be perceived as simply being weird.
The echoing guitar in “Time Out For Fun” is crystal clear while the chainsaw riffs in “Come Back Jonee” leave no doubt that Devo was a very good bandÂ…when they were allowed to be.
www.dvd-dweeb.com /music/devo-completetruth.htm   (510 words)

  
 projktnine's Xanga Site
GERALD V. When I heard that there was going to be a Devo party at Dante’s the same day they performed downtown I knew that I had to go.
My best friend Eli and I stayed up all night just to catch their show in the morning, which was so worth it.
Gerry Casale has got to be one the wittiest and creative individuals I have ever met!
www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=projktnine   (2285 words)

  
 Vanguard News Network Forum - Homosexual Couple Fail At "Parenting"...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
HAPPIER DAYS: Three years after losing a custody battle to gay dad Gerald Casale (left) and a partner, mom Courtney St. Clement (right) is fighting again for her baby because he's grown violent at school.
St. Clement says the family arrangement broke down after the father, part-time substitute teacher Gerald Casale, 47, and his partner, a trusts and estates lawyer, Ernest Londa, 46, stopped her from seeing the 6-month-old infant in April 1998.
The partners claimed they struck a deal with St. Clement in which she agreed to carry Casale's child to term, then step back and allow them to be sole parents.
www.vnnforum.com /showthread.php?t=5673   (964 words)

  
 :-: MARSDUST :-:
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.
They do six TV shows a week, 60-70 ad campaigns a year as well as some of the biggest video and computer games.
Since that parting of Devo, Gerald Casale, now in Santa Monica, California works like a racehorse.
www.marsdust.com /devo.htm   (1368 words)

  
 ORI Epic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The swamp rover flew into the Balloonicon barrier and Agent Triplex cooked them to a flened crisp with her wrist-mounted flame throwers.
During the ruckus, Triplex also killed Gerald Casale with the flame throwers.
The death of Gerald Casale caused an inter-dimensional backlash to occur.
www.reinformation.com /cgi-bin/oristory.cgi?go=1085   (127 words)

  
 Devo: Live In The Land Of The Rising Sun
The crowd was swathed in bootlegged energy domes and DEVO T's, mouthing the lyrics to songs we wrote when most of them were loading their diapers with Uni-colored poo.
Interviews with Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh are unfortunately interspersed between songs, slowing any momentum the concert material manages to build.
“Uncontrollable Urge” becomes a swirling rave-up, and Casale’s bass fastens onto David Kendrick’s bashing drumbeats for a towering “Mongoloid.” Skip the interviews unless you’re a card-carrying Devolutionist.
www.dvd-dweeb.com /music/devo-risingsun.htm   (491 words)

  
 The Wave Magazine - The Bay Area's Best Entertainment Magazine... Ever.
So, after reading Maerth’s book in the early ‘70s, band mates Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh adopted the name Devo for their group.
Maerth’s ideas meshed with their own perceptions of American society as a rigid, robotic herd of conformist creatures merely focused on the mundane efficiency of survival.
But the group didn’t take their musical aspirations too seriously until Casale witnessed two friends get murdered by National Guard troops at the infamous Kent State massacre in 1970.
www.thewavemag.com /printarticle.php?articleid=22808   (956 words)

  
 dBmagazine.com.au
Casale in particular was clearly not worried about getting Xmas cards from his former record company as he curses the budgets they were given for their final videos Disco Dancer (great song, inventive video) and Post Post-Modern Man (average song, dreadful video featuring a writhing Penthouse Pet at the label's insistence).
They're also inspirational: sure, the set is much the same as their 1996 one (and there's nothing later than 1980's 'Freedom Of Choice') but they still tear through Uncontrollable Urge, Smart Patrol/Mr DNA, Mongoloid, Whip It and more with enthusiasm.
The set is intercut with clips of Japanese interviews from the tour, which are interesting enough; although you'll learn more about Gerald Casale's activity with Japanese groupies than you'd ever, ever wish for.
www.dbmagazine.com.au /358/dv-Devo.shtml   (295 words)

  
 Wall Street Journal Article
Fired from the Numbers Band one night after wearing a chimpanzee mask on stage, bass player Gerald Casale formed a band called Devo, which almost instantly became a top recording act for Warner Brothers.
He was very unhappy with the music and the band.
Then Gerald began suggesting that everyone wear masks on stage in order to shock the audience.
www.numbersband.com /wsjarticle.html   (793 words)

  
 Greatest Hits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Devo: Mark Mothersbaugh (vocals); Bob Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale (guitar); Gerald V. Casale (bass); Alan Myers (percussion).
Compilation producers: Kathie Duba-Noland, Gerald V. Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh.
In 1990, Warner Bros., issued a two-volume compilation titled GREATEST HITS and GREATEST MISSES (each sold separately), which contained material from all six of the band's albums from 1978 through 1984.
musicstore.mymmode.com /album.do?albumID=6206113   (149 words)

  
 Devo Tickets - Cheap Devo Concert Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
Gerald Casale was bemused by the sudden attention: "I think we were the most misunderstood band that ever came down the pike because behind the satire, our message was a humanistic one, not an inhumane one.
The Mothersbaugh and Casale brothers have sporadically revived the Devo name in subsequent years.
Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale also re-formed the Wipeouters, a pre-Devo surf group they formed while growing up in Akron.
www.onlineseats.com /devo-tickets   (1028 words)

  
 Oldies.com : Devo
Formed during 1972 in Akron, Ohio, this US new wave band, who fitted the term better than most, originally comprised Mark Mothersbaugh (b.
Robert Mothersbaugh; guitar), Bob Casale (guitar/keyboards) and Jim Mothersbaugh (drums), although the latter was replaced by Alan Myers in 1976.
The philosophical principle on which Devo operated, and from which they took their shortened name, was devolution: the theory that mankind, rather than progressing, has actually embarked on a negative curve.
www.oldies.com /artist/view.cfm/id_7014.html   (403 words)

  
 ::Devo in Chicago 2004::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gerald Casale: "Booji, what would he do to Al-Zarqawi?"
Gerald Casale: "What would he do to George W. Bush?"
Gerald Casale: "How many people from Homeland Security are here tonight?"
www.devo-obsesso.com /obsesso/html/news_pgs/chicago_04.html   (871 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: &: Devo: Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
It's not cut quite MTV-style, but there are plenty of pans and jump cuts to keep the viewers on their toes.
The focus is clearly Mothersbaugh, but throughout the set the cameras do a good job of catching the Casales in action, and zooming in on the crowd's reaction, which is almost always fawning jubilation.
The sound has tendency to fritz out every so often, which makes the disc feel more like an excellent bootleg than a commercial product -- but Devo are at their core a punk band, and what's more punk rock than a bootleg?
www.splendidezine.com /departments/&/devolive.html   (795 words)

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