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 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.
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 also donned a baby mask to create his famous alter-ego, Booji Boy (pronounced "Boogie Boy"), said by some to symbolize the infantile regression that Devo saw in American culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devo   (1710 words)

  
 Greenspan Artist Management :: Composers :: Mark Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh's other feature film credits include Catherine Hardwicke's "Thirteen" starring Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter, Joe and Anthony Russo's "Welcome to Collinwood" starring George Clooney, "Happy Gilmore" starring Adam Sandler, "200 Cigarettes" and "The New Age" from director Michael Tolkin and producer Oliver Stone, among others.
Mothersbaugh has been nominated for numerous Emmy awards and is the recipient of BMI's distinguished Richard Kirk Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mothersbaugh was born in Ohio and studied at Kent State University.
www.greenartman.com /composers_mothersbaugh.html   (411 words)

  
 Encyclopedia topic: Devo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mothersbaugh also donned a baby mask (A covering to disguise or conceal the face) 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 (additional info and facts about music video) — the video for 'Whip It' became an early staple of MTV (additional info and facts about MTV) — and their many promotional films and video clips are important landmarks in the development of this genre.
The first lineup formed in 1972 with Gerry Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh and Mark's two brothers Jim on homemade electronic drums (A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end) and Bob (aka Bob I) on lead guitar.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/devo.htm   (1348 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/jimroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
You had to figure Jim Roll had reached the apex of his artistry a couple of years ago, when he worked with Silos mastermind Walter Salas-Humara on an excellent roots-rock album called Lunette.
They are perfect examples of Jim Roll's ability to create a new character with a few words, a new landscape with a few notes and spin those simple elements into a new world that you may not want to live in, but that you'll certainly want to know better.
Jim can just stand there and shoot these arrow straight lyrics that get right through to the heart of things.
myspace.com /jimroll   (1886 words)

  
 ::DEVOtioinal 2002::
General Boy, Jim Mothersbaugh, and Ivan Stang (Church Of The Subgenius) talked to the fans about all that is Devo.
Jim was the original drummer for Devo during their early days.
Jim Mothersbaugh throws tons of audio tech geek speak.
www.devo-obsesso.com /obsesso/html/news_pgs/devotional2002.html   (373 words)

  
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Jim Mothersbaugh, left, and Dave Hall of WaterTectonics operate a compact stormwater treatment plant in a corner of a new Fred Meyer and Home Depot shopping center in Redmond.
Mothersbaugh, working with Vice President of Operations Robert Schwindt, used electrocoagulation technology discovered in the early 1900s to create a modern application so effective it is enabling Ecology to raise the bar on clean stormwater standards.
But when stormwater is passed through an array of electrical cells that apply both positive and negative charges, the particles cling together, gather weight and sink to the bottom of catch basins, leaving water clean enough for Ecology standards.
www.djc.com /news/en/11135659.html   (1120 words)

  
 c h i c a g o I N N E R V I E W
After two years of teaching drawing and design, Casale, alongside friend Mark Mothersbaugh, channeled his militant energy into Devo; a band that stands as an embodiment of "de-evolution" and eventually as a cult success.
The classically trained Mark Mothersbaugh was "turned on to" the synthesizer in a time when few prog-rockers experimented with the bizarre instrument.
Mothersbaugh has been responsible for theme songs for “Rugrats” and “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” and for commercials ranging from AMEX to Mr.
www.chicagoinnerview.com /archives/aug05_devo.htm   (668 words)

  
 Devo - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Devo   (1156 words)

  
 onthejazz4's Xanga Site
I work in admissions and was eating lunch with a girl who was giving a prospective student and her dad a tour of campus.(I never eat lunch with the tours, I just happened to see my friend giving the tour, so I decided to join her).
We were just chatting about our majors and life in general, and I ask the dad, Jim, where he went to school and stuff.
He said he originally wanted to be in the entertainment industry, so he went to Akron U. for a while but then went to the west coast to pursue the entertainment thing, but then quit that and ended up finishing school at UCLA and now he owns his own business.
www.xanga.com /onthejazz4   (523 words)

  
 Devo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
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.
With friend Bob Lewis, who joined an early version of Devo and later became their manager, the theory of de-evolution was developed with the aid of a book entitled The Beginning Was the End: Knowledge Can Be Eaten, which held that mankind had evolved from mutant, brain-eating apes.
In 2001, the Mothersbaugh and Casale brothers reunited under the name the Wipeouters for a one-off surf release, P Twaaang.
www.music.com /group/devo/1   (982 words)

  
 The Herald Business Journal
Chemist and WaterTectonics CEO Jim Mothersbaugh, working with Vice President of Operations Robert Schwindt of Monroe, have turned the electrocoagulation technology discovered in the early 1900s into a modern application that works simply and effectively, so effectively that it continues to meet and best the state Department of Ecology’s new clean-water standards.
Their process depends on the fact that the very fine and extremely lightweight floating particles in surface runoff water are charged, which keeps them separated from each other and suspended in water almost indefinitely.
When storm water is passed through an array of electrical cells that apply both positive and negative charges, the particles cling together, gather weight and sink to the bottom of the treatment tanks, leaving water clean enough for DOE standards — or better.
www.heraldbusinessjournal.com /archive/jul02/watertectonics-jul02.htm   (706 words)

  
 Devo - S23Wiki
DEVO consists of Mark Mothersbaugh voice and synth keyboards, Gerald V. 'Jerry' Casale voice and bass, Bob Mothersbaugh 'Bob1' guitar, Bob Casale 'Bob2' guitar and synth keyboards.
And over the years on drums Jim Mothersbaugh 1974 - 1976, Alan Myers 1976 - 1985, David Kendrick 1986 - 1990 and most recently Josh freese 1996 - present.
Devo (The De-Evolution Band) was a rock music band from Akron, Ohio whose music mingled kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, satirical social commentary and thinly veiled sexual allusions in discordantly synthesized pop songs that often featured unusual time signatures.
s23.org /wiki/Devo   (125 words)

  
 Devo Music, News, Concerts, and More from SonicBreakdown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mark 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 and synthesizer player, and Gerald V. (Gerry) Casale, the group's bassist and main songwriter.
www.sonicbreakdown.com /artistDetails.do?selectedArtistId=566   (1557 words)

  
 Casper fifth-grader wins Wyoming geographic bee - billingsgazette.com
He is the son of Jim and Becky Mothersbaugh.
Mothersbaugh's school will receive a geographic software package from ESRI worth $2,500, Allen said.
UW sportscaster Dave Walsh was moderator of the contest, held at the UW Arts and Sciences Auditorium.
www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/04/01/build/wyoming/65-geo-bee.inc   (217 words)

  
 mtv.com - News - Devo Members Resurrect Junior-High Basement Band
Speaking from the Mutato Muzika complex on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, Mark Mothersbaugh recalled the motivations for his first band, the Wipeouters, surely the premier eighth-grade surf band in Akron, Ohio.
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 Wipeouters.
Jim Mothersbaugh, although not an official Wipeouter, plays drums on most of the record.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1441385/20010307/nulldevo.jhtml   (978 words)

  
 Booji Boy's Basement - The Devolved Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
All that is known right now is that it featured you and Jim, and that there are four (untitled) songs floating around.
Jitters was my band along with Jim [Mothersbaugh] and Greg Brosch on guitar and Greg Kaiser on bass.
I didn't write "Baby Talkin Bitches", "Shimmy Shake" was a Jitters song written by myself and Jim [Mothersbaugh], "Midget" was something I wrote music for and Mark wrote the lyrics, "Hubert House" was from an article in the Akron Beacon Journal that Jerry found, he started singing and I was playing a guitar.
www.sanspoint.com /basement/bob1.html   (928 words)

  
 Crapple's DEVO Album Guide
Since Mark Mothersbaugh was the synth-head of the group and eventually ended up scoring movies and TV shows, one gets the feeling this is very much a Mark project.
Mark Mothersbaugh in particular had become more of a solo artist, doing score work for a number of television shows (among them the theme song to "Pee-wee's Playhouse").
While at Kent State University in the early 1970s, Mark and Jerry, along with Mark's brothers Jim and Bob, began recording primitive demos in their basement studio in Akron, Ohio, as well as performing some inauspicious live dates (see "The Mongoloid Years").
crapple.iwarp.com /music/devoguide.html   (6861 words)

  
 DJC.COM: New treatment for job site water runoff is chemical-free, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Company president and chemist Jim Mothersbaugh and Robert Schwindt, vice president of operations, have created a simple process that can treat large volumes of water, meet Department of Ecology standards and still be easy to operate.
Although Water Tectonics’ process is new, the "electrocoagulation" technology that is the core of the cleansing operation was known in the early 1900s, Mothersbaugh said.
That’s the particulate that is damaging to salmon and trout gills," Mothersbaugh said.
www.djc.com /news/enviro/11121382.html   (1473 words)

  
 J I M N B A R B--WHAT'S HAPPENED???
Also this past weekend JimnBarb were spotted at an art opening in Belltown checking out the newest works from Mark Mothersbaugh.
In 1987 Jim was walking through Soho and happened across a gallery that was showing Mark Motherbaugh's work.
If you do, drop Jim a line and ask him about it.
www.jimnbarb.com /index.asp?ArticleID=138   (220 words)

  
 PCToday - Alcohol Awareness Week Set for Oct. 18-24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Participating student organizations will sponsor games, and there will be resources and information available about the effects of drugs and alcohol, as well as details about where people can go for help.
Jim Mothersbaugh will present his program, "Road Radio USA," at the Late Night Beach Party beginning at 9 p.m.
The multimedia educational program blends light, sound and visual projections, and Mothersbaugh will touch on the consequences of destructive behavior and teenage misconceptions surrounding alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
www.pct.edu /cgi-bin/pctoday/exec/view.cgi?archive=10&num=1455   (539 words)

  
 The DEVO FAQ - Personnel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mark Mothersbaugh (voices, synths), Gerald V. "Jerry" Casale (bass, vox), Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar) and Jim Mothersbaugh (homemade electronic drums).
Jim eventually went to work for Roland (one of the top electronic musical instrument companies in the world) and he is listed as a technical consultant on Total Devo.
Jim Mothersbaugh was a tech for Sparks in 1984 before Kendrick went to Devo.
cluefree.org /devo/Personnel.shtml   (858 words)

  
 Wyoming Music Educators Association
Jim Pryzgocki said that the present session lengths are good.
Jim said yes, and Kate said $500 for a half day is not unusual.
Jim Eversole asked that he get a refund, because of his health problems.
uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /BRINKMAN/wmeareports.htm   (7497 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Devo
While Devo did adopt a more accessible sound at their commercial peak, they never toned down the "weirdness factor," something that may have alienated mainstream audiences once they ran out of ultra-catchy songs.
Devo was formed by brothers Jerry and Bob Casale (bass and guitar, respectively) and Mark, Jim, and Bob Mothersbaugh (vocals, drums, and lead guitar, respectively--Alan Myers replaced Jim Mothersbaugh early in Devo's career).
During the mid-1980s when Devo was largely inactive, Mark Mothersbaugh made a name for himself as a soundtrack producer on the demented Pee-Wee Herman Saturday morning live action vehicle Pee-Wee's Playhouse, which led to numerous other scoring jobs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200304   (752 words)

  
 Devo - Uncyclopedia
Thankfull, Devo was able to hire Ralph Bashki to create an animated version of John, and the band continued merrily on their way to world dominion.
Currently, Devo made the front cover of the New York Times for the six millionth time when Jim Mothersbaugh was launched into outer-space to serve as Earth's ambassador to the Celestial Federation of Godlike Entities.
Mark has already purchased the Atlantic Ocean which he plans to have removed for his new tennis court, and has stated that he is seriously considering becoming a mime.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Devo   (321 words)

  
 Home Recording dot com BBS - DIY electronic drums - cheap!
When Devo was first starting up in the mid-70s, their then-drummer (Jim Mothersbaugh, who left the band before they made any albums) made his own electronic drums.
Jim went to work for Roland after leaving the band, by the way.
I just wanted to clarify one thing from my first post, having remembered how confusing the jargon can be when I first was trying to figure this stuff out.
homerecording.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=46967   (2245 words)

  
 DEVO Live Guide - 1973 to 1977
According to Jim Mothersbaugh at 2001 DEVOtional Fan Convention: "Probably one of the most memorable was when we were an opening act for Sun Ra.
Appearing as four theatrical characters (Booji Boy: Mark Mothersbaugh; Clown: Bob Mothersbaugh; Jungle Jim: Jim Mothersbaugh; and Chinaman: Gerald V. Casale) and using homemade electronic drums, a mini-moog, a clavinet, a customised lobotomized Hagstrom guitar, and bass, we proceed to torture stoned urban hippies with "performance art" way before that label even existed.
Mark Mothersbaugh tells Joe Garden of The Onion (7/10/97), "(Sun Ra) almost never came out on stage, because there were fist fights between the audience and Devo.
www.huboon.com /1973_77.html   (3056 words)

  
 Penn College Student Activities: Alcohol Awareness Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Watch as various campus groups join police, fire, ambulance and LifeFlight personnel to recreate the scene of a high-speed accident in which alcohol may have played a role.
Beginning at 9 p.m., Jim Mothersbaugh joins the dance party to present his program, "Road Radio USA," a multimedia educational program that blends lights, sound and visual projections.
Listen and watch while Mothersbaugh gives his own account of poor decisions he’s made in the past and how they’ve affected his life.
www.pct.edu /studentactivities/alcohol_awarness.htm   (614 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Most of the gear is sitting over at Mark Mothersbaugh's house.
Very present in those days was the Jupiter 8 and Rack-Mounted Minimoog (this detail sticks in my mind from a Keyboard interview with Mark's brother Jim Mothersbaugh, who used to do Tech for them before going to Roland).
For those who care, almost every sound on the Thompson Twin's Side Kicks and Into The Gap was from the Oberheim OBXa, with a little Prophet 5...
machines.hyperreal.org /gearlists/devo.txt   (235 words)

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