And radio hated us. So I started to think, “What would DEVO music sound like?” So I start telling Mark [Mothersbaugh] about that and then he got very excited. PKM: Prior to DEVO, you played bass The Numbers Band, where among other things, you created conflict by suggesting that the group should incorporate advertising jingles and other “low culture” elements into the music. We grew up having to watch these completely moronic televangelists, so when you’re a smartass kid with a healthy disrespect for illegitimate authority, you imitate them. And since we were in the middle of it, it’s like you’re reading it like you must be in the Twilight Zone. They had already built up a reputation for their unique and well-honed aesthetic early on and their nerdy take on punk antagonism of crowds at shows. The final piece came to me because in Catholic school, which I hated going to so much, I used to stare at the ceiling all the time. MARK E. SMITH: RENEGADE. Like there must be a parallel reality here. That’s all we’re trying to say. Let’s take it up at the beginning where we explore this quirky, not quite dogma, not quite mantra, that is the concept and philosophy of DEVO and its music. Formed in 1973, they are largely known for their unusual outfits (usually a yellow radiation suit with a red "energy dome" hat) and lyrics, which largely concern the theory of devolution. That de-evolution is real. And I fall down on the grass because I can’t even stand up, I feel dizzy, it’s a panic attack, and I think a lot of students were feeling that, it’s like, “Fuck! Gerald Casale: Yes. I remember playing a show one New Year’s Eve as Dove (The Band of Love) where we were booed off the stage because the crowd just kept chanting, “We want DEVO, we want DEVO!” With the E-Z Listening album, that was just another way of having fun by doing a parody of a musical style that we thought was designed to numb you out. There’s an interview in the Onion AV Club from way back where band leader Mark Mothersbaugh recounts a tale of playing “Jocko Homo” at a show in their early days, repeating the titular lines ”Are we not men? It wasn’t a music idea. And then the screaming starts. So that was the excitement. Because there would be some wisdom and some shame behind it. That’s something that was going on because in the fall of 1971, these visiting professors came to Kent State for a year. Do you think that in those early days that what you were trying to do basically went right over people’s heads? That crowd included David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who helped get them signed to Warner Bros., as well as Neil Young, who cast them his film Human Highway. Like a purgatory. So we’d kind of worked up four or five DEVO songs and re-did them in the style of a Christian rock group. What really did it was how on both a local and national level the media covered this horrific incident. The four students shot dead by National Guard. ”Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid / Happier than you and me” hammers home their de-evolution theme about the brainless existence of the average American. Gerald Casale: The Numbers Band were an earnest, traditional blues band that were almost reverent in their love of historical American rural and city blues. PKM: I’m going to play devil’s advocate here. It’s just a curiosity. Plus the crowd was always so burned out because these bands were always so loud. I met him because I saw his artwork and wanted to know who this guy was. In the 1980's, DEVO abandoned punk in favor of synth pop and new wave, starting with the album, New Traditionalists, although, other than the change in genre, their music, appearence, and stage presence remained largely the same, even their music itself still retained a similar structure, albeit, now on synthesizers and digital instruments. At this time, I had started with Bob [Lewis] and a friend of his named Peter Gray trying to create what DEVO music would sound like. Because you’re wearing a hat. Was the creation of DEVO solely to act as the platform in which to holler all that bothered you about humanity and to at least satirically preach the ideas of de-evolution? Gerald Casale: Well it was slow burn to process it all. Our shows are like absurd church. A good introduction and beginner's guide to Tuli. So I started to think, “What would DEVO music sound like?”. This guy was a human metronome and he could play all these crazy things we’d came up with for ninety-minutes every night.
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