RIP: Devo's Bob 2 died of heart failure

[hippypants]

Here's a link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/18/showbiz/devo-bob-casale-dead/

[WHORG]

I read that too - - -

What an original idea these guys had - true pioneers.

RIP

[Paulrus]

Crap, that's terrible. Only 61. And I didn't know Alan Myers (Devo's original drummer) died last year.

RIP Spudheads!

[Casey]

Just when I thought I had found all I enjoyed in the musical atmosphere & everything currently playing was not to my liking, Devo happened. For me, it was a revelation! That moment taught me to be to be patient: all good things come to those who wait.

RIP Bob2. Thanks for the journey, the lesson, & the memories.

[TheLoony]

Watching Mike & Mike on ESPN2 and they have a Devo Bobblehead on the desk in front of them. Not sure why it's there but I'd buy a Devo bobblehead as that's kind of funny, with the keyboard and flower pot, the black wifebeater like in the Whip It video.

[hippypants]

Watched a movie last night a friend loaned me, Neil Young's Human Highway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Highway), it was pretty awful, but had Devo in it playing some workers at a power plant, which was the only thing interesting. A good cast, but the movie was just horribly bad.

[WytchCrypt]

A friend saw Devo back in the day and told me the opening band was a Christian rock band called DOVE. Everybody boo-ed and hissed them offstage. During Devo's set the big sign behind them reading "DEVO" rearranged itself into "DOVE" and everybody realized the opening band was actually DEVO taking the piss. Brilliant!

[Paulrus]

A friend saw Devo back in the day and told me the opening band was a Christian rock band called DOVE. Everybody boo-ed and hissed them offstage. During Devo's set the big sign behind them reading "DEVO" rearranged itself into "DOVE" and everybody realized the opening band was actually DEVO taking the piss. Brilliant!

That was both the great thing about Devo as well as the reason they never took off like they could have. They were always more than happy to fuck with their audiences, like Mark Mothersbaugh getting the crowd to sing along to "Are we not men?" for about fifteen minutes until they were ready to throttle him!

They often took the concept of manipulation to the extreme just to make the larger point about de-evolution (which usually went right over people's heads anyways.)

[no.nine]

A friend saw Devo back in the day and told me the opening band was a Christian rock band called DOVE. Everybody boo-ed and hissed them offstage. During Devo's set the big sign behind them reading "DEVO" rearranged itself into "DOVE" and everybody realized the opening band was actually DEVO taking the piss. Brilliant!
This is even better:

On a live tape I have which includes Dove's opening set, Dove played "Gates of Steel", which hadn't yet been recorded. Then Devo played their set and when they came out for the encore, they played it again, announcing that it was a song by Dove!! :D

R.I.P. Bob Casale

[Lopez]

Devo opened for Sun Ra in Boston about a million years ago. At the time I lived about 100 yards away from the theater and I considered going. I didn't go as I was recently married and my wife's satisfaction was all that mattered so I didn't go. I regret it to this day. My apologies Mr. Bob 2 and Mr. Ra.

[Camelogue]

[QUOTE=Lopez;222833]Devo I didn't go as I was recently married and my wife's satisfaction was all that mattered so I didn't go./QUOTE]

Lou,

You are funny.

[JAMOOL]

Devo opened for Sun Ra in Boston about a million years ago. At the time I lived about 100 yards away from the theater and I considered going. I didn't go as I was recently married and my wife's satisfaction was all that mattered so I didn't go. I regret it to this day. My apologies Mr. Bob 2 and Mr. Ra.

Is this the show that was recorded on the Mongoloid Years comp? If so - sounds like you missed a fistfight (between Devo and the audience, it seems like)

I got to see them live in 2007, gotta give 'em credit for how hard they rocked given how out of shape they all looked :) I'm so glad that their music has held up - in pop culture they are treated like a one-hit wonder but I don't know of many one-hit wonders who could fill the sort of venues Devo had been. Everything up to New Traditionalists is classic beyond belief...let's just forget about the rest ;)

[Lopez]

Is this the show that was recorded on the Mongoloid Years comp? If so - sounds like you missed a fistfight (between Devo and the audience, it seems like)

The show I missed was at the Modern Theatre in Boston, which I'm pretty sure is not the show on the Mongoloid Years. I have that comp and that fight portion is pretty wild. I think the band was much more experimental and difficult to listen to then than they become at the time of the first LP.

[JKL2000]

Sad news...

[GuitarGeek]

Is this the show that was recorded on the Mongoloid Years comp? If so - sounds like you missed a fistfight (between Devo and the audience, it seems like)


I believe the one you're talking about was recorded in Cleveland.

So that leaves just Mark and Jerry left from the classic lineup, huh?

[Paulrus]

I believe the one you're talking about was recorded in Cleveland.

So that leaves just Mark and Jerry left from the classic lineup, huh?

(Well, since we're resurrecting an ancient thread...)

Yeah, the infamous fist fight show was in Cleveland. But I'm surprised Sun Ra still wanted them to open considering all the broo-haha from that experience. But maybe they were in on the joke.

And Bob 1 (Mothersbaugh) is still with us.

[GuitarGeek]

(Well, since we're resurrecting an ancient thread...)

Yeah, the infamous fist fight show was in Cleveland. But I'm surprised Sun Ra still wanted them to open considering all the broo-haha from that experience. But maybe they were in on the joke.

And Bob 1 (Mothersbaugh) is still with us.

Yeah, I didn't realize this was an old thread. So what was the "sad news" that precipitated the thread resurrection?