Interesting fact: Founding members of the band Devo, Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, were art students at Kent State University when the May 4, 1970 shootings happened. It’s a big part of why a lot of their early music was such angry, bizarre, art-punk.
It also explains their name. Devo is short for “de-evolution” the idea that society was devolving.
Casale said “All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was a white hippie boy and then I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew.” He added, “I stopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution. I got real, real pissed off.”
Kent State, home of the infamous 60’s protest where students were killed. Are you fucking joking?
Interesting fact: Founding members of the band Devo, Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, were art students at Kent State University when the May 4, 1970 shootings happened. It’s a big part of why a lot of their early music was such angry, bizarre, art-punk.
It also explains their name. Devo is short for “de-evolution” the idea that society was devolving.
Casale said “All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was a white hippie boy and then I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew.” He added, “I stopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution. I got real, real pissed off.”
Joe Walsh the musician was also there.
I did not know this interesting fact.
I wish I was.
Because of the shooting, Kent State is frequently targeted for conservative bullshit like this.
Look up the “gun girl” march from a few years ago.
I think if I were a student there today, I would burn down the Dean’s office.