Are We Not Men? We are Devo! PDF
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Jade Dellinger & David Giffel With flowerpots on their heads, a line in w distinctive post-Kraftwerk imagery, and o some staggeringly catchy electro-pop riffs, 3 Devo carved a niche in the eighties that set S? them apart from the mish-mash of punk, new wave and rock that surrounded them. Devo was led by Jerry Casale and Mark " Mothersbaugh, who enlisted their younger o«= brothers, Bob1 (Mothersbaugh) and Bob2 ivasj r— (Casale), along with drummer Alan Myers. The overarching philosophical principle 3D that drove them Devolution - engendered -< a theory that mankind, rather than progressing, was actually going backwards. Their first album, produced by Brian Eno, was light years ahead of its time, featuring a fabulous de-constructed version of the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". David Bowie and Neil Young were quick to spot the potential - an early Devo performance inspired one of Young's greatest albums, Rust Never Sleeps. continued on back flap t.1 f.'.'• We Are Not We Are Devo! Jade Dellinger and David Giffels We Are Not We Are Devo! Jade Dellinger and David Giffels saf publishing saf publishing First published in 2003 bySAFPublishing SAF Publishing Ltd. 149Wakeman Road, London. NW10 5BH ENGLAND email: [email protected] www.safpublishing.com ISBN 946719497 © Textcopyright 2003Jade Dellingerand David Giffels The rightofJade Dellingerand David Giffelsto be identifiedastheauthorsofthis work has beenasserted bythem in accordancewiththe Copyright, Designsand PatentsAct, 1988 All rights reserved. No partofthis publication may betransmitted in anyform, or byany means, electronic, photocopying, recording orotherwise, withoutthe priorpermission ofthe publisher. In somecases ithas notproved possibletoascertain ortraceoriginal illustration copyrightholders, andthe publisherswould be gratefulto hearfromthe photographersconcerned. All lyrics quotedareforreview, studyorcritical purposes. Coverphotographs: Frontcover: AllanTannenbaum. Backcoverand insideflap: Jules Bates ACIPcatalogue recordforthis bookisavailablefromthe British Library. Coverand bookdesign: SAF Printed in England bytheCromwell Press,Trowbridge, Wiltshire. "No one can come onto my island without a mask." Eric Mottram, Left for California: The SlowAwakening KRKRyden Are We Not Men? Acknowledgments: Many thanks to the following individuals who gave generously oftheir time for interviews, opened their archives and provided photographs or essential information: DavidAllen + Artrouble, BrianApplegate, Arno, KathyAtkinson, Ed Barger, Walt Batansky, Anita Bates (The Jules Bates Foundation), Robert Bertholf, Richard Blocher, Mykel Board, Joep Bruijnje, Chris Butler, Ralph Carney, GeraldV. Casale, Roger Casale, Buzz Clic,Jim Clinefelter, Cheetah Chrome, Patrick Cullie, Rod Firestone, Harvey Gold, Vernon L. Gowdy III, James Grauerholz, Peter Gregg, Randy Hansen, Don Harvey, Susan Schmidt Horning, Bruce Hensal, GaryJackett, Donna Kossy, Sammy Larson, Nicky Latzoni, Robert Lewis, Justin Keiser (Kent State Univ. Special Collections/ Library), Jennifer Licitri, Tim Maglione, Susan Massaro Aylward, Alan Mothersbaugh, Jim Mothersbaugh, Robert Mothersbaugh, Sr., Alan Myers, NickNicholis, Scott Orsi, Ray Packard,John Petkovic, Michael Pilmer, Rod Reisman, Martin Reymann, Ebet Roberts, KRK Ryden, Rocky Schenck, Klaus Schleusener, Debbie Smith, Rev. Ivan Stang, AllanTannenbaum, Mal- colmTent,JohnThompson (aka-JohnnyDromette), MichaelWatters, Fred Weber, Bobbie Watson Whitaker, Rev. Toth Wilder, Rutherford Witthus (Curator of Literary Collections/Edward Dorn Papers at the University of Connecticut'sThomas Dodd Research Center), the members ofthe MSN J. Spudtalk newsgroup and alt.fan.devo. For critical feedback and editing assistance the authors would like to thank: Eric Nuzum, Mark Price, JeffWinner and both Dave Hallbery and Mick Fish atSAF Publishing.Thepublisherswouldliketo thankNinaAntonia for additional editing. In addition,Jadewouldlike to acknowledge his parents fortheirsupportand encouragement, and his girlfriend Cathy Sowell for her patience and under- standing. David gives deepest thanks to Gina, Evan and Lia Giffels for sacri- ficing their husband and fatherwhile he toiled on the Island ofLost Souls. Withoutparticipation from thoselistedabovethiseffortwouldnothavebeen possible.
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