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DEVO’s story has lastly been distilled into a brand new documentary, and it’s landed on Netflix due to director Chris Smith. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale joined Kyle Meredith to speak concerning the movie, which charts the band’s path from Kent State to post-punk pioneers to MTV oddities to cultural prophets who survived lengthy sufficient to tour with The B-52’s (get tickets right here!). It’s been a very long time coming, however in true DEVO vogue, the doc doesn’t supply an “final fact” — only one model of their fact filtered by way of one other outsider’s lens. Hear above or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Mothersbaugh and Casale admit they by no means actually chased a DEVO doc till it sort of landed on them. “We had been all the time simply shifting ahead,” Mothersbaugh says, noting that years of attempting to elucidate themselves solely appeared to fall on deaf ears. Casale provides, “Rock ‘n’ roll has two or three very fundamental dumb concepts, and folks default to that. They didn’t need to hear about de-evolution.” Nonetheless, the doc captures the band’s half-century of artwork, noise, and concept higher than most ever tried.
The pair additionally mirror on the trail from their hippie-era influences to making a soundtrack for the paranoia of the Seventies. Mothersbaugh remembers desirous to be “a pioneer” with sound the way in which Hendrix was for the ’60s, whereas Casale factors out that DEVO’s obsession with futurist artwork and media helped them break rock’s formulation. Alongside the way in which, they discovered themselves jamming with Neil Younger — years after his music “Ohio” haunted them as Kent State survivors — an unlikely crossover that redefined Younger of their eyes. And now, as they gear up for the Cosmic Devolution tour with The B-52’s, they joke that their “farewell” would possibly final lengthy sufficient to incorporate Mars colonies.
Take heed to DEVO speak about their new Netflix documentary, their tour with the B-52s, and extra within the new episode above or by watching the video beneath. Sustain on all the most recent episodes by following Kyle Meredith With… in your favourite podcast platform; plus, try all of the sequence on the Consequence Podcast Community.
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