A DEVO History
This excerpt is taken from the tour book from DEVO's 1981
New Traditionalist tour:
"The band devolved
from a long line of brain-eating apes, some of which settled in
N.E. Ohio around Akron where members of Devo eventually appeared
years after the A-Bomb ended World War II. By the process of natural
selection they met and shared the habits of making electronic
noise, watching T.V. and watching everybody else. They called
what they saw around them De-Evolution and called their music
Devo. It made the sound of things falling apart. Spuds yelled
and threw things like beer bottles at Devo when they played. But
one day in 1977 the Spuds cheered and threw fits because Spudboys
in the cities realized that "We're all Devo!" Booji
boy had been telling everyone this fact for years. He told them
in Devo's first movie "The Truth About De-Evolution."
Now that nearly everyone is finding out, here is something else.
The five Spudboys from Ohio are almost uniform in height and weight
& their boot size is 8c. Alan provides the jungle style beats,
Jerry emits debased pulses and Bob No. 2 adds precise robot rhythms.
Bob No. 1 retaliates with sonic mutations and Mark sprays the
entire mixture with alien synthesizer gases. Plus his voice is
used more of the time than the other four. They are all following
the commands of their genetic codes. They are suburban robots
here to entertain corporate life forms. Devo says opposites and
rebellion are obsolete. The fittest shall survive yet the unfit
may live. It's all the same.
"
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