“DEVO 250: THE BEGINNING WAS THE END” — Restorations & Rarities from the Vault
Since their 1973 inception, DEVO considered themselves filmmakers as much as a band. From their first film, unleashed during the 1976 Bicentennial year, they fused dadaist image-making with shapeshifting music, baffling record labels by pouring their meager advances into companion films before the term “Music Video” entered the lexicon.
This program features sparkling new restorations of their pivotal work alongside rarely (and never!)-seen live footage, encounters with hapless interviewers, & spud ephemera, specially curated for the Hollywood Theatre in Portland by Mr. Peter Conheim, DEVO’s video/audio Archivist & Restorationist.
Suit up, spuds. DEVO and The B-52s are bringing the Cosmic De-Evolution Tour to a city near you, with special guest DJ Cummerbund. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 26 at 10 AM local time.
Mark and Gerald sat down with the One Song podcast for a full breakdown of “Whip It,” diving into the stems, sounds, and stories behind one of the most iconic mutations in new wave.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or by heading to the link below.
Recently discovered film footage that aired only once — in 1970, in Europe — and has never been seen on American TV:
Gerald V. Casale recalls👇
After the carnage and killings of 4 students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4th 1970 at Kent State University, the campus was yellow-taped like a crime scene — sealed off for the summer to us protesting students, and non-protesting students as well.
Having been a political activist at the center of the horrid police violence that day, I was still in a numbed state of shock when a news team from the BBC in London arrived in July to interview select participants in the fateful May 4th protest against President Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia without an act of Congress.
My age was 21, and I was chosen with a handful of fellow political activists to be allowed to cross the yellow tape and sit on The Commons, which was selected by the BBC crew as the interview site because it was ground zero — the place where the May 4th protest had begun.
In the glare of the afternoon sun, I struggled to act brave and begin to process the horror that had taken place 2 months earlier.
Now that 56 years have passed and I watch what is happening on US college campuses and around the world in response to yet another instance of state sanctioned violence, suffering, and death, I stand with everyone willing to speak truth to power who is outraged by the brutality of those in control.
Given human nature and the power of the state, clearly some things never change.
—Jerry Casale of DEVO ____________________
Thank you to: Kent State University Librarian/Researcher Jason Prufer for finding and providing this BBC film footage.
When I found myself in the middle of the action ending in the murder of 4 unarmed students by the National Guard on May 4th 1970 at Kent State University, I thought I had survived the absolute worst time in US history. Today, in 2026, I can honestly admit that I was wrong: ______________
We were trapped. I turned around and looked back up the hill and here they are. They’ve come up the hill and they amassed there. They stopped and they lowered their rifles. We think, “OK, this is where they march at you with their bayonets horizontal and scare the fuck out of you so that they’re going to herd you across this parking lot and arrest us over there.” We thought it was a power game.
But they weren’t moving. I remember thinking, “Hmm, I wonder what they’re doing.” They all have gas masks on and you can’t hear anything clearly, but I saw somebody in charge yelling at these 2 lines of National Guardsmen, and then he made a hand gesture.
That is when they started shooting.
For a moment, time stood still. It was like a Scorsese film, like Raging Bull, where suddenly Jake LaMotta is getting hit in the face and it goes into slow motion. And then it snaps back just like a Hollywood movie, and, bang! Back to real time. Here’s the blood, the screaming, the crying, the chaos …
I turn around and I see a guy on his belly on the road. People are starting to gather around, and there’s blood running out of his head and neck area. The blood is glistening in the noon sun.
I realize it’s Jeff Miller.
About 30 seconds later, I realize there are people screaming, “Allison! Allison!”
4 dead. 9 wounded. One paralyzed for life. ________________
[written by Gerald V. Casale, excerpted from: Rolling Stone magazine]
DEVOvision
Appearing Live In Person: DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale, with DEVO’s video/audio Archivist & Restorationist, Mr. Peter Conheim
July 5th 2026:
6:30 PM (SOLD OUT)
9:30 PM
Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/devo-250-the-beginning-w…
📍The Hollywood Theatre in Portland Oregon USA
“DEVO 250: THE BEGINNING WAS THE END” — Restorations & Rarities from the Vault
Since their 1973 inception, DEVO considered themselves filmmakers as much as a band. From their first film, unleashed during the 1976 Bicentennial year, they fused dadaist image-making with shapeshifting music, baffling record labels by pouring their meager advances into companion films before the term “Music Video” entered the lexicon.
This program features sparkling new restorations of their pivotal work alongside rarely (and never!)-seen live footage, encounters with hapless interviewers, & spud ephemera, specially curated for the Hollywood Theatre in Portland by Mr. Peter Conheim, DEVO’s video/audio Archivist & Restorationist.
[ 80 minutes w/ discussion plus Q&A ]
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Suit up, spuds. DEVO and The B-52s are bringing the Cosmic De-Evolution Tour to a city near you, with special guest DJ Cummerbund.
Tickets go on sale Friday, June 26 at 10 AM local time.
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ATTN. Spuds, DEVO will be hitting the road with Billy Idol on the It’s A Nice Day ... To Tour Again! Tour this August.
Mutate accordingly. Dates and tickets at the link in bio.
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In case you missed it, Devo’s full episode with One Song is now live everywhere you listen to podcasts.
Listen as Mark and Gerald break down “Whip It” and share the stories and lore behind the song.
https://youtu.be/9ixhx_NaIPs?si=Cs6w_...
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Duty now for the podcast.
Mark and Gerald sat down with the One Song podcast for a full breakdown of “Whip It,” diving into the stems, sounds, and stories behind one of the most iconic mutations in new wave.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or by heading to the link below.
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Tonight.
Devo x Teen Mortgage.
Link in bio.
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Recently discovered film footage that aired only once — in 1970, in Europe — and has never been seen on American TV:
Gerald V. Casale recalls👇
After the carnage and killings of 4 students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4th 1970 at Kent State University, the campus was yellow-taped like a crime scene — sealed off for the summer to us protesting students, and non-protesting students as well.
Having been a political activist at the center of the horrid police violence that day, I was still in a numbed state of shock when a news team from the BBC in London arrived in July to interview select participants in the fateful May 4th protest against President Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia without an act of Congress.
My age was 21, and I was chosen with a handful of fellow political activists to be allowed to cross the yellow tape and sit on The Commons, which was selected by the BBC crew as the interview site because it was ground zero — the place where the May 4th protest had begun.
In the glare of the afternoon sun, I struggled to act brave and begin to process the horror that had taken place 2 months earlier.
Now that 56 years have passed and I watch what is happening on US college campuses and around the world in response to yet another instance of state sanctioned violence, suffering, and death, I stand with everyone willing to speak truth to power who is outraged by the brutality of those in control.
Given human nature and the power of the state, clearly some things never change.
—Jerry Casale of DEVO
____________________
Thank you to: Kent State University Librarian/Researcher Jason Prufer for finding and providing this BBC film footage.
https://youtu.be/SqiMHbvpQQg
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When I found myself in the middle of the action ending in the murder of 4 unarmed students by the National Guard on May 4th 1970 at Kent State University, I thought I had survived the absolute worst time in US history. Today, in 2026, I can honestly admit that I was wrong:
______________
We were trapped. I turned around and looked back up the hill and here they are. They’ve come up the hill and they amassed there. They stopped and they lowered their rifles. We think, “OK, this is where they march at you with their bayonets horizontal and scare the fuck out of you so that they’re going to herd you across this parking lot and arrest us over there.” We thought it was a power game.
But they weren’t moving. I remember thinking, “Hmm, I wonder what they’re doing.” They all have gas masks on and you can’t hear anything clearly, but I saw somebody in charge yelling at these 2 lines of National Guardsmen, and then he made a hand gesture.
That is when they started shooting.
For a moment, time stood still. It was like a Scorsese film, like Raging Bull, where suddenly Jake LaMotta is getting hit in the face and it goes into slow motion. And then it snaps back just like a Hollywood movie, and, bang! Back to real time. Here’s the blood, the screaming, the crying, the chaos …
I turn around and I see a guy on his belly on the road. People are starting to gather around, and there’s blood running out of his head and neck area. The blood is glistening in the noon sun.
I realize it’s Jeff Miller.
About 30 seconds later, I realize there are people screaming, “Allison! Allison!”
4 dead. 9 wounded. One paralyzed for life.
________________
[written by Gerald V. Casale, excerpted from: Rolling Stone magazine]
Read the entire article here:
rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-jerry-casal…
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Coachella, weekend one.
📸: @worldfamousmuriel (on Instagram)
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