The Devolution of Kent State
The 80’s were a funny time. A decade before the 1980’s cursed us all, Gerald Casale, Bob Lewis and Mark Mothersbaugh were attending Kent State. Casale was especially hit hard by the tragic shootings on May 4th, 1970. He allegedly knew two of the four victims that were gun downed by the United States National Guard on their way to class. The result of that tragedy for Casale and Lewis was the concept of the devolution of mankind.
Mothersbaugh soon jumped on board with the concept and eventually Devo, obviously a shortened version of Devolution, was born. All three are artists in a variety of ways and have done many things back when the concept of devolution was prevalent to the band and in more recent years. The problem is modern culture…mostly the 1980s. The band “Men Without Hats” wanted to use the synthesizer as the folk guitar of the 60’s. We don’t remember it that way. The song Pop Goes the World is a catchy bad 80’s song, not an 80’s version of Eve of Destruction.
Devo was always about the concept, musically and visually, but that concept was lost to the MTV generation. And now all we care about or remember is this.
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