Gerald V. Casale
Also Known As: DEVO, DEV-O
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gerald Vincent Casale (born Gerald Vincent Pizzute, July 28, 1948), often known as Jerry Casale, is a vocalist, bass guitar/synthesizer player, and a founding member (with Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Lewis) of the new wave band Devo. Along with Mothersbaugh, whom he met at Kent State University, Casale co-wrote most of Devo's material (including the hit "Whip It"), designed Devo's distinctive attire (including the Energy Dome, plastic pompadours, and yellow radiation suits) over the years with Mothersbaugh, and directed most of Devo's videos. He has also directed videos for other artists, including The Cars ("Panorama"), Rush ("Superconductor"), A Perfect Circle ("Imagine"), Foo Fighters ("I'll Stick Around"), Soundgarden ("Blow Up the Outside World"), and Silverchair ("Freak" and "Cemetery"), among others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerald Casale,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ravenna, Ohio, USA
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Birthday: July 28, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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Human Highway
Overview: The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Overview: DEVO live at the Sundance Film Festival 1996. At the time it was billed as their last ever show but it actually ended up kickstarting a revival of the band which resulted in many tours and a new studio album in 2010.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Overview: New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind's plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven't wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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The Spirit of '76
Overview: Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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DEVO | Live
Overview: The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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DEVO The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Overview: Now, the complete truth can be told...Devo, the seminal New Wave audio-visual concept band made a career out of setting to music video their Dada-gone-camp theory of de-evolution and its riotous rebuke of corporate culture. Punk/New Wave mad scientists Devo were among the few bands to understand the music video's potential as art form during its infancy in the eighties. Their brilliant and bizarre videos were compiled on VHS and then on laser disc; that long out-of-print disc, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, has finally arrived on DVD, which should please longtime fans of this eclectic outfit.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Devo | Live In Benicàssim
Overview: Recorded live @ Benicassm Festival, July 2007.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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3-DEVO
Overview: 3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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Are We Not Men?
Overview: A documentary about DEVO
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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DEVO | Whistler Medals Plaza
Overview: Whistler, BC, Canada - February 22nd 2010. DEVO live at the Winter Olympics 2010! Broadcast on MuchMusic in Canada
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-22
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DEVO | The Men Who Make the Music
Overview: Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO's first home video release. Features live footage from the band's 1978 "Duty Now for the Future" tour.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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DEVOtional: A Decade Of Devotion
Overview: A documentation of the history of DEVOtional: The world's largest annual gathering of DEVOtees!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-27
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If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Overview: Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it back to the fans. Stiff's successes included Nick Lowe, the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Madness, Tracey Ullman and the Pogues. Contributors include Captain Sensible, Jonathan Ross, Suggs, Shane MacGowan and label founders Jake Riviera and Dave Robinson.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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We're All Devo
Overview: Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it, the character of Rod Rooter (Michael W Schwartz) is reviewing Devo's music videos for Big Entertainment. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Donut Rooter (Laraine Newman) is a fan of the band. Donut discovers the videos after asking her father for money to get an abortion (though this is not explicitly stated). Two excerpts from the storyline were included in the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and DVD (both out of sequence) but the rest is exclusive to this videocassette. "Theme from Doctor Detroit" was also not included, and is unique to this tape. (Wikipedia)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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DEVO
Overview: In 1980, new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip It" and gained mainstream success with their message of societal "de-evolution", formed in response to the 1970 Kent State shootings.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-21
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In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Overview: Several factory workers finish their day at work and get into a car. They drive to a club where they perform the song Secret Agent Man as a rock quartet. A man with a mask of a child named Booji Boy runs into a building where his father, a man named General Boy is waiting. Subsequently, a man gives a lecture by song on the subject of devolution.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Devo: Hardcore Live!
Overview: A concert film capturing Devo at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on their 2014 "Hardcore Tour," in which they performed 21 songs written and recorded before they signed with a major record label, many of which had never been performed live. The set is intercut with stories and commentary from the band members, as well as Toni Basil and V. Vale.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-24
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DEVO | Live in London
Overview: Live performance of DEVO's debut album, "Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are DEVO" at the Forum, London in 2009.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Overview: What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out-of-work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
Overview: When Conny died at the age of only 47, his son Stephan was just 13 years old. Twenty-five years later, together with co-director Reto Caduff, he went in search of the man he often only experienced behind the mixing desk as a child. At the same time it became the search for the artistic legacy of his father.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Hitchcock
Overview: Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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DEVO | Live 1980
Overview: "This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too. " - Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-30
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Pray TV
Overview: A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Devolution: A Devo Theory
Overview: Enter the minds of one of history's most misunderstood bands. With hits such as 'Whip It' & 'Freedom of Choice', they shared a trailblazing environmental message but were often mocked. 40 years later, we ask: were Devo right?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Overview: Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Chi Chi & Devo
Overview: Members of pioneering New Wave band Devo and golfing legend Chi Chi Rodríguez recall how their paths crossed when Devo used an image of Chi Chi for their debut album.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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DEV2.0
Overview: Jerry Casale presents a new generation of the de-evolved.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Overview: Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-14
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