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Gerald V. Casale

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Brother of Bob Casale.

Member of the rock group "Devo".

He and his friend Bob Lewis became obsessed with the idea of de-evolution, the concept that humans were regressing into primitive, brain-eating apes from which we evolved, and later it became the center concept of the band Devo.

When he was going to Kent State, he was involved in the riots and protests of 1970 and saw many of his friends die when the National Guard began to shot down protestors. He later said that his idea that people were de-evolving began on that day.

His infatuation with "de-evolution" was fueled by the book "The Beginning Was the End" by Oscar Kiss Maerth. In the book (which doesn't have a single reference footnote), Maerth claims that human evolution was advanced by the cannibalistic practice of eating human brains. The title of the book was mentioned in the lyrics of the Devo song "Gates of Steel", and the jacket of their album "Now It Can Be Told" was modeled closely after the slipcover used for the USA printing of Maerth's book.

He was born with the last name Pizzute because his father, Bob, had legally changed his name (his birth name having been Robert Edward Casale) to that of his foster parents. Four years after Gerald's birth, his father changed his name back to his birth name.

He was the official co-leader of the group Devo, besides Mark Mothersbaugh, taking on a McCartney-Lennon/Richards-Jagger dynamic with Mark. Although Mark's contribution to the music may have been ultimately greater, he was the hard-headed leader whom (for better or worse) was behind most of Devo's decisions. Among his accomplishments was obscuring the group member's backgrounds to make they're uniform image all the more effective.

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(1997) Making music videos.

(2006) Working with Disney Sound (the music division of Walt Disney Productions) on the "Devo 2.0" project: an all-children Devo tribute group.

(April 2006) Working on a musical project under the pseudonym "Jihad Jerry".

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