Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (35th anniversary)

On this date (August 28th) back in 1978, the new-wave band Devo posed the question and answered it with Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!. Today we mark that debut album's thirty-fifth anniversary.

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Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday. Today (July 14th) is the sixtieth birthday of Bob Casale, guitarist and keyboardist for the Akron, Ohio, new-wave band Devo.

Gerald Casale was attending Kent State University in the late 1960's along with Bob Lewis; they both knew people killed in the May 4th, 1970, shootings on that campus. They felt that event marked a devolution in societal ways. A few years later, they formed a band with brothers Mark and Jim Mothersbaugh, and Gerald's brother Bob. By the time group, who called themselves Devo, signed to record an album, Alan Myers replaced Lewis on drums.