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Bob Casale, DEVO Guitarist, Dead at 61
2014 Feb 18, 3:53am 1,222 views 7 comments
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rooemoore
2014 Feb 18, 4:04am
Great live band that was much more talented than people today give them credit for.
zzyzzx
2014 Feb 18, 4:11am
I have been to very few concerts, but one was a DEVO concert around 1982-ish.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Feb 18, 4:32am
You're getting old when the founding member from the most Futuristic band dies at 61.
John Bailo
2014 Feb 18, 6:20am
A lot these bands when they were around I thought they were my age or younger. Now I find out they're my same age or much older.
Even Kurt Cobain, he was born only 8 years after me, but in his heyday it seemed like he was from the "younger generation".
Maybe I've always been a more serious person than my peers.
Great live band that was much more talented than people today give them credit for.
A lot of very serious music people i.e. people who run record stores, people who also play music, think they were one of the best bands ever. Their recent "Hardcore Volumes 1,2" made several top Aquarius Records staff top ten lists for 2013.
Man, I loved listening to DEVO back in the day. Sad to see someone die at that early an age.
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http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/bob-casale--devo-guitarist--dead-at-61-185705088.html
Bob Casale, guitarist for the reverse-flowerpot-hat-wearing '80s new wave band Devo, died Monday of heart failure at age 61.
Casale was one of the founding members of the Ohio band best known for its 1980 hit "Whip It," one of the first videos in heavy rotation on MTV when the music channel launched in 1981.
The surviving members of Devo, which first formed in 1972, posted a tribute to Casale on their website.
"As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning," his brother and fellow band member Gerald Casale wrote. "He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got."
He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again," Gerald continued. "His sudden death from conditions that lead to heart failure came as a total shock to us all."
Bob is survived by wife Lisa, daughter Samantha, and son Alex.