Ep366: Gerald V Casale - DEVO & Beyond
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
With a new RSD release, Gerald V Casale of DEVO discusses the early days of the band, Booji Boy records, forming alter-egos, the impact of Saturday Night Live and his continuation of the creative spirit to explore make music.
Topics include:
- Recent collaborations are exciting for Gerald
- DEVO on Saturday Night Live
- The impact of the SNL show
- The difficulties of being DEVO in mid 70s
- The aesthetics and themes of DEVO
- DEVO made people pick a side
- History and experimentation of Alter-Egos
- How the yellow jumpsuit came to be
- DEVO and vinyl – early pressings on Booji Boy Records
- Stiff Records was the 1st to show interest
- The Mechanical Man record – Bootleg or not?
- Are We Not Men? Involvement from Robert Fripp
- Was the album always to be called "Are We Not Men?"
- Was the band happy with "Are We Not Men?"
- Creating the cover of "Satisfaction"
- Playing "Satisfaction" for Mick Jagger
- The video for "The Invisible Man"
- Gerald's unique gift for making videos
- Leaning into the peculiarities
- The current state of DEVO
- "Are We Not Men?" Documentary
- Gerald's RSD record: "The Invisible Man"
- Working with TOMO77 on album art
- The challenge of "Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers"
- Gerald's frustration with the flaws in human nature
- "The Invisible Man" & interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Seams Easy record sleeve repair strips. |
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| 0:19.4 | SeamsE Easy.com. |
| 0:21.9 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to episode 366 of the Final Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:32.8 | And this week, we've got an amazing guest here to talk final music and more, Mr. Gerald V. Casale, or Jerry, |
| 0:40.4 | as we're now on less formal terms, Jerry's on the show, and you'll likely know Jerry is a co-founder |
| 0:47.1 | and songwriter of Devo. Perhaps you know him from the Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers Project. |
| 0:53.4 | You may even have heard his new single, |
| 0:55.8 | The Invisible Man, or better yet, seen the video. If you haven't, go to Gerald v. Casale.com. |
| 1:02.1 | The video is right there. It's pretty wacky, but that's what we've come to expect from Jerry, |
| 1:07.1 | and we discuss all of that today. Plus, we get some great stories about the early |
| 1:11.5 | days of Devo, the private releases on Boogie Boy Records, the events that led up to that |
| 1:16.9 | historic Saturday Night Live appearance, playing satisfaction for Mick Jagger, the current |
| 1:22.3 | state of Devo, the challenges with calling his band Jihad Jerry and the Evil Doers directly after the invasion of Iraq and other great stories and insights from a guy who's been making some pretty brave artistic choices for nearly five decades. |
| 1:37.5 | And there's something I got to tell you. |
| 1:39.3 | This record store day Black Friday, Gerald has a new single, The Invisible Man. |
| 1:47.3 | It's a 12-inch 45 45-rpm, clear vinyl. It's Gerald's recent collaboration with Steve Bartak of Oingo Boingo and Josh Freeze from |
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