[kj] devo info

[Alex Smith]

Let's not even discuss it.

Alex in NYC


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>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>Sent: May 7, 2007 7:33 AM

>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>Subject: Re: [kj] devo info

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>I guess you've heard of ... DEVO 2.0?

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>It's kinda scary:

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>Devo 2.0: Coming To A Mall Near You

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>January 26, 2006, 3:45 PM ET

>Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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>With its self-titled CD/DVD debut ready for a March 14 release via 

>Disney Sound, the kid-staffed Devo 2.0 is preparing to take the original 

>band's music to such unlikely locales as state fairs and suburban 

>shopping malls. Devo co-founder Gerald V. Casale has spent the past 

>couple of weeks in rehearsals with the five pre-teen members in advance 

>of eventual live performances this spring.

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>"We always had this idea kind of like 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' 

>where it would be a kids band playing Devo songs for the exact 

>demographic Disney wants, which is like 4-8 year olds," Casale tells 

>Billboard.com. "It is benignly subversive. Some of the more 

>controversial politics and irony of the adult Devo is left out of it of 

>course, because that is the Disney mandate, but we enjoyed it. We think 

>it's great."

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>[...]

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>http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001919314

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>Alexander Smith wrote:

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>> Wow. That's fandom.

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>> A woman I used to work with named her daughter, Strummer (after Joe).

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>> When the wife and I were throwing names around for our children, I did 

>> throw "Geordie" and "Raven" into the mix, but they were both shot down 

>> in swift course (in the same way I nixed "Imogen" and "Cordelia").

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>> Alex in NYC

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