Today it was announced that Bob Casale, a founder of the influential band, Devo passed away today of heart failure at the age of 61. The Ohio based band was best known for their biggest hit, “Whip It”, which was a heavy staple on the early days of MTV. They did not have any other song that even approached that popularity, but their music charted new ground.
Devo, and the New Wave movement was in direct contrast to the traditional Blues Rock, and was a reaction to Punk Rock. The band’s name was short for De-Evolution, which was a commentary on the band’s view that the world was devolving as opposed to evolving. Devo embraced the visual medium in their work in their videos and embraced the concept of putting video to music long before MTV was ever conceived.
They received a warm response at their appearance at the Coachella Festival in 2010 and released their first album in nearly twenty years, and toured extensively after. The death of Casale marks the second passing of a Devo member in the past twelve months. Last June, drummer Alan Myers died of stomach cancer.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com offer our condolences to the friends and family of Bob Casale at this time.
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