[kj] devo info

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

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

It's kinda scary:



Devo 2.0: Coming To A Mall Near You

January 26, 2006, 3:45 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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.

"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."

[...]

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




Alexander Smith wrote:

>

> Wow. That's fandom.

>

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

>

> 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").

>

> Alex in NYC

>