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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@RnDanger @dogzilla

holy shit! i had no idea

today i learned:

was not only at during the , but the massacre inspired the creation of devo:

kent.edu/art/news/remembering-

School of Art About Degree Programs Special Programs People Student Resources Alumni Galleries You are here KentSchool of ArtRemembering May 4 - An Interview with Devo's Jerry Casale Remembering May 4 - An Interview with Devo's Jerry Casale Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by Email Image Jerry Casale on stage with his band Devo, standing in front of keyboard with microphone wearing red energy dome Most Northeast Ohio residents have at least a passing familiarity with Devo, the visually-driven, post-punk brainchild of Kent State University School of Art alumni Jerry Casale, Bob Lewis and Mark Mothersbaugh. Perhaps less commonly known is the story of exactly how the band came to be. Devo’s creation was inspired and catalyzed by the trauma of the May 4, 1970, shooting of student protesters by the National Guard, for which both Casale and Mothersbaugh, (along with fellow former KSU art student/rock luminary Chrissie Hynde) were present. Two of the victims of the violence (Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause) had been friends of Casale’s, who later said of the incident, “I had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In short Devo and the idea of De-evolution as a manifesto would not exist without that defining historic trauma I experienced.” ...
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