Not entirely true -- both Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were very much
involved.  They're certainly not the face of the band, because this *is*
after all intended to reach the tween set, but the project definitely had
their buy-in.  They even wrote a couple of new songs for the project.

I don't have the disc in front of me (my wife, who loves all things '80s,
had to buy it for our wee toddler), but I recall that in the liners
Mothersbaugh said he'd originally conceived Devo to be a kind of repertory
concept more than a band -- that membership would come and go, but the Devo
spirit would live on -- and that this project was a natural extension of
that idea.

Will it catch on?  I guess we'll see if Disney has deep enough pockets
(cough cough) or, more importantly, if it's something the kids like.

Christopher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> Of Jaimie Vernon
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: And then there's DEVO 2.0
> 
> Had to laugh when I saw the ads on TV last week for the new DEVO 2.0
> 
> That's right....a bunch of kids recording and touring as the new DEVO. All
> the hits. All the faves. None of the original band.
> 
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President, Bullseye Records
> "Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
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> Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
> 
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