Wednesday 19 February 2014

LOOKING FOR SNIFFY LININGS . . . . TOTALLY BUMMED AT THE DEATH OF DEVO'S BOB CASALE, OR BOB #2 AS WAS HIS NOM DE-VO . . . . SURE, THERE WAS PUNK GOING ON ALL AROUND BUT THE BOYS FROM AKRON TURNED UP THE WEIRD FACTOR TO 11 . . . . FREAK OUT THE PUNKS !!!

NO BAND FREAKED FOLK OUT BETWEEN THE YEARS OF '78/'79 MORE THAN DEVO, MY MATES HATED THEM WITH A PASSION, THOUGHT I WAS A COMPLETE FUCKWIT, I REMEMBER PLAYING THEIR KILLER ANTI VERSION OF 'SATISFACTION' TO MY BUDDIES AT LUNCHTIME AT SCHOOL EARLY IN 1979, NONE OF THEM GOT IT, NOT ONE, BUT IT WAS AS OBVIOUS AS TITS ON A BULL TO ME . . . . CASALE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A BAND WHO TURNED THE POST PUNK/NO-WAVE WORLD ON ITS ARSE, MUSIC NERD WEIRDOS WHO PROVIDED A LEG UP FOR THE B-52'S AND SO MANY MORE, THEY WERE A SKATERS ACT AS WELL AT FIRST COURTESY OF 'SKATEBOARDER' MAG, SKATERS ALL FELT OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM AND THEY WERE THE POSTER BOYS . . . . 'ARE WE NOT MEN' WENT INSTANT CULT, FOLLOWED BY 'DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE', BY THE TIME 'FREEDOM OF CHOICE' BROKE EVEN MY DOPEY, OOH WHAT WILL MY FRIENDS THINK, ACQUAINTANCES HAD COTTONED ON . . . . AT THE CENTRE OF IT ALL WAS BOB #2 ON GUITAR AND KEYS, SETTING NEW MILESTONES ON WHAT WAS POSSIBLE WITH SIX STRINGS AND A HEAD FULL OF BIZARRE, SIT BACK AND WATCH NOW HE'S GONE AS ALL THE BIG TALKERS AND MUSO WANKERS START WAXING LYRICAL ON HIS CONTRIBUTION . . . . BOB CASALE, YOU AND YOUR HIGHLY DEVOLVED COMPATRIOTS HELPED SHAPE MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER, YOU'LL BE SORELY AND SADLY MISSED. I GOT A GUT FEELING, A SAD GUT FEELING.

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