Gerald V. Casale

Gerald V. Casale

Born: July 28, 1948
in Ravenna, Ohio, USA
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Gerald Vincent Casale (born Gerald Vincent Pizzute, July 28, 1948), often known as Jerry Casale, is a vocalist, bass guitar/synthesizer player, and a founding member (with Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Lewis) of the new wave band Devo. Along with Mothersbaugh, whom he met at Kent State University, Casale co-wrote most of Devo's material (including the hit "Whip It"), designed Devo's distinctive attire (including the Energy Dome, plastic pompadours, and yellow radiation suits) over the years with Mothersbaugh, and directed most of Devo's videos. He has also directed videos for other artists, including The Cars ("Panorama"), Rush ("Superconductor"), A Perfect Circle ("Imagine"), Foo Fighters ("I'll Stick Around"), Soundgarden ("Blow Up the Outside World"), and Silverchair ("Freak" and "Cemetery"), among others.

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Movies for Gerald V. Casale...

Devolution: A Devo Theory
Title: Devolution: A Devo Theory
Released: March 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Enter the minds of one of history's most misunderstood bands. With hits such as 'Whip It' & 'Freedom of Choice', they shared a trailblazing environmental message but were often mocked. 40 years later, we ask: were Devo right?
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Chi Chi & Devo
Title: Chi Chi & Devo
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Members of pioneering New Wave band Devo and golfing legend Chi Chi Rodríguez recall how their paths crossed when Devo used an image of Chi Chi for their debut album.
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J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Title: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out-of-work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon.
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Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
Title: Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
Character: Self
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
When Conny died at the age of only 47, his son Stephan was just 13 years old. Twenty-five years later, together with co-director Reto Caduff, he went in search of the man he often only experienced behind the mixing desk as a child. At the same time it became the search for the artistic legacy of his father.
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Devo: Hardcore Live!
Title: Devo: Hardcore Live!
Character: Himself
Released: February 24, 2015
Type: Movie
A concert film capturing Devo at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on their 2014 "Hardcore Tour," in which they performed 21 songs written and recorded before they signed with a major record label, many of which had never been performed live. The set is intercut with stories and commentary from the band members, as well as Toni Basil and V. Vale.
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Devo: The Men Who Make The Music - Butch Devo & The Sundance Gig
Title: Devo: The Men Who Make The Music - Butch Devo & The Sundance Gig
Character: Performer
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The Men Who Make the Music combines concert footage from DEVO's 1978 tour with music videos and interstitials featuring a vague story about DEVO's rocky relationship with ""Big Entertainment."" As for the bonus program, Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig, Jerry Casale says, ""In '96, we closed Sundance Film Festival. We wore 20s style prison suits, we did a special show with really old, hardcore Devo songs from the early 70s, before we ever had a deal.
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Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Title: Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: Movie
DEVO live at the Sundance Film Festival 1996. At the time it was billed as their last ever show but it actually ended up kickstarting a revival of the band which resulted in many tours and a new studio album in 2010.
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Hitchcock
Title: Hitchcock
Character: David Kirkpatrick
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.
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DEVO Live In Benicàssim
Title: DEVO Live In Benicàssim
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Recorded live @ Benicassm Festival, July 2007.
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DEVOtional: A Decade Of Devotion
Title: DEVOtional: A Decade Of Devotion
Released: August 27, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentation of the history of DEVOtional: The world's largest annual gathering of DEVOtees!
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DEVO: Live in London
Title: DEVO: Live in London
Character: Performer
Released: May 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Live performance of DEVO's debut album, "Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are DEVO" at the Forum, London in 2009.
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If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Title: If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Character: Self
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it back to the fans. Stiff's successes included Nick Lowe, the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Madness, Tracey Ullman and the Pogues. Contributors include Captain Sensible, Jonathan Ross, Suggs, Shane MacGowan and label founders Jake Riviera and Dave Robinson.
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Devo Live 1980
Title: Devo Live 1980
Character: Himself
Released: August 30, 2005
Type: Movie
"This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too. " - Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma
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Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Title: Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Character: Himself (as Devo)
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind's plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven't wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.
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Devo Live
Title: Devo Live
Character: Himself
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.
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Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Title: Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Now, the complete truth can be told...Devo, the seminal New Wave audio-visual concept band made a career out of setting to music video their Dada-gone-camp theory of de-evolution and its riotous rebuke of corporate culture. Punk/New Wave mad scientists Devo were among the few bands to understand the music video's potential as art form during its infancy in the eighties. Their brilliant and bizarre videos were compiled on VHS and then on laser disc; that long out-of-print disc, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, has finally arrived on DVD, which should please longtime fans of this eclectic outfit.
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The Spirit of '76
Title: The Spirit of '76
Character: Yale-44
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
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We're All Devo
Title: We're All Devo
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it, the character of Rod Rooter (Michael W Schwartz) is reviewing Devo's music videos for Big Entertainment. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Donut Rooter (Laraine Newman) is a fan of the band. Donut discovers the videos after asking her father for money to get an abortion (though this is not explicitly stated). Two excerpts from the storyline were included in the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and DVD (both out of sequence) but the rest is exclusive to this videocassette. "Theme from Doctor Detroit" was also not included, and is unique to this tape. (Wikipedia)
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3-DEVO
Title: 3-DEVO
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
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Human Highway
Title: Human Highway
Character: Nuclear Garbageperson
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Title: Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO's first home video release. Features live footage from the band's 1978 "Duty Now for the Future" tour.
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Pray TV
Title: Pray TV
Character: Dove band member
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
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De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Title: De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
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In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Title: In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Several factory workers finish their day at work and get into a car. They drive to a club where they perform the song Secret Agent Man as a rock quartet. A man with a mask of a child named Booji Boy runs into a building where his father, a man named General Boy is waiting. Subsequently, a man gives a lecture by song on the subject of devolution.
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DEVO - Whistler Medals Plaza
Title: DEVO - Whistler Medals Plaza
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Whistler, BC, Canada - February 22nd 2010. DEVO live at the Winter Olympics 2010! Broadcast on MuchMusic in Canada
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Are We Not Men?
Title: Are We Not Men?
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A documentary about DEVO
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Devo - Full Concert 1978
Title: Devo - Full Concert 1978
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Part of Chorus (La Première Émission Rock D'Antoine De Caunes), a broadcast series operating 1978-1981 in France covering live appearances mainly by American and English bands.