Gerald Casale

He's got a great channel.

We've been working with, uh, Gerald Casale of DEVO as well.

The, the album is available, of course, for streaming everywhere.

Are, are there hard copies, or will there ever be?

But I have to say, I really enjoyed doing this.

I mean, obviously on the music videos thing, I've previously interviewed Gerald Casale, who did the I'll Stick Around video, and then Mark Pellington, who directed the Best of You video, and they were really well received.

And, uh, so I thought, you know what? We need to do a little bit more on the, the, the visual storytelling side of the band because it, it's such an important characteristic from the Foo Fighters career.

And as we know, there aren't too many bands with a, a catalog of such great music videos that they have.

Butler grew up in Ohio, studied sociology at Kent State University, and was a direct eyewitness to the tragic May 4th, 1970 Kent State massacre, which claimed the life of his close friend Jeffrey Miller.

Emerging from the eccentric Akron music scene alongside figures like Gerald Casale of Devo and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Butler played in local art rock bands, including Fifteen Sixty Seventy-Five, the Numbers Band, and Tin Huey.

The Waitresses initially existed purely in Butler's imagination for stage promotional photos.

However, after recording a demo for a track called I Know What Boys Like, Butler sought a lead vocalist.

Yeah, yeah.

J- Jer- Jerry Casale talks about, um, about how, how Conny Plank wound up, uh, as engineer on, um, on the first Devo record.

I think he was engineer.

He was not...

They're-

...

Jerry Casale, yeah.

He's, he's like-

They weren't like, they didn't have all the pieces to be these MTV stars.

But they were so good at, 'cause they, they, they collaborated with Jerry Casale from Devo for one of their videos, which I didn't, I never knew until I read the book.

Oh, wow.

And the video for You Might Think is absolutely fucking insane.

That's a really good point.

Yeah.

You know, uh, uh, I Refuse sound, and you did mention that they worked with Jerry Casale.

The, the I Refuse sounded like a Devo song to me a bit.

Good job.

Nor Jerry Casale.

Yeah, I don't think Michael DePallis is dead.

For many years, he ran, even before this, he was running a food kit service called Paleo Power Meals.

I saw that, yeah, which it's just amazing.

And I've been to, right before the pandemic, uh, we did one of the Brian Eno records, and my guest was Gerald Casale.

So I went to his house-

Those guys are brilliant, are brilliant, and really fell into the same, uh, same category of civil rights and stuff.

In any case, David does strike me, um, as a bit defensive, which makes sense, uh, since apparently he had a terrible sense of humor.

"One of the cardinal sins that Devo committed was they came to the Pirate's Cove and Jerry Casale mimicked David, got a big suit on of some sort, and got some outfit on that made him bigger.

Whoa.

That did not go well.