General Discussion

In 1970, he was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and witnessed the 1970 Kent State Shootings. Two people killed at the shootings, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, were friends of Casale. In a 2020 interview, he stated, "I went through some traumatic change. It was just a fork in the road where you realize everything you've been told is a lie. [...] We didn't see progress. We saw it going backwards, we start getting more tribal and more demonically mean and more chaotic."

Kent State is where DEVO was born. A really fascinating story of how they met and how music changed their lives. Every Friday night they premiere a video flashback of their beginnings and the creative process they used for their art.

I wanted to add I’m glad that John Cleary had a change of heart after his child was born on that tragic day. It made me sad he was gaslit into denying what happened to him.