TL;DR: In the same vein as Dave’s classic expose on Laurel Canyon, Devo does not seem to be just a bunch of musically talented weirdoes whose funky songs and robotic style earned them fame and fortune. Connections we find along their way help shine a light on the Spooky Underworld and bring the subliminal up over the threshold.

To begin, I’m a fan of Devo. I’ve actually had my suspicions about them for some years now, but resisted looking into the issue for fear of what I would find. After this research I found nothing you could really call nefarious.

That made me realize that an “evil new wave band” was as silly an idea as an “evil zookeeper” from Austin Powers. Not that Devo isn’t tied up in the Big Spiderweb--as we are soon to see-- but that not everything in the giant evil plan is itself evil. For all of us critical thinkers, that would be the “fallacy of division”, so I should have known that anyway. Then again, there is this:

The name Devo comes from the concept of "de-evolution" and the band's related idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind had begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society. In the late 1960s, this idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis….

I always assumed that, yes, it was a joke that was then spun up as a marketing gimmick. But when you’re looking at their early years they sure seem to spend more time and attention on it than they would have if it was just some goof. I tend to now view that “They” introduced it to say, “We’re telling you to your faces that we’re reducing you to animals, and look how novel and edgy and entertaining you find it all. A herd you are indeed.” Am I taking that thought too far?

To begin with the “not just a new wave band” material, somewhere along the line I learned that Gerald Casale had been a student at the university during the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970.

I always assumed he just happened to be enrolled there at the time it took place. One time, I had been on campus at a university during a huge demonstration, but I had no idea it even took place until I read about it in the school paper the next day. I was in the library the whole time because I had shit to do. But here, Gerald was far closer to the situation:

Being involved with Freshman orientation at the KSU Honors College, he personally knew two of the victims, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, and was near Krause when she was shot. Casale described that day in multiple interviews as being "the day I stopped being a hippie". Together with Bob Lewis, Casale used the shooting as a catalyst to develop the concept of De-evolution, forming the band Devo in 1973.

Welp, there it is: the whole deal came out of the Kent State event. And that brings up the big conundrum and puts it right in our faces:

The Kent State Massacre Never Happened (Miles Mathis 8/2/2017 (23-page PDF)

We have to square that circle, don’t we? The fake-itude of the massacre is not going to go. When you really look at all the famous pics, you can’t avoid seeing how phony they are. I’ve made this point before: no one notices because they are not really looking. So Gerald Casale is not just some rando college student, and now we have to take a closer look.

Well, TBH, what actually made me take a closer look was something I heard offhand in a podcast about Monsanto. I looked it up to confirm that I had heard correctly:

Monsanto Paying $80 Million Penalty for Accounting Violations (SEC 9/19/2023)

The SEC’s investigation found no personal misconduct by Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant and former CFO Carl Casale….

Okay, I looked and there’s almost no genealogical information available on either of these Casales, so we can’t prove or disprove they’re related. That’s par for the course, and I’m still surprised when I can actually make the hard genealogical connections. But really, that shared, nearly unique name makes you suspicious, doesn’t it? Let’s move on and see if there’s more. (There is.)

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when their short film The Truth About De-Evolution… won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. This attracted the attention of David Bowie, who began work to get the band a recording contract with Warner Music Group. In 1977, Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway.

I trust that in these circles, we really don’t have to do more than mention the name David Bowie to associate him with the occult and his fake death. The guy is sus and we find him right here. Neil Young is not widely considered to be sus, but guess where he’s quoted praising Charles Manson? Dave McGowan’s Weird Scenes: Inside the Canyon:

“He had this kind of music that nobody else was doing. I thought he really had something crazy, something great. He was like a living poet.”

The Manson murders were another landmark hoax. As I’ve remarked before, sometimes this stuff seems to write itself. In any case, you can believe that Devo got their “big break” by attracting the attention of these two “music industry icons”, or that “this is what they were handed” using the influence of two “guys that were in on it”. You decide.

And you’ll need to do a lot more deciding because this is where we venture into the tall weeds. To be specific, these Salem Witches always manipulate events from just outside the spotlight. They stand there plain as day yet no one ever notices them. So what happens when we start looking around Devo? We saw his name earlier but I bet it got by you, so here’s a quote from Devo’s wiki:

The name Devo comes from the concept of "de-evolution" and the band's related idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind had begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society. In the late 1960s, this idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, who created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein.

The joke is on us, I believe. So both the concept and later the band come from Robert Curtis Lewis. He just so happens to share a last name with Mercy Lewis, who “played a crucial role during the Salem witch trials in 1692, when 20 people were executed for witchcraft, including her former master, George Burroughs.” Imagine the coincidence. But maybe it is, though, huh? Is there anything unusual about ordinary composer and musician Bob?

In the 1980s, while working as a consultant in Damascus, Syria, he was Middle East Correspondent for Rolling Stock magazine….

Oh, uh, whaddaya know. Nothing spooky about that, just covering music for Rolling Stone in the Middle East, right? Wait, no, that was Rolling Stock:

Rolling Stock was a newspaper of ideas and a chronicler of the 1980s published in Boulder, Colorado…. The paper had a regional motif, but featured correspondents covering the world, including Woody Haut on Labor….

Listen, if that doesn’t scream “Intelligence front” to you, then I don’t even know how you came to be reading this. Boulder is a suburb of Denver and that place is super spooky, a main hub for Them. If you’re unfamiliar, a fun writeup is Exposing the Dark World: There’s something very strange about “Evergreen” (conspiracies.win 2/20/2024). But did you catch the rather uncommon name of the first listed writer, Woody Haut? Ring a bell?

He shares the surname of 1st Lt. Walter G. Haut, public information officer at the 509th Bomb Group and close personal friend of base commander Col. William H. Blanchard at the time of the Roswell Incident. That was one of “Their” capstone false flags, paying massive dividends up to this very day. Haut was absolutely crucial as the man who wrote the fateful press release on the orders of Col. Blanchard. Lots more about the whole hoax in this key post:

Broomstick Crash at Roswell: A shocking number of people involved in the “Incident” have the same last name as people involved in the Salem Witch Trials (conspiracies.win 12/6/2024)

There’s no genealogy, but I wouldn’t expect any since “Woody Haut” is more or less a fake person. If I had to guess at his existence as an actual person, then based on ages he’s Walter’s nephew. The rest is just Intelligence legend.

Take a look at this page: Woody Haut's Blog: About me. Do you think that’s the actual photo of an actual writer looking to promote their work? We’re also never told about the odd transition from international/regional labor commentator to noir fiction author. I’d complain that it’s all insulting but no one is paying close enough attention to be insulted, which is how they get away with it.

Now for this last part, if you want to try to sort out what names are real and who got what fake name from where, go ahead but I don’t think that’s important. I just want to bring the pieces into close juxtaposition. It centers around the fairly uncommon name “Woody”.

To begin, back in about 1992 or 1993, the fiction writers of the Roswell event realized that they had left a plot hole in the narrative. It’s a bit complex to understand the problem, but they sought to patch it over with more “newly discovered” narrative. That came in the 1994 book by disinfo peddlers Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (includes downloadable versions). The pertinent invention is on page 3:

South of Roswell, William Woody was watching the night sky with his father when he spotted a white light with red streaks in it. It glowed brilliantly and, unlike (he many meteors he had seen in the past, took a long time to fall. It was brighter than any of those other meteors, and according to Woody, the wrong color.’

The father is never given a name and William Woody has no existence outside the pages of the book, because narratives don’t need infinite detail. So let’s get this straight: On July 4th, William Woody happens to see a UFO. Four days later, Walter Haut writes a false/true press release about the crash of presumably that very same UFO. Decades later, we come across Woody Haut who turns out to be a spooky, ephemeral character. Coincidence?

My final offering on this is to address the question of the original source of the name “Woody”. It’s a rare surname, but is found slightly less rarely as the short form of “Woodrow” (Harrelson) or sometimes “Heywood” (Allen). I can only attest that I have not come across any Woodys or Woodrows or Heywoods in my extensive research on these people.

All that I can offer is that in the list of people of the Salem witch trials, we find “Elizabeth Woodwell, age 33 and living in Salem” and Anne Wood Price Bradstreet. FWIW.

Final final note: If you think it’s possible all this was stitched together out of whole cloth, just googling up combinations of names and making something out of nothing, I would contend that’s extremely difficult. You just get stuff like the obituary of Roswell Woodrow "Woody" Hamlett. Try to find something beyond that he was born on Halloween. Rest in peace, Woody.

Thanks for reading!