"Uncut" Magazine is an English music monthly which tends to feature either past stories or contemporary acts with veteran credentials. Well, one of the latter is featured in an article about the band Devo.

Devo are not entirely about fun and games; their central premise about human deevolution says as much. Bassist and major strategist Jerry Casale attended Kent State and witnessed the massacre by the National Guard.

Mark Mothersbaugh, the other leader, was talking about literature which influenced them way back when: "[There] was a book by Hungarian anthropologist Oscar Kiss Maerth, called 'Knowledge Can Be Eaten'. It was about how we de-evolved from a strain of apes that started eating the brains of other apes, and how the enzymes and hormones they were absorbing caused their brains to grow at a rate that accelerated beyond evolution---creating crazy, smart apes. Which became us. That's where we lost our ability to harmonise with the rest of nature.

"We loved that. We thought it was a much more plausible explanation than anything in The Bible."

They're still pessimistic, and they're touring again.

But probably smiling beneath the new head gear.