Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer and synthesizer player, has gone on to do theme music for television programs (starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse), video games, and movies. In 1985, he released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, "Musik for Insomniaks," which was later expanded and released as two CDs. His company, Mutato Muzika, provides employment for Devo guitarists Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale: the former works as a composer, and the latter as a recording engineer. Jerry Casale, the group's bass player, has directed rock videos by other bands, including Rush.
Devo's original inspiration came from Oscar Kiss Maerth’s "The Beginning Was the End": an anthropoligical thesis which attributes the rise of man as an evolutionary accident caused by a species of sex-crazed, cannibalistic apes who developed tools to exploit each other sexually and feed on each others' brains. This metaphor is carried throughout Devo's work as an abstraction of modern society.
Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius in the early 1980s. In concert, Devo often performed as the opening band for themselves, pretending to be a Christian soft-rock group called "Dove (the Band of Love)". They also recorded "E-Z Listening Muzak" versions of their own songs to play before their concerts. In 2001, members of Devo formed the surf band The Wipeouters, claiming that it was actually a reunion of the first gararge band they started while in their early teens.
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Mark Mothersbaugh, some solo and soundtrack releases:
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