From MTV:
Bob Casale, one of the original members of Devo, passed away Monday from “conditions that lead to heart failure” at the age of 61, according to his brother and bandmate Gerald Casale.
“As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning,” Casale wrote on the band’s Facebook page. “He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got. He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again. His sudden death from conditions that lead to heart failure came as a total shock to us all.”
Devo is an American New Wave band that was formed in 1972, in part, by brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob and Gerald Casale. At first an underground band — bursting onto the scene with debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! — Devo soon found widespread fame 1980’s Freedom of Choice and the single “Whip It,” the video for which received massive airplay on MTV.
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