Manhattan Strip Clubs: Devo’s Gerald Casale
In one of these junk bookstores, I found an old men’s magazine. I think it was called Dude. They were largely just, back then, limited to women in panties and pantyhose, with great big breasts. But there was always an article or something in each of these magazines to justify that it was a magazine and not pornography. This one featured a guy who had been a car salesman or something in L.A., and his ex-stripper wife who moved to Arizona and started a dude ranch. It showed their dude ranch and the happy guests. Every day at noon in the corral, he put on a show with his wife. He’d whip her clothes off for the guests. It was like, “Okay, that’s it! We’re going to make that video!” Of course, we didn’t have the money to make that video, but we went ahead and wrote the song. The song was really written about making fun of these kind of Andrew Carnegie, you’re …