Devo Did Coke With Sarah Jessica Parker?

Can you say you've done coke with Sarah Jessica Parker? Devo bassist/synthesizer player Gerald Casale claims he has.

Casale told Heeb magazine he did just that when Devo appeared on an episode of '80s TV sitcom Square Pegs to headline a "new wave Bat Mitzvah."

"The girls were out of control — they were doing drugs and they were making out and they were coming on to us in a big way," Casale told the magazine.

Keep in mind Casale only "vaguely recalls doing coke" with Parker, who played Patty Greene, and Jami Gertz, better known on the show as Muffy B. Tepperman, in the talent trailers. Nonetheless he said, "they might have been 15 or 16, but in their heads they were already 40. I don't think there was a virgin on the set, except maybe a couple of the guys."

We're disturbed that Casale then told Heeb he didn't understand why he didn't make a move on Gertz, who he says he had a big crush on.

But there was also some more chicanery on set — though none of it involved cocaine. Casale told Heeb Devo keyboardist/guitarist Bob Casale was "ridden like a horse by a blonde" in a video projection they wanted to accompany "That's Good," which they performed on the show. That might partly be why it was edited out of the show.

"Then an animated french fry flies through the air one way, and an animated glazed donut flies through the air the other way, and the french fry goes through the donut, and it cuts to the girl snapping her head back with a big smile on her face on the words, 'That's good.'"

Uh... right...

You can watch Devo's appearance on Square Pegs below. It's in three parts (their performance is in the third part, which also includes an amusing lecture on the difference between punk and new wave — it's apparently slam dancing):

Devo will play London, England's Kentish Town Forum on May 6 and the Butlin's Holiday Centre in Minehead, England as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival on May 8.