Unfucking unbelievable . They're not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ? They're the epitome of fun , probably the single greatest feature of rock n roll and how it is differentiated from other forms of music is FUN .
These guys are Legend! with all the tools we have today no one can make music like it was made in the 70s,80s..these guys had to endure trying to make it in the business competing with many many great bands, jamming in the garage or anywhere is still the best receipt to create great music, original sounds,etc. God bless The B-52`s , one of the greatest of all time and I`m so greatfull to have grown up around that time.
I recall when I first heard Rock Lobster on the radio I was like instantly drawn into the new wave…I’m still surfing along at 67 years old still glad I got to experience all the bands of the 70s and 80s ❤ B52s saved every party I ever had!
if you would have told me in 1978 when i first heard them that 46 years later i'd still be listening, i would have said you're crazy. so weird became so fun so fast. decades of joy.
I saw them at the Bayou club in D.C. in 1979. We all knew we were listening to the the real deal-so much fun! At the break, Fred came up to me and asked me where I got the bowling shirt I was wearing. I gave them a list of local thrift stores. They invited me and my friends to a round of beers. Thanks again!!
20 years ago my girlfriend told me sadly that Fred was dead…! I had thoughts for him several times BUT today is a special resurrection day as I notice he is still with us. so happy!!!!! Come to Paris 🙏
@familycardcollectors6519 Ricky Wilson died on 12 October 1985. The B52s took 2 years off and returned in 1988 with the LP Bouncing Off Satellites, then Cosmic Thing in 1989. Love Shack went to No 1 in November 1989. Good Stuff in 1992 Ricky Wilson's death was not the end of the band.
First time I heard from the B-52’s was in 1983 after a concert in Athens,I scored a t-shirt and a 45,wish that I stilled have them but I will always love the 52’s!!!
That quick video in the old television!!....I was there at that show at The Great Southeastern Music Hall...it was about a week or two after the Sex Pistols and it was a Punk Rock Festival....the band had all their art school friends there dancing....probably about 20 to 30 people there tops...I was a Student at GA Tech at the time....they opened with Planet Claire and Fred played a toy piano....I thought they were quirky weird and fun!....totally original with a stripped down sound.
Seminole Ave band House for the 'Fans'! B-52' s truly amazing group. I was just 15. Russell KING the drummer, the love of my life. Anyway, The Fans FINALLY got a shot to make a record in NYC. BEGGING FOR A RIDE ALONG PROMISE THEY will never know😭☺️😊😊😂😂🤣
its great ! it was written in the stars you all would met eachotter with 1 common goal..... making music together and became a big band in the 80ties and 90ties AND still afther all those years youre all remained a bunch of good friends. While a lot of music groups splitted up afther a few hits .... B52's FOR ever !
NO THEY DIDN'T, THE BEEHIVE HAIRDOO WAS POPULAR BACK IN THE 50S 60S, SO ASK YER SELF WHERE DID THE B52S GET THAT STYLE FROM? THEY SURE AS HELL DIDN'T CREATE IT.
@user-ie1vn6dr5t there were women in my part of small-town Canada who were still rocking the beehive and bouffant when I was a kid in the late 70s,early 80s. They found what they liked in 1962 and stuck with it well into middle age. Good on em
Recorded the first album with no reverbs or anything? Interesting. I’d say that’s how they got known because their sound didn’t need a lot of work to sound good.
I remember throwing paper cups of water at the next door neighbors roof when would go up on the roof to watch the bulldawgs throught the hedges. and Wendy-O would scare all of to death when she would cut the grass wearing nothing but a black tape bikini I would slip through her back yard and she would scream come here you little bas@@$ I don't know who told her that I was the one who would get some of her gas for my gokart. You it would all ways blow my mind as wild and crazy as she would act when she would chase me down the sidr walk, her and my mother would sit on the porch or go to the tea room and Wendy was intelligent smarter than you would think she was. And she would talk to my mother about her giving me to her ans then when ever my mother go to get something from kitchen she would threaten me for stealing her gas or that time I put grease all over here porches and steps her and some other just tour the world down and that time I found that lock and put it on the door of that shed Oh she was pist hell I was only 9, or ten. My dad owned some old houses all over the place and if he though you were going live in athens he would sale you a house. I remember my Dad seller a house to this Couple for $500 dollars, you know they still live in that house. It was crazy how people everyone had a garden in the back yard or people would buy everything and someone would work to cann everything out of the garden to put up to have food, My Mother had several houses and one of those house was one of them where you could look through the hedges and watch the foot ball game. I live downtown or if me and my brothers would go home to either my moms or dads it just determined how much trouble we were in. I could get a ride out to commerce road and watch wrestling or top head linners at the J&J center on 441 or the top bands of the local georgia bands at the Nightowl bar and longe, or bulldogs up there behind the athens bakery at the bar where there was no telling who might wakeup from a drunken comma. The first time I ever seen I think it was dwight yokom I don't know how to spell his name. But I remember he was wild as hell and could ring the hell out of his guitar. but he smelled like a rotten dumpter foull of whiskey bottles Oh remember the blue Restaurant the first veg restaurant and right up the street was the first Rcade I seen. And the DairBarn in Comer where I would get a brain freeze right before my straw would get stopped up with a strawberry. I should be ashame, hell I am ashame, I live in the stinking desert of arizona where the place is nothing but evil. I sure do miss my sweet sweet city of Athens, where the democrats would whip your ##@ for doing something and not being sweet and honest and straightup. And my home in Krawfort, Lexington. Man where turn I took to go so wrong? I sure hope to get back home before I die or I'll be lost for ever. Even the criminals had class there, and flowers smelled so good. I hope all the polliticians didn't screw up wonder land.