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TICKETS TORN IN HALF: August 26,1980-The B-52’s/Pylon@ Wollman Rink

26 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by MICHAEL C. HODGKISS in #WhiteBoyBlues, B-52's, blue eyed soul, Indie records, Kevin Patrick, Rock music, Uncategorized, Wollman Rink

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TICKETS TORN IN HALF: August 26,1980-The B-52’s/Pylon@ Wollman Rink in Central Park  It has been exactly one year since The B-52’s opened the TALKING HEADS show at this very venue and now we are days away from the release of their second album. There has been some airplay of a few of their newer tunes.We are ready as The B-52’s are becoming huge in NY. This night, after a short but interesting set from PYLON (a band being championed by The B-52’s out of  Athens, Georgia) the beehived B’s took to the stage and rocked this NY City crowd into a frenzy. We had a blast with Downtown, Rock Lobster, 52 Girls, 6060842,Planet Claire, Dance This Mess Around,Private Idaho.

From RHINO.COM The B-52’s legend goes like this: in October 1976, Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, and her brother, Ricky Wilson, shared a Flaming Volcano at a Chinese restaurant in Athens, GA and soon found themselves in the midst of a jam session. Blame it on the alcohol or the camaraderie, but the end result remains the same: The B-52’s were formed, their name taken from a type of beehive hairdo, which had taken its name because it resembled the nose cone of the aircraft known as the B-52.

Mind you, it took a few months for the newly-minted fivesome to get themselves together enough to perform a real concert, and when they did, it was at a Valentine’s Day party for their friends, so it’s not as though it was at a paying venue or anything, but it hardly matters: by the end of their performance, they’d proved themselves to be a real band. In short order, they were playing around the area, and by 1978 they’d recorded and released their first single, “Rock Lobster,” which turned them into cult sensations.

TICKETS TORN IN HALF:August 16,1979-Talking Heads/ B-52’s @Wollman Rink

16 Thursday Aug 2018

Posted by MICHAEL C. HODGKISS in #WhiteBoyBlues, B-52's, Central Park, Kevin Patrick, Rock music, Talking Heads, Ticket Stubs, Uncategorized, Wollman Rink

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TICKETS TORN IN HALF:August 16,1979-Talking Heads/ B-52’s @Wollman Rink in Central Park

(NYT) The combination of the Talking Heads and the B‐52’s seemed one of the strongest bills at the 1979 Dr Pepper Festival, but it took three tries for the concert to take place. The first two efforts were rained out, and it was only Thursday that the pairing finally got to make music in Central Park.

(me)WHAT A BLAST…this was so much fun when it finally took place. The B-52’s were brand new, having a bit of air play with “Rock Lobster” on Meg Griffin’s PIX PENTHOUSE PARTY radio shows. Fun to see, better to hear live. Then the T Heads took the stage and were fantastic, as usual. CITIES was  my song of the night.

THeads CP 79

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