Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spinner Magazine interviews the B-52s

B-52s' Fred Schneider Hams It Up With Side Project the Superions
Even though he's had a couple of songs about nude beaches, don't expect to see Fred Schneider walking in the buff any time soon.

"I'm a lot more modest now, with cell phones," he tells Spinner, citing a fear that someone would take a photo of him naked. "If there's an unflattering photo of me, they'll put it on the Internet."

Musically, his first trip to a nude beach came with the B-52s' song 'Theme From a Nude Beach' from the band's 'Cosmic Thing' album. More recently, he revisited the nudist lifestyle with 'Totally Nude Island,' a song with his side project, the Superions, which includes Noah Brodie and Dan Marshall.
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B-52s Reminisce About Their Early Days
In the '70s, the B-52s were just a group of friends who enjoyed jamming together -- until Fred Schneider told someone they were actually a band.


"Fred had mentioned to a good friend of ours, 'We have a band,'" guitarist Keith Strickland tells Spinner. "We did, but we didn't really think of it like that. And she said, 'Oh, I'm having a Valentine's Day party -- do you want to play?'"
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The B-52s are playing at this year's Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil, set for April 30-May 1 in downtown Birmingham.

Birmingham newspaper al.com