American - Musician | April 27, 1948 -
Cindy had two kids. We did manage to keep playing and doing summer tours with the Go-Gos, the Pretenders, and Blondie.
Kate Pierson
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We've known Cyndi Lauper since she was in 'Blue Angel'; we did a TV show with her back in '79 or '80. We don't have any competition; we're complementary.
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We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.
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I like looking for things on tour.
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I don't think we were shy so much as we were terrified. Especially when we did 'Saturday Night Live' on live TV. We looked really animatronic because we were scared, but it came off as being this alien sort of attitude, which served us well, because people were like, 'Whoa, this is so weird.'
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Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.
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There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.
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When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.
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We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'
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I call it the LGBT Q and A community 'cause there's so many questions and answers.
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Every time I go to Athens, it's not just a trip down memory lane; there's some surprise. I always meet somebody new, or some crazy party happens, or there's some amazing event.
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I love Atlanta. I feel really at home in Atlanta. We spent a lot of time there. But Athens is like home to me.
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