Making paintings, I guess. Bouffant The B-52's guitarist, Strickland, says his group still just wants to be a party band. After all these years, the B-52's pick and choose gigs. They do play certain private parties for companies that aren't ogres, dot-com corporations and the like, he says. Sometimes, they're formal.
Guys are in tuxes.
Women in gowns. And some guy's stage-diving. Strickland says he and his bandmates never intended to make a career out of the B-52's. In the beginning, Strickland was working crummy jobs in Athens, Ga., waiting tables with singer Fred Schneider, and working in a bus station. But the band's popularity grew, so they moved to New York in 1979 and made a splash as an original act in a unique era of punk and new-wave groups.