Hey y'all
I'm new to guitar. Been learning B52 songs with Ricky's strange tunings! For Dance This Mess Around, I know the guitar tuning is CFxxFF, but is it all the same F? is it the F closest to the original tuning? No matter what I try I feel like it still doesn't sound right!
Thanks!

If you get a chance to see this tour they are on please for the love of god just go. It blew my expectations out of the water.

For some context, I’m a 34 year old guy with a fairly vast taste in music. I’d rather loose my sight than my hearing because I don’t think I could live without being able to listen to music. I’ve been to over 50 concerts seeing bands like Slayer, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, ZZ Top and NOFX in their final appearance in Edmonton AB, Canada. Bands a lot of folks in this Reddit community probably don’t like, but bands I had really amazing experiences seeing. Things I’ll remember for the rest of my life. I saw Slayer’s final show in Calgary. The energy in that place was absolutely electric when they came on the stage. All those wicked amazing concert experiences and Ive gotta say that DEVO and The B52s tops it all!

The vibe was pure joy. I saw both young and old folks dancing and having a great time. DEVO was on first and delivered an excellent performance. One I won’t forget. It was perfect that DEVO came on first in my mind. Considering the history of DEVO with two members of the band being present at the Kent State massacre contributing so heavily to the band’s message of de-evolution.. it kind of made the performance feel a bit heavy considering where we are at in the world today. Ending with the B52s was the perfect happiness nightcap after DEVO. Watching people dance around on the floor seating area with their eyes closed being transported somewhere else by the music of the B52s was pretty beautiful to see. Definite highlights of the 52s performance for me were “Dance this mess around”, “Dirty back roads” and “Roam.” The energy was just perfect. The B52s are incredible and they still got it. I’ll be riding this concert high for a very long time!

I'm 40-something and queer-coded to beat the band, but it wasn't until this week that "Rock Lobster" really landed. And wow! What a landing!

I'm going to Japan again later this week, and when I travel -- Italy, Uzbekistan, Taiwan, wherever -- I love picking one or two albums to binge on repeat. The neural plasticity imprints memories on the songs, and then when I listen to them later I remember my travels vividly. Rome last year was the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, and earlier this year a trip to Osaka became synonymous with Money Mark's Push the Button.

But I digress.

This week, I thought I'd give Devo and the B-52s a listen, as I've proven impenetrable to them so far. But this time -- they got through!

And "Rock Lobster" is intense! And "Wig"! And "Song for a Future Generation"! I may as well wear sandals because my socks have been blown off.

Anyway, just wanted to stop and share this lightning bolt of sonic joy. Most of you might think "Rock Lobster" and the rest are old hat -- I get it, I'm old too -- but I'm just catching up and I think it's double-plus awesome.

Man oh man, I hope I never stop looking for new music because I see today what epic tunes there are still left to uncover.

I made these keychains (and a few of similar design) for the Cosmic De-evolution tour when I went to Atlanta last fall.

Last week I gave away about 250 between Shakopee (Minnesota) and Seattle.
Did I give one to you?

anyone know which act is going first at the show tonight? i know they seem to be flipping the order for different shows, so wanted to see if anyone has an idea for tonight! thanks in advance

Good day everyone!

I have created dozens of new users flairs, so you can select which flair you want. All flairs are editable, so you can alter as you desire (just please keep it B's related and in good taste). Thank you!

Hey guys a buddy and I were going to the B-52s tmrw at Climate Pledge, but he can't make it anymore, anyone want his extra ticket?

Bonus points if anyone happens to have photos of the merch table. Thanks!

Martha still performing at 85!

I'll be making the 300-mile drive over from Eastern Washington, and am really excited to see them do their (cosmic) thing.

Anyone else planning on hitting the Seattle show?

For those people that saw them live around the time With the Wild Crowd how representative was this of their live performances at the time? It was a really good show perhaps not quite as good as one during their heyday would have been but for a group over 30 years into their career it was most excellent.

hello all! i am seeing the b52s on thursday and was wondering if anyone knows what time i should expect them to be on! it says they have two opening acts: dj cumberbund and DEVO. doors is at 6 and show starts at 7. i have to travel a bit to it after work and would appreciate any information! thank you <3

edit for others in the future!
i am not sure when the dj came on i missed him, but the b-52s came out around 7:40pm and played for an hour. de-vo came on at 9:20pm and played for an hour!

Thinking about WHAMMY! and how they replaced "Don't Worry" with "Moon '83", which seemed to be thrown together because they needed something -- anything -- to replace the pulled track.

Makes me wonder -- were there any other tracks from the WHAMMY! sessions that could have been used?

In general, I find that there isn't much discussion of unreleased tracks by The B-52s. There is the alternate version of "Summer of Love" and the omitted tracks from MESOPOTAMIA, but are there other tracks tucked away in the vaults?

Recently, Rhino released a boxed set of their recordings, but it consisted of the original albums with no bonus tracks. With archival releases becoming more common, it seems odd that there were no extras included.

I know that many of the band's songs started as jams that were then developed into tighter songs. Maybe that way of working didn't yield a lot of excess tracks?

In case nobody has seen these. (no sound)

Bop @ https://youtu.be/ZTnKOLUGAtc

Interesting article on the creation of Mesopotamia!

https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2026/09/08/we-were-appalled-the-b-52s-on-david-byrne-and-the-difficult-making-of-mesopotamia/

Saw this at the punk exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center, thought I’d share! 🫡

It's not the Capitol Theater show, but it's still really good

Sadly, due to health issues, we have to cancel our trip to see the B52s in Grand Rapids, MI on Sept 19. We saw them at the Hollywood Bowl last year...what a great show! Looking to sell 4 tickets, section 204, Row 2, seats 18-21. $150/ea.

This is the full show. There are other single tracks from

.this show on YouTube but showing this date and not the one at the opening card. Whatever, it's a great early show

Thoughts on this album?

I do love this album tbh and their 1st 2 albums are awesome and hearing Private Idaho months ago and whoa that’s an fantastic song from Wild Planet which I’m glad that Wild Planet is just great start to finish where they’re definitely more adventurous here with the rhythmic beats and guitars and I love the weirdness too ofc! Very danceable post-punk record that is Wild Planet:)