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_**The B-52’s - Duffy’s, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 4, 1979**_ Another week, another legend on Aquarium Drunkard’s Transmissions podcast. This time around, Jason P. Woodbury talks with Kate Pierson of the B-52s — a wide ranging chat that gets into Devo, Pee-Wee Herman, Yoko Ono, Julee Cruise and beyond. The B-52s are never anything less than fascinating; I heard there was a documentary in the works a few years back, but it may still be in the planning stages. I’m sure it would be great. The Beach Boys took the “America’s Band” title at some point, but we’d be better off it was the B-52’s, frankly. **Kate Says:** Well, the B-52s writing together was very complex because it’s by committee, putting the songs together. I mean, that’s what really made us unique though, is that we write like that, and when you do that sort of jamming and you get our collective unconscious going and all this stuff spews out of your mind, of the collective mind. You never know what’s going to happen. Listening to this week’s Transmissions naturally put me in the mood to listen to the B-52s, so I went to a vintage audience tape of the band in Minneapolis in 1979 — and it did not disappoint. In fact, it might be one of the most purely intense B-52s tapes I’ve heard, the quartet tearing through their early repertoire with endless reserves joy and vigor. Next stop, Planet Claire …