THE B-52'S FRED SCHNEIDER launches Dagger Polyester

Before we bring Dagger in, I don't know if you're up for it, but do you have one kind of cuckoo, luku, tour story from back in the day, you know, that you want to share with us of one night, one night with a B-52 somewhere, something fun that happened that we should know about?

Well, it's more like what happened when we took our first bus.

And boy, it was a dumpy old bus.

And the guy's name, he was a really nice guy, the southern guy, Jimmy Wiggins.

But we didn't realize he was blind in one eye.

And the bus breaks.

We went, we played in San Francisco.

We're really big in California still.

I mean, we could do a tour of California.

And I've suggested

that

to them.

It would be easy.

I think it was the only time I actually

slept on the bus.

you know, sound asleep because apparently the bus, I guess the brakes let go and the bus rolled down the hill backwards.

And, uh, luckily it didn't like, I don't know if Jimmy, you know, snapped to and put on, you know, the breaker, but it, you know, so that was one thing.

Um, so he might've lost the B-52 back in early 1970, uh, 1980, uh, And then another, well, we were on that bus and we hadn't eaten.

The promoter was a cheapskate.

And so there, our manager at the time and the promoter come out with a giant box of donuts.

And so bus driver opens the door, they hand me the donuts and I just

started throwing them at them.

I think, what the

hell is this? We don't want this.

And this bus was like an old bus that broke down a lot kind of situation? Or a proper...

Before we bring Dagger in, I don't know if you're up for it, but do you have one kind of cuckoo, luku, tour story from back in the day, you know, that you want to share with us of one night, one night with a B-52 somewhere, something fun that happened that we should know about?

Well, it's more like what happened when we took our first bus.

And boy, it was a dumpy old bus.

And the guy's name, he was a really nice guy, the southern guy, Jimmy Wiggins.

But we didn't realize he was blind in one eye.

And the bus breaks.

We went, we played in San Francisco.

We're really big in California still.

I mean, we could do a tour of California.

And I've suggested

that

to them.

It would be easy.

I think it was the only time I actually

slept on the bus.

you know, sound asleep because apparently the bus, I guess the brakes let go and the bus rolled down the hill backwards.

And, uh, luckily it didn't like, I don't know if Jimmy, you know, snapped to and put on, you know, the breaker, but it, you know, so that was one thing.

Um, so he might've lost the B-52 back in early 1970, uh, 1980, uh, And then another, well, we were on that bus and we hadn't eaten.

The promoter was a cheapskate.

And so there, our manager at the time and the promoter come out with a giant box of donuts.

And so bus driver opens the door, they hand me the donuts and I just

started throwing them at them.

I think, what the

hell is this? We don't want this.

And this bus was like an old bus that broke down a lot kind of situation? Or a proper...