The B-52's - Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA, 8-24-1979

I hadn't planned on creating and posting this album at all. But I was making an album for the headlining act for this concert, which I will post shortly, and I discovered the B-52's were the opening act. I further discovered that an excellent sounding bootleg of this set exists, just like the headliner act. That's because both the opening and headlining acts were broadcast on a local radio station at the time. So I figured, "What the heck, why not post this set too?"

This concert took place only a few months after the release of the B-52's debut album, simply called "The B-52's." However, four of the songs - "Private Idaho," "Devil in My Car," "Runnin' Around," and "Strobe Light" - were unreleased at the time and would appear on the band's second album "Wild Planet" in 1980. I read on Wikipedia that the band actually wrote most of the songs for their second album before their first album was released, but they held back some good songs, like "Private Idaho," to make sure the second album would be a strong one.

Although the sound quality is excellent overall, I felt the vocals were a bit low in the mix. So I used the audio editing program UVR5 to boost them some.

This album is 39 minutes long. It's rather short since the band was only the opening act.

01 talk (B-52's)
02 52 Girls (B-52's)
03 6060-842 (B-52's)
04 talk (B-52's)
05 Lava (B-52's)
06 talk (B-52's)
07 Private Idaho (B-52's)
08 talk (B-52's)
09 Devil in My Car (B-52's)
10 talk (B-52's)
11 Dance This Mess Around (B-52's)
12 talk (B-52's)
13 Runnin' Around (B-52's)
14 talk (B-52's)
15 Rock Lobster (B-52's)
16 talk (B-52's)
17 Strobe Light (B-52's)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15456913/TB5Twos_1979b_BrkleePerformnceCentrBostnMA__8-24-1979_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is said to be from the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1979. The band played there in August and then again in September, so it could be from either of those two shows.