I like the B-52s. Long time ATL guy. Cindy Wilson lived for about 15 or 20 years about 20 houses away around the corner. I really do like them.
That said, we saw the B-52s warm up for Culture Club / Boy George about half a dozen years ago. It was *very* apparently why Culture Club was the headline act. The B-52s are a fun party band, but Culture Club were just much superior musicians. And I expect the same was apparent in that lineup.
They weren’t bad. There were just two distinct audiences there, that day, and you could tell at a glance who belonged to which. It was packed shoulder to shoulder, down front, even then. People were amped up to see The Who, and the -52s were in the way. If someone took their shoes off, or came up with an orange, or something else to throw, they’d yell out, and a space big enough for them to really wind up and let it fly would open up.