FOF #2814 – B-52s’ Fred Schneider Savors the Christmas Fruitcake

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With monster hits like “Rock Lobster” and “Love Shack,” the B-52s along with its lead singer Fred Schneider have been influencing pop music for decades.

Today Fred Schneider joins us to look back on his amazing musical career with the B-52s, being gay at the heigh of the AIDS crisis in New York in the 80s and playing RuPaul’s angry manager in Ru’s first Christmas .

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0:00.0	With monster hits like Rock Lobster and Love Shack, the B-52s, along with its lead singer Fred
0:18.2	Schneider, have been influencing pop music for decades. Since 1975,
0:23.6	Kate Pearson, Cindy Wilson, Keith Strickland, and Fred Schneider are all still good friends
0:30.6	and continue to perform around the world as the B-52s.
0:35.6	Although the B-52s never put out a Christmas album, Fred Schneider fronted a second
0:40.5	band, The Superions, which released a full holiday album, Destination Christmas, whose title track,
0:47.7	Fruitcake, captures the oddball, kitsy, campy spirit of the season. Today, Fred Schneider joins us to
0:53.9	look back on his amazing musical
0:55.5	career with the B-52s, being a musician and gay at the height of the AIDS crisis in New York
1:01.9	in the 80s, and playing Rupal's angry manager in Roo's first Christmas special way back in 1993.
1:09.3	Plus, the fateful day when Fred met Lady Bunny, Rupal, and Lahoma Van Scent on the bus in
1:16.3	New York.
1:17.1	Working on the Flintstones movie.
1:19.0	And running a coffee house performance base in Florida.
1:22.9	I'm Fausto Furnos.
1:24.4	I'm Mark Fillion.
1:25.3	And this is Feast of Fun. Feast of Fun is made possible because of holly,
1:35.1	jolly people just like you. Right now, we need your help to save Feast of Fun. GofundMe.com
1:41.6	slash Feast of Fun. What's your making? Fruitcake!
1:46.7	What's your bacon? Fruitcake!
1:49.5	Candy, cherries, red dye number two.
1:53.0	Green cherries? Green ones, two.
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