Ga. Cabin That Inspired 'Love Shack' Burns

ATHENS, Ga. (AP)- The tin roof and a burned-out frame are all that remain of a cabin believed to have inspired the B-52's '80s party hit "Love Shack."

Athens-Clarke County fire officials said Thursday they considered the fire that gutted the unoccupied five-room cabin set back in a field "suspicious" and hadn't ruled out arson.

Fire Inspector Reginald Hunter said Monday's early morning fire couldn't have been caused by faulty electrical wiring or a gas leak because the cabin wasn't hooked up for utilities. He said building supplies used for renovating the house had been stolen.

Other properties near Athens — where the quirky band known for towering beehive wigs and catchy, oddball pop songs formed in 1976 — also have been credited with being the Love Shack. But it's known that singer Kate Pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s.

"I just was in touch with the B-52's," said Allisa Huestis of Atlanta, who had planned to move into the renovated house next week. "They said it was the original Love Shack and was where they created `Rock Lobster,'" the popular song from the band's 1979 self-titled debut album.

B-52's publicist Bradford Cobb said Pierson wasn't available for comment.

"Love Shack," released in 1989, became the B-52's first Top 10 hit, rising to No. 3 on the Top 40 charts.

In related news, a bearded behemoth, estimated at six and one-half feet tall, was seen fleeing the area as passenger in a jeep with vanity license tag "RDLNDS". Previous to this, it is believed he was spewing grain-alcohol on a camp-fire when shit got hectic, and, boom, the house burnt. Sheeeyit.

every b52s song that isnt on their first album sucks. especially love shack. give me rock lobster anyday.

Don't agree. I think of a bunch of good songs in a moment.

Dirty Back Road
Give Me Back My Man
Quiche Lorraine
Private Idaho
Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can
Song For A Future Generation
Queen Of Las Vegas
Trism
Dry Country
Bushfire
Junebug
Is That You Mo-Dean?
The World's Green Laughter


Some off the top of my head that I really like, and there are a bunch more good ones after the debut I can't think of at the moment.

I think too.

Dirty Back Road
Give Me Back My Man
Private Idaho
Strobe Light
Deep Sleep
Song For a Future Generation
Summer of Love
Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland
Wig
Ain't It a Shame
Dry County
Roam
Channel Z
Good Stuff
Is That You Mo-Dean?

Not to deny that the first album is the best, but it didn't end there.

Ha Ha Ha Dat Funnngy



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I swear, i tested it, we were having fun, that bitch burned down on its own....


P.S. That RDLNDS tag is on a 2004 F-150, not a Jeep, but whatever's-clever-trevor

Damn. Simply guessed you would have a vehicle emblazoned with your homestead's title, and you do. Wow.

As to the type of vehicle: I figured it would be something all-terrain, and/or tough, and/or rugged. But, I got it wrong. And, I apologize for that.

A sign o' the times.

Ditto... I was always a little partial to the Mesopotamia ep, with the David Byrne connection 'n' all. And who doesn't smile when "Strobe Light" comes on?

Also, Monty, I'M the bearded behemoth who stay at Redlands..Kurtz is more of a wiry fucker, and good with matches.

I'm not saying he did it, but his whereabouts ARE unnacounted for.

"Mesopotamia" is a killer song, and I've always been partial to the horns on "Cake".

Anything through Whammy! is gold in my book, although the debut is still my fave by far, for tons o' reasons (objective and personal).

That I do know. I implied with the jest that Yail Bloor/Kurtz was the get-away driver, while you were the firestartah, punkin' instigatah.

Oh, and by the way: Jill Sobule has a song about you. "He's such a hair behemoth, she said"....

I should've been more attentive, but GOD was I hung over this morning. $5 Red Bull and Vods, Jaeger bombs and enough Budweisers to kill a mere mortal...

What threw me off was the height thing..I would think an estimator would guess I was over 7 or Bigfoot.