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Things aren’t so manic for the Bangles these days.

The all-girl band known for "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like an Egyptian" saw a career that was a rollercoaster ride during its ’80s heyday.

But the band’s singer-drummer Debbi Peterson says today’s Bangles, which include singer Susanna Hoffs and her sister,earrings, guitarist Vicki Peterson, are different.

"We don’t go on the road so much. We all have kids,discount tiffany," Peterson says. "In the ’80s we were on the road for six months at a time and when we weren’t on the road we were making an album. We were living and breathing the Bangles."

The Bangles made their mark in much the same way at the Go-Gos — an all-female group whose members played their own instruments and who weren’t brought together by a male Svengali figure.

"That’s what I want people to know about us," Peterson says. "We played instruments,tiffany on sale, wrote songs and sang. It wasn’t a manufactured thing."

Albums such as 1984′s "All Over the Place,tiffany," 1986′s "Different Light" and 1988′s "Everything" kept that dream alive and made it good to be a Bangle.

The best part of it, she says, outside of performing for hordes of fans, was meeting many of their peers: riding in an elevator with Keith Richards, recording with Prince, having dinner with Duran Duran.

"It’s those fun little things we were able to do that otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to do. Some of the things I don’t even remember."

But things soon soured. As the band’s popularity grew,buy tiffany, Peterson says, the record label pushed Hoffs into the spotlight at the expense of the other band members.

"We felt like sidemen. We all put our heart and soul and sweat into it. We felt the powers that be were making us into something we weren’t, and that was frustrating."

Peterson says it was stressful watching the group become Susanna Hoffs and the Bangles. That, coupled with some tours in the late ’80s during which "weird things were happening and everything went wrong," led to the dissolution of the group.

After going their separate ways, the members reformed and in 2003 released "Doll Revolution." The group is currently working on a new album with producer Matthew Sweet.

Before getting back together, they all had to discuss their feelings about Hoffs.

"We realize she’s obviously going to get more attention," Peterson says. "But it’s not that important. We’re older and wiser, and we have different priorities going on."