RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

OMG

http://gawker.com/5910370/kids-reenact-sabotage-to-honor-the-memory-of-the-late-mca

Just watched that. Nuts.

yeah that's great! a friend of mine is pals w/ the dad.

That's awesome, but they could not have picked a less MCA-centric track, bass aside.

The bass is that song though, ad much as the suspenders and mustaches.

so great, thanks for posting that phil, made my day!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/578243_3888874617748_1155433306_3563496_474470089_n.jpg

errrrr, maybe a bit too much now.

cool

uhhh at logo

I'm sure Yauch would rather these people spend some time reading up on Tibetan oppression or do a shift at a soup kitchen, but I'm not gonna deny people the opportunity to deal with his death in a way that makes them comfortable.

re: Sabotage not being Yauch enough--the video is the definitive Nathaniel Hornblower Production, so there's that

"Sabotage" video is credited to Jonze, not Hornblower (whereas "Sure Shot" is credited to both)

yeah, there's the misconception lately but it was definitely a Jonze video

aha I stand corrected

This short Q&A between Fricke and Adam Horovitz made me choke up again.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-adam-horovitz-opens-up-about-adam-yauch-he-was-in-charge-20120523

I blame Scik Mouthy for pointing it out on twitter

When we were in Los Angeles, doing Paul's Boutique, he got this crazy apartment in Koreatown. And he made "A Year and a Day." What happened to the three of us together and all that crap? But I heard that track, and it was some heavy shit. He rapped his ass off. Adam bought a jet pilot's helmet, rigged it with a microphone and recorded the song wearing that helmet.

;_;

I love the bit about the tree. "Anything is better than that tree."

that tree is dope, I had a poster of it on my wall.

good morning.

i wanna give thanks to Mike Kearny for putting together MCA DAY yesterday.

i feel like a bunch of us been walking around lonely bumping into walls.

you got us together, outside and in the sunshine. thank you.

-adam

aww

The bit about Gratitude made me well up.

Love those interviews - there's one with Mike D too. Great that they pay homage to him (prompted by Fricke) by telling these little specific stories about tracks. It's easy to slip into the broad sweep when you're summing up a life but reading about something geeky, like how he made the beat for Paul Revere is so much more powerful to me.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mike-diamond-on-the-beastie-boys-last-recordings-with-adam-yauch-20120523

Yeah, it's a really nice, personal way of doing it.

Westwood posted this home video from the Raising Hell tour in London, and it is INCREDIBLE: Drunk Beasties, LL Cool J swapping the mic on Slow & Low, MCA stagediving straight onto the floor, Lyor Cohen diving after him to smack anyone who touches him, Russell Simmons rapping along with his head uncovered, LL AND LYOR DOING THE WHOP TOGETHER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xyrizURRt3o

Elroy was straight up thuggin' in that vid.

saw this billboard up in hollywood last week

http://i.imgur.com/ehV7A.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/beastie-boys-rappers-bars-ad-181533934.html

Won't be rocking the ads.

ha

rechristened today

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/ad-rock.jpg

aw <3

they gave him a park in Canada?

no Canada has been renamed Adam Yauch Park

Got more hits than Stompin' Tom Connors

I dropped my draws she said welcome back bacon

*drawers

Logo of NYC Parks. Did you know that NYC park employees all have "Park Names," Shakey?

I guess they probably do on that TV show as well.

i thought park names were just a thing under commissioner Stern

Probably right

Peace, Yauch.

Hello from Russia! R.I.P. MCA
It was a huge loss for the whole history of hip-hop music, fans, friends and family ...
5 years have passed, but we will remember you forever!

revive of the year

five years!

this still bums me out.

yeah, same :(

yeah

i remember the day and heard so many people blasting beastie boys out of their cars/houses throughout