ha, that's a good jewish twist on the celebrities-just-like-us meme xp
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't have quite the same agewise impact on me cuz when I was in college all I was hearing was "Cookie Puss," but I bought the first 4 albums (Paul's Boutique on cassette) and my best friend claims they copped some of their behavior from watching him at parties at Bard. (saw them at L'looza 94 too)
also heavy Jerry Lewis influence obv
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
TRAGICRIP
― nakamura, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
in high school, for my friend's birthday i made a mix cassette tape where i laboriously compiled not songs but clips of our fav bboys lines. i would never do this now, so it's too bad that this mix is lost forever, on a lone cassette tape out there somewhere...
― rayuela, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Just finding out about this now--big surprise, even though I knew there had been health issues. It was so exciting when they went #1 with their first album; as key a moment as Nevermind grabbing #1. (Who'd did they knock out--Peter Cetera? Jennifer Rush?) I had interviewed them a few months prior, and they were so funny and so obscene, I wrote it up under a pseudonym--I was still passing on my writing to my parents, and I didn't want my mother to read it.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
didn't he found that distributor oscilloscope. because they do some great stuff. ditto grand royal magazine (RIP).
i admit i've never been an unqualified fan of the BB but they all seem(ed) like interesting, likable dudes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
sorry to hear this, RIP.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
when i was 10 or 11 licensed to ill came out and i didn't like it that much and completely missed the boat on paul's boutique, but i picked up check your head on a whim and it didn't leave my car's cassette deck for months. definitely a game-changer for me w/r/t how i listened to music, it led me into soul-jazz and funk and all sorts of good shit. ill communication and hello nasty had similar lengthy runs in my car. this is really unexpected, i thought he had kicked it. i guess i haven't been paying attention. damn shame.
― omar little, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
really ground zero for a certain cool R&B/jazz/classic/punk axisthis is otm -- i know i discovered a bunch of random things via the beasties ... jimmy smith's root down, for one, which led to a big dive into that kinda organ stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, ditto on that.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i guess when i was in h.s. i was somehow on this precious deep soul tip and i thought of the BBs fans who were just being exposed to this deep vein of black music as johnny-come-latelys. but that has a lot to do with h.s. social politics and now i totally get how they could be an awesome gateway drug.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
precious = precocious
maybe precious too.
(Who'd did they knock out--Peter Cetera? Jennifer Rush?)
In the US, it was Bon Jovi.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
ha, i'm probably a johnny come lately. to some extent, listening to paul's boutique made me realize the vast depths of american music -- almost as much as, say, the anthology of american folk music. i might've ended up liking the source material more than the beastie boys, but gotta give them their due in getting me there!
― tylerw, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Here's an interesting thought: was Yauch the first of his peers (hip-hop, alt-rock, whatever) to let himself go dramatically grey?
I had a cassette dupe of "License to Ill" on one side and "Invisible Touch" on the other. I used to listen to it on a boom box on canoe trips down the Brandywine River.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe they weren't alone in this, but they were also central to a huge rekindling of interest in Led Zeppelin (outside of just classic-rock stations) when they sampled "The Ocean"; Schoolly-D and others followed in short order, and it went from there.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, May 4, 2012 3:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the later collab, "beastie jovi," was pretty great IIRC.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, the Zep stuff was Rick Rubin's doing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
listening to the audio commentary vid for 'check your head', pretty great (from a production nerd standpoint anyway). still love how integrated the samples + live instrumentation is on that record, massive drum sound too. apparently yauch was the one who came up with the led zep-style cardboard tunnel for the kick drum.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
bboys were just one musical vector of a number for me but they specifically unearthed a few dope artists/beats i dunno how long it would've taken me to find otherwise
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure that's true, but of the thousands of teenagers who may have been found out about Led Zeppelin via Licensed to Ill, my guess is that they almost gave credit to the Beastie Boys rather than Rick Rubin (if they even knew who he was). (xpost)
― clemenza, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
(drop the "been")
― clemenza, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
things the Beastie Boys introduced me to:
Idris MuhammadLee "Scratch" PerryWild StyleBlack Oak ArkansasKool Moe Dee vs. Busy BeeEddie HarrisThe Turtles
remember this being a total HOLY SHIT moment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC-gRQh_pFw
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
From Tim Sommer.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Toss up between him and Lee Ranaldo?
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
add The Meters to that list for me
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
i think yauch was super gray back when lee was just getting some salt and pepper (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I thought he was getting better. Fuck this shit.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i hadn't been following what was going on but when they finally released the album i assumed he was gonna be okay! so sad. i didn't even realize he missed the HOF induction last month.
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
i lost my grandmother a few weeks ago, and have felt really numb to celebrity passings since, but feel really sad about MCA. he seemed like such a decent, hilarious and talented guy, and was always my favourite beastie boy. they were the exact definition of cool to me at a certain age, and probably still now - i started wearing puma suedes because of them, and lookit i'm wearing a pair right now. and they pointed me in the direction of so much amazing music. SO much. a decade or so ago, backstage in glasgow, i got to meet him and even held his baby for a few minutes, and he was as cool as you could ever have wanted him to be.
after he didn't make it to the rock and roll hall of fame a month or so back, i feared the worst. such a shame. listen to those beastie commentaries if you haven't already. they are awesome.
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
this one made me laugh: http://www.criterion.com/explore/57-adam-yauch-s-top-10
― tylerw, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
When I was in college in the 90s my group of friends often disagreed about what should be playing on the stereo at any given times. Usually it was a fight between Grateful Dead and Classic Rock vs. Rave music. Beastie Boys seemed like the one thing that made everyone happy.
― Moodles, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I still have a couple of the Grand Royal magazines. They seemed like the coolest thing in the world when they first came out. B-Boys were definitely ahead of the game with the whole unearthing of retro culture.
― Moodles, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
It's hard to even think of all the stuff I was intro'd to by the beastie boys. I definitely checked out Lee Perry because of a name drop in a Beasties song, and their instrumentals got me into 60s/70s Soul Jazz breaks.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
damn, rip. didn't even realize he was still sick. ;_;
iirc remy bean has a great story concerning yauch, not sure he posts anymore tho?
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh he's around
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I slept in his bed once, and barfed in his mom's commode (he wasn't there). RIP duder.
― Olivia Newton John Justen Bieberheimer Schmidt (remy bean), Friday, May 4, 2012 1:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wanna hear this story sometime.
― pplains, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Apologies if this has already been posted but it cracked me up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/arts/l-ch-check-it-out-one-goat-on-account-996904.html
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Olivia Newton John Justen Bieberheimer Schmidt (remy bean),
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh ha
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
the version i got in person was longer and funnier
I still have a vivid memory of this guy Peter I worked with at a record store right when Licensed came out. He was quite large, wild red hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and (no exaggeration) he had the album memorized word for word within days of its release. Working the floor on a packed Saturday afternoon, with Peter on cash lip-synching to "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" (with lots of corny hip-hop moves thrown in), was really something. Also remember him describing and quoting from the Joan Rivers appearance the following day in great detail: "Do I detect a note of jealousy?"
― clemenza, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
other things the Beasties introduced me to:
Lee DorseyRichard Pryor's standupEddie Harris' "Silver Cycles"Led Zeppelin (to some extent, heard Rhymin and Stealin before I heard the Ocean for ex.)
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Rod Carew
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i got lee dorsey & eddie harris from them, too
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
The Beasties basically introduced me to late seventies sitcom pop culture.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
they also made me think there must have been some minor Knicks player named Evan Bernard
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
this is the only time i've ever really felt bad after hearing a celebrity died. fuck...
― BringTheAuBonPain, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
ooh also Les McCann and Eugene McDaniels
xp
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i missed their heyday but in 98 every time i turned on mtv i hoped to see the "intergalactic" video
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link