RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

So sad, I just read the 33 1/3 Paul's Boutique album a couple weeks ago and was reflecting on how wonderful and unique these guys are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfyMv5mG_Z8

aw shit, no way. love you man, we shared a name.

rest in peace beastie dude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PdIMEnwXY

don't know how to express how i feel here, I can't think of ANY musician's death that hit me this way

those videos of them playing basketball as old men seem extra sad to me now :(

Wow, this just seems shocking to me. I didn't even know he was ill. RIP.

xhuxk on Facebook just now, with a link to this: "RIP MCA. i still owe you one."

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

(Yep, that's him.)

Me: MCA from the Beastie Boys just died!
Coworker #1: Which one was he?
Coworker #2: The white one.
RIP, MCA.

RIP

(part of) a p big formative influence on stuff I listen(ed) to... prolly more than anyone who's died for a looooooooong time tbh

Oh dag. :(

its making me smile to see my facebook and twitter light up with outpourings of love. also, four different people in my office now have beastie boys tunes playing on youtube

you know chuck put a voodoo hex on those guys years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQLHlIBUmg

i'm not BLAMING chuck, just saying...

Kate: A co-worker heard be on the phone and came over all concerned and was like OMG I'm so sorry was that a friend of yours?!

Ned: xhuxk is the one getting pranked?!

RIP

i have to listen to other things for work but i want to be blasting 'paul's boutique' so bad right now

ENBB -- yup.

Here's xhuxk's piece:

http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/chuck-eddy-lay-it-down-clowns-the-beastie-boys-take-over-1987/

man, RIP

that prank clip is awesome, them giggling and hightailing it away, fkn priceless

cranking License to Ill, imma roll through the whole discography fuckit

seriously, blasting paul's boutique neighbors hate check your heard queued up

Massive suckage.

Just found out. Oh man... One of the most inspirational people in music for me

This is really making me depressed. I feel like we are all living in cancer's world.

this really is the worst thing.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2qsnmle.jpg

oh fuck now I'm really gonna cry

As I just muttered on FB: Sudden realization of a moment I'd almost forgotten -- I had seen the Beastie Boys once live, Lollapalooza 1994. Person I was with said I was dancing like a crazy idiot during "Sabotage" in particular. And you know what? All good with that, because MCA murdered that bassline and then some. So RIP indeed.

omg that photo!

Isn't it great?

you know a band are truly all encompassingly loved when even Duran Duran are posting an rip message.

saw them at the Greek in Berkeley abt 5 years ago, the whole crowd acapella sang Paul Revere and it was hands down one of the best concert moments of my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMoD70aMJw

Not a great quality video, but still awesome.

Good lord what a sobering downer. RIP

Hornblower
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baby MCA @ 1:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oRGkaotl8

mca was the best, hope you're having fun in whatever passes for buddhist heaven, you soundtracked a lot of my life

'so whatcha want' was the first single I ever bought, and hello nasty was one of the first albums I ever bought.

My favorite Beast. rip

just thinking back to the days when my freshman dorm was covered with two of those gigantic 6' x 4' posters. one from the "Sabotage" set and the other from an Ill Communication promo shoot, with a Check Your Head regular size poster bridging the two. wish i had the pics scanned in now.

"So Whatcha Want" was our outgoing answering machine message that year

Happy rebirth Adam!!!

rimbaud108 9 minutes ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64lWVE3Tg2A

RIP cool dude.

Besides the jams, seemed like a good model of how to be a grown-up rock star.

i wore my aloha mr hand Beasties shirt til it fell off me in rags

RIP, Adam.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Gutted.

also a great model of how to evolve as a human being while being able reconcile and own your past.

My wife's very upset about this, and I am too. It's essential to remember just how important Licensed To Ill was in the world of '86, it pulled everything apart and then stuck its giddy tongue out. I saw them at Glasgow Barrowlands in '87 and they were phenomenal even (or especially) then.

Even though this is Britain, I remember just how down everyone was after Kurt died, and how Ill Communication in '94 was sort of a "I Want To Hold Your Hand"-type transformative moment, lifting everyone's spirits again and definitely on the side of life. Which makes Adam's passing all the sadder; Christ, he was only seven months younger than me and like a lot of other people I thought he'd beaten the cancer.

All I can advise to everyone today/tonight is: find all the Beastie Boys music in your house and play it proudly.

Farewell to a crucial figure and, I'm sure, a splendid fellow.

I'd never thought about Ill Communication's massive transatlantic success that way, Marcello, and it makes sense.

If you're cranking Paul's Boutique, this comes highly recommended (they recorded this commentary for the re-release, it's great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzYqeVkTxT4