RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

It's funny because I definitely haven't given more than one listen to anything since Hello Nasty, and I was not anticipating that changing, but on the other hand it has hit me really hard.

Though as a couple of people upthread have said, just because he's not making music for me any more doesn't mean he wasn't being a great force for good in the world, and he would almost certainly keep branching out. Kind of surprised I never knew he was behind Oscilloscope.

The Coldplay is the oddest tribute I've seen - on the one hand fuck no! on the other I'm kind of touched by how far his influence spread, and that the band must have spent some time on this, when absolutely no-one would have expected it of them.

well fuck me i cried during that goddamn coldplay tribute fuck you ilx

I'm not meaning to hate on Coldplay here, but Chris Martin has always seemed to be more than a tad self-conscious about his coolness factor or lack thereof, so his love of the Beastie Boys is surely a no brainer, as there was literally no one cooler than the Beastie Boys.

Just talked to a friend who I guess, back in the day, was one of the group's #1 Toronto fans, and hung with Adam the most. She said he was the nicest guy, and that his lifestyle was so clean and had-been for years - vegan, no drinking (I think?), no drugs, not even smoking pot. She's pretty shocked by his death, especially because she had lost touch and, in her current life, hadn't really been following the group.

the beasties more than any group (except maybe tmbg) are a symbol of my childhood and adolescence...this feels like the milemarker from which i will know ever after i am an adult and i don't like it.

i saw them at bonnaroo in 09 and remember not having high expectations, you know, about ten minutes of beasties then i'll go see david byrne. but they put on one of the best shows of my life...i remember being really disappointed after a 60 minute set that they weren't the headliner that night (which was either springsteen or phish).

well fuck me i cried during that goddamn coldplay tribute fuck you ilx

Jesus Christ me too and I really didn't expect it

my little girl was dancing real hard to Check Your Head while we went grocery shopping this morning. Up until "Time For Livin'". That made her cry.

Soul fire
And we ain't got no water

I thought I had written a pretty good bass part until a few years later when I realized I had subliminally stole it from Track 6 of License to Ill.

http://soundcloud.com/r-mantlebakken/come-on-inside

yeah, actually watched and will remember the coldplay video. if I meet him in hell, we'll shake hands

Really emotional watching then get inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame right now

Ha mixmaster mike chopping it up on the wheels with a nuclear assault t shirt is about perfect for the era that birthed the beasties

this is hilarious: Adam Yauch's top 10 films released by Criterion http://www.criterion.com/explore/57-adam-yauch-s-top-10

well fuck me i cried during that goddamn coldplay tribute fuck you ilx

Jesus Christ me too and I really didn't expect it

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, May 5, 2012 2:50 PM (4 hours ago)

yeah

lol at that criterion list [sniff]

Really emotional watching then get inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame right now

― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, May 6, 2012 1:56 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha mixmaster mike chopping it up on the wheels with a nuclear assault t shirt is about perfect for the era that birthed the beasties

― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, May 6, 2012 1:59 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. but the vibe was kinda ruined when we had to watch Kid Rock and Travie McCoy butcher them. Questlove and Black Thought made up for it though.

Really fucking loved that Questlove had the ABA basketball logo on his kit.

i've seen that banana photo in a couple places accompanying obits/death coverage and it always brings a smile to my face

Perhaps I'm out of it but I blessedly don't know who that travie guy is

Yeah the performance was just ok

So far bette midlers speech about laura nyro and-surprisingly- Mick Hucknall of simply red subbing for rod stewart have been the highlights

Travie McCoy is the dude from Gym Class Heroes and did that "Billionaire" song recently. I'm sure you've heard some stuff he's done.

rip

rip

rip

Awesome, SNL just showed a short little snippet of the Beastie Boys as tribute after the fake news. Has the show ever done that before?

i feel like i might've seen something similar before but still yeah, it was nice, especially using that 'love and respect to the end' part of "Sure Shot" as the clip

Seems like Roy Orbison died on a Friday and the next night, they showed him doing "Crying" in its entirety (at 11:53 pm CST)

keeps hitting me

so sad for his daughter

;_;

vegan, no drinking (I think?), no drugs, not even smoking pot.

he stopped smoking cheeba / that was part of the key

Maybe the least assholey thing I've seen in Perry Farrell in a while:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/perry-farrell-remembers-adam-yauch-20120504

Watching their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame right now on HBO. Just Ad Rock and Mike D. Industry folks must have been tipped so this could happen before he passed away.

LL Cool J said they were the ones who played his demo to Rick Rubin which is how he got signed.

Ad Rock read a note from Adam -- whose folks were in the audience. Pretty special.

Forgot about them being in Beat Street for about five seconds.

All their stuff was such a huge celebration of life. We went to the baseball park on Friday night and they were playing "Johnny Ryall" between innings while the kids ran laps around the concourse. Beeps and I walked past two concession guys who were trading off lyrics to "Paul Revere". There was sadness, but this weekend has definitely felt like more a wake than a funeral.

If this is how you mourn a poet, I hope we do it like this every time.

"They're busting mad rhymes with an 80% success rate. I believe that qualifies as 'Ill. At least from a technical standpoint."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrsKjTP2Zk

was MCA not on that ep?

MSG playing beastie boys during the knicks/heat game

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3imo1K5tQ1qz9yvto1_500.png

lol

damn that coldplay thing was awesome and i fucking hate them

isn't there a Mark Sinker essay about the essence of a "band" w/r/t Rolling Stones and Public Enemy ( or was it NWA?) somewhere? anyone know what i am thinking of, any links?

was MCA not on that ep?

nope - how chillingly prescient

actually the chillingly prescient part is

Fry: "Back in the 20th century I had all five of your albums."
Ad-Rock: "That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven."

Ha!

whoa

they have eight tho, bet yr forgetting The Mix-Up

i'm not sure that one really counts

I always forget that one

It counts(ish). It's not like In Sound From Way-Out, where it was just a comp of previously heard instrumentals. It's a collection of new recordings. No one paid it any attention, though.

Mix-Up ≠ In Sound, frog

Yauch feeding an interviewer mushrooms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4N01rR0pR4&list=PL95A9B55546080A3E&index=1&feature=plpp_video

^ xpost

sic, that vid is fucking awes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDo7KAC-sI

I bought 'In Sound From Way Out' on LP when it was first released, and I seem to remember there was some kind of hoop you had to jump through to get the damn thing. Like, coupon in Grand Royal mag or something like that? Hell, I'm old, don't remember. I *did* think that the thing had a lot of exclusive instrumentals, but I looked at the Wiki entry just now and, yeah, I guess it was just the stuff from 'Check' / 'Ill' with like two exclusives