Adam Yauch: rip

[nzshadow]

This one hurts. Like so many, that band, that man, that voice meant so much to me.





The Beasties came to represent something so much bigger than music, so much more than just songs. They soundtracked a generation.





Incredibly sad news - I am gutted.





RIP to one of the greats.

 

[the_dL]

tripledouble said:HOLLAFAME said:damn damn damn





considering the role Beastie Boys played in my life and the development of my musical tastes, this is an incredibly hard pill to swallow.





RIP

 

[henry_manspleeny]

easily one of the worst days i have experienced.

 

[picoandsepulveda]

R.I.P. Adam Yauch.





No disrespect to the other dudes in the band. That fool was like that funky white boy around the way that had good taste in music that no one ever questioned for a minute. From the los angeles perspective that is...





not a die hard by any means, just sayin... he seemed the most in tune.





rest in peace to MCA all day forever and onward.

 

[upskiboo]

very very sad





Rest In Peace

 

[cookbook]

rest in paradise mr. yauch

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

Touching piece by Sasha Frere-Jones





http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2012/05/adam-yauch-mca-beastie-boys.html

 

[Lamont]

DL GR#1 here: http://stumpo.net/beasties/

 

[PrimeCutsLtd]

So many memories with the Beastie Boys playing in the background. RIP


Had to drink some brass monkey last night.

 

[tripledouble]

man the beasties were my adolescent soundtrack





i was thinking a lot yesterday about shows of theirs id been to and dumb shit they inspired me to do when arguably what i needed most in my life was just to do something stupid. i was thinking about pauls boutique and all the irreverent funny shit they said and referenced as well as the crossword puzzle of old samples that i set off to decipher and learning immeasurably from





and then at 11pm a friend sent me a text that put all that youthful stuff in perspective. i have a former coworker friend who has got to be one of the most morally committed human beings i have ever met. she has given a decade of her life to working for tibetan health and independence: spending years over there, forming schools, busting her ass to fund projects, making do without material luxuries, raising awareness, leading student tours and work projects... and on and on, just putting herself out there. so i shot her a text about MCA, not sure if she even knew who he was, since i could never picture her listening to the beastie boys (she seems more like a meditate with tablas in the background kindof person). Her text response: "he turned me on to tibet. double sadness"





i wont try to draw a conclusion from all that, other than there's two sides to every coin and sometimes contradictory halves add up to something unique and powerful that couldnt have come about any other way





i'm really thankful for Adam Yauch today

 

[henry_manspleeny]

it's killing me to see the leech ebay sellers doing their thing right now.

 

[batmon]

Beastie boys: Mets honor MCA with walk-up jams


http://usat.ly/JTSgpn

 

[LoopDreams]

For me what really hurts about this passing is how closely I relate to the Beasties, and Yauch in particular. Growing up how many other funky white kids role models were out there? As others have stated, so many of my formative moments have had the Beasties tucked into them. Back in 1989 some buds and I did an awesome (in our own mindgardens) version of No Sleep Till Brooklyn in a High School battle of the bands. Treeplanting in the 90's I ended up landing a lady way out of my league after dancing like a maniac around her while To All the Girls blasted and cowbells clanged. Goddamn the Beasties and I made her laugh. Check your head made me loose mine. Many very very stoned moments following the BB into deep water listening to that fucker over and over and over... MCA was a great MC, but I love his basslines too.





From a purely egotistical perspective Yauch's passing reinforces my own mortallity, and him having been a huge influence, magician, and good times guru in my life his death seems to freeze my youth in amber, the rest in that vein will be a footnote.

 

[Juan Cocktolstoy]

I saw MCA on the stage a few years back and I thought that he looked thinner and looked sickly. I saw the same in Guru before he passed. I was about to try and look into what was really going on with MCA online and before I got the opportunity to do so, across the screen flashed breaking news Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has passed away from cancer... RIP MCA. He is my favorite Beastie Boy, for his delivery and voice, he seemed to me the more focused and mature one of the three. AD Rock had the comical and fun appeal while Mike D held down the style and look.

 

[big ear]

shit!


R.I.P


(like a lot of people here), these guys soundtrack some great times for me and my friends.

 

[EIGHTY]

I remember seeing them at the Rose Garden here in Portland around 96 or 97 with ATCQ and Money Mark. When they came on stage and started to do their thing kids started to bum rush the ground floor from the stands. It was the coolest thing I have seen at a show so far, and the energy they had was non stop from start to finish. He accomplished so much within his 47 years and I find it sad the way he passed, he will be missed.





Rest In Power MCA

 

[rootlesscosmo]

Countless shows (15-20 I'd guess); most memorable was Marin Civic Auditorium ('92 or '93); played ball with dude one time backstage at Lollapalooza; powerful jr high and high school memories associated with dude's music. Adam Yauch z"l.

 

[Snagglepus]

gomez80 said:I remember seeing them at the Rose Garden here in Portland around 96 or 97 with ATCQ and Money Mark. When they came on stage and started to do their thing kids started to bum rush the ground floor from the stands. It was the coolest thing I have seen at a show so far, and the energy they had was non stop from start to finish. He accomplished so much within his 47 years and I find it sad the way he passed, he will be missed.





Rest In Power MCA




Could that have been in '98? I saw the same lineup in the same venue in '98. I'm from CT, and was at the tail end of a cross-country hitch-hiking trip. My friend and I had spent 2 months on the road ... we went from Burlington, VT to Red Rocks, CO in a single ride, then traveled through CO, AZ ... out to LA and then up the coast to Portland. A wild, eye-opening life experience to be sure.





Anyway, for our final night (before a cross-country bus trip ... ugh) we grabbed a hotel room and were throwing back some celebratory Mt. Rainiers when we noticed a huge amount of kids our age gathering at the Rose Garden across the street. Figuring it was probably a good show, we went and asked who was playing ... Beastie Boys and ATCQ. Uhhh ... yes, please. So we grabbed cheap tickets from a scalper and got in in time to catch ATCQ's last song (Scenario?).





*edit ... Then Mix Master Mike starts rocking Tom Sawyer and it was on! Fantastic show.

 

[jaymack]

Do you mean Mix Master Mike started rockin Tom Sawyer?

 

[Snagglepus]

jaymack saido you mean Mix Master Mike started rockin Tom Sawyer?




Whoops ... yes, that is what I meant. A little brain flip. I'll edit.