Adam Yauch: rip

[EIGHTY]

Snagglepus said: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.







Yup, same show I am getting old because I swear to god I was 16 or 17 at the time, smh.

 

[RAJ]

A Beastie Boy - Youtube - K Hole yields some pretty entertaining stuff:

 

[asstro]

This is awesome, too bad it never aired:

 

[day]

Not sure if it was mentioned in the thread, but there's a real dope Spin article from the mid 90's that's worth reading.





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http://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&lpg=PP1&rview=1&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f;=true





MCA's passing was deeply saddening. I spent all day listening to Beastie Boys records and watching the criterion DVD with my kids the day he died. All they knew was "Brass Monkey" so their little minds were blown. When it was over they gave me a laundry list of songs to get for them. Check your head indeed.





This is an end of an era for sure. It's rare a public figure passes that means anything other than a distant, removed, avatar of a human being, but this? This is someone who you've listened to for 25 years. Watched evolve and saw yourself in it all. It's a trip.





I gotta go edit B-Boy Bouillabaisse so these dudes can bug out to it.





Rest in peace, Adam Yauch

 

[DOR]

Looking back, Interesting to hear these words from MCA in 98.

 

[batmon]

this shit is hittin me

 

[rootlesscosmo]

batmon said:this shit is hittin me




def hitting me finally today. I have been drunk in NOLA for 4 days so it didn't really sink in until today at work with my mind wandering. countless memories of their shows, their music, etc.





just remembering now how there was a moment at about 4 AM on Sat night when someone had put Brass Monkey on the juke box and as soon as it ended nearly the entire bar drowned out the next song (no recollection what it was) with the first few bars of Slow and Low. diverse crowd in there but I swear the whole bar yelled it as if on cue.

 

[Secret_Chimp]

Man, this really hurts. I can't recall another artist passing away that has affected me like this.





These guys inspired and influenced me in a million ways. I remember the crazy tantrum I threw when I was 13 and my mom wouldn't let me go to the License to Ill show because of the girls in cages and all inflatable penis and all. That must have been the craziest shit ever. Waiting for their next albums to come out was just plain torture, I just couldn't have enough of them.





Paul's Boutique was an absolute work of perfection, every little thing about it. My friends and I had a band in high school called Cookiepuss, we played songs off of it and wrote our own as if they belonged on the album. What a blast, belting out Egg Man at the Sadie Hawkins dance and jumping off the stage into a crowd of people all singing along. The Beasties conjure nothing but fun times and really good memories. Maybe that's a part of why this is so incredibly sad to me, it's like the end of an era.





What's clear from the widespread and overwhelming outpouring of love for MCA shows just how incredibly important these three guys are to an entire generation. Not just in their music but through their activism and general attitiude, which was all about having a good time no matter what.





I can only imagine how torn up his family and the other two Beasties are right now. My heart goes out to them.





The world will not be the same with Adam Yauch. RIP.

 

[mannybolone]

I have to say, I've been fascinated with the responses to Yauch's death. I guess I'm surprised I'm NOT more affected by it. Obviously, I think it's a bummer, esp. given his age but while I think the BBs were incredibly important, they were never actually that formative to me. So, in that regard, I think Guru's passing - and definitely MJ's - were more personally impactful. This isn't, at all, to question why other people were so moved by Yauch. I totally get it even if I don't, personally, "get it."

 

[james]

First, let me say that a couple times today I took great joy in bumping the aformentioned "A Year And A Day" at top volume while thinking about the beatiful simplicity of its construction (drums from "Ebony Jam," guitar from "That Lady," scratches from "High Powered Rap," free-associative solo fusillade from Yauch, boom, done), the sublimely bugged circumstances of its creation (Yauch in a darkened studio, spinning on an office chair and rapping through an army-surplus helicopter pilot's helmet that had been wired to the sound board), and its perfect overall realization, its presence. Man, still such an important record for me.





That said:


mannybolone said:I have to say, I've been fascinated with the responses to Yauch's death. I guess I'm surprised I'm NOT more affected by it. Obviously, I think it's a bummer, esp. given his age but while I think the BBs were incredibly important, they were never actually that formative to me. So, in that regard, I think Guru's passing - and definitely MJ's - were more personally impactful. This isn't, at all, to question why other people were so moved by Yauch. I totally get it even if I don't, personally, "get it."

I think I know what you mean.





The Beastie Boys actually were very formative for me, but even so, it's been a long time since they've put out anything that really mattered to me on a level deeper than being a diffusely pleasant reminder that somewhere out there the Beastie Boys were still doing their thing. I think this is the case for a lot of people, and it's been interesting to see Yauch's death become the occasion less for memorializing his particular contributions than for a kind of public funeral for the Beastie Boys.





I'm not trying to be cruel, but it really does seem like there's this widespread catharsis from people finally getting to openly say goodbye to a well-loved group that, privately, they'd long since written off.

 

[DocMcCoy]

Speaking personally, I wouldn't say I'd written them off. More like I was glad they were still around, even though I hadn't really bothered with the last few records. They were/are one of those bands where I was always fascinated to at least hear what they'd come up with next.





Hard to imagine them continuing, though. On an obvious level, Yauch's voice was such a major component of their sound, and who knows what other kind of contribution he made. It must be like the musical equivalent of losing a limb.

 

[sticky_dojah]

I'm with Doc on this one, never wrote them off, and I'm still puzzled by this loss. It did affect me more than I've ever could've imagined. There will never be another Beastie Boys record with all 3 of them. And the fact that they were a musical and all things thereof companion for 3/4 of my life does not make it any easier. I found a nice quote that imho really has a point: "On Friday we all lost someone in common, something we should continue to reflect on by spending a little more time intentionally being young. No sleep till." - Jack Hamilton

 

[bennyboy]

I think the last LP was something of a return to form, even if that form was a retread of classic Beasties Boy style - and as Doc says, always something interesting going on, and I always wanted them to do something good, as it always seemed a bit more personal with the Beasties. Like everybody else, grew up with them, one of the few bands I actually wanted to, if not be in, then hang out with.





I like what Dorian Lynskey writes here: "They made it look as if nobody could ask for more than to make a living for 30 years by playing music and being funny with your best friends."

 

[batmon]

Hot Sauce Commitee got joints. the album before is hard to get through.


I "gave up" on them after Pauls Boutique but really enjoyed that DVD they came out w all their videos and shit.





I loved the BB tribute at the VH1 Hip Hop Hall of Fame.

 

[Snagglepus]

The Mix-Up was a good record as well. And that's part of why I would never have written them off 100% ... you never knew what they'd put out next. They could've put out another proper hardcore album (like Aglio e Olio), more instrumentals, or maybe something entirely new. They were three tasteful, talented and fun people who enjoyed making music together, period.





It does seem strange to use the past tense when two of them are still alive and healthy, but who can actually imagine another release under the name Beastie Boys? So while all of the emotional outpouring should be about Adam Yauch the man, it's fair to say that the Beastie Boys as a group died with him ... so all of the Beastie Boys eulogizing is understandable.

 

[rootlesscosmo]

am I the only one who finds questlove's blog entries so hard to read?

 

[james]

rootlesscosmo said:am I the only one who finds questlove's blog entries so hard to read?

Just this past weekend I pulled out of our storage unit a box of old magazines, and was reminded of questlove's column in Rap Pages, which I'd completely forgotten about (fucking DJ Spooky had a column in that shit, too!). I was subsequently reminded that as aggravating as dude's online presence may be, he was somehow even harder to take in print.

 

[phongone]

I'm really enjoying Mick Boogie's Beasties mix, which oddly enough was done right before MCA's passing.





http://www.heavy.com/music/mixtape/2012/04/mick-boogie-beastie-boys-grand-royal/

 

[SIRUS]

its cool but nothing is messing with that beasties mix that green lantern did years ago.

 

[CousinLarry]

phongone said:I'm really enjoying Mick Boogie's Beasties mix, which oddly enough was done right before MCA's passing.





http://www.heavy.com/music/mixtape/2012/04/mick-boogie-beastie-boys-grand-royal/




It was for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.








I think the later career move to bring Mix Master Mike in as the DJ was awesome. He killed it.