Who do I have to blow to get Fark to green one of these Beastie Boys threads?

That was cool... Guy was a real big influence on a lot of people.

They deserve a green. If this was Barry Manalow it would have gone green immediately

jaylectricity: Who do I have to blow to get Fark to green one of these Beastie Boys threads?

Me. How quickly can you get to Houston?

And yet Fred Durst lives.


fark you, cancer.

47? What a shame.

I guess I didn't keep up with music news as much as I should have, but I assumed he was on the mend.

I definitely has a sad today. Beasties were awesome. :(

:(

i love slideshows

I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.


I saw The Beastie Boys perform for about 30 people on 110th floor of the World Trade Center. No joke.

It was 1998 and my friends and I went to Windows On The World at WTC. It was a Tuesday night and was getting kind of quiet around 2am. Most people were going home. Three guys got up, with a dj in back, on the stage. Holy crap. The Beastie Boys. They did a short set for no reason other than to
amuse themselves and entertain a couple of friends they were there with. And the last song in the set was Don't Sleep Till Brooklyn. Behind them was the East River and Brooklyn. I'm not sure if it gets more New York, or Brooklyn, than that.

/Great memory
//Rest in peace Adam

Damn those Cancer Bats.

Seems like the first major artist to fall from "natural causes" within my generation.

mjg: I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.


I saw The Beastie Boys perform for about 30 people on 110th floor of the World Trade Center. No joke.

It was 1998 and my friends and I went to Windows On The World at WTC. It was a Tuesday night and was getting kind of quiet around 2am. Most people were going home. Three guys got up, with a dj in back, on the stage. Holy crap. The Beastie Boys. They did a short set for no reason other than to
amuse themselves and entertain a couple of friends they were there with. And the last song in the set was Don't Sleep Till Brooklyn. Behind them was the East River and Brooklyn. I'm not sure if it gets more New York, or Brooklyn, than that.

/Great memory
//Rest in peace Adam

For once, that is a cool story bro. Never saw them live, but wish I would have.

Crap

Now I really feel old.

R.I.P. Awesome white rap guy.

This.

I love Yauch. Saw the BBs in '86, 92, 94, 2002. Paul's Boutique & check Your Head get full listens at least once a week while driving to work. Yauch was so dear tony heart. His humor, humility and grace is something I aspire to.
/I'll stir fry you in my wok, like a pinch on the neck from Mr Spock

Was lucky enough to see them live once as well, at Lollapalooza around '95. I remember them shutting the music down about 30 minutes in because they were worried about people getting crushed in the mosh pit, and one of them telling everybody to calm the hell down or they wouldn't continue. It worked, and they killed the rest of the concert. Good times.

Yesterday I wonder how many of these 100 would have admitted loving the Beastie Boys?

mjg: I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.


I saw The Beastie Boys perform for about 30 people on 110th floor of the World Trade Center. No joke.

It was 1998 and my friends and I went to Windows On The World at WTC. It was a Tuesday night and was getting kind of quiet around 2am. Most people were going home. Three guys got up, with a dj in back, on the stage. Holy crap. The Beastie Boys. They did a short set for no reason other than to
amuse themselves and entertain a couple of friends they were there with. And the last song in the set was Don't Sleep Till Brooklyn. Behind them was the East River and Brooklyn. I'm not sure if it gets more New York, or Brooklyn, than that.

/Great memory
//Rest in peace Adam

Which album was Don't Sleep Till Brooklyn on? I haven't heard that one.

mjg: I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.

Nothing that cool but I got to see them from the front row at Lollapalooza in St. Louis on my friend's company tickets. (His boss comes out of his office saying, "Lollapalozza??? WTF kind of band is this???" My friend says, "Oh, that's some friends of mine from college, if you're not gonna go I'll take them")

Parlament P-Funk then the Beasties!!! then an hour of Billy Corgian biatching about how nobody will stand up while he's playing.

I'm a lot more sad than I ever thought I would be. I feel like a family member died today. It's kind of annoying.

Maynotlast: Yesterday I wonder how many of these 100 would have admitted loving the Beastie Boys?

All of them. Why not. When did the Beastie boys ever suck?

Watchtower's Fiction Editor: Maynotlast: Yesterday I wonder how many of these 100 would have admitted loving the Beastie Boys?

All of them. Why not. When did the Beastie boys ever suck?

As soon as loving them was cool?

His passing has made me sad all day. This will be one of those moments where I'll be able to answer if anyone asks me "Do you remember where you were the day that Adam Yauch died?" I grew up with the BBs and had a huge crush on Adam when I was in high school. It is nice to see that a lot of artists properly gave their respects.

Cancer sucks.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: Watchtower's Fiction Editor: Maynotlast: Yesterday I wonder how many of these 100 would have admitted loving the Beastie Boys?

All of them. Why not. When did the Beastie boys ever suck?

As soon as loving them was cool?

So I've been cool for 15 years and nobody told me? Damn...

zez: mjg: I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.

Nothing that cool but I got to see them from the front row at Lollapalooza in St. Louis on my friend's company tickets. (His boss comes out of his office saying, "Lollapalozza??? WTF kind of band is this???" My friend says, "Oh, that's some friends of mine from college, if you're not gonna go I'll take them")

Parlament P-Funk then the Beasties!!! then an hour of Billy Corgian biatching about how nobody will stand up while he's playing.

I also saw them at lollapalooza that year. L7, Tribe, The Breeders, Nick Cave, P-Funk, Beastie Boys, and the Smashing Pumpkins (heh Billy Corgan was biatching at our show too) The side stage was great as well.

And yeah the Beastie Boys f'n killed it. The general seating was this huge grassy area that quickly turned into the biggest pit I have ever seen. People started tearing out the grass and throwing chunks of it everywhere. But the end of their set it looked like a tornado went through there.

Beastie Boys CSB:
Back in 1999, I had heard one song by the Beastie Boys ("Fight for your right to Party") and assumed they were a one-hit-wonder. I was fourteen and sheltered, give me a break. After locating the song I wanted online, I accidentally downloaded a second song. That song was "Sabotage." From then on, I was hooked. Fan for life. Will play a CD of their on repeat once a week or so.
/CSB

I never dug the Beastie Boys (they kinda bored me). But it still sucks that this poor bastard died. Cancer's a biatch.

Holy fark 100 tweets is even worse than a goddamned slideshow!

Oh, and RIP MCA.

lithappens: Beastie Boys CSB:
Back in 1999, I had heard one song by the Beastie Boys ("Fight for your right to Party") and assumed they were a one-hit-wonder. I was fourteen and sheltered, give me a break. After locating the song I wanted online, I accidentally downloaded a second song. That song was "Sabotage." From then on, I was hooked. Fan for life. Will play a CD of their on repeat once a week or so.
/CSB

Weird thing is, The BB's hated that song ("Fight for your right to Party") and did not perform it live since 1987.

Watchtower's Fiction Editor: Maynotlast: Yesterday I wonder how many of these 100 would have admitted loving the Beastie Boys?

All of them. Why not. When did the Beastie boys ever suck?

There was time, Little One, when the Beastie Boys were the Beibers of Hip Hop. Many of these douche-knobs praising them today were booing them back in the day. So why don't you let the grown ups talk while you just sit over there and masturbate to your new Bon Iver record (yes, yes... we all see that it's vinyl. Aren't you the little hipster.)

Loud_Mouth_Soup: And yet Fred Durst lives.


fark you, cancer.

You don't celebrate someone's life by wishing death on someone else ya stupid coont.

bel4sucks: Loud_Mouth_Soup: And yet Fred Durst lives.


fark you, cancer.

You don't celebrate someone's life by wishing death on someone else ya stupid coont.

Except if it's Fred Durst.

My Beasties story

Summer 2004. I went to the Live 105 BFD concert, an all day, 3 stage concert. Hobbling in on my cane, with my cheap, lawn seating ticket, I planned on hunkering down and just watching the show from the back.
Security guard in a wheelchair notices me. Calls me over. Promptly gives me assigned handicapped seating. This gave me the freedom to wander around, and experience the rest of the day without losing my seat. I promptly end up winning VIP seating and access to a private catering area.
After a while, I realize I'd forgotten my pain pills in the car. The staff allows me to hobble out to the parking area and get them. While returning, I notice something shining on the ground. It's a backstage pass! So in just a couple hours, I go from cheap seats and a bag lunch to row 5 seating, catered food, and access to the backstage area of Shoreline!
Hanging out back stage, I get to chill out and shoot the breeze with the Violent Femmes. Very awesome. After their set, out come the Beasties. 3 MCs and 1 DJ, as the song goes. I watch their performance from stage left. Now, as an Army veteran, I've heard many loud things, explosions, artillery fire, and so on. But in my life, I have never heard a sound as deafening as 40,000 people in an amphitheater cheering the Beasties. There's really nothing to compare it to.

Their set ends. The Strokes come on, faced with the daunting task of following the Beastie Boys. I could care less about them, so I start wandering around, taking in the sights. I may never get backstage again, so I want to see everything I can. I see a couple people talking. One walks away. The other stays there, and waves me over. It's MCA. We talked politics. 15 minutes or so discussing the upcoming election, if I was going to vote, different things ballot measures, and so on. Other people came up, and I bowed out, grateful for the opportunity to talk to him.

Til I die, I'll never forget how one of my all-time favorite musicians treated me as an equal. No pretension, no "I'm too good for the regular people", it was just two people having a discussion.

I can forget that he treated a complete stranger, me, as an equal, simply because that's the kind of person he was.

A damn good man, taken way too soon.

I do love that in a place that's as conflicted as Fark normally is, we can come together to celebrate a guy like MCA

/RIP
//I run this land, you understand
///I make myself clear

The All-Powerful Atheismo: bel4sucks: Loud_Mouth_Soup: And yet Fred Durst lives.


fark you, cancer.

You don't celebrate someone's life by wishing death on someone else ya stupid coont.

Except if it's Fred Durst.

Cancer survivor here. Never met Fred. But I wouldn't even wish this shiat on history's great monster... Obama!

But seriously, no. Not anyone. This is sad stuff. And I'm bummed I'll never get to see him or the Beastie Boys perform again.

Tellingthem: I also saw them at lollapalooza that year. L7, Tribe, The Breeders, Nick Cave, P-Funk, Beastie Boys, and the Smashing Pumpkins (heh Billy Corgan was biatching at our show too) The side stage was great as well.

And yeah the Beastie Boys f'n killed it. The general seating was this huge grassy area that quickly turned into the biggest pit I have ever seen. People started tearing out the grass and throwing chunks of it everywhere. But the end of their set it looked like a tornado went through there.

Gotta be talking about Pine Knob... I was at that show, too. Just excellent.

great= greatest

Obama= Fartbongo

Sorry Farkers. It's late and the Belvedere was posting.

/sad

@Dumb-Ass-Monkey - Thanks for sharing that. Very cool.

Anytime I see a Canadian artist with a small international fanbase on a mainstream music site, I'm kinda surprised - in a positive way. Nice to see #27 (Matthew Good) make the list.

Outside of Twitter, from Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament:
I always felt like Adam was a brother from an east coast mother: bass, hoops and Bad Brains. A crazy talent whose contributions with his band were inspirational and consistently ground breaking. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends and his Beastie brothers.

Barricaded Gunman: Tellingthem: I also saw them at lollapalooza that year. L7, Tribe, The Breeders, Nick Cave, P-Funk, Beastie Boys, and the Smashing Pumpkins (heh Billy Corgan was biatching at our show too) The side stage was great as well.

And yeah the Beastie Boys f'n killed it. The general seating was this huge grassy area that quickly turned into the biggest pit I have ever seen. People started tearing out the grass and throwing chunks of it everywhere. But the end of their set it looked like a tornado went through there.

Gotta be talking about Pine Knob... I was at that show, too. Just excellent.

Yep! Wow it is a really small world.

Oof... this one hurts, never thought I'd be down over the death of a popular musician.

It's called GRATITUDE...AND THAT'S RIGHT!

It is cool that 100 artists remember MCA, but when the Dalai Lama remembers him, it trumps all others.

Tellingthem: Barricaded Gunman: Tellingthem: I also saw them at lollapalooza that year. L7, Tribe, The Breeders, Nick Cave, P-Funk, Beastie Boys, and the Smashing Pumpkins (heh Billy Corgan was biatching at our show too) The side stage was great as well.

And yeah the Beastie Boys f'n killed it. The general seating was this huge grassy area that quickly turned into the biggest pit I have ever seen. People started tearing out the grass and throwing chunks of it everywhere. But the end of their set it looked like a tornado went through there.

Gotta be talking about Pine Knob... I was at that show, too. Just excellent.

Yep! Wow it is a really small world.

I 'effing love shows at Pine Knob. Many good nights were had camping out for tickets

I particularly like some of their "rock", almost punk songs. Anyone have any they can recommend?
RIP Adam.

That's it? I thought more artists would've remembered him.

Loud_Mouth_Soup: And yet Fred Durst lives.


fark you, cancer.

...c'mon, just 'cuz his music sucks doesn't mean he deserves to die.

/Though if he was a dick, that'd be a different story.
//Same goes for Scott Stapp and Chad Kroeger.

"Now my name is MCA. I've got a license to kill.
I think you know what time it is, it's time to get ill.
Now what do we have here? An outlaw and his beer
I run this land, you understand. I make myself clear."
We stepped into the wind, he had a gun, I had a grin.
You think this story's over, but it's ready to begin

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: My Beasties story

Summer 2004. I went to the Live 105 BFD concert, an all day, 3 stage concert. Hobbling in on my cane, with my cheap, lawn seating ticket, I planned on hunkering down and just watching the show from the back.
Security guard in a wheelchair notices me. Calls me over. Promptly gives me assigned handicapped seating. This gave me the freedom to wander around, and experience the rest of the day without losing my seat. I promptly end up winning VIP seating and access to a private catering area.
After a while, I realize I'd forgotten my pain pills in the car. The staff allows me to hobble out to the parking area and get them. While returning, I notice something shining on the ground. It's a backstage pass! So in just a couple hours, I go from cheap seats and a bag lunch to row 5 seating, catered food, and access to the backstage area of Shoreline!
Hanging out back stage, I get to chill out and shoot the breeze with the Violent Femmes. Very awesome. After their set, out come the Beasties. 3 MCs and 1 DJ, as the song goes. I watch their performance from stage left. Now, as an Army veteran, I've heard many loud things, explosions, artillery fire, and so on. But in my life, I have never heard a sound as deafening as 40,000 people in an amphitheater cheering the Beasties. There's really nothing to compare it to.

Their set ends. The Strokes come on, faced with the daunting task of following the Beastie Boys. I could care less about them, so I start wandering around, taking in the sights. I may never get backstage again, so I want to see everything I can. I see a couple people talking. One walks away. The other stays there, and waves me over. It's MCA. We talked politics. 15 minutes or so discussing the upcoming election, if I was going to vote, different things ballot measures, and so on. Other people came up, and I bowed out, grateful for the opportunity to talk to him.

Til I die, I'll never forget how one of my all-time favorite musicians treated me as an e ...

That's a pretty awesome and touching story. Thank you for sharing that.

Tellingthem: zez: mjg: I posted 'my BB story' in a previous thread (below). Kind of hope other Farkers will do the same.

Nothing that cool but I got to see them from the front row at Lollapalooza in St. Louis on my friend's company tickets. (His boss comes out of his office saying, "Lollapalozza??? WTF kind of band is this???" My friend says, "Oh, that's some friends of mine from college, if you're not gonna go I'll take them")

Parlament P-Funk then the Beasties!!! then an hour of Billy Corgian biatching about how nobody will stand up while he's playing.

I also saw them at lollapalooza that year. L7, Tribe, The Breeders, Nick Cave, P-Funk, Beastie Boys, and the Smashing Pumpkins (heh Billy Corgan was biatching at our show too) The side stage was great as well.

And yeah the Beastie Boys f'n killed it. The general seating was this huge grassy area that quickly turned into the biggest pit I have ever seen. People started tearing out the grass and throwing chunks of it everywhere. But the end of their set it looked like a tornado went through there.

Damn, I was at the palooza in new orleans, and the pumpkins refused to come until 8 pm or so, and no one would stand up for them, and Corgan got all pissy and half the crowd left.