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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: chaz on May 04, 2012, 01:03:02 pm
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http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/04/beastie-boys-adam-yauch-dead/
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ouch :(
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;0(
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504#ixzz1tvCEo3GL
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Dammit
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SO SAD
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wow..major bummer...
getting a lot of shivers..
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Very sad news. It looks like i have 80 of their tunes on itunes...retrospective commencing....
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As someone who lost a parent to cancer at a young age...very very sad.
As someone who doesn't care for their music but is married to a Beastie Boys fan who I'm going to be in a car with for 4+ hours this weekend and who played Whitney Houston music nonstop for a week following her death...very very unfortunate.
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Very sad news. It looks like i have 80 of their tunes on itunes...retrospective commencing....
Likewise, it's been since about 1998 since I've really listedn to the B-Boys, but I foresee myself revisiting this weekend.
RIP. Lots of fun times listening to those guys over the years.
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Great show at the club, summer of 2004 maybe :(
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Just awful.
The group is such a big part of our generation.
ugh
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:(
this sucks. long time fan. very sad news indeed.
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Yeah, haven't actively listened to these guys in quite a while, but this is a bummer.
Was just talking to a friend, and we both came to the conclusion that we probably wouldn't' even be the same adults we are if not for how much of a role the Beasties played in our formative years. Hell (and this is true)...I probably wouldn't have ultimately met my wife if not for a Beastie Boys show I saw a good five-six years before her and I met.
Mega bummed.
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licensed to ill was an incredibly formative album for me. it was my first step on the road to punk.
and on a personal note, there's another band that i need to add to my should-have-seen-them-while-i-could-have list.
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Saw their last show in the area at Ram's Head in 2009. MCA was off that night and you could sense he just couldn't give much, while Ad Rock and Mike D were trying to make up for it. I'm still glad I got to see them one last time. When they played "Sabotage" that was the most ferocious pit I'd seen in ages. They could do more than just rap. I'm very, very sad by this one. 47 is so damn young. I still listen to their stuff. "Paul's Boutique" could NEVER be released today. Can you believe how lucky we are that an LP basically steals 30 years' worth of R&B, funk, disco, classic rock and punk and turns it into something totally new? It still sounds amazing to my ears. RIP MCA.
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Agreed about Paul's Boutique. Did you listen to the Sound Opinions podcast when they talked about how it wouldn't have been made today? Good episode.
So many fabulous moments driving around Harford County in high school listening to the Beastie Boys and being silly teenagers. My cousin and I listened to Hello Nasty every single morning on the way to work the summer it came out when we were in college.
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the announcement is on the front page of every news service.
so, how long before some douche descends on here and informs us that the BBoys are over-rated?
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As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha As They Shine
I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks,
I Make My Full Time Task
For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek
The Enlighted Mind That I Know I'll Reap
Respect To Shantideva And All The Others
Who Brought Down The Darma For Sisters And Brothers
I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn
And For This Human Body That I Know I've Earned
And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings
For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing
There's Nothing Here That's Not Been Said Before
But I Put It Down Now So I'll Be Sure
To Solidify My Own Views And I'll Be Glad If It Helps
Anyone Else Out Too
If Others Disrespect Me Or Give Me Flack
I'll Stop And Think Before I React
Knowing That They're Going Through Insecure Stages
I'll Take The Opportunity To Exercise Patience
I'll See It As A Chance To Help The Other Person
Nip It In The Bud Before It Can Worsen
A Change For Me To Be Strong And Sure
As I Think On The Buddhas Who Have Come Before
As I Praise And Respect The Good They've Done
Knowing Only Love Can Conquer In Every Situation
We Need Other People In Order To Create
The Circumstances For The Learning That We're Here To Generate
Situations That Bring Up Our Deepest Fears
So We Can Work To Release Them Until They're Cleared
Therefore, It Only Makes Sense
To Thank Our Enemies Despite Their Intent
The Bodhisattva Path Is One Of Power And Strength
A Strength From Within To Go The Length
Seeing Others Are As Important As Myself
I Strive For A Happiness Of Mental Wealth
With The Interconnectedness That We Share As One
Every Action That We Take Affects Everyone
So In Deciding For What A Situation Calls
There Is A Path For The Good For All
I Try To Make My Every Action For That Highest Good
With The Altruistic Wish To Achive Buddhahood
So I Pledge Here Before Everyone Who's Listening
To Try To Make My Every Action For The Good Of All Beings
For The Rest Of My Lifetimes And Even Beyond
I Vow To Do My Best To Do No Harm
And In Times Of Doubt I Can Think On The Dharma
And The Enlightened Ones Who've Graduated Samsara
RIP
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It's so sad.
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Agreed about Paul's Boutique.
Other than me being half asleep and typing chemical instead of dust, here was my take on PB 8 years ago. (http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=4591.msg75617#msg75617) Part of a great thread too - I should have asked that girl out. Feisty.
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Last show I saw them was at RHL. Reviewers and fans commented he seemed to be in a mood, which affected small moments in the show, but then one mentioned he had not been feeling well in the past couple of years, and had started to step away somewhat. (think I remember that correctly?) Happy to have the opportunity to see them. (thanks, Seth!) Definitely sad, so young. Their music was a big part of a certain period in my life. Always, as well as others I know, including musicians, had respect for their music and roles in their genre.
edit: other articles posted today mention him not feeling well at shows back in '09 - RHL show.
(wml - no regrets - sounds like you saw some really good shows)
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So many fabulous moments driving around Harford County in high school listening to the Beastie Boys and being silly teenagers. My cousin and I listened to Hello Nasty every single morning on the way to work the summer it came out when we were in college.
Listened to them on loop one spring break during h.s. while drinking stockpiled wine coolers, smoking Swisher Sweets, and in the eye of a hurricane at Myrtle Beach.
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So many fabulous moments driving around Harford County in high school listening to the Beastie Boys and being silly teenagers. My cousin and I listened to Hello Nasty every single morning on the way to work the summer it came out when we were in college.
Listened to them on loop one spring break during h.s. while drinking stockpiled wine coolers, smoking swisher sweets, and in the eye of a hurricane at Myrtle Beach.
Pretty sure I was smoking Swisher Sweets too. funny.
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:D
Pretty sure I was smoking Swisher Sweets too. funny.
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This is one of those cases though that as great and influential as the music was, and it was, I mourn the man not the musician.
My two times seeing them where Lolla 94 in Charlestown where they owned it and the Tibet Freedom Fest in I think 1997 of which I don't remember all that much.
Obviously for the first show they were at their commercial and critical peak (the album "Ill Communication", the video "Sabotage", they were everywhere). Basically in 1994 they could do no wrong. They had a huge influence around that time on fashion too.. I remember if you went to an Urban Outfitters or what have you they were running with whatever the Beasties where wearing.
To me MCA was always the "cool Beastie"... Its funny opening up my Licensed to Ill gatefold and pulling out the inner sleeve and looking at the pictures.. man they look young.. they were young.. so was I.
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saw them twice. first time was second year of vfest and they were awesome. really got the crowd going. second time was rock the vote show in richmond. another energetic show. would have loved to been at that rams head show. sad indeed
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This was a hard read:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-of-the-beastie-boys-dies/?hp
The comments killed me.
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when someone famous dies, i usually am sad. when a musician i like dies, i mourn for their loss. when adam yauch died . . . i feel effected, like he was my brother, or my best friend. he was more than music, he was more than a brilliant mind, he was positivity.
the club should serve free pizza tonight in his honour.
damn.
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The comments killed me.
seriously. those tweets... wow.
the club should serve free pizza tonight in his honour.
that would be beyond epic. nice & thoughtful tribute!
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Saw their last show in the area at Ram's Head in 2009. MCA was off that night and you could sense he just couldn't give much, while Ad Rock and Mike D were trying to make up for it. I'm still glad I got to see them one last time. When they played "Sabotage" that was the most ferocious pit I'd seen in ages. They could do more than just rap. I'm very, very sad by this one. 47 is so damn young. I still listen to their stuff. "Paul's Boutique" could NEVER be released today. Can you believe how lucky we are that an LP basically steals 30 years' worth of R&B, funk, disco, classic rock and punk and turns it into something totally new? It still sounds amazing to my ears. RIP MCA.
I missed your comment earlier about the RHL - I was questioning if I remembered correctly - that he wasn't well at that show.
All you wrote - well said. Thank you.
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when someone famous dies, i usually am sad. when a musician i like dies, i mourn for their loss. when adam yauch died . . . i feel effected, like he was my brother, or my best friend. he was more than music, he was more than a brilliant mind, he was positivity.
the club should serve free pizza tonight in his honour.
damn.
+1
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20 Great Adam Yauch Moments
http://stereogum.com/1023231/20-great-adam-yauch-moments/franchises/listomania/ (http://stereogum.com/1023231/20-great-adam-yauch-moments/franchises/listomania/)
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One more brilliant moment is Namaste closing out Check Your Head. Genius. Darkness is not the opposite of light its the absence of light.
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Gratitude Beastie Boys 5-28-94 - Radio Music Hall - Washington, DC
http://youtu.be/Z1i9CNU_HEI
I used to have a really shitty copy of this show on VHS. I should try to dig that up. One of my all-time favorite shows. It had to be over 90-degrees in there. A super-sweaty afternoon gig. Just before "Ill Communication" came out. The first time I remember them pushing the Tibet stuff. The floor was an insane mosh pit from front to back. The balcony was a huge dance party. Not my first BB show. Not my last. Definitely my favorite.
This one hurts. :(
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I want to say a little something that's long overdue
The disrespect to women has got to be through
To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends
I want to offer my love and respect to the end.
Sums up everything I loved about MCA. Classy dude.
Then there's stuff like this speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfiKTHairw&feature=youtu.be&t=6m34s), which is so well said, and so eery to watch in 2012.
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Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs)
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Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs)
+ infinity.
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Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs)
that is fantastic.
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I think that Coldplay thing is HORRIBLE.. take a great party song and turn it into an emo funeral dirge...so adult contemporary..sounds like grandad rock to me. I get the sense people like it cause its taps a nerve "oh , its sad and I should be sad and at the same time its a Beastie Boys song"
something weird going on.
Coldplay the poor man's Radiohead.
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What's so wrong with being a poor man. What are you, a fucking yuppie or something?
I think that Coldplay thing is HORRIBLE.. take a great party song and turn it into an emo funeral dirge...so adult contemporary..sounds like grandad rock to me. I get the sense people like it cause its taps a nerve "oh , its sad and I should be sad and at the same time its a Beastie Boys song"
something weird going on.
Coldplay the poor man's Radiohead.
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I think that Coldplay thing is HORRIBLE.. take a great party song and turn it into an emo funeral dirge...so adult contemporary..sounds like grandad rock to me. I get the sense people like it cause its taps a nerve "oh , its sad and I should be sad and at the same time its a Beastie Boys song"
something weird going on.
Coldplay the poor man's Radiohead.
Douchey post.
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Such sad news :(
Thankful to have seen them play at 9:30 and DC Tibet.
Great band. Great guys. Great music. Far too young.
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I was going to post Deer Tick's cover/tribute, but found more compiled here:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/05/red_hot_chili_p_1.html
(yeah, Coldplay's cover isn't the greatest, but it's them, and it's an homage so accept the gesture)
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Video from Tibetan Freedom Concert. More crowded then I remember:
http://dcist.com/2012/05/video_flashback_beastie_boys_perfor.php
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Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs)
Not a huge Coldplay fan, but this was very very awesome to see.
I've been a huge Beasties fan since I was a little kid, something about them just resonated with me when I was a kid and well into my teen years. I respected them more as musicians and as people as I grew older and hearing of MCA's loss was a huge blow to my day. By Friday night all of me and my friends were in a frenzy of singing songs and drinking brass monkeys hahaha it was fun. He will be missed, but at least his music will always be with us.
If you have a chance, look up 'Fight For Your Right Revisited' on Youtube. Very funny stuff.
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Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs)
My sister was there and texted me when it was over "you're never going to believe what I just saw. and now I know why you're gay"
Which I thought was funny.
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Nice one from ESPN.com . . .
Requiem for a Mullethead: RIP Adam Yauch
Originally Published: May 7, 2012
By Melissa Larsen
On Friday, when the news that Adam Yauch passed away hit, it hit hard. For many of us, the Beastie Boys were part of the soundtrack of our adolescence -- ever present, playing in the background at parties, in videos and on the radio as we went about our daily lives. Their music is entwined in our histories, and so the loss of one of the people who made it feels very personal.
A friend told me that you could hear the Beastie Boys blasting out of apartment and car windows throughout the streets of Brooklyn this weekend. It is a beautiful image, one that I've been holding on to as I sit here with heavy heart, sifting through words unspoken, trying to pull out the right ones to say.
Adam was a friend of mine. Or I should say he was a friend of many, and I was lucky enough to be one once, back when he was a snowboarder and spending a lot of time in our world.
The articles so far have been skipping over that part. I imagine that, from the outside, the time he spent chasing snow in the mountains seems like a strange transition period between eras when he was breaking ground in hip-hop and when he was pushing to raise awareness of the Tibetan people's struggle for freedom, and probably doesn't seem that significant. And maybe it isn't.
But people like Adam live 100 lives in the span of time it takes most of us to live just one. When they go, they leave behind a lot of stories. You can't just tell the big ones. You have to tell them all, even the little stories that don't seem to mean much of anything, because details are the breadcrumb trails we follow when we're trying to find our way back to the people we've lost.
Back before Instagram, kids, people used postcards to send funny photos with messages to each other.
The Adam I knew, during the time that I knew him, was a snowboarder -- a real one. He chose Salt Lake City as a winter base because if he was in the country and saw a storm headed that direction, it was easy to fly to. The places he rented were bare bones, meant only for sleeping and showering and storing the busted-up Subaru he used to get to the mountain. That car was so kicked-in. He had to pop the hood, fiddle with wires and beat on the engine with a wrench to get it to start. It was awesome.
There was no flash to his program. All he cared about was that he was on the hill when the lifts opened on a deep snow day. This part of him might be only a grain of sand in an ocean of more interesting and wonderful things that made him who he was, but I still feel like it should be noted. Because, for a moment in time, he was one of us. It was not an act, and we loved him for it.
I, like many snowboarders in the early to mid-'90s, met Adam while waiting for the tram at Snowbird. I'd been riding with some mutual friends, and because we were standing next to each other in line, he introduced himself. At the time, the only thing I loved as ferociously as snowboarding was the album "Paul's Boutique." (It was not a record, it was a religion, and I lived in the church.) But because he gave me only his first name, I pretended not to know who he was, just so I could find the courage to talk to him. I don't think I fooled him.
Halfway up the mountain he realized he didn't have his gloves. He did that a lot, I came to understand. Spacing his gloves was like his special talent. It never occurred to me to try to hang back and keep him company, though, as he rode down to find them with his hands tucked inside his jacket. It didn't occur to anyone else to wait, either. In fact, most of the guys laughed pointedly as they took off without him while he just grinned and shrugged.
In retrospect, I think that was one of the things he loved about snowboarding -- it was a great equalizer. And he understood the rules, because he followed them as well. There are no friends on a powder day. Even rock-star friends. He was a true shred.
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Adam Yauch might have stopped having time to dedicate to snowboarding, but he never turned away from his love of basketball. This is an incredible tribute.
I will never know why Adam decided to be my friend. I was barely 19 when we first met. Besides being too young to be very interesting, I was tragically shy, terminally uncool and socially awkward to the point of pain. My few attempts to interact with his friends were unmitigated disasters. I panicked in group settings, turning mute as I tried my best to melt into the wall. He could have been so embarrassed by me, if he had chosen to see it that way.
Instead, he just thought it was funny. When he had the opportunity to, he made time for me to hang out with just him so I wouldn't be so uncomfortable. He never judged me, never tried to fix me. His acceptance was a gift that I will spend my whole life trying to deserve.
Looking back, I think I was just lucky that I met him during a pause, when he was standing outside of his world looking in, trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. He was just beginning to explore Buddhism then. Maybe he figured he'd start practicing mindful compassion with the people around him, and I just happened to be there, standing on the edge of an emotional cliff in serious need of an unsolicited display of genuine kindness. I was not the only person he helped this way. Not even close.
Adam helped me find the courage to make a leap of faith, to leave behind everything I knew and start over, guided by nothing more than a passion for something as silly as riding down a hill sideways on a laminated piece of wood. It wasn't a "rah rah" thing. He just had a kind of comical inability to understand why you wouldn't follow your dreams if you knew what they were. I mean, look -- all he wanted to do was make music, and he did that and it all worked out for him just fine.
The fact that his was an exceptional case, and thus not a very good example, was never an acceptable argument. He could always counter it with the words, "Yeah, well I guess if you don't try, you'll never find out."
So I did, and because of him I found it easier to move out into the world. I knew that if someone like Adam could see clearly the myriad of ways in which I didn't fit in and like me anyway, there would be others who could do the same.
When I began working for magazines, and started finding myself in rooms filled with people who thought they were the most important things in them, I often thought of him. Adam was famous enough to be arrogant and forgiven for it. Instead, he made the choice to be gracious. He looked people in the eye. He took the time. He smiled. He set the standard, and it set me free.
I never worried if Johnny Rad or Flippy McFlipperson was going to think I was cool enough to talk to, because I knew what true greatness was. It has nothing to do with talent and everything to do with heart and with taking the time to be nice and fully engaged in the moment, even when you don't have to be.
As years went on I got deeper into snowboarding while he moved further away from it, and over time we found we had less to talk about. Eventually, we fell out of touch. It wasn't something I worried about. I always just assumed that our paths would cross again someday and that I would have the chance to thank him for showing me what a truly good person looked like, so I would always know how to spot another one, along the way...
Alas ...
Rest in peace, my friend. You will be sorely missed.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kids-star-remake-beastie-boys-sabotage-tribute-adam-200946872.html
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