Adam Yauch RIP

[hutch]

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

[Sieve-Fisted]

20 Great Adam Yauch Moments

http://stereogum.com/1023231/20-great-adam-yauch-moments/franchises/listomania/

[Mobius]

One more brilliant moment is Namaste closing out Check Your Head.  Genius.  Darkness is not the opposite of light its the absence of light.

[Bombay Chutney]

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.

[gaaaaaaaaah]

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, which is so well said, and so eery to watch in 2012.

[Sieve-Fisted]

Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs

[i am gay and i like cats]

Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs

+  infinity.

[yohansen5b]

Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVr4UP9ntLs

that is fantastic.

[hutch]

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.

[James Ford]

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.

[Yada]

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.

[RustyOrgan]

Such sad news
Thankful to have seen them play at 9:30 and DC Tibet.
Great band. Great guys. Great music. Far too young.

[eltee]

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)

[mekmad]

Video from Tibetan Freedom Concert.  More crowded then I remember:

http://dcist.com/2012/05/video_flashback_beastie_boys_perfor.php

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Coldplay - A tribute to Adam Yauch. Hollywood Bowl, 4 May 2012.

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.