Call 1-888-711-BSTE: Beastie Boys’ 1998 Hello Nasty-Infomercial
I had no idea this exists: Ein halbstündiges Infomercial, das die Beasties damals zur Veröffentlichung von Hello Nasty produziert hatten. Der dritte Teil ist leider wegen Bullshits copyrightgefickt.
Taking a less traditional avenue to drum up sales for Hello Nasty, the Beastie Boys have begun airing a half-hour parody of infomercials on cable stations […] The infomercial, directed in low-budget splendor by Tamra Davis (director of the feature films “Gun Crazy” and “CB4″), is a parody of various well-known, half-hour commercials that appear on late-night television. It features Beasties Mike D (a.k.a. Mike Diamond), MCA (a.k.a. Adam Yauch) and Ad-Rock (a.k.a. Adam Horovitz) taking on roles to shill everything from the services of phone psychics to get-rich-quick scams to a food processor that plays songs from their upcoming LP, Hello Nasty (July 14).
Calling the number displayed throughout the parody leads viewers to Grand Royal’s ordering line, allowing them to buy Hello Nasty and have it delivered to their door on July 14. […] The Beastie Boys’ infomercial was placed on local-access stations around the country by On Tour Video, a company that has done similar work for such bands as Megadeth, Tonic and Blur.
Network Awesome: Beastie Boys Infomercial For Hello Nasty
Interviews with Beastie Boys’ Cover-Designers
Youtube Direktbeasties, via AnimalNY
Für ihre neue Ausgabe hat das Juxtapoz-Mag die Designer der Cover der Beastie Boys-Platten interviewt, Auszüge daraus gibt’s im Video oben. Ein Preview des Mags gibt’s hier, kaufen kann man das Teil in ihrem Webshop und besseren Zeitschriftenläden.
In conjunction with our very special June 2013 issue, Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA, we bring you excerpts from some our interviews with Beastie album cover artists from Polly Wog Stew to Hot Sauce Committee Part Two! We find the inside stories of how each album came to fruition through the experiences and artwork of each artist that is now part of the Beastie Boys canon.
We speak to Cey Adams, Haze, Arabella Field, World B Omes, Glen E Friedman, Ricky Powell, Todd James, Mike Mills, Matteo Pericoli, Bill McMullen, Bruce Davidson, Alex Grey, Kiino Villand, Sunny Bak… and, we interview Adrock of the Beastie Boys as he gave us the inside story and behind-the-scenes look at how each album cover was selected, from inside the band.
Now my name is MCA, I got a license to kill: Adam Yauch R.I.P.
Now my name is MCA, I got a license to kill. I think you know what time it is, it’s time to get ill!
Vor genau einem Jahr erlag Adam „MCA“ Yauch seinem Krebsleiden. Heute an seinem ersten Todestag findet in Brooklyn der MCA Day statt, gestern morgen hat man dort den Adam Yauch Park eröffnet und weil wir alle nicht dort sein können, lasst uns Ärsche im Namen des MCA treten mit dem kompletten Wahnsinns-Livegig in Glasgow von 1999, gibt’s hier als MP3. Unfassbare Show, so eine Band werden wir nie wieder kriegen. Und dass der Mann ohnehin unsterblich ist, wissen bereits kleine Mädchen:
The centerpieces of “MCA Day” will be the various visual installations displayed throughout the space. Attendees will get to see rare photographs of the band by renown music/skateboard photographer Glen E. Friedman who shot MCA, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz before the trio became superstars. Pics by Sunny Bak, the photographer who captured the iconic image of the Beasties in front of the World’s Fair Globe, will also be a part of the exhibit.
Brooklyn artist and co-creator of the Jam Master Jay Foundation for Music’s “Jam Awards” Michael “Mr Kaves” McLeer will show some of his work, and fans will have the opportunity to present their pieces as well. The Beastie Boys fanthology project, Keep It On and On, will be showing artwork created by fans from around the world. For those people who will not be able to make it to New York City, Keep In On and On will run the images on their Facebook page throughout the day and provide free downloadable PDFs of the art.
“MCA Day” Celebrating Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch Hits Brooklyn This Weekend
Beastie Boys, the Book
Mike D und Ad Rock haben einen Vertrag für eine Beastie Boys-Biographie unterschrieben, das Teil soll im Herbst 2015 erscheinen und sich stilistisch am Werk der Beasties orientieren.
The Beastie Boys are “interested in challenging the form and making the book a multidimensional experience,” Ms. Grau said in an interview. “There is a kaleidoscopic frame of reference, and it asks a reader to keep up.”
The book, to be edited by the hip-hop journalist Sacha Jenkins, will be loosely structured as an oral history. It will also have contributions by other writers, as well as a strong visual component. Ms. Grau and Luke Janklow, the group’s agent, both compared it to Grand Royal, the Beastie Boys’ acclaimed but short-lived magazine in the 1990s, which explored some of its wide-ranging pop-culture interests with curiosity and snark.
Sesame Street has a Shure Shot (2)
Vimeo Direktstreet, via MeFi
Vor knapp anderthalb Jahren bloggte ich diesen kurzen Clip, in dem Muppets aus der Sesamstraße zu „Sure Shot“ der Beastie Boys abgehen. Seit damals haben sie daraus ein Video zum kompletten Track gemacht und man kann prinzipiell niemals genug Beastie Boys/Sesamstraßen-Mashups im Blog haben. ‘Cause you can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop.
DJ-Set: DJ Food reconstructs Beastie Boys’ Pauls Boutique
DJ Food und Kollegen von Ninja Tune haben Beastie Boys’ „Pauls Boutique“ rekonstruiert, aus den Original-Samples, Demos und Interviews. Der Mix für die Solid Steel Radioshow ist seit drei Jahren in Arbeit, die Tracklist umfasst nicht weniger als 167 Songs und Soundbits. In der Soundcloud gibt’s die einstündige Variante ohne die anderen Items aus der Show, auf Mixcloud gibt’s die kompletten zwei Stunden mit zusätzlichen Mixen von Coldcut und PC. Obendrauf kommt ‘ne Cover-Illu von Comiczeichner Jim „Food One“ Mahfood (Tank Girl, Kevin Smiths Clerks, Marvel). Über die unglaublich großartige Großartigkeit von all dem hier muss ich wohl keine weiteren Worte verlieren, oder vielleicht doch, eins: WHOA!
3 years in the making, 3 DJs working with over 150 tracks to recreate one of the seminal sampling albums of all time, at last Cheeba, Moneyshot and I can reveal ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’. Our tribute to the classic Beastie Boys album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ remixed and re-imagined from all the original samples plus a cappellas, period interviews and the Beasties’ own audio commentary from the reissued release.
Add to this a custom illustration from Paul’s Boutique super-fan and all-round great guy Jim Mahfood, taking time out from recent art duties on Tank Girl, and you have an alternate version of the album. The mix was over half way finished when we heard the tragic news of Adam Yauch‘s passing this May so this is also our nod to his memory, RIP MCA.
‘Paul’s Boutique’ remade by Cheeba, Moneyshot & Food
Tracklist nach dem Klick.
MCA still a cool Beastie, bans his Music for Commercials from the Grave
Adam „MCA“ Yauch hat in seinem Testament festgelegt, dass weder sein Bild noch seine Musik, Filme oder Kunst jemals für Werbung genutzt werden darf. Damit bleibt dem Mann das Schicksal von Lennon oder Johnny Cash erspart. R.I.P., coole Socke.
Late Beastie Boys member MCA made sure he would never be a corporate sellout — even in the afterlife. The pioneering rapper, whose real name is Adam Yauch, instructed in his will that his image, music and any art he created could not be used for advertising, saving himself from the fate of other deceased musicians whose faces and songs have become corporate shills.
Yauch’s will, filed Tuesday in Manhattan Surrogate Court, says the Brooklyn native’s entire fortune of $6.4 million should be placed in a trust for his wife, Dechen Yauch, and their 13-year-old daughter. It also says Dechen has the right to sell and manage his artistic property.
MCA’s Will Bans Companies From Using Beastie Boys Songs in Ads (via AnimalyNY)
Moebius/MCA-Tribute Mural
DJ Food hat ein drei Wände eines Hauses bedeckendes Mural in London fotografiert, das vor allem Moebius, aber auch Adam Yauch Tribut zollt: „An amazing, but very hard to photograph, mural dedicated to Moebius that wraps round three sides of a building in Shoreditch, London. Featuring many scenes and images he created in his lifetime and also a little MCA dedication too.“
Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” Being Acted By Children
Vimeo-User James Winters hat seine Frau und seine Kinder in die Pflicht genommen und mit ihnen als Tribut an Adam “MCA” Yauch das Video zu “Sabotage” nachgedreht. Kann man machen.
MCA Tribute Mural in Brooklyn
Ein MCA-Tribute-Mural in Midwood, Brooklyn, wo die Beasties ihre erste Show als Punk Band in einer High School gespielt haben.
Thank you for the inspiration, for this and many many more good reasons, in the heart of Midwood Brooklyn, where it all began, we payed tribute to the energy he gave us in the best way we knew how. Thank you for your contributions to music, art, and humanity.
Beastie Boys sued for Samping on Pauls Boutique
Fantastisches Timing der Tuf America Records (auch wenn man hinzufügen muss, dass sie die Beasties einen Tag vor dem Krebstod von MCA verklagt hatten. Dennoch!), die ein knappes Viertel Jahrhundert (!) nach Veröffentlichung die Beasties wegen Samples aus License to Ill und Pauls Boutique verklagt haben. Und: Das konnten sie nur nach einer “thorough sound analysis” feststellen. Ich schätze mal, mit einer “thorough sound analysis” finde ich sogar den Sound meiner Fürze in Songs von Coldplay. Bastarde!
Zeitgleich hat Slate ein Posting über Pauls Boutique und die Verhinderung von Kreativität durch Anwälte und Gesetze: Was Paul’s Boutique Illegal? How dumb court decisions and bad laws have made it all but impossible for musicians to sample the way the Beastie Boys used to. (via Jason Kottke)
The entire album is based on lavish sampling of other recordings. “Shake Your Rump,” which leads Slate’s #MCATracks playlist, features samples of 14 songs by 12 separate artists. In all, the album is thought to have as many as 300 total samples. The sampling gave Paul’s Boutique a sound that remains almost as distinctive today as it was when it was released in 1989.
Perhaps the main reason—and certainly the saddest reason—that it still sounds distinctive is that a rapidly shifting legal and economic landscape made it essentially impossible to repeat.
Das Argument ist alles andere als neu und wird immer wieder diskutiert, Kembrew McLeod und Peter DiCola haben in ihrem Buch “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling” mal ausgerechnet, wie viel die Beasties an Pauls Boutique verdient hätten, wenn sie alle Samples abgerechnet hätten und dasselbe haben sie dann auch für Public Enemys “Fear of the Black Planet” getan (hier das komplette Kapitel als PDF). Letztere hätten nur 6 Millionen Verlust gemacht und die Beasties hätten für den Verkauf ihres Albums grade mal schlappe 20 Millionen Dollar draufzahlen müssen. Wooohooo Copyright!
Angesichts dieses riesigen Haufens Bullshit kann man eigentlich nur zum kreativen zivilen Ungehorsam aufrufen. Weil es gibt immer noch die Girl Talk-Methode.
Beastie Boys featuring Dave Chapelle – It’s the new Style
Bislang unveröffentlichtes Video aus der dritten Staffel der Dave Chapelle Show, am Wochenende von einem der Produzenten hochgeladen. Mmmmmmmmdrop. Von Egotripland:
This previously unreleased footage of the Beasties Boys performing one of their Licensed to Ill classics for the third (and unfinished) season of Chappelle’s Show was uploaded over the weekend by Neal Brennan, co-creator of the much loved Comedy Central program, as a tribute to the late Adam Yauch, a/k/a MCA. It’s a great version of “It’s the New Style” with the Beasties sounding fresher than ever rhyming on a boat in the East River – the NYC skyline in the background – while Mixmaster Mike furiously works the wheels of steel. The part where the overhead train crossing the bridge interrupts the performance right before Dave Chappelle himself does the honors of unleashing the famous, “… DROP!” is awesome.
Beastie Boys — “It’s the New Style” on “Chappelle’s Show” (previously unreleased, 2004).
Glen E. Friedmans Beastie Boys-Photos
Glen E. Friedman, weltbekannter Fotograf und wohl am bekanntesten für das Foto von Run DMC, hat ein paar private Shots von den Beastie Boys hochgeladen.
Adam “MCA” Yauch R.I.P.
Heute verstarb Adam Nathaniel Yauch im Alter von nur 47 Jahren, er hinterlässt Frau und Tochter. Zusammen mit den Beasties schrieb er Musikgeschichte, als Regisseur schuf er die fantastischen Low-Fi-Clips zu “Intergalactic” und “Fight for your Right (Revisited)” und seine Firma Oscilloscope Laboratories produzierte unter anderem Banksys “Exit thru the Gift Shop”, außerdem war er politischer Aktivist, Gründer des Free Tibet Music Festival und zuletzt aktiv am Occupy Movement in New York beteiligt. Fuck.
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA” Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his 17th birthday party that would later become known the world over as Beastie Boys.
Beastie Boys.com, Rolling Stone: Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47, Dangerous Minds: The Beastie Boys when they actually *were* boys (and a girl) on cable access TV, 1984
Beastie Boy Mike D explains Illin’ on the Colbert Report
Ich hatte das heute morgen bereits gesehen, hatte aber kein Video gefunden (bzw. der Clip auf Colberts Seite lud nicht) und hab’s dann vergessen, bis eben: Mike D von den Beastie Boys war beim Colbert Report und hat dort die Etymologie und Grammatik von „Illin’“ erklärt, weil’s da ‘ne kleinere Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Kreuzworträtselredakteur der NYTimes und einer Bloggerin gab. Und weil Mike D für „Illin’“ bekanntlich ‘ne Lizenz hat. Ganz großes Kino für Sprach- und HipHop-Nerds.
Mike D. of Beastie Boys made a guest appearance on “The Colbert Report” last night, but not to perform. Stephen Colbert invited him on to settle a recent disagreement between New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and blogger Julieanne Smolinski. She accused the editor of pairing the crossword response “illin” with an inaccurate clue: “Wack, in hip-hop.” Colbert brought in Beastie Boys “head grammarian” Mike D., because he’s “the only authority with a license to ill.”
