the KING AdRock. Horrowitz is for sure one of the pillars of the entire genre- his energy and voice and attitude and humor and funk. Love that Beastie Mensch!
Everyone talks about Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique (rightfully so) but imo Check Your Head and Ill Communication are the Beasties best. Massively influential to a lot of alternative hip hop in the 90s and 00s
Check Your Head was big for me, just as big as Paul's Boutique. LTI was super fun and I was super young, but PB showed they were serious business and CYH solidified that fact for me. The rest was icing.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this . I’ll communication , check your head and later beastie albums are just as good . I don’t questlove really listened to those recordings.
Paul’s boutique was sequenced on a computer using a program called texture. It was a DOS based sequencer before windows came out. It basically sent midi notes to external samplers.
I keep going back and prefer pre synth era. I like blue note jazz verve etc. Then dub for sure but I obsessed over dub for most my life. Then I got all these club music records I bought living in Japan for 20 years. Japan totally blew open my mind to so much music. It changed everything for me. But now Im in US so I mostly explore jazz records I pick up at the shop near me.
@7:13 AM... THIS IS A PLEASURE FELLAS. AND RECORD DIGGIN IS BEAUTIFUL MORE TODAY THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT A BREAK. THESE RECORDS CONTAIN MORE THAN THAT TODAY!!!!!!!
I first found out about the Roots when you all opened up for Beastie Boys. We bought the tickets and then went to the record store to buy the second Roots album that same day. That was a dope show. The whole Roots crew was there. You could easily get crushed by the audience at those Beastie Boys shows. The Beasties would have to stop and tell the audience to back up a few steps.
The part where Quest talks about how loud they were is not a mf Joke. Early 00s gig in San Francisco w Talib opening, beyond powerfully,borderline painfully loud. Kool cigarettes had a promo thing going on and folks were breaking off filters for makeshift ear plugs no b/s. Fantastic show all around.
Listened to the first 17 mins so far (all I have time b4 work). Man, Adam puts my own "everything new stinks" old man attitude to shame, lol. I listened to the Travis Scott track he mentioned; I didn't like it, but I wouldn't compare how I felt listening to it to my dad listening to Slayer, lol. Maybe 'cuz my 19 y/o son and I always make e/o listen to e/o's music. But props to him for always being super comfortable with being himself and keeping it real.
yes! big up to the Cameo. I'm Beach High class of '92. Cameo was where i saw De La, Digable Planets, Run DMC, Common, and more alllll in the 90s. Kinda sad how the Beach is now. I wish i coulda seen Hello Nasty live at the Cameo.
Was that show with Cypress Hill and Rollins? Saw them in Tampa and Orlando with that lbill. We wanted to go to the Miami show as well but couldn’t make it happen. Great line up and Beasties killed it per usual.
I'm guessing what Quest is taking about at 1:30:00 is laying every sample as a loop to each channel and then soloing or muting them out every few bars. So if you unmuted every track you'd have like a 3 minute song with 20+ loops all going at the same time.
Beasties are my #1 most influential band because 1) LOVED all of their music, collected every b-side and 2) They created art because they love it and not for commercial or monetery success.
Thats so sick that Adam has that story about Dante Carfagna (who is a digging legend) His mixes are very legendary & while he is mostly famous for soul “breaks” & private rare obscure soul (Also had has a section in Acid Archives on private soul that is worth reading) But he also was a heavy psych collector in the formative years of private psych (Donnie Joe, Michael Angelo, Jim Sullivan etc…) along with the psych mafia patrick lundborg, Paul Major & many others aswell as the Waxi forum !!!! thats really IFYKYK
Beasties were my favorite group as a kid. You just were not cool in 1986 unless you could recite Paul Revere. Paul's Boutique, and Check your head were my favorite albums then, even though I had to listen to Paul's boutique alone. I saw rap struggling to still start in 1985-86 until the Beasties did their world tour with Madonna in 87, not many ever heard of Grandmaster Flash, or Spoonie G, Curtis Blow, until after the Beasties had the 1st Platinum selling rap album. Then the world started to get historic. "Let me clear my throat, kick it over here baby, stop and all the fly skivies feel the beat.,,,,..........................NNNNNNN DROPPPP. !
My first album given to me was an 8-track compilation with Elvis, the Spinners, and other classic soul artists from the 50s and 60s. Then I started to save up and buy Beatles albums. 1. Their 2nd album (aka with the Beatles), 2. Parlaphone Beatles rock and roll music. 3. The blue and red albums, 4. White album. I was 9 years old.
Check ya Head is best. Paul's Boutique is a close 2nd, followed by Ill Communication. License to Ill is dope, but it isn't top three Beatsie Boys. Love and Respect on the names of MCA, Guru, Biz Markie, and Trugoy the Dove. RIP to those legends and pioneers
Whenever he says, "I know for me..." or "OK, so..." he's about to answer the question he just asked the guest--which the guest may or may not have answered yet. 😂
Paul's Boutique should have kept the Licensed To Ill 808 production style but slightly updated. You can hear they were kind of going in that direction on some of the tracks, but weren't confident and pivoted on their sound. I personally think it's one of the weaker Beastie Boys albums.
@@Praxis578😂😂😂😂 exactly. I’m a longtime fan as well. I’ve seen the roots quite a few times, all the way back from the club days up to the big festival days, but the dude really loves hearing himself talk.
I’m sure you guys were joking about celebrating not having any kids…get yourselves a kid! It’s tough to know real LOVE without having a kid. Especially if you’re financially capable, gotta have a kid.
The Beastie Boys are ONLY “beloved” bc of the production the Dust Brothers served them up with on Paul’s Boutique (AND bc, ahem, their skin color…let’s be HONEST here, white America). EVERY plaudit the BB’s have EVER gotten has come their way IN SPITE of their mic skills.. which makes sense, seeing as 2 of their 3 voices are EXCRUCIATINGLY grating and annoying…and that’s being somewhat GENEROUS, frankly. NONE of their bars are clever enough to distract from their staccato stabs of nasally napalm-FOREVER OFF-putting and distracting. Cool..they self-produced Sabotage. OTHER THAN THAT-the BB’s are a textbook example of being CARRIED BY THEIR PRODUCTION…bc NOBODY in their right mind wants to listen ad-Rock (or ANY other member) acapella, making crap puns about Betty Rubble and Fruity pebbles in a voice that is legit JEALOUS of Gilbert Gottfried’s!!! F the beastie boys and the Gen-X hipster canonization of their PROFOUND mediocrity. Their GREATEST ever talent was knowing WHO exactly to TARGET to launder their own newfound ‘90’s-cool cultural cache in service of making the BB’s, SOMEHOW, look cool and hip and important…and the tastemakers, invariably, fell for the grift…PATHETIC!! The BB’s USED AND ABUSED the dust brothers, Spike Jonze, Q-Tip, Beck, the Royal Trux camp, and oh yeah, the BLACK CULTURAL ART-FORM KNOWN AS HIP HOP…..JUST to name a few….in service of their aggressively mediocre, and aggressively annoying brand of (ahem, cultural piracy) hip hop. FOR SHAME on anyone who ever thought they were worthy of legitimacy, let alone worthy of CELEBRATION!! F*^% Beastie Boys NOW, and F+#^ Beastie Boys FOREVER!!! A trio of marginally talented white boys hasn’t been this OVER-celebrated since the Bee Gee’s’ prime…but AT LEAST their African-American cosplay HAD some actual craft and chops involved. NOBODY outside of 45 year old white dudes care about the Beasties…which is APPROPRIATE. The BB’s music will be forgotten over the tides of history, RIGHTFULLY. Thank God! When MLK Jr. said that the arc of time bends towards justice, I’m CERTAIN (ha) he was NOT thinking about the ouevre of the Beastie Boy’s…BUT, following said line of logic, it brings me ALL the joy in the world to see how, if not outright forgotten and/or dismissed, the BB’s legacy has been ruthlessly picked apart by ppl MUCH smarter than the dopes who uncritically gave their schticky pap a pass 25-40 years ago!!!!
Chuck D, LL, Meth, Quest Love, KRS, Em, B-Real, Biz, De La, Tribe, that's a highly talented and inlfuential list of artists to be shown flowers from. It's ok to have a subjecive opinion and dislike something- cool. Be careful with your diatribe dipping into the agism and bigotry and then citing MLK jr, you might need to eat some of those Fruity Pebbles cause youre sounding like your bitter could use a little bit of sweetness.
my only critique of the Beasties was them doing Free Tibet series of concerts like there wasn't anything going on over here in America to Blacks, or over there on the Gaza...
Bro, you gotta think about using a split/window format, instead of cutting back and forth between solely you on the screen, and then cutting to solely the person you're interviewing. Having both people's faces on the screen simultaneously makes for a much better interview format.
As a kid that grew up on 70's rock, and more specifically, Prog Rock. I, musically played, Thrash, Industrial, Grindcore, Drum & Bass, Film Music & Noize. The reason I thought that I could even fucking do that is: 1: The Beastie Boys 2: Mr. Bungle 3: Ween (Edit) Damn it, Frank Zappa
the KING AdRock. Horrowitz is for sure one of the pillars of the entire genre- his energy and voice and attitude and humor and funk. Love that Beastie Mensch!
voice*
Questlove thank you so much!!!
We try!
Everyone talks about Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique (rightfully so) but imo Check Your Head and Ill Communication are the Beasties best. Massively influential to a lot of alternative hip hop in the 90s and 00s
Check Your Head was big for me, just as big as Paul's Boutique. LTI was super fun and I was super young, but PB showed they were serious business and CYH solidified that fact for me. The rest was icing.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this . I’ll communication , check your head and later beastie albums are just as good . I don’t questlove really listened to those recordings.
Absolutely!!!
Check your head was the best one...
Check Your Head was too much white rock style for me, so I definitely disagree.
Check your Head is my favorite, Ill Communication was the pinnacle, Hello Nasty was perfect, and of course Paul’s Boutique was a masterpiece.
Check your head captured the 90s perfectly the summer of 1992 for me
Yeah buddy
I have four issues of Grand Royal Magazine!
At 1:13 the song beasties had from PE was Too much Posse,
"Licensed To Ill" changed my life!! The Golden Age of hip hop!
Some great LTI-era discussion within... salute!
Paul’s boutique was sequenced on a computer using a program called texture. It was a DOS based sequencer before windows came out. It basically sent midi notes to external samplers.
Thank you. I love Adrock. Just be you, don't front.
I keep going back and prefer pre synth era. I like blue note jazz verve etc. Then dub for sure but I obsessed over dub for most my life. Then I got all these club music records I bought living in Japan for 20 years. Japan totally blew open my mind to so much music. It changed everything for me. But now Im in US so I mostly explore jazz records I pick up at the shop near me.
@7:13 AM... THIS IS A PLEASURE FELLAS. AND RECORD DIGGIN IS BEAUTIFUL MORE TODAY THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT A BREAK. THESE RECORDS CONTAIN MORE THAN THAT TODAY!!!!!!!
LL didnt need to tell you Ad made the beat he needed. It says clear as day on the record centre label! In fact A Horowitz is the first name credited!
I first found out about the Roots when you all opened up for Beastie Boys. We bought the tickets and then went to the record store to buy the second Roots album that same day. That was a dope show. The whole Roots crew was there. You could easily get crushed by the audience at those Beastie Boys shows. The Beasties would have to stop and tell the audience to back up a few steps.
The original nasal kid is doing damage. 👑AdRock
The part where Quest talks about how loud they were is not a mf Joke. Early 00s gig in San Francisco w Talib opening, beyond powerfully,borderline painfully loud. Kool cigarettes had a promo thing going on and folks were breaking off filters for makeshift ear plugs no b/s. Fantastic show all around.
The Roots not Beasties.
Amazing conversation
I have hold it now hit it the acapella is called Acapulco lol
Thank you so much for this!!!
Listened to the first 17 mins so far (all I have time b4 work). Man, Adam puts my own "everything new stinks" old man attitude to shame, lol. I listened to the Travis Scott track he mentioned; I didn't like it, but I wouldn't compare how I felt listening to it to my dad listening to Slayer, lol. Maybe 'cuz my 19 y/o son and I always make e/o listen to e/o's music. But props to him for always being super comfortable with being himself and keeping it real.
I love all the early tape splicing era !!!! People like the Latin rascals‘Omar Santana ‘ steinski etc !!!!
When I first saw them in 92 at the Cameo Theater in Miami they were on fire and so was the crowd.
yes! big up to the Cameo. I'm Beach High class of '92. Cameo was where i saw De La, Digable Planets, Run DMC, Common, and more alllll in the 90s. Kinda sad how the Beach is now. I wish i coulda seen Hello Nasty live at the Cameo.
Was that show with Cypress Hill and Rollins? Saw them in Tampa and Orlando with that lbill. We wanted to go to the Miami show as well but couldn’t make it happen. Great line up and Beasties killed it per usual.
ALL HAIL THE BEASTIE....KING AD ROCK....RESPECT BRUTHA.
31:38 Shoutout Dante Carfagna (aka DJ Shadow's secret weapon)! ...and also Damon, for that matter.
Adam was most likely referring to the ‘Too Much Posse’ beat when he said the Beasties recorded over PE’s ‘Cold Lampin’ beat at Electric Lady Studios
man i love this. great stuff.
What's the name of the KRS book?
Amazing! Part two? Hehe!
I'm guessing what Quest is taking about at 1:30:00 is laying every sample as a loop to each channel and then soloing or muting them out every few bars. So if you unmuted every track you'd have like a 3 minute song with 20+ loops all going at the same time.
Ah quest lookin for those grand royal zines haha! What a cool interview Adam gave up beyond the book
Beasties are my #1 most influential band because 1) LOVED all of their music, collected every b-side and 2) They created art because they love it and not for commercial or monetery success.
Aye congrats on the new doc. If you win an award I hope LL Cool J doesn’t rough up Damon Wayans a few minutes before hand and steal your moment.
LICENSED TO ILL..PAULS BOUTIQUE..and CHECK YOUR HEAD are their best LPs to me. 🔊🎤🔥😎
Adrock is a perfect lifetime rolemodel in any way
No info on the vault music or the other part of HSC?
Thats so sick that Adam has that story about Dante Carfagna (who is a digging legend) His mixes are very legendary & while he is mostly famous for soul “breaks” & private rare obscure soul (Also had has a section in Acid Archives on private soul that is worth reading) But he also was a heavy psych collector in the formative years of private psych (Donnie Joe, Michael Angelo, Jim Sullivan etc…) along with the psych mafia patrick lundborg, Paul Major & many others aswell as the Waxi forum !!!! thats really IFYKYK
mmmmmm dropppppp
release the beastie vaults please!!!!
They need to make a movie from Biz Markie, he just seemed to have no boundaries on what he did
Hell yeah!
CHILLY MOST!
Beasties were my favorite group as a kid. You just were not cool in 1986 unless you could recite Paul Revere. Paul's Boutique, and Check your head were my favorite albums then, even though I had to listen to Paul's boutique alone. I saw rap struggling to still start in 1985-86 until the Beasties did their world tour with Madonna in 87, not many ever heard of Grandmaster Flash, or Spoonie G, Curtis Blow, until after the Beasties had the 1st Platinum selling rap album. Then the world started to get historic. "Let me clear my throat, kick it over here baby, stop and all the fly skivies feel the beat.,,,,..........................NNNNNNN DROPPPP. !
My first album given to me was an 8-track compilation with Elvis, the Spinners, and other classic soul artists from the 50s and 60s. Then I started to save up and buy Beatles albums. 1. Their 2nd album (aka with the Beatles), 2. Parlaphone Beatles rock and roll music. 3. The blue and red albums, 4. White album. I was 9 years old.
Most musician's books are usually better with audible.
still waiting on that Nasal Tongues album
get them in the studio now!
So there could have been a hip house record? Crazy
Shout out LosTAngel █ s (1989)!
Check ya Head is best. Paul's Boutique is a close 2nd, followed by Ill Communication. License to Ill is dope, but it isn't top three Beatsie Boys. Love and Respect on the names of MCA, Guru, Biz Markie, and Trugoy the Dove. RIP to those legends and pioneers
Great interview. Sir Quest Love is very verbose, respectfully. But it’s worth the edutainment.
Too verbose. Needs to listen more. How much time did questlove talk vs adrock?!
It appears he means well. So eh. All good.
Whenever he says, "I know for me..." or "OK, so..." he's about to answer the question he just asked the guest--which the guest may or may not have answered yet. 😂
LOL I love how Adrock seems annoyed at being interrogated but an absolute nerd.
great. mike d next, yo.
It could be argued that Hot Sauce is their best album. It's at least as good as any of their other albums.
I wouldn't argue. If you're picking a best album that's not Paul's Boutique or Check Your Head, that would be in the running.
It’s 58 yr olds!
I tell ya pilgrim I started the crap.
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Paul's Boutique should have kept the Licensed To Ill 808 production style but slightly updated. You can hear they were kind of going in that direction on some of the tracks, but weren't confident and pivoted on their sound. I personally think it's one of the weaker Beastie Boys albums.
kinda hoarding lol
Damn dude, let the guest talk a little bit. Questlove is both the host and the guest. It’s irritating. I can’t even listen anymore.
Quest is my guy...but as soon as he says, "I know for me...", I hear the chorus to 'The Girl from Impanema' until the guest speaks again.
@@Praxis578😂😂😂😂 exactly. I’m a longtime fan as well. I’ve seen the roots quite a few times, all the way back from the club days up to the big festival days, but the dude really loves hearing himself talk.
I’m sure you guys were joking about celebrating not having any kids…get yourselves a kid! It’s tough to know real LOVE without having a kid. Especially if you’re financially capable, gotta have a kid.
The Beastie Boys are ONLY “beloved” bc of the production the Dust Brothers served them up with on Paul’s Boutique (AND bc, ahem, their skin color…let’s be HONEST here, white America). EVERY plaudit the BB’s have EVER gotten has come their way IN SPITE of their mic skills.. which makes sense, seeing as 2 of their 3 voices are EXCRUCIATINGLY grating and annoying…and that’s being somewhat GENEROUS, frankly. NONE of their bars are clever enough to distract from their staccato stabs of nasally napalm-FOREVER OFF-putting and distracting. Cool..they self-produced Sabotage. OTHER THAN THAT-the BB’s are a textbook example of being CARRIED BY THEIR PRODUCTION…bc NOBODY in their right mind wants to listen ad-Rock (or ANY other member) acapella, making crap puns about Betty Rubble and Fruity pebbles in a voice that is legit JEALOUS of Gilbert Gottfried’s!!! F the beastie boys and the Gen-X hipster canonization of their PROFOUND mediocrity. Their GREATEST ever talent was knowing WHO exactly to TARGET to launder their own newfound ‘90’s-cool cultural cache in service of making the BB’s, SOMEHOW, look cool and hip and important…and the tastemakers, invariably, fell for the grift…PATHETIC!! The BB’s USED AND ABUSED the dust brothers, Spike Jonze, Q-Tip, Beck, the Royal Trux camp, and oh yeah, the BLACK CULTURAL ART-FORM KNOWN AS HIP HOP…..JUST to name a few….in service of their aggressively mediocre, and aggressively annoying brand of (ahem, cultural piracy) hip hop. FOR SHAME on anyone who ever thought they were worthy of legitimacy, let alone worthy of CELEBRATION!! F*^% Beastie Boys NOW, and F+#^ Beastie Boys FOREVER!!! A trio of marginally talented white boys hasn’t been this OVER-celebrated since the Bee Gee’s’ prime…but AT LEAST their African-American cosplay HAD some actual craft and chops involved. NOBODY outside of 45 year old white dudes care about the Beasties…which is APPROPRIATE. The BB’s music will be forgotten over the tides of history, RIGHTFULLY. Thank God! When MLK Jr. said that the arc of time bends towards justice, I’m CERTAIN (ha) he was NOT thinking about the ouevre of the Beastie Boy’s…BUT, following said line of logic, it brings me ALL the joy in the world to see how, if not outright forgotten and/or dismissed, the BB’s legacy has been ruthlessly picked apart by ppl MUCH smarter than the dopes who uncritically gave their schticky pap a pass 25-40 years ago!!!!
shut up.
Chuck D, LL, Meth, Quest Love, KRS, Em, B-Real, Biz, De La, Tribe, that's a highly talented and inlfuential list of artists to be shown flowers from. It's ok to have a subjecive opinion and dislike something- cool. Be careful with your diatribe dipping into the agism and bigotry and then citing MLK jr, you might need to eat some of those Fruity Pebbles cause youre sounding like your bitter could use a little bit of sweetness.
Get a life, champ.
my only critique of the Beasties was them doing Free Tibet series of concerts like there wasn't anything going on over here in America to Blacks, or over there on the Gaza...
Seek meds 🙃
Bro, you gotta think about using a split/window format, instead of cutting back and forth between solely you on the screen, and then cutting to solely the person you're interviewing. Having both people's faces on the screen simultaneously makes for a much better interview format.
As a kid that grew up on 70's rock, and more specifically, Prog Rock. I, musically played, Thrash, Industrial, Grindcore, Drum & Bass, Film Music & Noize.
The reason I thought that I could even fucking do that is:
1: The Beastie Boys
2: Mr. Bungle
3: Ween
(Edit)
Damn it,
Frank Zappa