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Pop singer Madonna rose to stardom through New York’s night club circuit in the 80’s and by the middle of the decade she would become a sx symbol and have countless hits on MTV despite catching the ire of family values types. During one of her tours in the mid 80’s she chose to have and up and coming rap trio known as the beastie boys. It was a strange choice given how different their music was from hers.. Let’s find out what happened behind the scenes in today’s video.
In 1985 Madonna would head out on her first major tour. Titled like a vrgin She had graduated from playing small venues like CBGB’s and was now headlining arenas. Her manager would end up calling Russell Simmons and asked one of his artists to open for her on tour. It’s been reported that originally Madonna wanted a comedy rap trio named the Fat Boys to open for her. The problem was that Simmons didn’t represent the rap trio, but wanting to keep her on the phone, he pretended to represent them and he allegedly told her they were booked for another tour.Instead, he offered Run DMC, but Madonna’s people thought they were too expensive. So he offered The Beastie Boys. The beastie boys at this point only had a handful of songs to call their own, so they were a bargain to madonna. She agreed and so a tour was set in motion.
Madonna’s fans universally hated the beastie boys. The opening date of the tour started out at the Paramount theatre in Seattle. Madonna and the Beastie boys would play 3 dates there and the plan was to graduate to playing arenas after that. But the beastie boys almost got canned from the tour after those dates due to the audience’s poor reaction to their 30 minute set. Madonna’s management wanted to fire the beastie boys, but the pop star would refuse to kick them off the tour since she counted herself a fan. Ad-Rock would tell Jimmy Fallon in 2015
We played the first couple shows and they hated us," "She realized that [the audience] hated us so much, that by the time she got on stage, it was the greatest thing ever."
Rick Rubin was the Beastie Boys’ DJ (DJ Double R) but after the first week, he had to fly back to NYC and he never came back.
The Beasties rented a Lincoln Continental.to get them from city to city. They opted not to bring a change of clothes instead wearing the same lcothe fort the whole tour. Here’s a interview with the rap trio discussing what there relationship with madonna’s audience.
During an afterparty at one show in Los Angeles according to the book The Beastie Boys crashed Madonna’s afterparty and hung out with celebrities who had no idea who they were. The Virgin Tour would end in 1985 with five night residency in new york that was split between madison square garden and radio city music hall. During her last performance the beastie boys came on stage at the end of Madonna’s performance and soaked her with a water gun.
One year later The Beastie Boys would release 1986’s License to ill and it would go on to become the biggest rap selling album of the decade and throughout the next two decades they would become one of the biggest and most influential rap groups in history.
Ad-Rock would tell Spin Magazine in 1998 it’s not like any of us knew Madonna that much , but we used to hang out at Danceteria club so we knew of each other. I don’t know why she thought it would be a good idea for us to ope ntaht tour. It was a terrible idea. They were booed every night on stage and hit with beer bottles.
In the same issue of Spin Magazine Madonna would defend the band saying
“They were very bad boys. They said the f-word on stage all the time. The audience always booed them and they told them to f off. I loved the for that. I couldn’t understand why everyone hated them. I thought they were so adorable. I think I made out with Adam Yauch once in their dressing room.
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I was at the show in New Haven CT. When Beasties came out everybody in the place booed and we laughed our asses off. We thought they were the stupidest thing ever. About 2 years later later we all bought their record...
Weird first time I heard LTI I thought it was the best thing ever
May have been a bad combo for opener and main but Madonna seems like she had a blast
a lot of requests for this video so it's finally off my list
Lest we forget that when it comes to strange concert pairings that Jimi Hendrix once opened for the Monkees. Now that would be a fun video.
Or Spinal Tap with puppet show
From what I've been told, people in the 60's liked all music at the time, fans weren't divided up into different camps like later in the 70's.
So it may not have been that strange of a pairing.
@@davetheimpaler204
No, there has always been multiple genres, each with their own fan base.
@@freelanceopportunist559 Within rock music, I mean.
I hear people reminisce about all rock during the 60's, they liked it all.
I don't believe rock fandom really splintered until the 70's.
Just look at the line-ups for music festivals in the 60's; very different bands, that would be in very different sub-genres today, sharing a stage and the audiences loved them.
@@davetheimpaler204
You never hear of mods and rockers, preppies and hippies?
There are others and all listened to guitar driven pop/rock.
I was in fifth grade and went to the Detroit show with my family and when the beastie boys came out everybody was just like what is this. It was so funny, I will never forget it. Then I feel like it was just a little later and they had a hit song with fight for your right.
same show!!! wow small world.
@@motownXJdad9565 Nice!
was at that show, and if i remember they almost got booed off stage
To Party!
@@seanguns8191 yeah, no one in that crowd was feeling it.
I have to give credit to Madonna for personally signing the Deftones to her label...
And Alanis Morissette!
Candlebox and The Prodigy too...
Didn't Gogol Bordello also sign with her?
@@ourdemonknight7615 Their drummer is from here in VT, grew up about 15 mins away from me. I used to work with her Mother. IDK if they're still together but she used to date Elijah Wood, and he used to hang out around here all the time.
Could you imagine catching a beastie boy and Madonna concert and not even being happy about it?
Fuck no, I would not go see Madonna,
I saw this concert! I was in the crowd in Detroit! The Beasties were BOOOOED can you imagine? They came in wearing their Yankees shit, and shit talking the Tigers! They won us over by the end of the set!
And when “License to Ill” came out I was able to say “Ya, I already heard them!!”
Wow! Such a kool memory!
I was at that show in Houston, when I was a teenager!
Beastie Boys were all jumping around and the record skipped!!
They tried to get crowd excited, “ this ain’t no fuckin library, make some noise!” And noise the crowd made: they boo-ed them off the stage!
I was in second row, so crazy!!
They skipped the record @ the Cleveland show too jumping around. 🤔
😆 😆😆
I seen that tour and I remember them getting booed off stage, but I defended them and flipped off the people booing them. What was cool was after the show I met them out in the parking lot and told them how I like them and to keep working on their game after that you know what they became.
Wow, thank you for single handedly ensuring the Beastie Boys continued after this tour!
You sound awesome!
'Don't you know that she's got a gold tooth- You know she's hard core! She'll show ya a good time then she'll show you the door'
-Beastie Boys, "Hey Ladies"
I knew somebody years ago who was at the Portland, OR show. He said the Beastie Boys came out and people just stared in confusion not sure what to make of it. The audience was mainly suburban preppy high school kids so the confusion was through the roof.
The funny thing is, those same kids are grown now and bragging they saw the Bestie Boys
My husband went to the Stones when this unknown 18 yo named Prince was booed off stage!
Its amazing to me, that Madonna ever played cbgb. You just think that she was an instant megastar
As I remember hearing about it at the time, Madonna truly was a fan of the Beasties. Had nothing to do with her audience hating them, thus guaranteeing she wouldn't be upstaged. Now, a concert I went to in '77 with the biggest band in the world at that time, KISS, turned out to be a way different story. The opener was this band we hadn't really heard of called AC/DC. When I say Bon Scott, Angus and the boys absolutely murdered their set, I'm not joking. They rocked Market Square Arena and blew the audience away. I knew I was witnessing something very special that night. KISS came on and were good, but they just could not match the intensity, the sheer magic that AC/DC gave us.
When I saw Metallica open up for ozzy in 86, the same thing happened. Metallica murdered ozzy
Wow. That had to be awesome, kiss were in their prime then so to blow them away it must have been a fucking awesome concert. I saw AC/DC live a while back and they were still kicking ass but it was with Brian. Tore the place up. I met the guys from anvil that night too right before their set, they kicked ass too. I was glad to see them getting a little recognition. They were a band that should have been huge and never really went anywhere then came out with a movie and had a little resurgence opening for AC/DC and whatnot but faded back into obscurity. Gotta give them credit they have been putting out kickass albums since the 80s but I don’t think they ever had a great record company to push them. They played the US festival and the singer is wild he would play his guitar with a dildo and shit. He was just as crazy offstage telling me this story about seeing some flying orb one night. Wacky guys but nice as hell. Probably because they’re Canadian eh?
Sounds like what happened when Amber King opened for the Doors. Morrison very unhappy at being upstaged musically
Yeah, you're right - Madonna was a fan. In fact, she told an interviewer once that she listened to the Beastie Boys when having sex. I think she was just being provocative, but it was a fun quote.
Back in college, my college band was booked to open for a local professional band. We had a couple issues not being 21, so it didn’t work out for some bars. We were “ok” but not great.
We didn’t get paid but we got free bar food and sodas, and “experience”. It was a blast - as we were fans of the local band. Sadly, one of our shows we brought about 20 paying friends out to the gig. Being under 21, the bar actually set up ropes and kept them on one side of the room. Those were the only people who came out to the gig.
Otherwise, the other band loved us bc we were free, easy to work with, and made them look good by comparison! 😅
I'm delighted to hear Madonna was good to them.
It sounded like a fun time.
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater Kinney and Portlandia mentioned she saw Madonna in Seattle at the Paramount Theater during the Like a virgin tour.
Love it. Carrie is awesome
Madonna’s first show on her first major headlining tour. She came back to Seattle and played the Kingdome on her next tour - I forget what it was called - and says Seattle was her “virgin city”.
Was @ the Cleveland show. Beastie Boys got booed off stage. So bad. Saw them walking back to their hotel in pouring rain after show. Few years later it was limousines & jets for them. Who knew?
1985 was not the year and / or time for the beastie boys. by 1987, they were very popular n the young people loved them.
Could you imagine seeing early Madonna AND early Beastie Boys!! Amazing!
Doesn't seem that disasterous to me if Madge said they were 'adorable.'
She is such a badass. Love all four of these pioneers.
I would have loved to see a show of that tour.
It was very cool that Madonna didn't fire the Beastie Boys, even though her fans hated them.
"I think I made out with Adam Yauch in the dressing room, once "
Hahahahahhahahahaha you tried to make that a throwaway line but it could have been the thumbnail
I thought that was a curious way to end the segment too...lol.
Just Madonna being Madonna kinda rly is a throwaway line lol
^^^
LOL..
Despite a tour together she didnt really learn who was who between the three guys.
We all wanted to make out with Adam Yauch in the dressing room once, bro
I remember the Indigo Girls opening up for Duran Duran (their "Ordinary World" tour maybe?) and people booed and didn't 'get' them. I feel like there were a lot of 'strange pairings' between headliners and opening bands back then, but maybe it's always been this way and we just didn't 'notice'?
I was in 6th grade watching Madonna on MTV when License to Ill dropped, and we were all on board with the Beastie Boys in my Christian middle school playground later that year... they made their mark. :)
You should do the beastie boys first headline tour with murphys law and fishbone as support.
Paramount Theatre. Seattle, January 1987👍🏾
I caught the Virgin tour in New Orleans. The Beasties didn't go over well at all.
LOL love this story. Another great job. 👍🏻
I wonder how much of the main act's choice of opening act is that they want to insure they don't get upstaged. If the crowd hates the opening act the main draw is worshipped even more. I saw the Who in 82(?) in Orlando for their "last tour." Joan Jett and the B-52s were the opening acts at the stadium. I happened to be a fan of all 3 bands but the crowd literally booed both of them offstage. Joan Jett swore at the crowd and, if I remember correctly, the B52s only played a song or two and left. Who thought it would be a good idea for those acts to open?
I saw The Ramones open for Foreigner in the 70s. Nobody knew who they were though I was a fan.
Same reaction of boos, but Ramones didn't give one fuck.
Who thought this would be a good combo?
I saw Pantera open up for Skid Row and the crowd wasn't all that nice to the boys from Texas either. Also, Dime got naked on stage and Phil yelled at the staff because they stopped moshing.
@@antimatter2380 damn I would have loved to see thar show
one the one hand she's a visionary and has had an incredible ability to know know what's trendy or what will be trendy but on the other hand, she does love the attention and would have done anything to amplify her image.
But why would that be the case in this particular situation when they were being booed off the stage? And Madonna doesn’t crave attention, her actions specifically her sexually intended actions get her the attention, it’s not her fault she’s a sexual person who also happens to be a woman. If it were a man nobody would be saying anything about her sexual antics and opinions
@Andre Marcs Doesn’t crave attention? Dude she’s been pretty honest about craving attention and the spotlight since she was a child. But I mean thats true of pretty much most if not all performers. They generally don’t seek careers in entertainment if they don’t like attention.
Madonna is a straight-up genius and I find it so cool that she was an OG Beastie fan✨
Omg...Adam made out w/her in the mid 80's...GOAT.
Yauch is one lucky guy
Who the hell didn't?
@@cchavezjr7 Exactly... And she banged everybody.
I don’t think there’s any truth to that as she was already in a serious relationship with Sean Penn during this tour and married him not long after it concluded
Beastie Boys were great live. Saw them in 1992,at Rutgers with Rollins Band. Second of two great double bills I saw there. The other was Primus and Fishbone in 1991
Thanks for another interesting video
Probably one of the weirdest lineups I ever saw was this little day fest they put on here back in the late '90s. What really stuck out about the lineup was The Wallflowers, and this local funk/rap core stoner hybrid band I was into called So Far Gone (all their music is up on RUclips on their old guitar techs channel, actually) - but the big headliner at the end of the night was Brian McKnight (of Backstreet Boys fame).
Weird show. Lol
Is it possible for you to cover that Faith No More gig where the bottles were thrown on stage? Might have been GnR tour in Spain.
Lol The Smiths had Madonna open up for them when they first came to the US. Madonna also heard the Deftones and signed them to her record label at the time. She’s done a lot of great work discovering and lobbying for bands.
Seen the Beastie Boys & Madonna in Cincinnati in 1985. The BBs were just OK but Madonna rocked it!
You’re so lucky 😍😍😍 I’m fanning out reading all these first hand memories!
i love the place holder titles!
I saw them together in Dallas. I only went because my girlfriend wanted to see Madonna, and God it was ugly.
I actually liked both of them back in the day, would have been a cool concert
I saw this show in Houston, TX. The Beasties (whom I love) were booed off of the stage. I saw the Beaties a few years later with RunDMC and they were great
Wow Madonna got and gets alot of credit for the B.B.
Prince opened for The Rolling Stones in 1981, also to a disastrous reception.
My dad tells me this story! He was there
Was at the Cleveland show - 85 i think. It was horrible. They were not ready
Good for Madonna for giving them a chance on her tour. I would have loved to have seen the show as I'm a fan of her and the beastie boys
Madonna rules. She's always made good music, likes good music, and made good business decisions. She also promotes good things. It's funny people think she just had the Beatie Boys onstage because it made people like her more. Does that even make sense? Maybe in wacko conspiracy theory land it does. She came from the underground, and supported what she was into. Not just a prefab manufactured thing, she has always been real.
^ This, all of this!
Like Bowie, I appreciate that she always has connections with interesting and influential people for her projects
@@evapalma9899 She's way better than a lot of people give her credit for. She's also legit punk rock. It's funny (or kinda sad, really) I watched this interview with Kurt Cobain recently and he was talking about how she was just trying to cash in on grunge and probably didn't even like that music. "People like that think they can just buy into everything..." He also talked about how punk rock was happening when she was doing her thing in New York, but she chose to ignore it. But she was in a legit great late 70's post-punk band the Breakfast Club (way before the movie, kiddos) that was way more punk than Nirvana by default; Nirvana were punk, but they were also grunge and very mainstream for most of their career. Madonna also dated Jean-Michel Basquiat, which gives her extra punk rock points. To top it off, Nirvana's song Polly sounds suspiciously like Madonna and the Breakfast Club's song Shine a Light; maybe Kurt heard that song playing somewhere but it was too obscure so he never figured out who it was. Kinda joking on that last point, and I love Kurt Cobain, but I was pretty bummed that even he was clearly oblivious to how great Madonna is and somehow seemed to perceive himself as above her, being generous by giving her the benefit of the doubt and not hating on her. Not cool, Kurt. Plus, her pop music is as good as anything anybody has ever put out in any genre, and will always have a punk rock spirit, even if it sounds like disco pop.
Y'know I was never big fan of her, but I respected her for doing her own thing and ignoring the haters. So I'm not surprised she got along with the Beasties.
This is gonna be good!
Moooooooore beastie boys
This tour woulda been so sick to see
Cool that this is the finished video.
So cooollll
wow this was interesting…. I never knew about this happening! 👍🤘👍
I wonder if there is any archive footage of them on this tour 🤔
Same thing happened when I saw them open up for the Chili Peppers around then. We hated them and they hated us right back! They were throwing beers and food trays at the audience, we threw them back at them. Worked out great for RHCP! All in a little hall meant for classical ensembles.
Dude! You have to do a video on Sammy Hagar’s alien experience. He was on Howard on 2011ish and I remember it being quite the tale. The new CIA reports jogged my memory.
the cia reports are a distraction
I was thinking this the other day. I believe he said they came to him in a dream and there was 9 of them.
(His company is called 9.)
They should have just done full instrument sets with a bunch of Bad Brains covers and stuff. I consider myself very lucky to have seen them at Bonnaroo 2009. The crowd was HUGE, but the energy was absolutely universal and infectious. Everyone was getting the fuck down! Not too much time passed, when I read that MCA had cancer. RIP to a true fuckin legend q
My aunt was there and I remember her telling me that year how horrible and shocking they were............ You should do a video on the year into the fire opened for van Halen......... Talk about directed hatred.
2:30 "hanging with celebrities who didn't know who they were."
Celebrities: "who are you guys!?"
BBs: "We're just 3 MCs and 1 DJ."
This is not entirely how things happened. Madonna and the Beastie Boys were long time friends. They were friends from before Madonna got famous and before the Beastie Boys would become, well, the Beastie Boys. She and they, along with Keith Haring, would go out to clubs like Danceteria together, and they would go out to paint graffitis in the streets of New York all the time. And when Madonna became famous they just opened their friend's tour. It was a natural choice.
Oh and that girl in the blue dress playing piano is not Madonna.
In the Beastie Boys Book, Ad rock says that he wishes he knew Madonna personally after that one tour
Funny how you know more than Adam Horowitz. I thought he was there.
Everyone has a purpose in life.
After hearing this story, I am convinced Madonna was never here to sing to us (🙉 nooooo) but to launch the Beast Boys.
Thanks for that, Madonna.
Truly a couple of acts that I would be content never to hear another word about for my entire life.
I saw that tour!!
Bad idea or not, I really admire Madonna's loyalty towards the B-Boys! I would have loved to have seen that show. Too bad I was only seven years old at best?
Because when I think of the Beaties, I think Madonna.
I went to it in Miami , it was a good show.
Whatever people think of Madonna, one thing you cannot say is that she doesn't have an eye and ear for trends. Yes, she re-invents herself constantly. Yes, she should just hang it up. But compared to her derived and "redundant" contemporaries ( I say redundant, as I was never a 13 year old fangirl/boy of pop idols. So I understand that the wheel needs new window dressing as far as the Industry goes ), she was always smart enough to know (musically) which way the winds would blow.
Acting wise, she is a pop singer. (Desperately Seeking Susan is pretty OK for the time)
Now a weird pairing was 1990 new kids on the block and Public Enemy!
at that time majority of the people attending the virgin tour were teens and their parents. I can imagine conservative parents really thinking Wtf they just got into when the Bestie Boys opened for a pop artist.
I saw that smut flick it was awesome! Madonna does the beasties!
Saw that tour at uic pavilion, Chicago. I remember them rapping to Back in black. That got the crowd going some.
That was probably Rock Hard. Only hip hop records they had by 85 were Rock Hard, She's On It and Slow and Low. Rock Hard had the AC/DC sample.
I turned down going to see this show. I could kick myself now.
B boys said they would never sell their music to advertisers. Saw an advertisement the other day with beastie song.....
Damn, it would have been the shit to see the beastie boys open up for her...
Looks like the audience ate their words eventually. If only they knew what the Beastie Boys would become in time.
Holy crap I forgot this even happened
Given her well-deserved reputation for being a petulant, narcissistic diva, I have to say I'm really surprised that she wasn't the villain of this story.
@DJ DaveRave aka Dave Gordon yeah mate media full of bs, in almost every celebrity grab ia lie who knows how they sleep at night.
Wish there was video of this lol
could you do a video on the goo goo dolls and how the departure of their original drummer changed their sound from rock to pop?
Madonna can be a weirdo at times, but she's a hero for standing up for the Beasties.
That's not Madonna with the 3 MCs pictured on the piano.
Twelve months later it would have been a much different story, the Beasties are a legend!
Fun fact at 1:59 that picture is not Madonna they are pouring the champagne on
As for a recent example, it's not as drastic but I saw Kacey Musgraves a couple years ago and Weyes Blood opened. Not sure about boos but there was a definite fan and audience gap with probable confusion. I'm one of however many that loves both so yeah
I wonder if the Beasties still played any hardcore punk or were already full into their hip-hop routine
i saw beastie boys do a new years eve show (years ago) they played "you gotta fight for your right to party" they forgot the lyrics. no wonder their tour was "disastrous".
I saw that tour! I was 13 and I did NOT want to see a grungy punk band, I wanted to see Madonna. I did see Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill tour, I liked them by then.
Were they playing punk on that tour? Were they also doing rap? I've listened to their early punk stuff; it's actually pretty decent.
@@morgellon9449 tbh I don't remember, I don't think it was rap. I just have a memory of being unhappy about it lol
@@morgellon9449 they were not punk rock at that time and definitely did not play any punk music. They didn’t go back to punk until the early 90s. This concert was 85 and they were rapping since 83.
@@andrewpalmer4175 Thanks for the info. I watched a public access thing from 1984 recently where they played a punk rock set, so I wasn't really sure when they fully transitioned to rap. The Scott and Gary Show, it was called; the Butthole Surfers played that same episode, I believe.
@@morgellon9449 Right, The one with Mike in the windbreaker? 😄
I remember seeing the Beastie Boys in 1987 with Fishbone and Murphy's Law opening for them.
Poor kids!
its hilarious somtimes the ideas for opening acts, how about Barry manlow opening for Black Sabbath.
Barry manilow wouldn't make it out alive,and Ozzy would probably get a lot of shit for bringing that guy out
Madonna did that. 😎
Check Your Head is straight up Punk Rock. Beastie Boys rule.
@Sub if you are against Antifa and BLM i wouldn't call time for livin' "rap rock"
They started as a punk band as well. Punk and hip hop had a lot more in common than people like to think. Aside from the different type of sound, from playing the same venues in NYC, to lyrics about social issues, and sub cultures of dedicated fans that were all about an F U to the man, type of attitude.
How about Madonna signing the Deftones
No dogs in space podcast covered beastie boys & all of this very well. It was all by design
Fan request for Nico Vega:)
Just like when KISS took this unknown Canadian band name RUSH out on tour with them. I think that unknown Canadian band did pretty good...lol!!!
Yeah I seen judas priest open for kiss in 76
Then I seen rush in 79 as headliner
Madonna fans hate the Bestie Boys, I guess she attracts flies, but at least she was cool with them
Please....♥️....inxs...suicidal and Mike Muir.....infectious grooves....Sepultura . .will you go heavy for a bit?
Although it wasn't that odd of a pairing, I saw Cheap Trick open for Ratt back in the late 80s. Great show by both bands but just seemed like two different types of fans together.
Madonna is GANGSTA!!!!
RHCP live in SNL 1992 incident next plssssss