Saturday 5 May 2012

VALE ADAM YAUCH/MCA OF THE BEASTIES . . . . JUST WOKE UP TO THIS SAD NEWS, DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE'D BEEN BATTLING CANCER . . . . THE BEASTIES, PIVOTAL, INFLUENTIAL, RESPECTED, PISSTAKERS, FUNMAKERS, DUMB WHITE BOYS, HIP HOP TRAILBLAZERS, FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT . . . . A SAD DAY FOR REAL MUSIC, GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.

WE ALL HAVE A BEASTIES STORY, BUT FOR A REALLY COOL, WARM, INSIGHTFUL ONE, GO IMMEDIATELTY TO MAX'S "4Q CONDITIONING" BLOG AND READ HIS . . . . IT'S A MAGNIFICENT, TOUCHING, POIGNANT TALE OF WHAT THEY MEANT AND WHO THEY ARE . . . . A TOTAL FUCKING BUMMER . . . . OFF FOR A THRASH ON A GORGEOUS BUT NOW SOMEHOW BLEAK AND GREY GOLD COAST SATURDAY . . . .

R.I.P ADAM YAUCH . . . . LOVE YOUR WORK MAN, ALWAYS.

3 comments:

  1. Just found out myself. Damn. That really fuckin sucks. Not even sure quite how to process that yet.

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  2. Just found out while on duty today. Damn. That really fuckin sucks. I told someone about it and they responded by referring to the Beastie Boys as "some fuckin boy band, but not as bad as Nsync"! No he wasn't kidding and no he wasn't trying to make a weak pun.

    If that kid hadn't been in my platoon while we were in Iraq, I may very well have demonstrated for him the drawbacks of physical violence. A fuckin boy band!?!

    MCA will be missed. A true force for good in the world will be sorely missed.

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    1. Pat, good to hear from you today in particular brother, still feeling kind of weird, just keep comin back to it . . . "boy band", it'd be funny if wasn't so sad, I reckon a lot of folk who aren't so into music like many of us are, just wrote them off as a bunch of loser white boys doing dumbarsed rap/hip hop without knowing about their depth ot catalogue, the significance of their place in music evolution and how widely they were loved and respected. Here's to Mr Yauch, also Mr Diamond, Mr Ad-Rock who will be feelin the pain, and to you mate, cheers bro, be safe down there.

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