Beastie Boys Promise to Follow-Up Horrible To The Five Boroughs with the “Sick”:
Posted by: Ed.
A newspiece from somewhere online grabbed off my man’s site on Multiply:
The Beastie Boys are finally doing away with those pesky lyrics. The group has announced that they will perform a series of instrumental shows this summer. They promise that this - and everything else they plan to do in the future - will be “sick.”
hi… here’s a few things you might wanna know about..
1. we have a new record coming out
2. it’s gonna be sick
3. we’re playing a bunch of shows this summer (see below)
4. they’re gonna be sick
5. we’re gonna play some instrumental only shows also… (you know..drums..bass..guitar..keyboard..percussion..)
6. better call your doctor..cause they’re gonna be sick
7. it’s gonna be a gala event
8. we’re changing up the website…sick
9. got new gear coming soon…again…sick..
10. go see a tailor and get tapered up…
see you soon….beastie boys
Summer 2007 Tour Dates:
May 27: George, Washington (Sasquatch Festival)
June 10: Lisbon (Alive! Festival)
June 17: Istanbul (Efes Pilsen One Love Festival)
June 22: Scheessel, Germany (Hurricane Festival)
June 24: Neuhasen, Germany (Southside Festival)
June 26: Paris (Le Zenith)
June 28: Werchter, Belgium (Rock Werchter Festival)
June 30: Gdynia, Poland (Heineken Festival)
Thank God! That To The Five Boroughs album was fucking horrible. I actually wrote a blog about it a couple of years back on our old website, which you can find right below this letter. But this is great news that they are finally realizing they are a much better instrumental band than a rap group in 2007, and have modified their steez accordingly.
Jah Bless,
Ed.
Post on www.irt.drivendesign.com from Summer 2003:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BEASTIE BOYS
Gentlemen,
My name is Ron. I just turned 30 and have been a fan of your music since the sixth grade. I’m writing you this letter a couple of days after your performance at that Field Day debacle there, an hour of pure slop which for all intents and purposes made me embarrassed to call myself one of your longtime fans.
I’ve been waiting to reach out to y’all on the level for a hot minute now. Since the release of Hello Nasty for that matter, an album I was suckered into thinking was dope on name brand hype alone. But numerous listens shortly thereafter have since peeled away the sensationalism of “the hot new Beasties shit” to reveal a rancid b-boy bouiliabase served a bit past the expiration date. If you really wanted to take it back to ’82, you guys should have just made a full-length hardcore record, a proper follow-up to your last great work, 1995’s underrated Aglio E Olio EP.
Who the fuck are you kidding? The worst was when you kids denounced your late 80’s/early 90’s Brooklyn Dust days in the liner notes of that anthology from a couple of years ago. Don’t kid yourselves, fellas; that was also the last time you were considered truly dope. Now I’ve got nothing but admiration and respect for your Buddhist enlightenment and support of human rights and women’s issues, but I don’t see how erasing the past justifies your positive endeavors today. Personally, I still think “Boomin’ Granny” is one of your funniest shits ever. And I’m sorry Ad Rock, but that last BS2000 album plain sucked, dog. I’m just sayin’. And then you re-emerge from a four-year silence a few months ago with that bullshit anti-war song on your website (www.beastieboys.com).
I’d honestly rather hear Regis Philbin freestyle than sit through that garbage again. The Giants Stadium gig was just salt in the wound thereafter. Damn man! Why are you guys playing yourselves so bad like this? Call me a hater all you want, people. You know you feel the same way. I’m only talkin’ this jive because it pains me to see a band I’ve looked up to for so many years go out like this. What happened to the Beasties I emulated back in my high school nerd days? The cats who got me to rock Adidas Gazelles and plaid grandpa shirts? The big brothers who introduced me to Jimmy Cliff and Eddie Harris and The Blues Project on nothing more than a sample or a passing lyrical reference? Where are the dudes who had me hunting for Richard “Groove” Holmes albums upon hearing that tasty instrumental jam off the Check Your Head album?
Albums like that, Paul’s Boutique and even Ill Communication opened my young eyes to a galaxy of new sounds, for which I am eternally grateful. Even this magazine we put out owes a huge debt of gratitude to the issues of Grand Royal I would cop down at Fat Beats during our trips to the city. If there’s anything on Hello Nasty that I consider to be super fresh, it’s the songs that veer furthest away from the boom bap, most notably that rub-a-dub collaboration with the mighty Lee “Scratch” Perry and Yauch’s beautiful bossa-flavored duet with Miho Hatori. I think it’s called “I Don’t Know”.
That’s the shit I’ve come to expect and truly appreciate from you at this stage in your career. I know there are people out there from my generation who feel the same way. And this is exactly why I’m confused by your motives of using hip-hop as a crutch, as if you have no other alternative to keep your name out there. Y’all are gonna wind up playing college campuses for $500 like the Sugar Hill Gang in a few short years if you keep this up, playaz. Come on, does that cheesy frat boy with the Hot Topic Beastie poster hanging in his rape den mean that much to you? I really hope not.
Let’s just hope the next album you put out is gonna make me eat these words. Well, there’s the rub. Good luck to ya.
Sincerely,Ron HartWestbury, NY
Last Modified : April 11th, 2007
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