Darryl MCDaniels to reminisce about the Beastie Boys...

[MissCrafty]

...on my radio show this Sunday! :D

OMG DMC of RUN DMC is calling-in live! :eek: And it's gonna be yet another phat tribute to the Beasties on a brand new live mix.

Can't wait to hear what types of pranks they did on the tourbus :p

Also writing to Fredo now and letting him know about this.

[abbott]

nice one

[WesleyOHSnaps!]

Saw in a Rolling Stone magazine today DMC was asked his top favorite songs when he was a kid and he said "Walk this Way" was one of them. Didn't they want nothing to do with that song or Aerosmith and Rick Rubin talked fhsm into using that sample?

[Brass Monk]

Saw in a Rolling Stone magazine today DMC was asked his top favorite songs when he was a kid and he said "Walk this Way" was one of them. Didn't they want nothing to do with that song or Aerosmith and Rick Rubin talked fhsm into using that sample?

I thought they liked the intro right up until the guitars came in and from there they didn't like it. Seems like a lot of artist's memories become inconsistent as they age. The bboys have been like that too, Mike D in particular. They get asked the same questions for decades, maybe they subconsciously change up their recollections just to make it interesting for them.

[3stooges]

I thought they liked the intro right up until the guitars came in and from there they didn't like it. Seems like a lot of artist's memories become inconsistent as they age. The bboys have been like that too, Mike D in particular. They get asked the same questions for decades, maybe they subconsciously change up their recollections just to make it interesting for them.

Yeah, I think when you are younger you might give one answer because it's the cool answer to give at the time, but when you are older, you give the real answer, the truth. Of course also, your favorites may change, and as decades go by, you just forget things. Plus when you have kids, you might change what you say in interviews, or not want to talk about some of the things you did in the past.

I know that personally the things I would say 25-30 years ago and the things I say now are different, so I'm not surprised when anyone else is that way as well. I think I'm basically the same person, and I stand for the same things that I always did, it's just that now things are a little more thought out. When I was young I was more insecure, more impulsive, and reactionary. Having all that excess energy was great in a lot of ways, but in other ways it was overkill. Ego was a lot of it.

[Brass Monk]

Yeah, I think when you are younger you might give one answer because it's the cool answer to give at the time, but when you are older, you give the real answer, the truth. Of course also, your favorites may change, and as decades go by, you just forget things. Plus when you have kids, you might change what you say in interviews, or not want to talk about some of the things you did in the past.

I know that personally the things I would say 25-30 years ago and the things I say now are different, so I'm not surprised when anyone else is that way as well. I think I'm basically the same person, and I stand for the same things that I always did, it's just that now things are a little more thought out. When I was young I was more insecure, more impulsive, and reactionary. Having all that excess energy was great in a lot of ways, but in other ways it was overkill. Ego was a lot of it.
I hear what you're saying. Perhaps DMC did not want to admit he really liked that song until now because he was too cool to say it when he was young, impossible to know. But is interesting how some basic facts of bboys history are still kind of a mystery. Like did MCA really make a special contraption to record a year and a day? Whose idea was it to run the beat backwards for Paul Revere? I guess not really knowing makes it more fun in a way....

[abbott]

I hear what you're saying. Perhaps DMC did not want to admit he really liked that song until now because he was too cool to say it when he was young, impossible to know. But is interesting how some basic facts of bboys history are still kind of a mystery. Like did MCA really make a special contraption to record a year and a day? Whose idea was it to run the beat backwards for Paul Revere? I guess not really knowing makes it more fun in a way....

The B Boys said so much shit for fun who knows what is true and what was funny. I agree with what your saying

I still say CYH album cover was an attempt to make the Adidas logo despite some others with knowledge on the matter denying it

[Sir SkratchaLot]

I hear what you're saying. Perhaps DMC did not want to admit he really liked that song until now because he was too cool to say it when he was young, impossible to know. But is interesting how some basic facts of bboys history are still kind of a mystery. Like did MCA really make a special contraption to record a year and a day? Whose idea was it to run the beat backwards for Paul Revere? I guess not really knowing makes it more fun in a way....

I've read multiple interviews that said MCA did record a year and a day through a Pilot's Helmet. I think that's true.

The Paul Revere beat idea came from one of the guys from Run DMC.

My guess on DMC's "Walk this Way" comment was that it really was one of his favorite songs but only the drums. Lots of the early hip hop kids loved a song for the break but didn't care about the rest. Grand Master Flash would always call the rest of the song "the wack part". I mean, I love Dance to the Drummer's Beat by Herman Kelly & Life but I can't say I've listened to the whole song more than a handful of times. Who needs the rest when the break is so nice?

[brooklyndust]

Grand Master Flash would always call the rest of the song "the wack part".

Looks like someone has been watching the Get Down on netflix

I don't really like how he calls the Assembly line by the Commodores mostly whack except for the break, considering I dig the whole track. To each is own I guess.

[Sir SkratchaLot]

Looks like someone has been watching the Get Down on netflix

I don't really like how he calls the Assembly line by the Commodores mostly whack except for the break, considering I dig the whole track. To each is own I guess.

Here you go:

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/grandmaster_flash

"The clock theory is being able to take a crayon or a pencil and mark the neighbourhood where the break lives and that was the circular break. But then at the intro of the circular break I would make a mark, cutting across the circular break and this is where the arrival of the break started. So now what I was able to do is look at the line and you gotta imagine in your head now I have a circle on the break and then a mark going through it, and I would watch how many times it passed the tone arm. One, two, three, four and then it would go into the wack part."
-Grandmaster Flash 2009

Here's where Flash talks about "the wack part" more recently
https://youtu.be/m3YXyK-gWvc?t=4m3s

And for anyone who's interested

Here's the Rev Run thing with the reversed beat

http://www.beastiemania.com/songspotlight/show.php?s=paulrevere

"That backwards 808? If I think right, it was actually Joe, Run, from Run-DMC. It was his idea to flip the tape up. He was there, like, 'Hey, y'all should flip the tape around so that shit's backwards.' Either that, or we had it on backwards and he heard it, he bugged out, and that's when he said, 'Y'all have to do a story rhyme over the shit.' And he came in started writing the shit with us."
- Michael Diamond, 1995

"It was Run's idea to turn the beat backwards on 'Paul Revere.' They wanted to have a slow beat, and Run was like, 'To make it outrageous you need to turn the beat backwards and rhyme over that.'"
- Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, excerpted from The Skills to Pay the Bills by Alan Light, 2005

"I think that the whole concept of trying the drum backwards was a mistake, and then it turned into a record. Everybody was congratulating themselves on how creative they were, but in fact, it was really a mistake."
- Russell Simmons, excerpted from The Skills to Pay the Bills by Alan Light, 2005