Select magazine(September 1998)-interview

[midzi]

I can't scan it I would have to write it that's why I'm asking is anybody
interested in reading it.The guy who wrote it and interviewed them was a real
asshole(at least in my opinion).

Here's the beginning(I omitted intro because there was nothing you wouldn't
already know).

So Beastieworld is characterized by a threeway mix of good vibes, tomfoolery and an entirely adult devotion to the principles of liberty.Or that's the theory, anyway.
During Select's five-day sojourn with Diamond,Horovitz and Yauch,however
we encounter a way more unpalatable combination of hostility,paranoia and flatly daft interview restrictions,as we shall see...

Do you want to read more?

[midzi]

I will post it hopefully in the next 12h.I have to do other things.
If it's fine with you I'll post it in several parts(its' quite long)

[midzi]

here goes the first part...
Philadelphia is the gun murder capital of the US, at least according to
the Philadelphia Weekly, the city's Time Out, whose current edition is
concerned that the city is hosting a National Rifle Association convention
this week.It coincides with the Beastie Boys' arrival to play the gig on
Wednesday 10 June, a warm-up for next weekend's Tibetan Freedom concert
in Washington DC. Tickets went on sale yesterday at 10am all 1500 were sold
in minutes.
Backstage, their manager John Silva,a short man with what's left of his hair
closely cropped, is dashing about and comandeering the phone.Silva controls
Gold Mountain, who look after Beck,Foo Fighters and Sonic Youth as well as
the Beasties.They also used to manage Nirvana.
"I think the Verve have cancelled for the weekend" he shouts.This turns
out to be true.He continues:'The guest list for Irving Plaza is so huge that
we'll make $68.35 if we sell out".
The band are late because something, quite literally fell off the tour bus
that was bringing them here from NY.They were forced to clamber into a car
following behind.
At around five, Adam Yauch appears in the corridor. His slouchy, slightly
fogeyish demeanour is matched by baggy trousers,a grey and patterned shirt
and a head of very short silvery hair.He's followed by Mike D, who's wearing
a green T-shirt with a picture of a distorted pedal on it, khaki combat trousers
and grey DC trainers.Mike is immediately assailed by various members of the
crew seeking his advice on various matters including how to deal wit one
particularly devout but ticketless fan who's hanging around.This guy has
Beastie Boys tattoos and once showed unannounced at G-Son, the band's
recordin studio.
"Get him in," says Mike D,decently."I don't want him to feel dissed."
Eventually Adam Horovitz materialises, wrapped in a baggy green jumper
that he may well have slept in.According to rumour, Horovitz may have split
up with his wife, actress Ione Skye.The rumour has some credibility,since
Sarah Edwards, one of band's accompanying UK press offices, says it is a
subject that is not open to discussion.The thre Beastie Boys, followed by
press officer Edwards,gather on a sofa in their dressing room so Select can
take photos.
Even by standards,say, Verve/Radiohead/Spiritualized standards, they're
reluctant to the point of torpor.Horovitz switches off the tv before sitting
in the middle, with Mike on his right and Yauch, who was married the previous
Sunday, on his left.Yauch's bride works in the art department of American
fashion magazine Glamour.Did you all go to the ceremony?
Adam Horovitz picks up the tape recorder, presses it close to his mouth
and says "Yes".
So what was it like? What did you wear?
"It was suits" Yauch concedes."Not tuxedos or anything like that. It was a traditional Tibetan ceremony.This involved the bride travelling from her
parents' house in the Upper East Side [posh part of Manhattan]-where
there was a ceramony to give her away-over to my parents' house in
Brooklyn for the other half of the ceremony.My dad made a little speech
welcoming her."
Does a Tibetan marriage includes a honeymoon period?
Yauch:"It probably would have, but it's kind of hard right now because of
the shows."
Mike D:'There'd normallly be a honeymoon in a Tibetan wedding ceremony
,but not in the context of being in this band."
[Pretending, for politeness' sake, to be none the wiser about the state of Horovitz's marriage, but assuming also that Mike's marriage to film director
Tamra Davis is still going swimmingly]So how does it feel now that you're
all married?
There's a long pause.
Mike D;"Err...I dunno that it feel any different to me."
Yauch:"It feels nice to me.But the qestion's a little strange-How does it
feel now that we're married."
Horovitz, again picking up the tape recorder:"I think that's strange that
there's a Haze's sticker on this tape recorder.[There's indeed a graffiti decal
on the recordable Walkman, drawn by Eric Haze, who helped design the cover
of the second Beastie album,'Paul's Boutique'.]I've always liked the way he draws his 'A's. Which has nothing to do with anything particular."
You've all relocated from LA to NY.Has this caused any problems?Mike,
your wife must need to be in LA?
Mike;"Yeah, she kinda has to be there."
Adam[Horovitz], what about you?
"I don't know about me.''
Horovitz who still has hold of the tape recorder, leans back and whispers
into it, so that no-one can hear what he's saying.Mike D moves closer, sniggering.Playing the tape back later reveals the following message:'I ata
these sausage sandwitches yeasterday and they're making me fart.Awful,
ghastly burps and farts."
From such puerile burblings were theBeastie Bys born.Yauch and
Mike D had met at legendary rock dungeon CBGBs and the pair bumped into
Horovitz at a Bad Brains gig at the NY lounge, although thier faces were
already familiar to each other.
"I recognized them from all over the place," says Horovitz "I first saw Yauchat the Rat Cage, this recor shop people used to hang out in.We'd cut schooland hang out there."
"Nobody ever asked me to join," Horovitz recalls"I just did"
After the photoshoot Adam Horovitz is sat on a huge black flight case
backstage at Philadelphia,kicking the heels of his blue leather New Balance trainers against one of it's expensine sides. He's going grey around the templesand looks alarmingly like David Duchovny.The signals are:approach with caution. So what happened to youe tour bus,Adam?
He gives an exaggerated shrug, palms upturned, and looks to the heavens.


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I have to stop at this moment.I'll finish as soon as I can.

[b-grrrlie]

If anybody wants I can scan the whole article, I've got a new scanner now. Also I've got loads and loads of old mags with Beasties on them, so if anybody wants any special one scanned I'll take wishes. I am busy with other stuff right now, so I can't start scanning everything at one go, but it might be a nice break from work every now and then.

[U-Stubs]

Yeah def scan the mags oyu have with em',,,thanks

[midzi]

Thanks b-grrrlie. :)

[Parkey]

They did an NME interview (with cover) around the same time as well. It's probably already knocking around but I can scan it if you're interested.

[dave790]

thanks for posting the article!

i was wandering if anyone has the 5/5 select review of hello nasty, as that issue in 98 is the only one from that year i've lost. ive still got the 4/5 'q' review though..which i can try and post if anyones interested?

[Raina]

Horovitz who still has hold of the tape recorder, leans back and whispers into it, so that no-one can hear what he's saying.Mike D moves closer, sniggering.Playing the tape back later reveals the following message:'I ate these sausage sandwiches yesterday and they're making me fart.Awful,
gastly burps and farts."

Thats pretty funny. ^_^ Thank you guys who offered to scan those pics, I'd be very grateful if you did!

[midzi]

thanks for posting the article!

i was wandering if anyone has the 5/5 select review of hello nasty, as that issue in 98 is the only one from that year i've lost. ive still got the 4/5 'q' review though..which i can try and post if anyones interested?

I have this issue.There is also a short iterview with Mike D and Yauch.
If you're interested I could post it.But I think it'd be the best if somebody scan it.I'm not the most skilled writer as you have seen.

[dave790]

I have this issue.There is also a short iterview with Mike D and Yauch.
If you're interested I could post it.But I think it'd be the best if somebody scan it.I'm not the most skilled writer as you have seen.

That'd be very nice of you, but i mean don't put yourslef out, specially if you have to type it. I mean the word tedious springs to mind. And yeah if anyone could scan it that'd be easier...i'm just annoyed out of 12 issues of that mag from 1998 (my older brother was a fan) that's the one thats lost!

[b-grrrlie]

Here you have it!

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I've got a few issues of Select from along the years and I found a couple of other interviews, mainly with Mike on June 1997 and Jan 1998, I'll take those next. I don't think I have that HN review issue (which issue is it? what's on the cover?), but it could be lurking somewhere....

[Raina]

Thank you so much b-grrrlie! ^_^

[Extra Cheese]

i think the shirt MCA is wearing might be the world's ugliest shirt according to the guiness book of world records.

[midzi]

HN review is in August issue, I don't know what's on the cover I lost it.

[hot ken]

i have that issue - the interviewer was a total dick, obsessed with the fact that adrock didn't want to talk about his divorce - some people waste there chances in interviews to ask interesting questions

[midzi]

Select(August 1998)
Mike D on the joys of Ad-Rock's scratching and innumerable other old-school pleasures.

There are plenty of tracks on this album - 'Super Disco Breakin'', 'The Move', 'Body Movin'' - where you seem to be paying tribute to the old school B-Boys. Would you go along with that?
"I don't know whether it's paying tribute. It's like, when we were growing up we were so strongly influenced by earlier waves of hip hop - it's a huge part of what got us excited about music in the first place. And it still excites us today. Much as we might try and move on [laughs]
"Over here you've got huge hip hop records that are taking old hip hop records and making them new again. And when we were in Europe recently doing promotion, everyone would keep asking us, 'How do you feel about hip hop revival?' We got loads of questions about that remix of the Run DMC track."

Have you heard that terrible German version of 'Fight For Your Right To Party'?
"Erm, yes. I've had the pleasure[laughs]. I guess it was a big hit in Germany. Hmmm..."

Has modern hip hop marginalized a lot of what you hold dear - creative sampling, the art of the Dj?
"To me, the art of the Dj is coming back. On this album we worked with Mixmaster Mike from the Invisible Scratch Piklz. There's him and a lot of people out there taking the idea of the turntable as an instrument to new places. Mixmaster Mike's come aboard with us. He's going to be a part of our show. A fine part, I may add."

MCA and Adrock arefairly accomplished Djs...
"Yauch does the kind of Terminator X style. Horovitz is the more the straight cutting style. Yauch is like, "A-er-er-a-er-er-er-er-er-er', whereas I'd say Adrock is more straightahead and tasteful, very kind of...clutch. Like, 'jigga-jigga-jigga-jigga-boof'. I'm sure that'll translate well in print.'jigga-jigga-jigga-jigga-boof'.

IS Money Mark on the record?
"yeah, he's on a bunch of tracks...'Song for the Man', 'Dedication', 'Dr Lee Phd', 'Song for Junior'...How have I reacted to his solo career? We've been all over the place recently, and everywhere we'dgo there'd be a picture of him in the local magazines. It's wild. I'm real happy for him."

'Dr Lee Phd' features Lee Perry. How did that come about?
'We had the track sitting around for a while, and we named it 'Dr Lee', cos we thought it sounded like a Lee Perry track. And then, lo and behold, it all came together. He played a show in New York in October 1995, and I went down. We'd talked to him about it, and he said, 'Come and pick me up'. He had all the lyrics on the back of huge poster and he did it in two takes. He says some amazing things - 'Science, arts...this is a living dream'.

People are going to be tearing their hair out traing to figure out what he says at the end. What is it?
"Rewind, do another take maybe. It was also incredible because it was Halloween. Lee Perry shows up, and, as usual, he's covered in mirrors, head to toe. So he's walking through Greenwich Village, and because there were so many people in costume, nobody gave him a second look."

[midzi]

Select(August 1998)

The Budhist Beastie on the Tibetans' fight for their right to partition.

How's the campaign been going?
"Amazingly well. Clinton's trip to China means we can put more pressure on him to get results."

Will he pay attention to you?
"Anything that affects public perception affects elected officials, because they care about how they've percived. I'm not sure how many politicians came to the weekend, but a lot of their aides asked for tickets."

America has pursued a softly-softly approach to China ever since President Nixon's visit in the mid '70s. Do you honestly think you can alter the US policy?
"Err, I think that, um...America has a responsibility towards China because we're bringing a lot of big business into the country. In doing that, we also need to ask government to give their people the same basic human rights we have in our country. It's irresponsible to ignore cultural destruction in Tibet."

There's rumour that you've been banned from playing in China as a result of the concerts (although the Chinese embassy in London, the source of the story, denied this.) Is this true?
"Is it a rumour? I thought it was true. I don't really know."

Did you want to play in China?
'I would like to. We'd donate any money we made to non-profit companies, because what we're fighting against is companies trying to make money in China, regardlss of anything else that goes on. Going there to share our culture would be fine. The common mistake made about the concert is that it carries some negativity towards Chinese government."

How much of the politics is lost on the audience?
"We made everything as clear as we can, but some kids do misunderstand things. A lot of them come up to me and say they've taken time to learn about Tibetan culture and gotten a lot out of it."

Where does the money go?
"Some pays for the overheads, some goes back into the fund and some goes into the various programmes Milarepa has, like its educational tour of America and the movie we made about the first concert."

When was the last time you met the Dalai Lama?
"A few weeks ago, when he last came to the US. I do meet up with him if there's important things that we need to discuss. But I try not to tax his time too much. The concert is not really his area, but he gives me advice on how we might present ourselves and reassures me that our approach is OK.'

How do you address the Dalai Lama?
"Your Holiness. There's no one else in the world that I would feel comfortable saying that to. He's incredible human being."