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10-04-2006, 11:41 AM
BEASTIE-REALITY (http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042006/entertainment/music/beastie_reality_music_brian_niemietz.htm)
AD-ROCK AND OTHER LOCAL LUMINARIES TEAM UP TO SAVE CITY ANIMALS
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ - ONLINE ONLY
October 4, 2006 -- The goal is to raise awareness - and hopefully some money - to turn all of New York City's animal shelters into no-kill operations by 2010. Sponsored by the A.S.P.C.A. and the volunteer artist collaborative Rational Animal, the show “should make for an interesting night,” promises Beastie Adam (“Ad-Rock”) Horovitz.
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“I'm just a dog guy,” explains Horovitz, seated alongside his canine sidekick Roberta “Bobbi” Peterson, a mixed breed he rescued from a shelter in April 2005, when she was roughly three years old.
Along with his now decades-old band, Horovitz has become something of a do-gooder, speaking out against war, religious persecution and, now, the inhumane treatment of animals.
“It's nice to be in a position where, when you say things, people can hear you,” Horovits states. “If I can help save some dogs, and it's an hour of my time. What - I'm not going to do it?”
Horovitz also lives with two cats - Davis and Little Kitty.
Horovitz was introduced to Gimme Shelter co-sponsor Susan Brandt through a mutual friend in 2004, months before the Beasties kicked off a national tour from which some proceeds were donated to animal shelters around the country.
When that tour hit the East Coast, the Beasties invited Brandt and Rational Animal, which produces P.S.A.'s and organizes events like Gimme Shelter, to set up a table inside venues where they played.
It was on that same, unofficial “Dog Tour” that one of the opening acts was Bob Moore's Amazing Mongrels - a circus of rescued shelter dogs of all shapes and sizes jumping through hoops and such. Horovitz offers that show as evidence shelter dogs are smart, eager to please, and no matter what age, able to learn new tricks.
According to Brandt, 50 animals a day are euthanized in this city's shelters. About 50,000 unwanted pets will file into the city's shelter system this year and she's optimistic in saying 6,000 will be saved.
Brandt's hopeful that an A.S.P.C.A. partnership and a 2005 grant from the Mayor's Alliance will help reduce those numbers.
“They have the sad job of having to do it,” a sympathetic Brandt says of the city's overcrowded and under-funded shelters, understanding that stray animals create public health issues. She and Horovitz agree prevention is part of the solution and that message will be stressed at Wednesday's show where tickets fetch $50 and guests are invited to sit, stay, shake and cocktail from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Though Horovitz and his innovative but non-prolific Beasties seem to release albums in dog years, they just may throw a bone to those who attend the fundraiser, as the band's currently in the process of recording before touring South America this winter. It's worth sniffing out.
Pet projects rarely have such a star-studded, eclectic turnout. The Beastie Boys, Blue Oyster Cult, Debbie Harry, Marshall Crenshaw, the Choke and others will raise the woof tonight for Gimme Shelter: Rock & Rescue NYC at the Hiro Ballroom in the Maritime Hotel (363 W. 16th St. at Ninth Ave.; for tickets, visit www.gimmeshelterrockandrescuenyc.org
AD-ROCK AND OTHER LOCAL LUMINARIES TEAM UP TO SAVE CITY ANIMALS
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ - ONLINE ONLY
October 4, 2006 -- The goal is to raise awareness - and hopefully some money - to turn all of New York City's animal shelters into no-kill operations by 2010. Sponsored by the A.S.P.C.A. and the volunteer artist collaborative Rational Animal, the show “should make for an interesting night,” promises Beastie Adam (“Ad-Rock”) Horovitz.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042006/photos/music999.jpg
“I'm just a dog guy,” explains Horovitz, seated alongside his canine sidekick Roberta “Bobbi” Peterson, a mixed breed he rescued from a shelter in April 2005, when she was roughly three years old.
Along with his now decades-old band, Horovitz has become something of a do-gooder, speaking out against war, religious persecution and, now, the inhumane treatment of animals.
“It's nice to be in a position where, when you say things, people can hear you,” Horovits states. “If I can help save some dogs, and it's an hour of my time. What - I'm not going to do it?”
Horovitz also lives with two cats - Davis and Little Kitty.
Horovitz was introduced to Gimme Shelter co-sponsor Susan Brandt through a mutual friend in 2004, months before the Beasties kicked off a national tour from which some proceeds were donated to animal shelters around the country.
When that tour hit the East Coast, the Beasties invited Brandt and Rational Animal, which produces P.S.A.'s and organizes events like Gimme Shelter, to set up a table inside venues where they played.
It was on that same, unofficial “Dog Tour” that one of the opening acts was Bob Moore's Amazing Mongrels - a circus of rescued shelter dogs of all shapes and sizes jumping through hoops and such. Horovitz offers that show as evidence shelter dogs are smart, eager to please, and no matter what age, able to learn new tricks.
According to Brandt, 50 animals a day are euthanized in this city's shelters. About 50,000 unwanted pets will file into the city's shelter system this year and she's optimistic in saying 6,000 will be saved.
Brandt's hopeful that an A.S.P.C.A. partnership and a 2005 grant from the Mayor's Alliance will help reduce those numbers.
“They have the sad job of having to do it,” a sympathetic Brandt says of the city's overcrowded and under-funded shelters, understanding that stray animals create public health issues. She and Horovitz agree prevention is part of the solution and that message will be stressed at Wednesday's show where tickets fetch $50 and guests are invited to sit, stay, shake and cocktail from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Though Horovitz and his innovative but non-prolific Beasties seem to release albums in dog years, they just may throw a bone to those who attend the fundraiser, as the band's currently in the process of recording before touring South America this winter. It's worth sniffing out.
Pet projects rarely have such a star-studded, eclectic turnout. The Beastie Boys, Blue Oyster Cult, Debbie Harry, Marshall Crenshaw, the Choke and others will raise the woof tonight for Gimme Shelter: Rock & Rescue NYC at the Hiro Ballroom in the Maritime Hotel (363 W. 16th St. at Ninth Ave.; for tickets, visit www.gimmeshelterrockandrescuenyc.org