kleptomaniac
08-23-2007, 10:27 PM
*shrugs* so it was a while ago... :p
From here (http://www.boston.com/ae/music/blog/2007/08/beastie_boys_fo.html)
On the inspirations for the new album being an instrumental affair:
MCA: "It was kind of mixing a bunch of styles, I don’t even know if that was the idea going into it. I think we were sort of more looking at it after (recording). We started playing, we started recording with the instruments and at some point just decided to finish it as an instrumental record."
On whether or not they were worried if their instrumental chops would be up to snuff: (MCA plays bass, Ad-Rock guitar and Mike D
the drums)
Ad-Rock: "Clearly you haven’t read a little magazine called Drum magazine which is on stands right now, featuring on the cover of this magazine
a drummer named Mike Diamond. It talks about his sophisticated high patterns."
(Then Mike D admitted he’s not sure the story actually employs that phrase because he thinks the reporter just buttered him up by saying that
in order to get juicy gossip out of him).
On the news, to them, that they will be playing an upcoming show in the virtual world of There.com:
All: "What’s that?"
Mike D: "How do you shrink us into the computer?"
Ad-Rock: "What are we doing?"
When told they were playing a show MCA said "Well then I’ll just say we support there.com and we always have. We think what they do is very
important and it’s great and we’re really looking forward to this." Added Mike D, "They’re for the children and we’re for the children too."
And from here (http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2007/08/06/19/3942-72/index.xml)
Was it difficult to restrain yourselves from putting words on top of the instrumentals, once they were finished?
Diamond: Adam restrained me physically, which was kinda weird.
Horovitz: That had nothing to do with words or making the record, actually. now that's HOT!!!!!!!!!! (y)
Is your creative process for recording instrumental music the same as it was for “Check Your Head,” or has the process evolved?
Yauch: It’s very similar. Like with the instrumental stuff for “Check Your Head,” we just improvise a bunch and record the improvisations, and
then go back and listen to it and say, “That sounds terrible, that sounds terrible, that sounds terrible,” and [eventually find something] that we
can put together.
Diamond: Even when we make an all-hip-hop record, even when the means are different - instruments versus a sampler or whatever - the
process is the same. It’s still the three of us showing up and saying, “OK, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna make?”
Did you have to do much convincing with Capitol to release an all-instrumental record?
Horovitz: They were happy to get an instrumental record from us, especially with the trend of instrumental records in pop music right now.
They were surprised that we wanted to go pop.
Diamond: There was an incident involving the new CEO of Capitol, shortly after hearing the instrumental record in the studio. He bungee-jumped
from the roof of the studio without pants on and with a sign that read, “PLEASE NO.” I don’t know what that referred to; maybe he should have
had his pants on, I’m not sure. But that was a disturbing incident for all of us. :eek:
From here (http://www.boston.com/ae/music/blog/2007/08/beastie_boys_fo.html)
On the inspirations for the new album being an instrumental affair:
MCA: "It was kind of mixing a bunch of styles, I don’t even know if that was the idea going into it. I think we were sort of more looking at it after (recording). We started playing, we started recording with the instruments and at some point just decided to finish it as an instrumental record."
On whether or not they were worried if their instrumental chops would be up to snuff: (MCA plays bass, Ad-Rock guitar and Mike D
the drums)
Ad-Rock: "Clearly you haven’t read a little magazine called Drum magazine which is on stands right now, featuring on the cover of this magazine
a drummer named Mike Diamond. It talks about his sophisticated high patterns."
(Then Mike D admitted he’s not sure the story actually employs that phrase because he thinks the reporter just buttered him up by saying that
in order to get juicy gossip out of him).
On the news, to them, that they will be playing an upcoming show in the virtual world of There.com:
All: "What’s that?"
Mike D: "How do you shrink us into the computer?"
Ad-Rock: "What are we doing?"
When told they were playing a show MCA said "Well then I’ll just say we support there.com and we always have. We think what they do is very
important and it’s great and we’re really looking forward to this." Added Mike D, "They’re for the children and we’re for the children too."
And from here (http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2007/08/06/19/3942-72/index.xml)
Was it difficult to restrain yourselves from putting words on top of the instrumentals, once they were finished?
Diamond: Adam restrained me physically, which was kinda weird.
Horovitz: That had nothing to do with words or making the record, actually. now that's HOT!!!!!!!!!! (y)
Is your creative process for recording instrumental music the same as it was for “Check Your Head,” or has the process evolved?
Yauch: It’s very similar. Like with the instrumental stuff for “Check Your Head,” we just improvise a bunch and record the improvisations, and
then go back and listen to it and say, “That sounds terrible, that sounds terrible, that sounds terrible,” and [eventually find something] that we
can put together.
Diamond: Even when we make an all-hip-hop record, even when the means are different - instruments versus a sampler or whatever - the
process is the same. It’s still the three of us showing up and saying, “OK, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna make?”
Did you have to do much convincing with Capitol to release an all-instrumental record?
Horovitz: They were happy to get an instrumental record from us, especially with the trend of instrumental records in pop music right now.
They were surprised that we wanted to go pop.
Diamond: There was an incident involving the new CEO of Capitol, shortly after hearing the instrumental record in the studio. He bungee-jumped
from the roof of the studio without pants on and with a sign that read, “PLEASE NO.” I don’t know what that referred to; maybe he should have
had his pants on, I’m not sure. But that was a disturbing incident for all of us. :eek: