MsPacMan
04-14-2012, 10:40 PM
OK; watched the whole thing online. I don’t know how I got to watch it all the way down in Sydney when so many of you missed it? How did that happen?
Jo will fill you in better than me later……………….but…………..
…………….do you want a rundown?
Our boys KICKED ARSE.
I won’t give you every single little detail; you can watch it on HBO in a couple of weeks. If you’re outside the US; hopefully Porkys1982 will have us covered there.
Nice intro:
Chuck D made me proud to be still fighting the POWER.
LL acknowledged that he has the Beasties to thank for kicking off his career.
You could see Adam and Mike at the side of the stage, alone. Waiting to come on.
They looked GORGEOUS. Absolutely jaw-dropping.
Chuck and LL gave them three trophies. THREE. Oh, man.
They didn’t say anything about Yauch’s absence for a while. Elephant in the room. People were very quiet. I was surprised at how deeply distressing it was to see them up on that stage without him. For a second it was like these two little boys without their big brother. It just felt awful.
Now this is just a summary, y’all. There is HEAPS I’m leaving out. Anyway, I hope I get this right:
Adam spoke first. He thanked everyone in his family, Dave S; Cey, Nadia; the whole crew. Bad Brains, Run-D.M.C., Grandmaster Flash. He thanked his mother for buying him his first guitar; he thanked his father for buying him his first LP. He spoke about how his older brother and sister played The Clash for him. He thanked Kathleen for spending her life with him. He was SO emotional during the whole thing, it just slayed me. He had all these people on this shitty little piece of paper. It was so endearing.
Then Mike spoke. He thanked the family, all the peeps they’ve played with. Hurricane; DJ Double R! He thanked Yauch’s parents for letting them make hideously loud music in their house when they were kids. (Yauch’s parents were in the audience!) Mike gave a special shout-out to Brooklyn! He thanked New York for raising them. Typically, he spoke really confidently (but I sensed he was, I don’t know….shaken?). Great job, Mike, as always.
Then Mike thanked Yauch, because they couldn’t have this “family” that they have without him.
THEN Adam pulled out a sheet of paper and read a speech Yauch had written for them to read out on the night.
Now THIS you GOTTA hear.
He said FIRSTLY he wanted to thank Adam and Mike: his “BROTHERS”. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house at this point. He thanked Kate Schellenbach; John Berry; John Berry’s dad for coming into the living room and screaming at them to stop making such a fucking awful noise! He listed all these people and places: it was like a slideshow of the past thirty years: 59 Chrystie St; Ratcage Records; MMMike, Money Mark, Eric Bobo, Amery; oh, HEAPS more; it was SENSATIONAL; I can’t wait to hear it again. And Adam read it out for him SO well. With humour, with emotion. Yauch would be SO proud of him. I hope he saw it tonight. Lastly, Yauch said he wanted to dedicate the award to his beautiful wife, Dechen and their daughter Losey, and he said he felt he was the luckiest man in the world because of his two soul mates, and the fact that he gets to spend his time with them.
Nothing at all was mentioned about his health. Or the future. Or any plans.
Adam gave a final shout-out to MMM, who then performed with Kid Rock, Questo, y’know, etc, etc. They were wearing those green jumpsuits. Cute touch. They did this extended mashup of all these classic Beastie songs. He started with a bunch of vocal samples of the boys themselves (one of which was “my man MCA’s got a beard like a billy-goat”) – which was when I just lost it. Went to pieces. Sorry guys. I can’t tell you much more about the performance. I know it started with The New Style and ended with Sabotage. SWWant was in there. Also Brooklyn. I’m sure it was great; it seemed to go down well with the crowd; but my heart was elsewhere. I was utterly heartbroken.
But without a shadow of a doubt, despite it being SO sad, everyone was also VERY happy. You could tell it meant a lot to them. They weren’t there just as a tokenistic thing. It was profoundly moving. I am so fucking proud of Adam and Mike for how they conducted themselves, and so grateful to Yauch for penning just the most incredible speech ever. Our boys were the deffest blokes in the room.
My broken heart was swelling with pride.
Backstage, Chuck D was interviewed and what he said was SO powerful. He said it was “bittersweet” because there are only three hip hop artists that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. The first, Grandmaster Flash, could obviously not perform at the induction. The second, Run-D.M.C., couldn’t, because Jam Master Jay had just been killed. The third, Beastie Boys, WOULD have, but couldn’t, because MCA is sick. He said “it makes you think”. He said that they all take it very seriously, because it’s a benchmark.
So that gives you an idea, anyway.
Just counted on my fingers: I have now been watching Twitter and this web video feed for 35 hours straight. Crazy. No sleep til Brooklyn!
Can’t wait to see Jo’s photos. She did a GREAT job of updating us all. They are still Tweeting and they’re having the best night of their LIVES. Thanks for making us feel like we were there with you, mate. And thanks to all the peeps on Twitter who kept me company.
Peace out y’all.
xoxo
Jo will fill you in better than me later……………….but…………..
…………….do you want a rundown?
Our boys KICKED ARSE.
I won’t give you every single little detail; you can watch it on HBO in a couple of weeks. If you’re outside the US; hopefully Porkys1982 will have us covered there.
Nice intro:
Chuck D made me proud to be still fighting the POWER.
LL acknowledged that he has the Beasties to thank for kicking off his career.
You could see Adam and Mike at the side of the stage, alone. Waiting to come on.
They looked GORGEOUS. Absolutely jaw-dropping.
Chuck and LL gave them three trophies. THREE. Oh, man.
They didn’t say anything about Yauch’s absence for a while. Elephant in the room. People were very quiet. I was surprised at how deeply distressing it was to see them up on that stage without him. For a second it was like these two little boys without their big brother. It just felt awful.
Now this is just a summary, y’all. There is HEAPS I’m leaving out. Anyway, I hope I get this right:
Adam spoke first. He thanked everyone in his family, Dave S; Cey, Nadia; the whole crew. Bad Brains, Run-D.M.C., Grandmaster Flash. He thanked his mother for buying him his first guitar; he thanked his father for buying him his first LP. He spoke about how his older brother and sister played The Clash for him. He thanked Kathleen for spending her life with him. He was SO emotional during the whole thing, it just slayed me. He had all these people on this shitty little piece of paper. It was so endearing.
Then Mike spoke. He thanked the family, all the peeps they’ve played with. Hurricane; DJ Double R! He thanked Yauch’s parents for letting them make hideously loud music in their house when they were kids. (Yauch’s parents were in the audience!) Mike gave a special shout-out to Brooklyn! He thanked New York for raising them. Typically, he spoke really confidently (but I sensed he was, I don’t know….shaken?). Great job, Mike, as always.
Then Mike thanked Yauch, because they couldn’t have this “family” that they have without him.
THEN Adam pulled out a sheet of paper and read a speech Yauch had written for them to read out on the night.
Now THIS you GOTTA hear.
He said FIRSTLY he wanted to thank Adam and Mike: his “BROTHERS”. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house at this point. He thanked Kate Schellenbach; John Berry; John Berry’s dad for coming into the living room and screaming at them to stop making such a fucking awful noise! He listed all these people and places: it was like a slideshow of the past thirty years: 59 Chrystie St; Ratcage Records; MMMike, Money Mark, Eric Bobo, Amery; oh, HEAPS more; it was SENSATIONAL; I can’t wait to hear it again. And Adam read it out for him SO well. With humour, with emotion. Yauch would be SO proud of him. I hope he saw it tonight. Lastly, Yauch said he wanted to dedicate the award to his beautiful wife, Dechen and their daughter Losey, and he said he felt he was the luckiest man in the world because of his two soul mates, and the fact that he gets to spend his time with them.
Nothing at all was mentioned about his health. Or the future. Or any plans.
Adam gave a final shout-out to MMM, who then performed with Kid Rock, Questo, y’know, etc, etc. They were wearing those green jumpsuits. Cute touch. They did this extended mashup of all these classic Beastie songs. He started with a bunch of vocal samples of the boys themselves (one of which was “my man MCA’s got a beard like a billy-goat”) – which was when I just lost it. Went to pieces. Sorry guys. I can’t tell you much more about the performance. I know it started with The New Style and ended with Sabotage. SWWant was in there. Also Brooklyn. I’m sure it was great; it seemed to go down well with the crowd; but my heart was elsewhere. I was utterly heartbroken.
But without a shadow of a doubt, despite it being SO sad, everyone was also VERY happy. You could tell it meant a lot to them. They weren’t there just as a tokenistic thing. It was profoundly moving. I am so fucking proud of Adam and Mike for how they conducted themselves, and so grateful to Yauch for penning just the most incredible speech ever. Our boys were the deffest blokes in the room.
My broken heart was swelling with pride.
Backstage, Chuck D was interviewed and what he said was SO powerful. He said it was “bittersweet” because there are only three hip hop artists that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. The first, Grandmaster Flash, could obviously not perform at the induction. The second, Run-D.M.C., couldn’t, because Jam Master Jay had just been killed. The third, Beastie Boys, WOULD have, but couldn’t, because MCA is sick. He said “it makes you think”. He said that they all take it very seriously, because it’s a benchmark.
So that gives you an idea, anyway.
Just counted on my fingers: I have now been watching Twitter and this web video feed for 35 hours straight. Crazy. No sleep til Brooklyn!
Can’t wait to see Jo’s photos. She did a GREAT job of updating us all. They are still Tweeting and they’re having the best night of their LIVES. Thanks for making us feel like we were there with you, mate. And thanks to all the peeps on Twitter who kept me company.
Peace out y’all.
xoxo