Mike D at Pretty Sweet Premiere

[JohnnyChavello]

Saw this (http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/pretty-sweet-premiere-draws-skate-kids-and-beastie-boys/)article recently about the new Girl/Chocolate movie, Pretty Sweet, which mentions that Mike D went to the NY premiere. It's a great movie (directed by the one and only Spike Jonze) and "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" is in one of the sequences - can't remember which one.

I've been thinking, though: the Beastie Boys' music has been in a ton of skate videos. I've heard Car Thief, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun and others over the years. Yauch used Powell Peralta footage (from Propaganda?) in a lot of the Paul's Boutique home videos. They did the Thrasher ad, the Bucky Lasek decks, a Sabotage deck for Girl. It's a pretty deep connection.

Anyone else have thoughts on this? Has this been covered already?

[WesleyOHSnaps!]

They always have. Time for Livin' has been used by the same guys who used Looking Down a Barrel of a gun in a Plan B video.

When Girl first started up I heard rumors that the boys had help in getting it up and going, but I could be wrong. I do remember the X Large in the Berekly CA had Girl Decks and FTC in SF has the Brooklyn Dust logo on a Mike Carrol board I believe on the wall.

[JohnnyChavello]

That Carroll deck sounds nice. I think it's actually Carroll and Alex Olson skating to Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun in Pretty Sweet. And I forgot about Plan B, but you're right.

[WesleyOHSnaps!]

Yeah it's Carrol and Olson and a single trick by McCrank and it was Carrol who skated to Time for Livin' and the Beatnuts song that sample the Beasties on the track.

The Time for Livin video is full of Vitrual Reality footage from Plan B when most of the Girl guys were still on that team.

[Kid Presentable]

Time for Livin was footage from Questionable. But yeah, Virtual Reality used Beatnuts 'The Story' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipI1LFsGhw) which has always been one of my favourite uses of a LTI sample.

I loved how Looking Down the Barrel was used - some of the slow mo footage even mirrored the stuff Yauch used in the music video. Stylistically, at least.

In fact, Pretty Sweet being amazing aside, the soundtrack definitely felt like a tribute of sorts to MCA. And it's not so implausible given how close Spike and Yauch were. The Barkays track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlAop6SyLI)(with the break they used to do the final Time to Get Ill verse in concert around 92-95), stuff from ST's debut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YN6CS94rg) (on which AWOL drummed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owV_393cQFo)), Bad Brains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MKpRFWHeh0), and I even think (and I could be way off) that Mario C was somehow involved in the Maximum Hedrum track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuZu9FGj0rg) from the opening montage. Someone with ready access to the credits might want to check that last point, though.

Anyway, it was nice that the track was used. In particular since Carroll was the one and same who skated to B Boys on Questionable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjtbkhLVRA8). Funny little circuit.

[WesleyOHSnaps!]

Don't forget that the Biz vs the Nudge was used as a snippet in the time line 5050 down the rail.

But yeah I was wrong it was questionable that Carrol skated to the Beatnuts. Also agree one of the best uses of that sample.

[Kid Presentable]

Don't forget that the Biz vs the Nudge was used as a snippet in the time line 5050 down the rail.



Yup, true. I figured it was just used to reference old sections, namely Carroll's. Anyways I put links in the original post to stuff that people might like to check out or whatever.

[Brass Monk]

[QUOTE=Kid Presentable;1801480]Time for Livin was footage from Questionable. But yeah, Virtual Reality used Beatnuts 'The Story' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipI1LFsGhw) which has always been one of my favourite uses of a LTI sample.
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Love the Beatnuts.
Mike D was also reportedly 1 of many rappers at the Knicks-Nets game on Tuesday.

[Friis gal]

... I even think (and I could be way off) that Mario C was somehow involved in the Maximum Hedrum track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuZu9FGj0rg) from the opening montage. Someone with ready access to the credits might want to check that last point, though...


Yeah, it looks like (https://soundcloud.com/maximum-hedrum/synthesize) Mario was producer and engineer on it - and Money Mark and Alfredo also had their hands on it as well! (y)