Guided By Voices beat Beastie Boys at Basketball

[Michelle*s_Farm]

Basketball results from my two favourite bands. Wish I saw this match 20 years ago (Pollard is great at shooting hoops):

"Supposedly Guided By Voices beat Beastie Boys and Billy Corgan in a basketball game while Kim Deal and Kelley Deal cheered you guys on and Steve Drozd was peddling around the court on a bicycle. This sounds more like one of Wayne Coyne’s dreams than an actual event. Did it really happen? Are there any lost video tapes or still shots of this somewhere?

I don't know if anyone filmed it, but it did happen at Lollapalooza '94 or whenever. It was a friendly pick-up game, but it got a little heated. I think I may have swatted a dribble that bounced up into Ad-Rock or maybe Mike D's face. It was an accident, but anyway I think we won eleven baskets to three or something. It was make-it-take-it, so they didn't get much of a chance. I just kept penetrating and knocking it out to my brother and he hit about eight or nine in a row from the top of the key. We were all cool after the game. They're really nice guys who love basketball."

Source (http://espn.go.com/blog/music/post/_/id/6648/robert-pollard-talks-college-no-hitter)

[Kid Presentable]

Beastie Boys commentary on the Spike Jonze collection says Breeders drummer had mad skills at basketball.

[Michelle*s_Farm]

Beastie Boys commentary on the Spike Jonze collection says Breeders drummer had mad skills at basketball.

Funny how alternative / indie folks can write awesome high school angst poetry of loneliness and also kick some serious ass sport-wise. I always mistakenly thought that the two shall never meet, so happy to be proven wrong.

[3stooges]

The GBV singer was a stud 3 sport athlete in high school, quarterback, averaged 20 points a game in hoops, and threw a no-hitter in college. Played JV hoops in college. Plus they had his brother when they played the Beasties, who averaged 36 a game in high school. So not really a fair game. Here is another interview:


Guided By Voices played basketball against the Beastie Boys on Lollapalooza in ’94. Who won?
We fucking smoked them – it was unfair. We claim we can beat any rock band in basketball, but we have to be able to use my brother. When we played the Beasties, it was make-it-take-it. So I’d dribble down the court, pass to my brother and he’d make it. Then we’d do it again. The Beasties had Billy Corgan on their team, too.

Oh, god. I just lost some respect for the Beasties.
He’s actually not that bad a player. He’s not good, but he’s tall and he can jump. We had been just watching those guys play, and we finally got drunk enough to have the balls to say, “We’ve got next game.” We were hanging around with the Flaming Lips and Kim and Kelley (Deal) – that was our group. And Kim and Kelley were like our cheerleaders, and Steve Drozd was riding his bike around the whole time. We were like a circus. When we first started playing, I had the ball, and Ad-Rock was guarding me. I kind of lost the ball, but I smacked it back to myself. But when I did that, the ball bounced up and hit him in the face. And he was like, “What the fuck, man? This is supposed to be a friendly game.” It started off on the wrong foot, but we ended up being friends with them. They’re good guys.

But are they good players?
Yeah, they’re good. They’re hustlers, but they shoot kind of funky. My brother and I come from the school of form, so we can tell who the real players are. But they know the game.

[Brother McDuff]

sweet story