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Ricky's cool. It's almost like he's the true License to Ill Beastie. I think he was the real deal from day one, whereas the Beasties were more playing a role back in the day. They were pretty affected back then but I don't think Ricky was. I mean, you can hold his illness against him and say he never grew up, but at the same time he's not faking the funk so can you blame him for that?
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I respect the dude.
But never was a fan. He did get one of the best shout-outs of all time! |
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I don't know the details behind the falling out between Ricky and the Beastie Boys, but since it seems to have started around the time the Boys started living on Serious Island 24/7 (1998ish), I imagine it has something to do with them being sick of his shit and him being like WTF happened to the fun? Too bad they didn't patch things up by the time Yauch passed away.
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I think he likes to hang out with the squirrels because they are the only beings that don't crack up laughing when he threatens to smack them.
The guy definitely has issues. His rants against the newer residents of his neighborhood seems a little lacking in rationale. That said he is an important figure in Beastie lore.
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Met him in Atlanta a couple of years ago. (Love that he's wearing his Criminal Records ATL t-shirt.) He took a photo of my friend and I using my camera that I'll always treasure. Later, he threw a drink at us, called us a couple of fags and said we we were interrupting his show. By the end of the night, he'd found everyone's last nerve. He kept yelling at a non-existent barkeep to shut up. He may not have evolved in the same ways, some of it may be performance, but either way I love him. He's a true artist. Quality.
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ah yea
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On a different note, remember, you can't plant the peas where the corn wan fi grow.
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Reading this made me realize I hadn't seen a Ricky post in a while on my Facebook feed, so I just checked - and the bastard has unfriended me! Haha. Guess I pissed him off, or he did some trimming. Wish it'd have ended memorably like so many who post in his threads and he responds with "You gotta go, cornball" or something...
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Let me post what I know or heard I should say. Don't hold me to any of this. Just passing on what I was told. I was told that he talked serious shit about Yauch, even while he was sick with cancer. Said he didn’t even care if he died. Their falling out supposedly over photos Yauch didn’t want to see the light of day. Can I confirm this as fact? NO!! But this is just what I was told by somebody who I know spent a lot of time with old Ricky last year. I don’t talk to her anymore so I don’t feel obligated to keep the information private. She could have exaggerated and could have been high when she told me that crap so maybe it was all lies. She's crazy anyway which is why I stopped talking to her. But we were really cool when she told me so.... That said. He did play an essential role to their career and he’s talented. I saw that he tributed Yauch after he died so maybe he feels bad, maybe he didn’t think he’d actually die.
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illness? he just seems like a guy who refuses to 'grow up'..
i think the way he lives is a fantasy for a lot of adolescents. it seems complicated. i like the guy, but i can see how they don't fit anymore. |
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Around 2000 Ricky was doing a photo exhibit that had LTI era pics in it that the Beasties didn't want to be shown anymore. Ricky owns them...he showed them. Friendship over.
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which is weird because it doesn't seem like something they'd be that ashamed of anymore (i.e. how they started playing their LTI music again in more recently)
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was that the one we were at?
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they themselves have said that they were living a parody of themselves during those wild times. i think sirscratch was saying that he was actually wild - that no one would say he was living in any sort of parody. or maybe he chose to actually become it. either way, that sounds right to me.
it's true, that people change. and that's mostly a good thing - growth. i think he just refused to change, which is admirable in some way. it doesn't always work out favorably. |
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I remember Sunny Bak saying that she had Adam go through all of her photos before he died and played a big role in to which ones she would showcase on her Beastie exhibit tour. Ricky doesn’t want to do that. I guess he feels like since they are his he can do what they want with them. I think Yauch is the driving force behind the photo situation. I heard more but hate to sound all gossipy but so far no lawsuits have come his way from the Beastie camp so I guess all is okay for now.
PS- I don't like Ricky. Not just because he talks shit about the Beasties, but he just turned 50 and needs to grow the hell up or he's gonna be a Johnny Ryall one day.
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Sounds like Sunny did great job of being particularly respectful. I have not seen any photo that Ricky uses that is out of line. I've also never read/heard him talk shit about them publicly. We all gripe off the record. I'm also not sure what growing up might look like for him. He seems to have an ongoing successful career, pays his bills, has friends and admirers, and looks well fed. Ricky is spicy, that's all. Nothing wrong with that.
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