Adam Yauch’s Last Song

[Eoin MCL]

https://youtu.be/lhxmSh-X_8Y

Mix Master Mike shared a snippet of MCA’s last ever vocals on Instagram live last week. Luckily my main man Jérôme from the Beastie Family Facebook page was quick off the mark and recorded it. I have screen captured his video in order to share it with all of my friends here on the Message Board. It’s short but it’s something special for us fans!

I’m assuming this verse comes from the final session which Mike spoke about in Rolling Stone in 2012. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-yauch-121425/

“How much music did you make at your final recording session with him last fall?”
Mike D: Adam instigated it. It could only come from him, in terms of where he was at with treatment. It was stuff we had written or demo-ed, and there were new ideas. He wasn’t sure he was able to do vocals. But after a bit, we ended up doing them. And he was fine. It was a way for him to say, “Yeah, I’m doing it.”

PWR2MCA

[Laver1969]

Beautiful. Thanks to everyone who helped in getting this recorded and posted.

[Jiberish]

Thanks for sharing that!

Sounds like he fell into a NSTB flow "another plane another train another bottle to the brain" at around the 00:18 second mark. I know he's not saying those words. Just a similar flow. In a cool way.

That made me super jazzed, and super bummed at the same time. Jazz Bumm.

[pesto pizza]

From the snippet l heard its good!

[Mister-Gerard]

So happy to share my find with all the Beastie Boys fans (thanks Eoin to put it on the Message Board) !
I was luckily enough to record it before it disappeared.
God damn that DJ made my day !

Jerome

[Kid Presentable]

I like to think the song is about a day and it’s beauty, from dawn through til dusk. Which would be too real.

Amazing how much he still sounded like MCA, all the way until the end.