![]() Epic feature films couldn’t properly dramatize the next string of developments, and the scope of their impact forevermore on the pop music landscape. Rubin was digging “Cooky Puss” and cozied up to the band, and began producing their records and deejaying their gigs. ![]() At least they were amused, and so goes much of the three-decade story of the Beastie Boys.Īfter “Cooky Puss” was released, Schellenbach was kicked out of the band, right as the three about-to-be emcees befriended one Rick Rubin. I can picture them all laughing their asses off as they put the song together, entirely not caring about what the world at large would think of it. “Cooky Puss” is a record that only could have been made by kids with nothing to lose. When a record starts scratching, it sounds as if a teenager has gotten a hold of a turntable for the first time - eager, naive, oblivious as to what might happen to move the needle back and forth in the groove. Anarchy reigns throughout with samples of Steve Martin, and the prior Beastie releases “Transit Cop” and “Beastie Boys” chopped up and mixed in. ( Beastie Boys Book confirms this is actually Yauch playing bass!) There isn’t even a chorus. The four-note riff that plays on a loop might be a guitar, might be a keyboard. The beat doesn’t sound like a Roland TR-808, or any other notable synthesizer. There’s no rapping, just bored teenagers dialing up a Carvel ice cream parlor, harassing the person at the other end of the line and trying to find “Cooky Puss.” A silly, catchy, offensive inside joke - worthy of being examined endlessly. It was called “Cooky Puss.” More like a squirt of jism an embryonic cluster of cells holding the DNA of everything the Beastie Boys would produce afterward. With Horovitz’s new toy, the Beastie Boys forsook hardcore music and made a song that is as unclassifiable as much as their catalog. The fork was in the road, and he took it. As Horovitz tells it, he went to the guitar shop one day with an envelope of money, and instead of a Rickenbacker, bought a drum machine. Instead of Bad Brains, the Beastie Boys wanted to be the white man’s Treacherous Three. Horovitz played guitar and had his own band, The Young and the Useless, and joined the ranks, immediately shaking up the formula.īy now, the Beasties had released one hardcore EP, Polly Wog Stew, but the rich, creamy musical palette smeared across the city blocks of New York was drawing the band toward hip hop and reggae. Berry got hooked on drugs and quit the band in 1982, and a sixteen-year-old Adam Horovitz was waiting in the wings to replace him. The foursome didn’t last, but the name and modus operandi did. It was the guiding mantra for the band for the next thirty years.īoys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence.Īnarchy did reign, at least creatively. turned out to be a helluva lot more than a juvenile joke. Teenagers banging out chords and screaming over them, as they always will. Yauch held bass duties, Mike D was on lead vocals, John Berry was on guitar, and Kate Schellenbach was on drums. The Beastie Boys formed on MCA Adam Yauch’s seventeenth birthday in August of 1981. Sing along to it all you want, but here’s how it really went. So I guess I sat around thinking, ‘Man, if I could just get in there.NoooKing Ad-rock was lying in “Paul Revere.” There wasn’t once three. “My feeling was that the ROIR (Reach Out International Records) tape (Bad Brains’ self-titled debut record, released on cassette only) - really sounded right - a lot of the stuff after felt to me like people were trying to clean them up and make them sound more palatable for radio. ![]() and were playing CBGB and Max’s (Kansas City),” he says. “I kind of felt like I knew the way they should sound, because I grew up listening to them, going to see them when they first came up to New York from (Washington) D.C. With that in mind, Yauch went into “Build a Nation” with a plan. We always used to throw songs together and play a little bit, but they were really intense musicians,” he says. “Those guys are really of a different caliber in terms of their songwriting and musicianship. Bad Brains were one of the groups, he says, that shaped the Beastie Boys’ early hardcore years. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson, is slated for a late May/early June release on Megaforce Records.įor Yauch, producing the record was a labor of love. “Build a Nation,” recorded with the classic Bad Brains lineup of enigmatic singer H.R., guitarist Dr. Yauch (left) is seen with Darryl Jenifer (right), bassist for Bad Brains. A long-awaited Bad Brains record produced by the Beasties' Adam Yauch will see the light of day this summer. As standard bearers of the East Coast hardcore scene in the early 1980s, Bad Brains were partly responsible for helping the Beastie Boys get into the recording studio. ![]()
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