Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz

Author:Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz [Diamond, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

It goes on a little bit…he is going in pretty hard on Serch. I’m feeling kind of bad now. But that was the end of it. We ran into him a few times after all that. It was awkward at first, obviously, but eventually we hugged and made up, followed by a spirited discussion about family, loyalty, and mezuzahs.

The Fallout

(AH)

It was kind of like that thing that sometimes happens when you’re in a relationship and you choose to ignore how fucked up things have gotten. The fun and exciting phase has worn off. You now really know each other, and you now know that you really don’t like each other. But you’ve kind of slipped into your roles and so you stay in it. Until something snaps you out of it and you realize that you don’t have to be with that person. Neither of you is getting anything out of it. That’s sort of how the big fallout between us and Rick+Russell came to be.

When we started, we were just a band. Friends in a band. We’d never thought of having a producer or manager or record label. Never really thought about the future of things in general. Then Rick+Russell came along, and they had big ideas. Things seemed to be going great, so we just rolled with it all. Going on tour opening for Madonna, and then Run-DMC…it was like a dream that we didn’t even know existed for us had come true. We’d become a big group of friends having ridiculous fun, making music, playing shows, traveling, and getting paid money to not actually have a job. But at a certain point, Rick+Russell started coming up with ideas and making decisions for us. When you’re young and someone tells you “Trust me. Do this thing. It’ll be fun, and you’ll make a bunch of money doing it”…you do it. And so we did. But it felt a little weird, like we weren’t in control anymore.

For example: In late 1985, early 1986, we made the rough demo version for the song “Fight for Your Right (To Party).” Shit sounded funny to us. But a couple weeks later, Rick played us a new version that, unbeknownst to us, he’d been working on. All of a sudden it sounded clean and full, like a song that a professional would’ve made. Rick had not only totally remixed the song, but he replayed the guitar line that Yauch had recorded. Wait, what? M’okay. I guess it doesn’t really matter, right? It’s still the same song. It’s just more…“polished.” And that sort of thing happened a lot on that record. Even down to the artwork for the cover. Rick just kind of showed it to us one day. Like, Oh, I had some guy make this, and this is your album cover. All we really knew up to that point was that punk rockers went to the Xerox store to make their flyers and 7-inch covers and stuff. But we were like, I

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