Anyway, we're back!
One of our favorite 'Roo memories from '09 was hanging out backstage with the Beastie Boys, right before their sweet-ass set on the main stage. It's always fun interviewing the B-Boys. Nothing they say is serious, or at all rooted in fact.
We talked about the 'Roo, we talked about their upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee and recording overdubs in a submarine, and we talked about people with large heads. Here are a few highlights:
On Waffle House:
Ad-Rock: Is Waffle House the 'Smothered and Covered' place?
MCA: Yes
Ad-Rock: Do they have "Moons Over My Hammy?"
Mike D: No, thats Denny's
Ad-Rock: Alright. I went to Waffle House one night, really late at night, and there was nobody there except for people cleaning and cooking. And they played the jukebox, and it was "Honky Tonk Badonakadonk." The people went crazy and the whole staff started dancing!
SS: What about Cracker Barrel?
Ad-Rock: I don't fuck with Cracker Barrel. I just don't like the way it sounds.
On the new album:
MCA: We did record a bunch of the album on a boat called the Octopus. I don't know if you've heard about it, it belongs to Paul Allen. It has a recording studio and a submarine.
SS: And two helicopters on top, right?
Mike D: Yes. You know it. Two helicopters, and actually two submarines. For real.
MCA: One of them is a remote submarine that they can control. Print it.
Mike D: Right. One submarine you can go in and ride around. The other can be controlled remotely. So he [pointing to Ad-Rock] actually did an overdub in the submarine.
Ad-Rock: Sort of.
Mike D: He did!
MCA: He got a little scared being in the sub, so it was a short overdub, but it was an overdub, nonetheless. It was the first time that anyone had recorded anything from the sub.
Ad-Rock: I don't like being in confined things, so it was quick. But it was cool. We can check that one off the list. We did that.
On People With Large Heads:
Ad-Rock: Tommy Lee Jones has a big-ass head. Dome-ski! For real.
Mike D: Dome-ski!
MCA: Who else was it with a big-ass dome? I forget.
Ad-Rock: Jon Bon Jovi.
MCA: Home-ski has a big ol' head.
Mike D: That's right. I can vouch for that.
MCA: Big ass head and big ass hair.
On Bonnaroo:
SS: All of your shoes are so clean. You definitely haven't been walking around, checking out bands.
Mike D: We've got galoshes for when we go out and walk around.
Ad-Rock: I have someone carry me around.
MCA: I have an assistant who straps baggies on my feets and and I go out into the crowd in a hermetically-sealed bag.
Ad-Rock: When we're done tonight, they should just fucking cancel the whole festival because we're going to burn this motherfucker down.
Mike D: They should. We're gonna play, we're gonna burn it down. But, actually, they should turn it into a disco when we're done. Put on Barry White everybody! Dance close!
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chili lee | October 15, 2009 9:44 AM
that conversation gave me diahrea
cranky lame ducks | July 10, 2009 1:55 PM
Wow, y'all either have no sense of humor or no sense of taste. This was hilarious. What did you want? Some tired interview about how their new album's gonna "RAWKKKKKK!!!" ? It's the fuckin beasties!
They are some of the funniest and most innovative assholes in the music biz. Check your history - these guys have never given a serious interview in the 25 successful years of their careers. At least they keep us entertained.
Sorry you missed the joke. But good luck with your boring interview reading. I'll let you know when some one talks to The Killers again.
aquanaut | July 7, 2009 9:58 PM
Beastie Boys deserve respect. I just can't listen to their rap voices anymore.
If they focused on instrumentals, beats and production and cranked out a few CD's of stuff like "The In Sound From Way Out", they'd be my new favorite band again.
Give the boomin' systems some food for thought, just stop screeching at me...
Yardsale | June 26, 2009 11:41 AM
Burn the motherfucker down yo!
Johnny | June 25, 2009 8:10 PM
Awesome interview. Classic B-Boys
j | June 25, 2009 4:28 PM
this might be the absolute most useless interview ever. congrats on the crap.
mr.bummer | June 25, 2009 3:37 PM
if you don't know, i'm not gonna tell you.
buttrocker
Wow | June 25, 2009 1:32 PM
I'm cool. I get to talk to the Beastie Boys and they pretend like they like me. Can I touch the computer screen? Please!
natch | June 25, 2009 1:00 PM
hey mr.bummer who the hell is "against me"... emo shit i presume
hahaha | June 25, 2009 12:35 PM
hahahahaha
Michael | June 25, 2009 11:25 AM
Thank God For The Beasties.
The Intl | June 25, 2009 12:06 AM
The Beastie Boys are so tired...
mr.bummer | June 23, 2009 7:23 PM
wow.....brutal. that was a horrible interview. i thought i heard something about a new album, but i'll i saw was something about a single overdub in a sub.
lame.
while you guys have been slacking off, against me got a new drummer...that would've been a good SS ditty, but no....we got this beastie shit at bonnaroo, that had little to no insight on the beasties or bonnaroo.
i was a fan of the SS....lately?..not so much.
pretty dissappointing, scaggs.
HOLE | June 23, 2009 10:25 AM
So let's see...2 weeks down and this is what you get paid to put up on the SS site?
Can I please have your job. This is a joke that after being down this long and visiting bonnaroo you come back with this horrible interview with the Beasties
Bobsled | June 23, 2009 1:38 AM
That's it? That's the update for the S.S.? You guys were supposed to update ALL of it, not one measly little section. Man, you guys are lazy as hell.