No Sleep ’til Bedtime; the Beastie Boys 22 years later
Of course that show was in the summer of 1986, and they were warming up the crowd for Run DMC as part of some monsters-of-rap thingamabumper. Months later, the Boys released “Licensed to Ill”, and that, podners, was all she wrote. They were well on their way.
Two decades on, the Beasties were nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and they’re still a red-hot ticket today, as evidenced by sales for their surprise small venue performance at Asheville’s Orange Peel later this week. The show was announced about a week ago, and tickets sold out in a matter of minutes.
Y’all enjoy it. I’ll be putting the kids to bed.
Here’s a tidbit from Wikipedia:
Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk group in 1979, and appeared on the compilation cassette New York Thrash with Riot Fight and Beastie. They switched to hip-hop with the release of their 12″ single “Cooky Puss”, which was followed by a string of successful 12″ singles and their debut album Licensed to Ill (1986), which enjoyed international critical acclaim and commercial success. The group is well-known for its eclecticism, jocular and flippant attitude toward interviews and interviewers, obscure cultural references and kitschy lyrics, and for performing in outlandish matching suits.
Here are a couple of images, and video (sorry, video has been pulled) from a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a couple of weeks ago, backed up by, mind-twistingly, the Roots.
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