From 2020: Ad-Rock on true friends, self-acceptance, and his methods of coping (“I just try to stay high”).
Adam Horovitz was born in Manhattan, in 1966, and raised there by his mother, the artist Doris Keefe. His father, the playwright Israel Horovitz, left the family in 1969. New York in the seventies was wild and lawless, which suited a young person searching for a tribe. As a teen-ager, Horovitz played in a New York punk band called the Young and the Useless. There was no imaginable future in music for him.
In 2012, Yauch, often seen as the band’s conscience, died after a three-year battle with cancer. He was forty-seven. The two surviving members agreed to never again make music as the Beastie Boys. In 2018, Horovitz and Diamond published “,” a sprawling memoir with all the jokes, left turns, and cut-and-paste energy of their best songs. The following year, they performed a series of two-man theatre shows, essentially bringing the book to life.
Something that “Beastie Boys Story” captures is this desire, when you’re young, to be cool. To a lot of fans, the band came to embody what it meant to be cool—what to listen to, what to wear, how to act. What did it mean to represent that? What made you gravitate toward some people and not others? Even though “Licensed to Ill” was the big turning point, in terms of people first hearing the band, it often sounds like the Def Jam years were a little traumatic.The main thing was that me, Adam, and Mike were friends, and that the band we started as friends was more important than business stuff. If we were going to break up, we were going to break up and still be friends. I mean, that’s an important lesson.
Like you’re saying, at the core of the Beastie Boys is this model of friendship—you, Adam, and Mike, the people around you. It’s beautiful to hear you talk about how the friendship is what survived Def Jam. I’m curious how you guys handled disagreements. When we came out here [to Los Angeles, in the late eighties], we had money. Do you know what I mean? We didn’t come out here trying to find gigs. I was really lucky. I could live in a hotel. It’s just different. Your circumstances, like, the way you see things, it’s different. When I was kid, my aspiration was to have snacks—to be able to have whatever snacks I wanted. That’s not what my house was like. My friend Neil and I talked about success, like, what success really is.
When you were working on “Beasties Boys Book,” I read that you really enjoyed that kind of self-excavation, writing about yourself. You’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years talking about Yauch. Do you ever find yourself talking to him?Horovitz’s mother passed away when he was in his teensYou mentioned how when you’re young, you don’t really reflect on what’s going on, you’re just living it. Now that you’re older, do you have a different relationship to the idea of friendship?
México Últimas Noticias, México Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
'The Rock Collective' giving new bands chances to break through'The Rock Collective' is a group that gives new bands a chance to perform live to build a fan base.
Leer más »
Danniella Westbrook flashes diamond rock in London to end toy boy split rumoursFormer EastEnders actress Danniella Westbrook showed off her huge engagement ring after being spotted going out for a bite to eat
Leer más »
Rage Against the Machine left a unique legacy – but is the band Rock Hall worthy?The stars appeared to be aligning for Rage Against the Machine to get into the Rock & Roll of Fame in recent years. The rap-metal band has been nominated four times since 2018, including making this year’s ballot.
Leer más »
Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site after rock throwingThe string of events has raised fears of a repeat of last year, when protests and violence in Jerusalem eventually boiled over, helping to ignite an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, and communa…
Leer más »
Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site after rock-throwingIsraeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed. At least 27 Palestinians were wounded, two of them seriously.
Leer más »
Major Awards Show Issues 'No Violence' Warning in Wake of Will Smith Slapping Chris RockThe Tony Awards announced a strict 'no violence' policy, seemingly in response to the controversy around Will Smith's actions at the Oscars.
Leer más »