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Beastie Boys @ Good Vibrations, ‘07
By popular demand (and cos I’m nice!), here are a ton o’ clips of the Beastie Boys that I captured during Good Vibrations.
Keepin’ up the good vibes…
(Apologies for the bad audio; my CANON IXUS couldn’t take the bass, I guess!)
Goooooooooooood Vibes!
GONG XI FA CAI!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It’s 3am. Just got back from Fort Canning Park — was there for the most excellent Good Vibrations Festival.
Jurassic 5 was tight as hell…
and the Beastie Boys…
The Beasties were DA BOMB!
They played an awesome set combining LIVE funk jamming, old skool rap with hilarious stage antics and of course, PUNK tunes — the crowd went absolutely mental when they played ‘Sabotage’ as a concert-closer.
They even dedicated this closing song to a special someone…
This next song is dedicated to the President of the United States of America… George W Bush!
Then they launched into the riff for ‘Sabotage’. Brilliant!
Mixmaster Mike displayed dope turntablism skillz with wicked-mad scratching & beat-juggling. Watch the video below where he shows off during the ENCORE performance and see the crowd go wild when he drops the first samples of ‘Intergalactic’!
Headbanging at his keyboard was Money Mark who was insanely funny too — especially when he ran amok like a crazy monkey and LEAPT onto his keyboard after jumping up and down with wild abandon during ‘Sabotage’; he went crashing onto the stage floor with the keyboard then picked himself up sheepishly! Haha. Watch the video below… he’s at right side of the stage!
Then there’s the dude from the crowd who climbed up the tall scaffolding and needed 2 security personnel to yank him down. Here are 2 videos of that. LOL… RAWK!
Not just one…
But TWO!
Here are a few more video excerpts I took for your viewing pleasure…
(sorry about the bad audio, the sound system was LOUD!)
I had waited almost 15 (fifteen!) years to watch the Beastie Boys perform LIVE — ever since ‘Licensed To Ill’ funked up my life — and it’s been well worth the wait.
** If you want any of the photos or videos, please leave me a comment or
email me: adrian@creamtone[dot]net & I’ll gladly send you high-res ones.
Please don’t hot-link or use them without my permission, okay? Aiiight.
You do it to yourself… You do!
A while ago, I came across a sweet hip-hop/dusty breaks/big-horns cover version of Just by Radiohead, off the brilliant album The Bends.
This version is by DJ Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald (lead singer of Phantom Planet) backed by invincible horns from The Dap Kings.
The Motion Group/Abbey Road Video Services have made a wicked video for it that showcases London graffitti art in animation — there’s even some Banksy in it.
Lovely stuff.
Update: Just found out that it’s gonna be on an album of Radiohead covers, released by British label BBE… featuring versions by The Cinematic Orchestra, Matthew Herbert and RJD2.
Booyaa!
Here’s a sweeeeet Radiohead homebrew animation of Creep (Acoustic) by Low Morale … Click on the Flash movie to view!
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