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Section One
Me
(starting
gently): Let’s talk about the new
record. How
have your individual roles changed in the band?
Adam
Horovitz (vaguely):
They’re always changing. Sometimes I’m Mrs.C,
Mr.
C, Potsy, sometimes The Fonz...
Mike
D (writing):
I’M GREG NICE AND MC SMOOTH B ALL IN ONE.
Right,
do you think you’ve become victims of your own success? Isn’t there a danger
that kids now see the Beastie brand everywhere and ultimately, that’s really
not very cool?
Yauch:
We
just try and make something that sounds cool.
Adam
Horovitz: I
don’t think I’m any cooler than Jamie from Detroit
Who’s
Jamie from Detroit?
Adam
Horovitz: A
friend of mine.
Surely
Grand Royal is, intentionally, a bible of cool and cult references?
Yauch:
Why
should we write about Brad Pitt in Grand
Royal? We write about somebody like Lee Perry that people have never heard
of.
Adam
Horovitz: We’re
the only people who know about Lee Perry.
No
you’re not. Surely you wrote about him because you think he’s cool?
Yauch:
(Defiantly)
Well, we grew up on him.
At this point Mike D scribbles furiously. He has something important to share. / JUST WANT TO TELL THE PARTY PEOPLE, he writes, THAT THIS CHILLI IS THE BOMB.
Section
What
questions are you fed up of being asked?
Yauch:
We’ve
been asked that one before.
Adam
Horovitz: It’s
interesting that we make music and that’s why people interview us and then it’s
like nobody ever asks us about it. You don’t want to know anything about drums
or guitars or mikes, or lyrics or anything?
Are
you totally fed up with the press?
Yauch: English journalists. One minute they’ll be (adopts comical Michael Caine accent) “You guys are the greatest”, the next they’ll be “Oh, you’re that shite band, aren’t you?”
Horovitz: The press tell you what to hate. When we came back to England after our first record the press didn’t care. We were over. We couldn’t even sell records. But we played the Marquee and the kids there were happy to see us. But it’s not like I read this stuff.
Mike D (scrawling): WHY DO MOST ARTICLES IN THE UK HAVE TO MENTION THE WORDS ‘JEWISH’ AND ‘UPPER CLASS’?
Yauch: There’s such a significance on class. They go, “They’re a bunch of rich kids...”
Horovitz: ...so they’re not significant.
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