I listen to a lot of music and I still buy a lot, I listen to it in interchangeable waves of style and genre led by mood or imagination or some other cosmic force that brainworms a choice. Since hearing ‘No Sleep till Brooklyn’ in 1987 they have never been out of my circulation. No ‘Fight for your Right’ was not my gateway song.
I’m headed to New York, it would be rude not to visit, I had a night and a day to fit some Beastie Boys time in.
On the Thursday I grabbed an hour and headed up to the location of the first Beastie Boys live show at their friends third floor apartment. It looks a lot better than it used to and above a retro diner – Stop 1.
Woke up on the Friday, a few other sightseeing bits were out the way I took the Subway to Brooklyn. Stop 2 is the Adam Yauch Playground. Stop 3 is about a 7 mile walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and through Chinatown to Beastie Boys Square. Location of the Paul’s Boutique cover. From there to Stop 4, the new Shepard Fairey mural. Included an image of White Castle.
- Location 1 – 100th and Broadway – The 3rd floor above the retro diner – First live performance
- Location 2 – 27 State Street, Brooklyn – Adam Yauch Playground – Dedicated to MCA
- Location 3 – Ludlow St &, Rivington St. – Beastie Boys Square – Dedicated September 2023
- Location 4 – Avenue A &, E 14th St. – Beastie Boys Obey – Shepard Fairey Mural
This list could be bigger but that was my day:
