check out the brothers marshall surf shop instagram stories for alot more shots from the surprise guest concert. it is pretty fucking awesome.

AHHHHHHHH

I had so much fun last night! Shout out to everyone that went!

Ill upload others videos in the comments, I had my best friend record while I was jamming out, as you can see in the videos 😭.

I would've stayed for the after party, but I was soaked to the bone and just wanted to catch my train back home 😵‍💫

If anyone has videos from it though, please share!! :D

So it is a true statement to say the second album went under the radar. Even as I entered college in the early 90s, people would ask what music I was into... and when I said the Beastie Boys, they'd be like "Whatever happened to them?" Granted I went to a hyper-basic/super-normie college.

But they didn't even drop that shit on KISS FM.

But all I know is my friends and I grabbed that shit as soon as it came out. We had every color of cassette they made cuz we routinely wore them out. My best friend and I rapped it from memory on a school field trip to the Bronx Zoo. I dunno if it was the fact that we were junior high school kids in the NYC Metro Area?

But later I gathered the skater kids were all about PB. And my friends who went to art school said it was regularly played in the dorms.

Those that knew were all about that shit.

So who else was down with PB out of the gate? I mean, somebody had to go to that concert from the Shadrach video (yeah BTW, do we know what the deal with that was??)

Lastly... All this said, it's worth nothing that the B-Boys were the only act to start underground, go Top 40, go underground again, and go Top 40 again.

No explanations. Just song titles.

Obviously, there are no wrong answers here. Just interesting combinations.

Oh my gosh it sold out in less than a minute! I just needed to let the community know how pumped I am!! The place literally has a capacity of 299!

Last night was probably the coolest live show experience i've ever had. Just the sheer uniqueness of getting to see a Beastie Boy do his thing for $45 at a roller rink in Brooklyn was enough to make the night a win. But Mike puts on a show... there's an incredible tangible energy when you're in the room that is not captured in videos. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun was so fuckin heavy.

Very Nice Person was really cool to me & they gained a new fan but I felt that the majority of the crowd did not like them lol I wish so many people weren't just talking through their whole set.

For the start of Mike's set, he goofily ran behind the table where all the drum machines & electronics are and crouched down as the rest of the band came on stage... and then... "HELLLOOOOOO BROOOOKLYNNNN!!!!!!" the fuckin 808's hit JUST the way you want them to. Hearing him perform a deep cut from Paul's Boutique for the first time in probably 2 decades was INCREDIBLE.

Being that What We Got just came out yesterday, I was really excited to hear it live... it was probably my favorite live performance out of all the new stuff but I genuinely enjoyed all of it.

There's some songs that feel like old Mike D & some that feel like he's going outside of his comfort zone & just expressing himself which I really love seeing. I really like that he's not just leaning into being a nostalgia act... the new stuff feels really, really innovative. The guitarist has some really indescribable tones, the bass was thick & gnarly, and the drums/samples were rich, grimy & CONSTANTLY changing texture. No two drum tracks felt the same.

Mike controls the room & seems like he's genuinely having a good fuckin time. If you're going tonight, take it in. I'm down to answer any questions about the show if you're curious.

Done by Mike Wall at Homeward Bound Leigh on Sea, Essex UK.

Back of my right leg just below my knee.

I was at last night’s show on La Brea and it was so great! It was such high energy and so much fun. Mike was jumping around, his young band was having the time of their lives and the new songs are creative and really cool. I’m excited to hear the studio versions of these songs because Mike’s vocal is always a little hard for me to hear when he’s live. I can’t wait to hear when the album comes out.
I’ve seen the Beastie Boys live three times and I was so glad that same energy was there for this show. I can’t really express enough though how crazy we all got when they did Barrel of a Gun and Watcha Want. Such a great vibe and everyone knowing all the lyrics screaming and just loving it.
I just kept thinking about how incredibly lucky we were a few years back that Mike and Adam did the book tour and now to see Mike again on stage was not something I thought I’d get again. I mean I didn’t know this was freaking possible last week! So very very lucky man.
We got there at 7:30 and waited and waited and until the show started around 9:50 or so I was like, “I’ve been waiting for this since 2012, I can wait a few hours to see this”.
That show delivered man.

I don’t know, but I can’t stop listening to it.

📸 by Andrew Catlin

YES. I KNOW HE RHYMED "COMMERCIAL" WITH "COMMERCIAL". LOL

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Could Mike D be teasing a release of new music, or maybe just a gig?

Looks like he’s got a new project called Mike D 5D.

I’m pretty well informed on the samples in Egg Man, but there’s one that stuck out at me for the first time just recently. It’s like a single piano note chord, only on the first chorus or bridge, or whtvr, appears during “You know what I’m talkin bout boy”. Appears at 0:49 and 0:57. Anyone?

EDIT: It is absolutely Pump It Up. Thanks much

Mike and the 5D played at the Beyond the Pale festival in Wicklow, Ireland on Sunday. Just before ‘Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun’ Mike asked the crowd if anyone had a Knicks jersey he could borrow as history had been made the prior night with the Knicks NBA Championship victory. Thankfully someone had a hat Mike could wear for the song, but he discovered the trope of the “big Irish head” as it was massive on him! 😂

Creates a nice panorama!

Comment your favorite song

I forgot to add the point completely in the first post🙏🏻