donkeykong1 Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 I went to a concert last night down at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in California. It was called Powerhouse and was the work of a local radio station in L.A. called Power 106 FM. Anyway the Beastie Boys wer doing their thing and I noticed that they had a bunck of Atari Activision games on the background screen of the stage. I thought it was cool because it showed the new generation, that they started in the 80's and that was the thing back then, Atari. Anyone else see it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 that is too sweet. The Beasties are the real deal. You lucky dog, I bet that show was totally dank. Big ups to the BB for giving love to the old school. white castle fries only come in one size, Stan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 It's too bad you had to hear the Beastie Boys to see Atari stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 beastit boys rock! i've been listening to their music for some time now. did you sneak any pictures of the screen by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenwood Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 THat's pretty cool. It reminds me of the last Rush Concert I went to. They had some dryers going with clothes in em. And several times during the show, a stang hand would have to come out and put more quarters in the dryers to keep em going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 On the "Rush at Rio" DVD they a roadie came out with a laundry basket and swapped clothes while they were playing. On the "Test For Echo" tour they had a refrigerator in line with Geddys bass amps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkeykong1 Posted July 3, 2004 Author Share Posted July 3, 2004 No pictures as I didn't take a camera. The thing that kinda sucked was that the crowd didn't give them a big pop or really big ovation. I think it's because the concert was more of a hip-hop concert. There were different rappers performing and the Beastie Boys were thrown in the mix. Many of the people attending were youngsters/teenagers that don't even know much about the Beasties. They were more about the other singers. I myself went for the Beastie Boys. The other singers were cool too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dykesr Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 I LOVE THE BEASTIE BOYS!!! new album is awsome RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike OC Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Sweet!!! Now here we go dropping science, dropping it all over Like bumping around the town like when you're driving a Range Rover Expanding the horizon and expanding the perameter Expanding the rhymes of sucka MC amateurs Naugels, Issac Newton a scientific E.Z. Ben Franklin with the kite, getting over with the key Now rock, shocker the mike of the many times, times the times tables Rock well to tell the spell all of the old fables Cuz I be dropping the new science and I be kicking the new k-nowledge An MC to a degree that you can't get in college Now the drags of the Earth and the EGGS that I eat I got tacks through my hands and one through my feet Shea Stadium the radium, E.M.D. squared Kicked out of the Palledium, 'dja think that I cared? It's the sounds...of science, the sounds...of science (Ad Rock) Rope-a-Dope! the newest in new, "right up to your face and dissed you" waxin' and milkin' all of you square heads... Time and money for girls covered with honey You lie and aspire to be as cunning Reelin' and rockin' and rollin' B sized D cup Order the quarter deluxe, why don'tcha wake up My mind is kinda flowing like an oil projector Had to get up and get the Jimmy protector Went bezerk and worked, and exploded she woke up in the morning and her face was coated Buddy you study the man on the mic D, do whatcha like Drunk as a skunk am I from celebration To peep that freak unique penetration Well I figured out who makes the crack it's The suckas with the badges and the blue jackets Proffesor of science cuz I keep droppin' it I smell weak cuz y'all keep poppin' it People always ask me what's the phenomenon Yo what's up? Yo what's goin' on No one really knows what I'm talkin' about And yeah that's right my name's Yauch... [DJ scratching] Ponce De Leon, constantly on The fountain of youth, not Robotron Peace is a word I've heard before So move and move and move up on the dance floor Cuz I'm gonna die, gonna die one day Cuz I'm goin' and goin' and goin' this way Not like a roach or a peace of toast I'm goin' out first class, ain't goin' out coach Rock my Adidas, never rock Filas [i do not sniff the coke, I only smoke the sinsemilla] Well with my nose I knows and with my scope I scopes What I live I write and that's strictly rope I got science for any occasion Postulating theorems formulating equasions Cheech wizard in a snow blizzard Eat a chicken gizzard with a girl named Lizzy [Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzy Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 I read an intervew several years ago with one of the Beastie Boys. They were talking about growing up and playing Atari. They still enjoyed (at least at the time) playing Atari. Aparrently, they still do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Beastie Boys Appearances in Video Games didn't know about this... The Elusive Beastie Boys Arcade Game If things had been different in 1992, you could have been guiding Adrock, MCA or Mike D around the screen at your local video arcade. A game was actually made by the Kaneko Company where you and two friends could control each of the Beasties as they travel through different platform style levels. A prototype cabinet was made using the 'Check Your Head' logo on one side and a white picture of the Beastie Boys on the other. The control panel had each of the Beastie's names next to each joystick. A CD player inside the cabinet plays tracks from "Paul's Boutique" and "Check Your Head" and as expected any swearing is beeped out. The different levels consisted of: Dodging eggs being thrown at them for 30 seconds Standing on a giant moving turntable while avoiding "The Turntable King" Get their microphones back Get their instruments back Get back to PJ's for their live performance When all these levels are complete you win the RIAA Award and it all starts again. The game was never released as it never received licensing from the Beastie Boys or Grand Royal. "And if you play defender I could be your hyper space" -- Body Movin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongHit Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 On the new Beastie album there's a track with a repeating sample loop saying: "Put a quarter in your ass 'cause you played yourself." So that's 3 videogame references in their lyrics... any others? -PongHit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattG/Snyper2099 Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 "And if you play Defender I could be your hyperspace" -lyrics from the song "body movin" The BB's are the best hip-hop/rock act today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Their latest has what sounds like a guy from a Defender instructional video, something like "the goal is to stop the landers from abducting your humanoids and turning them into mutants. A mutant is very dangerous to you because it flies faster than you, and shoots at you" -- not exact quote, but close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 I remember a referance to "Boggle" in thier lyrics. It was an word board game like Scrabble but I think Milton-Bradley made a PC version back in the 90's. Check out http://bboylyr.soopageek.com/ - they have annotated lyrics for all thier albums plus what samples they used. Fascinating reading along with listening to thier albums. I think "Paul's Boutique" has the record for most samples used on a single album. You'd couldnt make a album like that now without paying a fortune for copyright fees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeV0 Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 "And if you play Defender I could be your hyperspace"quote] Damn, u got there ahead of me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 The Beasties have a fun shockwave game called "Triple Trouble" on thier website thats a clone of Frogger with the sound effects. http://capitolrecords.com/beastieboys/tripletrouble/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 It is kind of cool that they still mention Atari and other references in their music. I wonder how many other groups do this currently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 When all these levels are complete you win the RIAA Award and it all starts again. The game was never released as it never received licensing from the Beastie Boys or Grand Royal. Huh, they should have added a bonus round after winning the RIAA award which lets you fire subpoenas at 11 year old girls that download your music. JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 thats too funny, I was just listening to 'to the 5 boroughs' during my workout last night and getting a real kick out of the guy reading the defender instructions. This also reminds me of my old sique sique sputnik album, that I bought simpy because the guys on the album front have atari and 'MSX' shirts. However my hometown beasties are a LOT more listenable :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The MilkMan Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Thanks Mike O'C for the lyrics! Paul's Boutique still my fav! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 The BB's are the best hip-hop/rock act today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 It really shouldn't come as any surprise to hear Atari references from the Beastie Boys. Hip-Hop draws from pop culture. My favorite video game reference of all time is still Notorious B.I.G.: "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, when I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this." For those who remember House of Pain's "Jump Around" as well, Everlast rapped "try to play me out yo like my name was Sega." It was an unusually prescient rhyme. And it's funny if you think about it, but video game culture was born and came of age at pretty much the same time as hip-hop - both are about 25-30 years old now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 How about George Clinton's video for Atomic Dog? In the rock category, The Who's "It's Hard" album featured a kid playign Space Duel for no good reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 And it's funny if you think about it, but video game culture was born and came of age at pretty much the same time as hip-hop - both are about 25-30 years old now. I remember reading an interview with Afrika Bambaataa who recorded the classic "Planet Rock" in the early 80's - he said one of the primary influences on early records was hanging around arcades at the time and hearing the beep-beep-beep of classic video games like Asteroids and Space Invaders. The Pretenders recorded a great rock instrumental called "Space Invaders" on their first album in 1978 - it has the sound effects of the game where it speeds up to the last invader that gets shot right at the end. They had the game at the studio's break room where they recorded and the band and producer got hooked on playing it between sessions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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