{"id":13388,"date":"2020-06-23T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/beastie-boys-finally-reunite-with-original-producer-rick-rubin-after-20-years\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:47:00","slug":"beastie-boys-finally-reunite-with-original-producer-rick-rubin-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beastie-boys-finally-reunite-with-original-producer-rick-rubin-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Beastie Boys finally reunite with original producer Rick Rubin after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Beastie Boys finally reunite with original producer Rick Rubin after 20 years<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 23, 2020 |<\/span> 8:47am <\/p>\n

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\n You know how you can get together with an old friend you haven\u2019t seen for years, and it\u2019s like you were just together yesterday? It happ<\/a>ens on the Broken Record podcast, when Beastie Boys Mike \u201cMike D\u201d Diamond and Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz reunite with Rick Rubin, who was their friend, producer and cowriter of their epochal 1986 debut album \u201cLicensed to Ill.\u201d<\/p>\n

And since Horovitz and Rubin hadn\u2019t spoken in more than 20 years (not out of anger, but just because they simply hadn\u2019t), it not only has the joyfulness of reuniting with an old friend, it almost amounts to an oral history of the group\u2019s early years: touring with Run-DMC and Madonna, going to the legendary NYC nightclubs of the 1980s, Rubin\u2019s infamous bubble machine (which has taken on legendary status in Beastie lore) and more. The group\u2019s longtime friend, video director and documentarian Spike Jonze is also along for the Zoom session and weighs in with some questions, but mostly he\u2019s just enjoying the reunion.<\/p>\n

The third Beastie Boy, Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch, died of cancer in 2012, but he\u2019s present in many of their recollections.\u00a0There\u2019s plenty of laughter and goofy inside jokes, like most people reunited with friends from their late teens, but in this case, it\u2019s all leading up to the creation of a pivotal album in music history and ensuing superstardom.<\/p>\n

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And although the Beasties have been on a bit of a retrospective binge over the past couple of years \u2014 with a gigantic book, a speaking tour, a documentary and more \u2014 one thing that\u2019s been missing is a real reunion with Rubin.<\/p>\n

This session is absolutely essential listening for fans of the group and especially its groundbreaking debut, \u201cLicensed to Ill,\u201d because it tells the real story of those early days. How the group first teamed up with Rubin \u2014 via hanging out at his NYU dorm, then going out to clubs, which was basically the 18-to-24-month-long process that resulted in \u201cLicensed to Ill\u201d: just being young, trying to be cool and make each other laugh \u2014\u00a0and the result is one of the defining albums of the hip-hop era.<\/p>\n

Along the way we hear about their background and upbringing, and several questions are answered that the group long wondered about \u2014 they never understood whether Rubin, who was their DJ at the time, left the Madonna tour because he actually had an ear infection, or whether that was just a cover story.<\/p>\n

And where did that bubble machine come from, anyway? All is revealed in this hour well spent \u2026<\/p>\n