That album put a stink on the band because it sold so poorly.
There was also a big void for us after Paul’s Boutique. But its flopping gave the album room to be embraced by people that didn’t or couldn’t connect to Licensed to Ill. With Paul’s Boutique, for example, we were three fools trying to make something we loved. There are a million moments that lead up to those moments you picked out. It isn’t based on nothing - it’s just based on a simple timeline. Licensed to Ill was your biggest-selling album, Paul’s Boutique is considered, pretty much by consensus, to be your best album, and the “Sabotage” video gave you a new audience. What you described is an easy way to look at a timeline and pick out a few blips.īut it’s not based on nothing. Has working on the book affected your thinking about the Beastie Boys’ career? The conventional narrative, as I see it, is that there were three defining milestones for you guys: Licensed to Ill, Paul’s Boutique, and “Sabotage.” Does that jibe with your understanding of the band’s trajectory?
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Thirty-seven years after forming the band, Mike can say, with a smile, “I learned a lot of things in the Beastie Boys - including how to appreciate a good time.” Mike, 52, hosts the Beats 1 radio show The Echo Chamber, takes occasional production work and DJ gigs, globetrots with his kids, and has written an eagerly anticipated memoir with Ad-Rock. What he’s settled on has been both comparatively low-key and deeply enviable. “Identifying what else I was comfortable doing with my life was a very gradual process.”
“For three decades I was totally consumed with being in the band,” says Mike D, rail-thin in a leather jacket, sipping tea in the lobby of the Bowery Hotel.
When the Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in the past.
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