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these vocals are INSANE. one of the best live performances ever
I know you 👆 planned it!
Just ran into this clip, mind is blown. MCA is such a G
I miss David Letterman… He had a lot of rock ‘n’ roll on his show… Colbert Fallon and Kimmel don’t have enough😮
Я знаю таких парне, которые о группе из фильма стар трэк узнали❤
Kimmel has Slayer though
That's right. . Beastie Boys built a hit out of ONE CHORD, a two note guitar solo, and one bass lick, and 25 years later it still holds up.
And according to Star Trek, will still hold up hundreds of years into the future too.
Suh Suh Suh itS'all about the grooooove!!!!
technically, i think there's three 3 bass licks in here. but yea, if ur starting out on bass and just want to rock it out, this song is built for you
yeah but that bass lick, one chord, and two notes...
So true. Incredible. It's one of my favorite songs of ever. There just has to be something subliminal, otherwise I cannot figure out our 25 year love affair.
Back when music was perfect. Absolutely perfect.
so tite
Music has been replaced by streaming and social media and youtube commentary videos lol. How depressing is that? I legitimately lose sleep over it.
I agree.Arooo
awe VOB cover beastyboys sabotage live in pasiwali taiwan.. or HITC La
✌️ ✌️ ✌️ ✌️ I just rocked out 😊😊😊😊
They had no right going this hard on late night TV. What a banger.
it's sabotage.
No right indeed!! The nerve of these hooligans!!!
speaking of going hard on late night tv, have you heard about sturgill simpson ua-cam.com/video/qsrsrOB0zNQ/v-deo.html
Well… you gotta fight for this right too.
"Hey guys, just go out there and have fun ya know?" Beastie boys: "AAAAAaaaaaaaHhhhHHHHH"
After playing this video my computer has reinstalled Windows 95.
I regret that I have but one "like" to give to this comment - ROFLMAO!
Mines stuck on 3.14
You mean Windows 3.1 on MS-DOS 6.2
Windows 95 plus
Be my Friend
This makes me want to break into my neighbour's house, toast all of the bread and put it back in the bag.
I'm telling yall its Sabotage
Time to plan a breaking and entering
🤣😂
Why do so many people comment this on so many videos
🤣🤣🤣
30 years later and it still gives me chills. Peace.
Time travelers on the run since 2024~
same here
I know my comments just go into the ether but this performance measures up to any of the great stage performances of all the great rock and roll bands. Every one of the musicians were tuned in. I never tire of this video.
This is a hi-water mark. It just doesn’t get any better than this. Brilliance. 🍎💋❤️🎼🥃🍺🌿🎸
Me the same.
Play it weekly 🎉
Yes, I come back to it every so often, always great.
The beauty of blending punk with hip hop.
death grips :)
Well they did start as punk
@@mackereltacos2850 ey
Genres born out of struggle and defiance. It's poetic.
@@mackereltacos2850 Death Grips suck and LIMP BIZKIT RULES!
What an unbelievable vocal performance.
It isn’t live it’s a recording loads of musicians do that on talk shows
@@jimcasino415 Any one that is cool
Reese Reese it wasn’t it’s a recording you’d be surprised they’re playing it they just don’t have their instruments turned up or anything. Beasties recorded separately instrument by instrument not live recording it varies on the band but they’re so good and attention to detail so they don’t play that live they’d only sing it shout*
@@jimcasino415 You're a moron.
@@jimcasino415 Its pretty clear its live. Its alot different from the original
That moment at 2:13 where it just goes to the note on the synth and that bass cuts back in--incredible.
Not the synth, the organ (yes, I know exactly how I sound in your heads and I gave myself a few extra punches just because of that) AND ALSO because I'm almost blind, and I wanted to ask what was the ref of the synth (the top keyboard) so I DESERVED thosese punches!
@@tomauberwenig2116There's a weird variety to keyboards, isn't there... Electric Pianos, Organs, Synths, just a Keyboard...
Living and experiencing the 90s was the best.
The last great decade. Before cell phones and social media poison.
No totally bro!! They absolutely didn’t say the same thing about the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and currently nobody is saying it about the early 2000s or 2010s haha you’re so right
@@glowco.717you’re so right bro! All the social media malaise and impending climate disaster and nuclear war and horrific inflation is actually rad. Nothing about the old times was better
@@Nice-sm5hr right, as opposed to the much better time period of integration riots, McCarthyism, Vietnam, you mentioned nuclear war like they weren’t showing video explanations on what to do in case of a nuclear weapon attack in elementary schools
@@glowco.717 Lmao all that shit is still the same you moron. How many wars is the US involved in. There's an active genocide right now. SOME things about life back then were better is all people were saying. Hope you find a way to be less miserable in your life
This will never not be cool
Agreed!!!!👊😎
Beautiful , truthful words. Cheers!
True, true, true that. This song stands the test of time.
So awesome! ♥️
@@haberdasheryandspam - Actually...if you think about it, that's already happened. Think of when people say, "That's the shit right there!" To quote another song, "whomp, there it is."
I'm 52 years old now and this song still gets me fired up.
During my Uni days, I was in a mildly successful pub band, we used to have this playing as we finished setting up and right at the 2.14 mark on here, but in the song, we used play it as our first song.... was always a great start
Same
I'm 54 and still shouting sabotage!!!!!
Yeah, you, me and Captain Kirk! 😁
same here
I am 54 and saw this live. Blew my mind! Every time you thought the boys might be done they would do it again.
I’m the same age. Saw them twice. Boy do I miss those days. So many shows!
🍀🍀🍀
Still goes hard in 2024!
This song has a level of energy that most bands could only aspire to.
Uhh...Linkin Park? There are a lot of elements here that brought together the sound of Hybrid Theory.
@@marcusarelius I'd say they lacked the same sense of self-awareness and fun.
@@callumgillies9611 Can't blame the boys, it was the 90's after all.
@@marcusarelius i was actually saying that about Linkin Park haha
@@callumgillies9611 Oh....I know. Sometimes it's hard to read sarcasm.
raw fucking talent and energy. this can never be duplicated. and to see the look on their faces, they knew they were killing it, living in the moment and having a blast. love it
I remember spending a long time dismissing them as a novelty band, just like I did with Chili Peppers before Frusciante saved that band. Even Paul's Boutique - while it was interesting, it still didn't grab me like Check Yer Head did. That album had me doing a total 180.
@@Genious. oh yeah
@@epektasis242 definitely
they were killing it doing it their own way. it’s absolutely fantastic
Yep, they knew. And I also agree they loved it too.
I love his smirks on his face throught the song..perfect
I'm watching this 30 years later in 2024 , you can't beat GOOD MUSIC it never ages.
Mad respect to the TV sound engineers who made that audible. In 1994 that was a frikkin miracle.
A lot of of older sets would have put out nothing but pure white noise.
I bet it's down to them mixing the house band every night for years. Like having a 12 year sound check first! Does sound ridiculously good.
Wow, exactly!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👊🏻
A lot of BASSSSSSSSS
1994 wasn't as archaic as you want to think it was.
@@dimlightbulb10Exactly. In fact those analog boards produced incredible sound. Listen to Old Rolling Stones and their brand new album. New album sounds cold and boring in comparison
One chord is all you need, man.
"Sometimes one note can be a lot better than 50 notes" (Angus Young)
Worked for Bo Diddley.
I cord and a truck load of attitude.
Anyone who plays more than two chords is just showing off and four chords is jazz.
Sure....specially when you can't do anything else !!
Too easy using only one chord !!
2023 and still a classic.
Beastie boys will live on forever.
My 13 year old daughter knows every lyric of BB's hits.
Says it all really
Says it all. Your kid appreciates good music.
Too bad your daughter has no decent current music to listen too. How many young bands these days compete with late 80s and early 90s bands. Generation X luckily lived in the moment, had our current sounds unlike today's youth. They want everything their parents had, zero creativity and originality unfortunately.
@@irishrover9332 Countless bands. You just have no clue how to find them because you're stuck in the past. Some of the best albums have come out in the last decade.
@@goldenhourkodak please tell me some names bud would love some new good tunes
@@stfc5138 Idles, Royal Blood, Inhaler, Wolf Alice, Fontaines DC, Wet Leg, Dune Rats, The Chats, DZ Deathrays, Alvvays.
Not only is the one of the best-ever live performances of a song on late-night tv, but there's no question that they're all having the best time-in spite of the themes of the song, they're full of joy.
Jašta!
The audience had no idea they were about to witness one of the best musical performances on any late night show in history.
No clue....
Everytime i listen I have to play it twice !
One of the best performances in recorded music and tv history
This is not hyperbole. It's an absolutely electrifying performance.
Absolutely true my friend. Classic for the ages
The guy on the organ is playing the fire out of that note.
That's Money Mark struttin his stuff bro.....
I thought that was Mike Nishita
LOL
Haahaa...yeah!...n he don't realize he snapped it off half way through bringing the fire!
Haha, agreed.
After 29 Years, there’s no words to describe the dimension these fine people brought. Rest easy Adam ❤️🩹
: "bet you can't make a hardcore timeless hit banger with only one chord"
Beastie Boys: "hold our beers"
the distortion on that bass..you have to love that sound.
They're called Motörhead
+BigKing Bud Well then apparently I never got passed Lemmy's awful vocals to appreciate his bass sound.
Donovan Brothen
Lemmy had awful vocals? Nice opinion.
+Hellwyck Sorry, how insensitive of me to not point out that it's my opinion. If you're a fan of his terrible voice then more power to ya.
Donovan Brothen
I've no idea what you're going on about.
One of the coolest live performances ever.
Also the one with cypress hill watcha want was amazing
It's right up there with U2's Bad at Live Aid
It's 1:11am and I have to teach university classes with 120 students at 9am...but I am up listening to this because it rocks!
sabotage girls :)..ua-cam.com/video/wh6KOMZCodA/v-deo.html
This is banging on so many levels, when you break Sabotage down it's such a relatively simple piece of music yet they manage to smash it out the park with so many layers, such a huge performance that has went down in history.
This has gotta be the greatest letterman live session of all time, just listen to all that sound. OMG
And this kids, is why the 90’s where AWESOME!!
Seems like the best decade of all time. Awesome music, awesome movies and technology was cool without ruling over our entire lives.
Were*
@@fixiefreewheel5002 i know. I’m not an English speaker so the auto corrector of my tablet tricks me a lot.
@@fixiefreewheel5002 no one did corrected grammar in the 90s and we were all very happy (hint hint)
If you mean 1991 to 1995 then I totally agree. The late 90s was ok, but not totally friggin awsome, like the first half of the decade. When Limp Bizkit made it big with Faith the moment truly was over.
punk, rock, metal, rap, pop... the song is a masterpiece and this live rendition is probably the best live performance on letterman ever
I agree with almost everything but Alanis Morriset did the best live ever on Letterman
dont forget Funk, Psychedelic, and Gospel
check James Brown performance and shut up
I've often found that the sound is terrible on American chat shows, and yet they always have someone playing every night/week etc.
@@JulioLeonFandinho The James Brown performance was incredible. But, my friend was at the taping and it took 3 or 4 takes to get it right.
Personally, I would be just as much of a stickler for detail as Brown, but I think the raw, first take of this performance makes it my favorite.
After almost 30 years, this song still rocks!
Has anything rocked harder??
nothing.
@@goodeggnogg7038
One of the best live performances in the history or late night talk shows
I watched this live when I was 15 and was so pissed off that I couldn’t get my vcr set up in time to record it. I asked all my friends if they did and no luck. I am so stoked that I found this! I’m 39 and this just brings me back and it’s such an awesome ride.
Edit: I’m 42 now! :) nice to see people relate
same here. they were so cool to me and my other hs friends.
Im 39 too!!
Sad to say, but you may be as old as me. VCR
The VCR days were tough, think a dinosaur wrecked mine. Glad you found this video.
Same here
i cant believe how good they sound live
Baller af
I know. Sounds even better than the record. Way too talented these boys were.
Yup they were fantastic performers
Word
Checkout the glasgow gig on here, it is amazing.
Beasties putting on a musicians clinic right here. Rocking the holy hell out of one note & keeping it fresh for all these years. It stands the test of time.
Does it though?
@@glowco.717 66 people agree. I play it at work & people still dig it. So, yes.
@@l.d.jackson6755 if people say the same thing under every UA-cam performance of any band that peaked at any time longer than 8 years ago, you would think at some point people would notice.
@@glowco.717 they do and continue to. Watch.
@glowco.717 "peaked". BB started in 81, changed directions 3 times, influenced numerous bands & individuals, were inducted into the RRHOF in 2012, when a member also passed soon after. This vid was live in 94, was posted in 2013 & has just short of 18 million views and 167k likes. The only one complaining is you. I'd say that they did ok.
This song saved my sleep for an unknown amount of times! when I was studying in the mid-Norwegian city of Trondheim around the turn of the millennium, living in a small apartment at the student district Nedre Møllenberg. One night I was sound asleep - around 3 AM - the neighbors came home and found out that they were going to have a party, with loud music and talking. So I woke up and it wasn’t possible to sleep anymore. I realized there was little point in going over and talk to them, so I took my stereo and turned both speakers towards their apartment. Then I turned on this amazing song - Beastie Boys with "Sabotage" - on full blast and played the whole song from start to finish. Afterwards, total silence. And partying in the middle of the night never occurred again 😇
This is so much fucking fun.
Tales of mere existance commenting no a Beastie Boys vid. Cool
I fucking love it
Love you, Lev
Fuck yeah!!!
One of best live performances ever
As a musician who loves Jazz, this song absolutely kicks ass. It isn’t easy to make a hit out of 1 chord and a single bass riff. They understood how sounds can generate energy. And no one could ever vocalize like that. Watching them perform it made me appreciate it even more.
What does you loving jazz have to do with anything? It’s like you mentioned it to say, “I like jazz so my taste is clearly superior. And because my taste is superior my opinion means more.”
No one cares that you like jazz.
@@07foxmulder Indicating that I love Jazz means that I typically prefer to listen to harmonically complex, improvisational music. It isn't meant to indicate superiority. It's meant to show how even the simplest composition can work with the right level of musicianship. I'm praising Beastie Boys' musicianship because it demonstrates that I'm wrong to choose music simply because of compositional complexity. I mention my love for jazz to show the contrast of two musical styles and how the seemingly simpler style is still so technically difficult to pull off.
I'm sorry my mention of jazz triggered you. No one really cares about your opinion either, but here you are trying to raise ire on a music video. Just chill out and enjoy the music and stop trying to stir problems.
@@PA1RofRaggedClause “I’m gonna type a novel to show how much I don’t care about your opinion.”
@@07foxmulder Nope. Just defending my own. By the way, you're wrong. At least 8 people care about my opinion, evidenced in the likes. Find a better hobby than harassing people online. People like you make comment sections toxic.
@@PA1RofRaggedClause Lmao sure thing, wimp.
When Punk meets Rap , utter masterclass was never done and will never will be done again
The audience has no idea what a treat they we’re experiencing. The best live TV performance in history.
By far
A close second to Killing in the Name on BBC
They had been out for 8 years.
@@stuwest3653Longer than than 8 years at that point. It was still the best live tv performance in history and still is.
@@BW-kv9wj I didn't say when they met or formed the band. I said when they came out which was 1986 and 8 years before this taping.
There is no way this could have been 21 years ago. I remember watching this live. Wow, 21 friggin years amazing!
Chris J It's bad isnt it haha
+Chris J I say that almost every day about something. This getting old thing? I don't think I signed up for it? And, you kids? Get off my lawn!
All we can do is sit back and appreciate and keep throwing this out there on facebook so the youngens can maybe grasp onto it. I'm good with that.
I have distinct memories of this at elementary school dances. I understand 'to each their own' but I can't imagine growing up in school now and having to dance to Drake or Future or some shit
Chris J IKR....where did the time go?
Seeing MCA reminds me that life is short, reminds me not to dwell and worry about stuff out of my control. Thanks MCA. RIP brother.
RIP
Yea, Chuck....nobody gets outta this alive.
whos mca ?
@@prod.kay9921 Base
Chuck Norris is never out of control.
Adam's shining punk meets hip hop moment, and his only 'solo'. What a kick ASS performance from them all. YES!!
They are the reason I am a hip hop and rock fan. I was an 8 year old kid when their first album dropped. I was mind blown…I’m am now 45 and still mind blown.
That's not poor video quality. That's how that world actually looked mid 90s😂😂😂
I went back for a bit!
so true
That's how your mom looked in the mid 90s!
Ha just playing man, your mom joke were big in the 90s
Very true! Low resolution on a (if you're lucky) 27" tube television. But hell we didn't know any different and it was fine. Now you get to watch garbage music in high def...so you tell me who had/has it better?
@@tyslink DEFINITELY 27"!
"One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." - Lou Reed. One-chord wonder here.
That's a fantastic quote.
great quote but lots of Lou Reed / Velvet Underground songs have more than 3 chords.
He stays on the same frets to lol
Yes and thats why that man created only trash 😁sorry
Yep, the quality of a song does not base upon how many chords it has!
Oh. My. God! What an absolutely amazing performance. Their energy is insane and their sound is on point! I'm so glad I stumbled across this gem.
It's a testimony to the Beastie Boys' greatness that they recorded what's basically a punk song yet will to this day still send a hip hop crowd into delirium.
I agree... They were a STRoNG combination of punk and hip hop.
So true! Way ahead of others and I'm not even going to dare call to mind Red Hots who never even had the Pepper had! These guys music still rocks, shakes and tumbles!
They were originally a punk band, and someone said 'have you heard of this rap thing?' ...and the rest is history. That's why you hear the punk influence.
Actually more like a blues song. Hence the Led Zeppelin sound.
ua-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_k5ez0l2_8uIwGrtzyRVD3pu0BP5nld56I.html a great groove band, too
Producer: "Bet you can't write a banger using just one chord"
Mike D: "Hold my fuckin beer."
LOL
I never realized it until I saw you comment!😂🍻
great comment mate
The fact that D is saying it, even though he's playing the drums makes this comment certified GOLD.
They blew it up. Hands down. The greatest late night performance ever.
No 😊
Song is unmatched, energy is unmatched, and they are having so much fun playing. So glad to be alive at the same time this performance happened.
Hands down one of THE best performances on Letterman ever! took me 20 years to realize!!!
All time.
audience didnt know how to react
Possibly the greatest live musical performance on television ever
Same here and I Agree!!
Dear Steve Alikonis: Why so long?
This is a textbook example of a performance that bests the studio cut due the irreplaceable force of live spontaneous raw energy.
See when people say the world is crap and people suck, I look at videos like this and think humans are incredible.
It was. It's not now.
Ive listened and studied in depth hours of Hendrix, Cream, zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana.. you name it.. this is one of the greatest sounds Rock has ever heard.
People don’t even understand how truly fuckin genius they were. Out of any genre, I don’t know of a song to get me more hyped up ever ever since I was a little kid and still to this day
Rage against the Machine followed the mantle pretty well.
Luv and Peace.
Yes when Rock Band came out fo Wii I won every party screaming this lol. I am for a night the greatest .... scared the dogs.
Ian Edmonds Rage is “The Machine” now. Every member worth at least 20 million each and selling tickets for their upcoming tour for crazy amounts. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in capitalism, but they whine about “the man”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah
@@Krae75 this might be the one song on Rock Band that was harder to play in the game than in reality. LOL!
i'm impressed with the live actual singing
Totally Ad Rock is a great musican
Back when late night TV was Good/relevant.
This song and that performance in that setting in this era. That's how you become immortal.
Classic. This version is even better than the recorded.
true
Nah this is a good performance but the studio version is perfection.
Remember seeing this as a kid and freaking out that they were actually playing the instruments.
Same I remember staying up, and was like whaaaaaat!!!!
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that Beasties actually started as a punk band or that they played their own instruments to add to some tracks. Even to this day people still don't know that they won a grammy for an entirely instrumental album.
The tour for Check Your Head was sooooo good. They played so much punk stuff! Tours after that they continued to do so, but I think (and I could be wrong) the CYH tour may have had the most punk stuff. They were great at that stuff, too. Find some shows of theirs online. Full shows. You'll see some great stuff. The Scotland show is a good one!
This tour from Ill Communication was killer!
Like what you're saying, all the punk stuff. They mostly just played their instruments the whole show. Well, apart from the end when they trashed them.
I remember it well, I was 16 and Helmet were the supporting act. Still to this day one of the best gigs I've been to, they just own it.
I'm seeing them for the first time with instruments... and yes I'm shocked :)
Don't think this could be any better..outstanding camera work even..
Just getting reminded of this great clip. Some people forgot that the B-Boys were not just great rappers, but excellent musicians as well.
they were a punk band before the rap stuff, they rock,,
True dat! They made" licensed to ill" as a joke, and to this day one of the best albums ever. They said " any one can do rap and make money,....then Licensed to Ill came out. It's cool to see them bring it full circle and incorporate their roots. Viva La Beastie's
AxleThreesixty Foley ya i know look at all the rap crap now,,lol, anyone can make a buck i guess, just have to rhyme, ok triscut to the biscuit, now pay me,,,lol,, i still have license to ill on vinyl and it gets played....rock on..
BAD BRAINS
"Paul's Boutique" is their greatest album, not Licensed to Ill. It's not even close.
Indeed they were
Adrock is NAILING that guitar chord!
I think MCA on the distorted bass is putting out that signature riff.
mikecantreed I think he means the solo instead of chord
thestr8person No, the chord.
paulytamale The guitar blends into the other instruments pretty well. Kind of a weird comment like watching an orchestra and being like damn those tubas are killing it.
paulytamale Haha its G# from start to finish except the little solo part so yeh sure, he did a fine job that only monkeys and a few humans could pull off!!! However the vocals are exceptional
2023 and one of the best live performances I’ve seen and so simple, what legends 😎
THIS HAS SO MUCH ENERGY!!!!
The best 'late night' music performance of all time. Believe it.
No gimmicks. No bullshit. Just a band flawlessly executing one of the greatest songs of the modern era... with more energy and swagger than anyone in that audience was prepared for.
Dam right
In fairness it's gotta be 2nd... next to James Brown on Letterman. It's a close call. And everything else you said applies to both performances. This is epic
alright buddy drink some water
@Colon Cowboy and you are either a 13 year old or you have the communication skills of a 13 year old. either way, it’s adorable that you’re trying to weigh in.
Slipknot playing The Heretic Anthem on Conan in 2001 needs an honorable mention.
Damn what a performance! Held nothing back on the Letterman show!
Yup. Big props to David Letterman too. His show was one of the few on network TV to put on these alternative acts unlike Leno who stuck to more pop performers like Michael Bolton and the Spice Girls.
this performance is great! but they ripped the roof off on the arseno hall show!!!! watch this vid. - Beastie Boys feat. Cypress Hill - So Whatcha want
every once in a while leno would surprise us and have indie artists on. i think polly harvey did his show for most of her albums. bjork as well.
Plus there's just something about Letterman's don't give a fuck attitude that inspired performers to fucking bring it when they came on. The Beasties did it every time they came on here. And Elvis Costello did probably the best televised performance of his career on this show (when he did "13 Steps" in the mid 90s). A collection of the best live performances on Letterman would be six hours long and all killer no filler.
MrBook this is true. Watch chilli peppers on letterman do higher ground or 311 do down
Never gets old. They was straight up dailed in at this point
I saw the Beasties three times that year and they rocked the stage every single time.
26 Years later and that bass drop still gives me goose bumps.
Keep it simple
Absolutely.
'The' base drop is legend worldwide
It's a Rollercoaster when it's about to drop. On the first car.
Lemmy still gets goose bumps from that bass drop
Basically a masterpiece on how to rock a single chord.
very funny
it's called krautrock
holy shit he is actually only playing one chord for the *entire song*
アンダーソン You just changed my life. Thank you.
Haha
This performance... I return and i return.. Every month at least, for years, and i will never stop. Its phenomenal, its just unique.
In the year of our Lord 2023 this song still goes harder than just about anything I've ever seen or heard.
Not surprised
It's great to be on a video where nobody is bitching about lip synching. This thing is so live it gives me life energy.
Lip syncing is for millennials
FACTS!
@@mumbles215 Gen X in the house son!
@@mumbles215 "lip synching is for millennials"
:: Milli Vanilli has entered the chat ::
@@adampratt1925 also Boney M! (same guy as MV voc)
Ad-Rock is underrated imo. Nobody ever had a voice like him.
Totally agree
He’s so fricken charming
He's pretty well respected though
He was my favourite back in the day and used to just rap his lines, ha ha ha.
Jerry Lewis did.
Time might fly… But this music will be here forever.
This is gold!!!!
The 90's were a special time to be young!!!!
As were the eighties😁
I clearly prefer the eighties
Both 80s & 90s
@@aldobalderas5909 all decades before 2000 were the best. The decades that fucking Millennials were not old enough to make shit music like what they have now... Millennials... what a fucking sorry excuse of a generation.
@@flukyreview9128 you're not a fan of music if you think that
Let it never be understated how absolutely fucking awesome Beastie Boys were. RIP MCA.
Thank you for the soundtrack to my life.
The best live stuff EVER. 🎉
Legend has it Money Mark is still holding that note on the keyboard.
Dude, yes!!!
And that bass riff - just a two-note interval - is considered one of the greatest of all time. It’s all about the groove and the intensity, right?
money mark's great i love his poppy albums...Pertty good boay
Laughing so hard at this
Last I heard......
I miss the early 90s...
so I do
Well, the dream of the 90's is alive in Portland...
*****
The Fart Patio is alive and well. Come to Portland! You can have a lip piercing and an eyebrow piercing.
You know how there's those places where they just learned about disco? I'm gonna wait a couple more decades and move to one of those.
+Joe “JazEGeoff” Sepe the 1890's,?
Beastie boys are the true definition of originality and creativity. Its 10 different styles on the same album and everythig is just so well produced! True legends!
so someone explain to me how today's music is better than this? Long live Beastie Boys!
Keyboard dude holding that one note and acting like it's the holly fucking grail! Now that's entertainment.
+Jj Jones you are such a nerd....
That's what your father said but thanks for chiming in Andy.
+Jj Jones lmfao. fuck yeah!
+Jj Jones thanks for the laugh, he must've been sweating in that hat as well, workin' that note. But outstanding performance and sound. Love those guys.
What chord is it ?
This holds up so well. Could have been released today and still been a banger.
Imagine how crazy it would be if something like this were released in the current year
@MrRight James you realize there's more music than what is on the radio right
@MrRight James you have youtube to search for new great music, use it
@MrRight James saying that everything now has a trap beat just goes to show that you don't really check out a lot of new music tbh. might wanna start out with the truckfighters' Gravity X, not terribly original but great energy and great riffs. they have a pretty sabbath sound, even more so kyuss so it should probably fit your taste
Yep!
That choke moment at the end
..that was IMPOSSIBLE...the warp on that manifest lag-enveloping MELT of a stroke of timing as the last "listen all y'all" was began and belted out...he was like...BUIUURRRP!! In time and stopped and answered...hell nah...it's sabotage! He totally addressed the warp and kept on it and they knew it. All of them were like...whaaaaat? So that was a pretty gnarly set up for them. I love Dave's musical guests and Dave cracks me up. Gotninnygum?
They really were brilliant. One of my favourite bands.👍🏻 They are definitely great musicians. I remember staying up late yo watch this..a year out of high school and i was just feeling great at the time. i miss the 90s🙏🏻
one of the sickest basslines of all time. RIP MCA
Yeah! This song is about the Bass!
Agreed...
Most insane bass sound I couldn’t believe when I realized it is coming from just one bass
Fender Precision
@@pascalmerschaudio Fender Jazz actually
@@DOGSPAWN And overdriven to depths of hell!!!
Hum keyboards. With the same effects on the Bass. Those lower keys are the bass. Example: The doors. No bass player. The keyboards were the bass. NIN uses this regularly. As does Led Zeppelin. And tons of Hip hop artist. No disrespect to the bassist. But he got help
Fantastic Performance.
Most bands would make seemingly tiny sacrifices to streamline a live performance. Beasties pay a guy to just come smash that snare drum so it pops as hard live as it does on the album.
When you're talking about great bands, little things like that are what push a great live performance into an epic one I'm still watching almost 30 years later.
that's a timbale. and good point though i'd argue it makes it better than the album.
90s were so lit 🔥 lucky to be old enough to see it live!
There's something about the VHS quality of this video that makes it even better.
Jeff Yutzler that’s a beautiful comment!
The sound is amazingly clear and crisp for a VHS rip too.
Nostalgia, It's a crazy thing. But seriously vhs and surely LP are so mucht better than anything in the world. Was and prob will be my bencmark for quality recordings.
chester rockwell 🤣
Tape or even vinyl records is warmer than lazer