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st. mark’s sounds
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St. Mark's Sounds is a record store mainstay in the East Village of Manhattan.
The Beastie Boys used to hang out here and listen to records in their hardcore days. They sold their first EP here, Polly Wog Stew, and MCA was reported confused that the 7" would continually sell out each week. Mojo (of "Egg Raid on Mojo") also liked to shop here.
When Licensed to Ill dropped, record store employee Binky Phillips recalled that they listened to it nonstop.
Ad-Rock wrote lyrics to "Paul Revere" on the steps outside of St. Mark's Sound.
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The City-As-School is a public high school in the West Village of Manhattan that focuses on experiential learning through internship.
Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) attended the City-As-School. Horovitz, the son of playwright Israel Horovitz, joined the Beastie Boys in 1982 (at the age of 16) after their previous guitarist stepped own. Horovitz's own band, the Young and the Useless, were already opening for the Beastie Boys and covering some of their songs.
view full location details...stuyvesant high school
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Although Ad-Rock likes to rock the Stuyvesant P.E. T-shirt, the only Beastie to attend Stuyvesant was Kate Schellenbach (original drummer during their hardcore days).
view full location details...pyramid club
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Opened in 1979, the Pyramid Club has gone through (sometimes simultaneously) every permutation of sub-culture in NYC.
As the NY Times put it: "Punk rockers, Goth betties and queers of every feather worship weekly at this temple of iniquity..."
RuPaul, the drag queen/pop-star, debuted at the Pyramid in 1982. Andy Warhol and Debby Harry did a spot for MTV at this bar.
In the early days, a large bouncer named Mojo worked the door. One night, he wouldn't let a bunch of punk rockers in. They retaliated by throwing eggs at him.
To hear Mojo tell it:
"Now the Pyramid was like a real bar and I couldn’t let these young kids in, and they got mad, so they went across the street to the all night deli and got like two-dozen eggs and started throwing them at me. And I had on a baseball cap, and there was like a line of people going from the front of the Pyramid to like 6th street, and I was like playing Jai Lai, I was catching the eggs in the hat and winging them back, and every time I hit somebody the crowd went ‘OLE!' It was incredible man!"
Those egg-wielding punks were the Beastie Boys, hence their classic song "Egg Raid on Mojo."
view full location details...max’s kansas city
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The Beastie Boys opened up for Bad Brains here the night that Max's Kansas City closed in November of 1981.
It wasn't their fault it closed...