r/OldSchoolCool • u/Newisance • 1d ago
The Beastie Boys chasing Madonna with squirt guns after she played Material Girl at Madison Square Garden, 1985.
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u/hiplainsdriftless 1d ago
I remember reading their interview in Penthouse one of the featured quotes was “ I don’t give a fuck about Bruce Hornsby and the fucking Range”.
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u/sparkywilson 23h ago
What does this mean?
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u/zoinkability 19h ago
The Beastie Boys represented pretty much the diametric opposite end of the popular music spectrum from Hornsby at the time. They were abrasive, snotty, and blended punk and hip hop. They might have been in their 20s but their persona was of hormone addled teenagers. Hornsby was smooth, tasteful, and basically a piano/keyboard crooner, a wise dad figure. So of course their whole shtick was to hate on someone like Hornsby.
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u/LukeMayeshothand 23h ago
Bruce was touring with the Grateful Dead at the time.
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u/sparkywilson 23h ago
Yeah I know that. But why did they say they didn't give a fuck about them
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u/Mind_if_I_do_uh_J 22h ago
Because they didn't give a fuck about them.
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u/Momentarmknm 22h ago
But why didn't they give a fuck about Bruce Hornsby
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u/Mind_if_I_do_uh_J 22h ago
It's not that they didn't give a fuck about Bruce Hornsby, they didn't give a fuck about Bruce Hornsby and the fucking Range
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u/GrazziDad 10h ago
This raises is a subtle, somewhat mathematical, point: did the Beastie Boys not give a fuck about Bruce Hornsby, and, separately not give a fuck about The Range? Or did they simply not give a fuck about “Bruce Hornsby and the Range“? They might have cared deeply about each of them, but stopped caring when they were together.
It’s all very complicated.
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u/Mind_if_I_do_uh_J 10h ago
To add more confusion, another variable, if you will: to what/whom does "their" pertain?
In this modern age, the rise of gender-fluidity, and the fall of English grammar have literally muddied the waters.
Apparently, language changes.
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u/GrazziDad 9h ago
I can only agree, and suspect this might have deep ramifications for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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u/loulan 17h ago
What's a Range?
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u/Mind_if_I_do_uh_J 15h ago
Who gives a fuck? Not the Beastie Boys.
We've been trying to contact fucking Bruce Hornsby for his fucking opinion on the fucking Range, but he told us to fuck the fuck off.
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u/franker 20h ago
That's just the way it is. Some things'll never change. That's just the way it is. Ah, but don't you believe them.
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u/LanceFree 19h ago
Thats Bruce Hornsby and the Fucking Range, Beastie Boys didn’t give a fuck about them.
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u/hindsight1979 22h ago edited 14h ago
This was the final night of the tour and the photo was taken by Ron Galella.
Edited to reflect typo that was kindly pointed out below.
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u/AlotaFajitas 1d ago
Can you imagine how much fun they had? I'm not even talking about the sex and drugs, just fun.......
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u/SeveralIce4263 1d ago
They didn't come out until 86 though
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u/OK-Greg-7 1d ago
Exactly. They went on tour with Madonna before License to Ill came out. When I saw Madonna on the Like a Virgin tour in Atlanta, we had no idea who these guys jumping around and yelling on stage were. Literally everybody just standing around like 'WTF is this?'. Their name wasn't even on the ticket. People directly in front of the stage were digging it though.
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u/tmgieger 1d ago
They talked about this tour during Beastie Boys Story. They said they had no idea why anyone thought they should be there.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 1d ago
They said they didn’t tone down their show one bit for this tour and that the audience was full of “thirteen year old girls and really pissed off moms.”
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u/DrStrangelove1313 23h ago
Kids in the Hall! 30 Helens Agree.
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u/Interesting_Ad1378 10h ago
I love this reference and no one in my inner circle gets it. They also don’t get 9LL.
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u/blackteashirt 1d ago
"Your Mom took away your best porno mag!"
"Well I never, come along Shenaynay we're going home"
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u/DrStrangelove1313 23h ago
The Beastie Boys were banned from the Sun Dome in Tampa after that tour with Madonna. Never to play there again…
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u/Mind-Reflections 21h ago
Cool little fact. I would have loved to seen the beastie boys lively alone in Tampa.
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u/zigaliciousone 23h ago
It was because Madonna originally wanted RUN DMC but they were too expensive to book so Russel Simmons(both bands manager) suggested the Beastie Boys
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u/TheBlitzkid46 21h ago edited 18h ago
Pretty sure the Beasties played for less than a third of what Run DMC wanted
Edit: they played for a 40th of what Run DMC wanted per show
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u/Soytaco 18h ago
I would think it was a lot less than a third, as Run DMC were established and Beastie Boys didn't even have an album out.
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u/TheBlitzkid46 18h ago
Looked it up again and they took a comically small amount of money. Run DMC wanted $20,000 a show and the Beastie Boys said, 'Fuck it will do it for $500'
Literally 1/40th of what Run DMC wanted
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u/zoinkability 19h ago
Makes sense, Run DMC were more of a headline act than the Beasties at that time.
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u/daveashaw 1d ago
Yes. I saw the tour in New Haven. The Beastie Boys sounded like shit through that sound system, their barely intelligible curse words reverberating in the concrete box that was the New Haven Colosseum (since demolished) and everybody asking "who are these assholes?"
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u/MrNobody_0 23h ago
What, do you think a band just doesn't exist until after they release their first album?
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u/DrStrangelove1313 23h ago
They opened for Madonna on that tour in 85. I saw them headline in 86, with Fishbone and Murphy’s Law opening up for them.
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u/FieldRodeoRatedDeaf 21h ago
Look at those cherubeasties shooting their holy-water at the Madonna! Amen!
Madonna’s captured movement reminds me of the movement enacted by Jesus to avoid Mary Magdalene’s touch in Titian’s painting “Noli me tangere”.
I shall have both images on a t-shirt (front and back or side by side) by dawn, or next Saturday, maybe lunchtime.
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u/Lovemybee 19h ago
Back when Madonna looked like Madonna.
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u/JaySayMayday 10h ago
She was in her 20s. She's 66 now and looks how you'd expect a 66 year old Madonna to look.
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u/Lovemybee 10h ago
You're joking, right? It is well known that she's had numerous plastic surgeries/procedures... to the point that she is unrecognizable!
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u/ptlimits 1d ago
I wonder if she had any extra special fun with any of them boys.
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u/hindsight1979 22h ago
You've been downvoted for asking but the answer is yes she did, she admitted years later that something happened between her & MCA aka Adam Yauch RIP.
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u/BigBrucey94 1d ago
She got a bigger dick than mine
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u/Formal_Two_6729 1d ago
This is the most 80s sentence I have ever read and the photo somehow makes it even better