A lot of groups showed visible disdain for being forced to lip sync back in these days and before. A lot of the rock groups would purposely be playing the wrong chords on their guitar to signal to other players that it was a farce. Gary Numan hit a spin at the mic on Top of the Pops but didn't make it back around to the mic before the lyrics kicked back in (at the same time laughing about it) all while his keyboard player was staring hollowly into the camera, never looking down at his keyboard and the 2 keys he was pressing over and over.
Assuming the studio did not have all the audio technology required for a live band. There are famous clips of even Freddie Mercury having to lip sync. And everybody knows he has chops.
With choreography like this... this is why they are the top Boy Band ever. Kids you put in the work rehearsing your dance steps, maybe you can reach this success.
Obviously you don't get it. They were never some boy band that was manufactured. The Beasties paid their dues. Boy bands don't write their own songs like the Beasties did.
They danced like that and stopped singing into the mics at some points in protest because they were forced to lip sync with a backtrack. None of their instruments/dj equipment or microphones are live lol
I took a dump at 2:23 pm, got on the 781 Bus to 125th St station, beat off in front of a blind chick, got off at 15th Ave, got a slice at Rays and sold the last ticket I had and bought some smack. Yeah, I remember, too
It’s funny the Beasties acted like frat boys at first but they are secretly musical geniuses that put out some of the best music in history hence Paul’s Boutique and Check Your Head.
1985 - Tried to get my HS buddies to drop $50 for a bus ride and tickets to see Madonna in Chicago. Beasties opened for her but no one was interested. It was pre-L2I. That came out two years later and was played at every party I went to my freshman year of college.
Rick Rubin adjusted their style by steering them into a more hiphop sound from their original ska-punk style. When they branched out after DefJam you would see it coming back. I even like the subpop-esque sound they would take after they moved east. "Instant Death", "Picture This" and my alltime favorite chill and cruise track from any artist. "I Don't Know". Hello Nasty is my favorite album of all time, because of the variety.
When they were on AB it reminds me of this religious dance class I went to years ago. You were to dance around this huge room...any way you felt, to all types of different music. It was awesome.
They would never had let the B-Boys do this live. That was probably the one condition of being on the show so, they acted as crazy as they could without having their mics live. You could tell they were making a huge joke about it. They were throwing their microphones around to each other like baseball's 🤣
Very Very few musicians EVER performed like on American Bandstand. Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis are the only people to ever perform live as far as i know.
These foos were another life form. To just go from punk to that and NOT let go of their punk roots at that time!?. That shit goes hard asf. Ima westcoster forever but they went hard. Much respect
That's so funny. Beastie Boys making a mockery of the "live" performance. The actual song is a mockery of frat boy antics. It was never meant to be taken seriously.
Got this on cd when it came out and me and my sister blew out the speakers on our huge tape/cd/record player. We played it loud enough so we could hear it at our friend’s house about 6 houses down from us 😂
it was on a hour i recorded this on my vcr when this first aired an i still have it. reason they didnt do anotha song they started actin an ass an tore up all tha mics.
From 0:12 to 1:20... what the heck is going on with that AB audience, who are these people, why are they there? I'll bet they really loved this artistic choreographed presentation of the hit song.
jstead22 This was from the syndicated “Dick Clark’s Golden Greats” in 1988, which featured some classic performances from Dick Clark Productions’ vaults (including Bandstand).
Yup, these dudes were ahead of their time with music parody and no one knew it back then it's crazy. That's why all their albums after that were the best
So looks like they were forced to lip sync and rebelled by doing the most ridiculous choreography and mic work to make it obvious they weren’t the actual vocals lol
This reminds me of one of those cheesy episodes of Married With Children when Kelly gets in a rock video and dances with the band. Im not knockin it cause im a HUGE M.W.C. fan. Im just comparing.
