The Beastie Boys: 2$ Bill Concert (Live In Vegas - 2004) 

The ones and twos. That's it. No computer bull.

I saw them a bunch of times in NYC. They played a small club and I got in by paying the hot dog vendor outside $29 to sneak me in. Best concert was the "Awesome I fucking Shot that " concert. The garden was live from the get go. Everyone kept moving all night.

As much as I want to argue with you, I can't

That's a great breakdown 😂

Richard p ok. 👌...

Nowadays you've got a load of guys who _act_ like accountants and have changed hip hop forever ☹

Two of them have Irish roots as well.

dcsmooth I loved Pass the mic they all got fucked up because he was throwing in beats with slower tempos and shit. And then at the end MCA was scared to hit his last verse on Intergalactic because he had no idea what was coming. Pretty awesome, thats what live music is all about not just the same shit night after night.

MMM can't tell the Boys what he's got cued up bc he doesn't know himself until it's live

+dcsmooth Lol

The show they did in Oakland at 3:15 I think MMM plays some funny dance music after a song as a joke and you can tell it was real from everyone's reaction, I just watched it last night because I was at that show in my hometown. It's pretty funny...

Michael Reed That’s awesome. I was just wondering if they knew in advance what songs MMM was going to mix. Just shows how great the 4 of them worked together.

That is awesome Brian. :)

Its one of their coolest serious tunes but so so funky.

😂 Indeed! I experienced this event as well but in The ATL. Lalapalooza '94 🚀 NON-STOP!

Saw them once, probably around the time of this video. Amazing live act. One of the best shows I've seen

well, I was a superfan and saw them in 1987 Licensed to Ill.. also Public Enemy before anyone knew them. One thing I learned.. go to as many live concerts you can... you never knew how significant it may be.

I went to one of these promotional shows down in DC at the famed 9:30 Club back in ‘04. It was “win your way in”, no tickets were sold. Had to be the right caller or get picked through emails to the local radio station; WHFS at the time. Week before the show they gave one more chance to win.....Get on live TV with a sign that said “BEASTIE BOYS!” and you’re in. The Monday before the show, I went to Baltimore’s inner harbor with my huge neon yellow sign with the plan to get on TV when the CBS affiliate WJZ did a Monday morning segment where a local group sing The Bangles “Manic Monday”. Five minutes before they go live, the reporter tells me and the five other people with signs to “get the hell out of here” and “don’t even try to ruin my shot.” I retuned to my car and sat there thinking how I came all this way and I was NOT going to let this opportunity slip by. Saw the red camera light go on and I was off!! Grabbed my sign, ran up behind the group singing Manic Monday, started screaming BEASTIE BOYS!!! BEASTIE BOYS!!! Jumping all over like a crazy man!! The reporter is chasing me around, I jump on my car hood, more yelling BEASTIE BOYS!!! WOOOOOO!!!! Saw a couple of 5-0 coming my way, jumped back in , skidded out of there in a split. After three hours of driving back and forth to bring the tape from my house back to the radio station, I was exhausted. That night, phone rings. Its the radio station telling me that my video was the most insane one they saw and that I most definitely got tickets!! Even got to talk about it on air with the DJ. Went that Thursday at 9 AM, second one in line. Front row, my first Beastie Boys show ever! Got a high five from the King AdRock, shook Mike D’s hand, singing, dancing, going absolutely nuts!! Besides the birth of my children, that whole experience is one of the most amazing times of my life. And to think, I could have drove off that morning like all the others and regretted it for the rest of my life. So glad I didn’t.

dcsmooth Great story! No need to run from the cops though...you have just as much right to jump around like a nut, interrupting a tv report as the tv station does to film something in public.

I had tickets to the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine tour... The tour was cancelled when Mike D broke his collar bone 😭

90% of the entire rap community, blacks or whites, do NOT have flow like that! That's some master/sensei/BruceLee shit right there!!!!

MCA always insisted on a tip top performance for the fans.

That was just part of their act. They'd always throw in some false starts and shit to downplay the skills they knew they had.

Yeah it was good. MM drops a beat in at 4:27 which is half a beat out (comes in on the upbeat/offbeat). It puts MCA off coming into the next bar. MM does recover and puts the start of the bar where it should be at 4:29 but MCA has already followed the 4:27 beat as the downbeat and the two start the bar out of sync. It was basically MM's fault, but brilliant they can just rewind like that in a second or two.

It's the sort of mess up where the recovery is so smooth it could have made the album as a skit.

100 Paul's Boutique was dope as fuck I'm a Bestie fan till I'm inthe grave . So under rated its sad.

Paul's Boutique is so slept on. Hello Nasty too.

I can. rap. ... a. l

The park in San Diego.....they were doing bong hits on stage.

outerloop best Morock18

very sad , of all the recent passings I think his was for me the worst to absorb

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Yep. Very close sometimes.