This shot was taken just minutes before the band were due onstage at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin. Being naive enough at the time to believe what I read in the press I was expecting to find myself having... read more to deal with three swaggering egotistical loudmouths. Couldn't have been further from the truth. It was barely a five minute shoot but they were the most down to earth guys you could meet. Friendly, relaxed, helpful, even offered me a drink of bottled water while I was fuddling around with my camera. I was a hundred times more nervous than they were considering they were the ones who were only minutes away from going onstage in front of a crowd of five or six hundred psyched-up fans.
Onstage they were dynamite. I was blown away by their musicianship. I was expecting three guys just rapping about parties in Brooklyn but man they were incredible, not just as rappers but as musicians.
A Triptych of the 3 members of Beastie Boys Mike D (Michael Diamond), MCA (Adam Yauch) and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) performing at Bestival on the Isle of Wight in 2007.