Hello, Adrock (and MCA and Mike D)

Sometimes, fate just works so that the randomly assigned tickets in the 226 section of the Beastie Boys show at Madison Square turn into the best seats in the house. For the first song of their encore, Mike D, MCA and Adrock appeared right behind Gothamist and everyone around us lost it. People climbed over seats to get closer as the Beastie Boys sang Intergalactic. One poster to the Beastie Boys Message Board noted

The intergalatic encore was right behind my section. I was in sect. 226. This girl ran up to Mike D and starting crying like you see they little chinese girls do at the Michael Jackson concerts. It was crazy."

That's pretty accurate, except we always thought it was the little Japanese girls who cried at Michael Jackson concerts. Anyway, there were many video cameras on the Beastie Boys as they are putting together a concert DVD (they even asked fans to be camerapeople on their website earlier this week); Gothamist is sure that you'll be able to see our arm, snapping blurry pictures.

After the jump, you'll see more of our photos. Tien has some great pictures also. Here's their setlist; the final song was dedicated to President Bush - "Sabotage." And here are lyrics to songs from their latest album, To the Five Boroughs.

MSG was sold out.

After the main performance, people lit up their cellphones and cameras for an encore.

We were looking for them on stage when we heard the opening bars of Intergalactic, but the screaming was so loud behind us, we turned and there was Mike D.

A blurry photo of MCA. All Beastie Boys were wearing red t-shirts, with games on them named on them; MCA has "Mahjong," Adrock had "Scrabble," but we couldn't see what Mike D's shirt read. [We later learned it was "Critter." Whatever!]

The crowd was somewhat tamed by the intense security detail.

And Adrock was totally in our face. Best concert ever.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on October 11, 2004 9:10 AM

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zincink

They should play at the Apollo next time..or in BX.

Hmm

I saw people there.....

I didn't see any white's or blacks......

Just people.

JOhn

it was great. Intergalatic, next to Sabotage and Shake your Rumpah, is my favorite song by them. they own music.

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Dave H.

You lead a charmed life Jen. Things were quieter down in Sec. 36, but I was happy nonetheless. I'm curious to see what the crowd is going to look like at the Public Enemy/Living Color show at B.B. King's next Monday.

eatsdirt

adding to the whiteness of the show, I saw a total of six black people. my friend and myself made for two people in this count.

Jen

It was really white. I think the only black person we saw, aside from Talib Kweli, Doug E. Fresh, security people, and the girl in our row, was the person outside MSG who asked us what happened - probably alarmed by the flood of white hats leaving MSG.

SUMwon

i see white people

tien

woo!! 226!!! best...concert...ever!!

sg

hooray for section 226! i was right there as well! it more than made up for our dismay at how many escalators we had to climb to get way up to our seats...

Jen

I have to say, climbing onto the armrests in heels was perhaps not the smartest thing to do (luckily JW held my legs), but had I fallen, there would have been 50 people that had climbed into our section to break my fall. We made so many new, happy, drunk-and-stoned friends. But the show ended really early - 10:30PM. Guess those Beastie Boys are showing their age.