LAY IT DOWN, CLOWNS! THE BEASTIE BOYS TAKE OVER?
“They took doors off their hinges and moved them around. They flooded two floors with the fire hoses. They plugged up the toilets and destroyed the furniture. They terrorized the other guests. They were just having fun. ” —Stephen Davis, Hammer Of The Gods, 1985
LAY IT DOWN, CLOWNS!: THE BEASTIE BOYS
Chuck Eddy
TAKE OVER?
“They took doors off their hinges and moved them around. They flooded two floors with the fire hoses. They plugged up the toilets and destroyed the furniture. They terrorized the other guests. They were just having fun. ”
—Stephen Davis,
Hammer Of The Gods, 1985
At 32 minutes past two the morning of 16 January 1987, two Beastie Boys broke into my West Hollywood hotel room and dumped a wastebasketful I of extremely wet water on my head, my bed, the carpeting and my Converse All-Stars. (I’d stupidly left the chain-lock unsecured, and I suppose they bribed the night-clerk into giving them a key.) Earlier that evening, after Pee-Wee Herman had visited their dressing room and before they appeared on Joan Rivers’s show, the Beasties were tossing parsley at me, dropping ice cubes in my hair, and “dissin’ ” (graffiti-artist lingo for “saying bad things about”) my brown socks and flannel shirt. I interpreted all of this to mean that they did not like me.