16/06/2026
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BEASTIE BOYS 1991 - This day we met up by the Capitol records building and eventually ended up in a beach parking lot in Santa Monica. Same lot you would have parked in if you had a car and were going to Arthur Lake’s parents home in ‘77 to skate their pool.
Pictures from this day ended up on the cover of CHECK YOUR HEAD and on various other merchandise the boys put out.
Hearing this album in the studio with them for the first time while they were working on the sequencing is what inspired me to ask them to do the photo session. They already had the LP cover done i was told, but that was fine by me we were gonna shoot like old times anyway. When I got back to NYC i faxed them some of the photos we made this day and they changed direction.
Inspired, conquered. Great day, amazing work. They also met AWOL for the first time this day, since i asked him if he’d mind hauling us around in his van and hang out.
I love that Vitz has his lighter lit and Yauch smiling big in the first photo, no doubt laughing, while adjusting his hat
while looking at his own reflection in my lens!
Find these photos and many more from this day in my Beastie Boys and Run-DMC book TOGETHER FOREVER available wherever you get books.
TOGETHER FOREVER - 224 packed pages of Beastie Boys and RunDMC - many many never before seen photographs, as well as the classics, and detailed stories I’ve never told before, in my (5000 word 🙄) introduction, that comes after the forward by huge Run and Beasties fan, Chris Rock - as well as commentaries from Chuck D. , Mike D. , Darryl , Adam Horovitz , Run , The Hurra , Russ , and Rick - if you love these two groups you will love this book.