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"Fight For Your Right" Who's Who
The two nerds. The one on the left
is Ricky Powell. He
was a photographer friend of the Beasties. The one on the
right is David Sparks.
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The opening party shot. I am in the lower
right foreground with my back to the camera talking to Glen
Friedman, another photographer friend of the Beasties. As
soon as the Beasties kick in the door, I did a comic take where
I threw a cup I was holding in the air. Everyone in the shot is
a friend of the band.
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The guy whom MCA
takes the beer from was a friend of theirs, Tom
Cushman.
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The kid who MCA spits beer in his face
is Dave Scilken. A nice kid
who also played in hardcore bands downtown. Unfortunately he died
from what I understand. Too bad. We wanted MCA to take a beer
from someone, drink it and then spit it in someone's face. Dave
volunteered to have the beer spit in his face. He was a good dude.
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The girl was also a friend but I
don't remember her name.
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The blond girl on the couch was a girlfriend
of Adrock, Lora Schulson.
That's why Mike D kisses
her so tentatively. The gag was that she is hanging onto Adrock
on the couch. He sees another girl walk by. He leaves and Mike
D jumps in to kiss her. It worked OK.
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The nerd and the girl are reading
the nerdiest magazine we could find for MCA to set on fire.
I remember dousing the magazine in lighter fluid but it
took a few takes to get it to catch up. The guy was that
photographer friend, Ricky. The girl was the receptionist
at Def Jam for many, many years, Simone Reyes. She has been
Russell Simmon's
personal assistant for more than fifteen years. Not to mention,
MCA had a fling with her! She was also in the No Sleep Till
Brooklyn video. She is one of the groupies who has a can
opener to pry Mike D out of his suit of armour.
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His name is Jimmy Schulman and he was a
hairdresser for many heavy metal bands.
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The guy entering the doorway with
the beard is Rick Rubin.
He later gets a pie thrown at him.
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The girl entering the doorway was MCA's
girlfriend at the time, Aura Walker.
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Joe Bruno, one of Astoria Queen's
finest, a roadie for the band Murphy's Law.
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Natalie Jacobson, girlfriend of a Murphy's
Law band member.
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Dominique Davalos from the band Dominatrix.
She was a girlfriend of a Murphy's Law band member.
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The last guy was Mike, a good crazy
skinhead, who en route to Boston in 1985/86 lived in NYC
for about 9 months.
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EK Smith was a model who met Lyor
Cohen of Def Jam on the set of this video and wound up marrying
him a year or two later. They bitterly divorced.
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The girls that Mike D is giving the
Spanish Fly to is once again, Adrock's girl, her name was
Lora, and Aura (MCA's girl). The same girls again are at
the bottom when Aura stuff's Lora's face into a pie. Joe
Bruno from Murphy's Law is with some kid in the background.
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A great screen grab. The shot that made
the video and the Beastie Boys as far as I am concerned. I wish
I could claim credit but I cannot lie. This was Menello's idea
for a shot and it was a masterpiece.
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The kids standing around I don't
know. We just needed a reaction shot.
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The guy with the eye patch is "Heavy
Metal" Scott Koenig. He worked for Rick at Def Jam. He worked
with Slayer and later moved on to managing Biohazard. The gag
where a guy with an eye patch lifts it up to see better because
it is not really a handicap, was stolen directly from the party
scene in Breakfast At Tiffany's. We added the pie in the
face.
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This is my co-writer and co-director
Ric Menello.
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Cey Adams
and Wolf.
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Alex, guitarist for Murphy's Law.
Also known as Uncle Al.
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That was my TV that MCA smashed and we
hid behind Menello. Notice no one wanted to be around MCA when
he did this and he wore sunglasses to protect his eyes from the
glass.
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I love the final pie fight. Everyone
went nuts.
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That's Menello's arm putting the pie in
his mother's face. She is the nicest lady. No one had the heart
to throw a pie at her so Ric had to do it. He just reached in
and pushed it in her face. Later on, she would be walking in Brooklyn
and sometimes kids would come up and ask her if she was the lady
in the Beastie video.
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