| Sean
"the Captain" Carasov
Although Howard Stern has made the
claim that he is King of all Media, Sean "the Captain"
Carasov may dethrone him and take that title for himself.
Over the years, Carasov has been involved with music, writing,
and even movies. If Sean was given a shot at hosting a syndicated
radio show, the crown would definitely be his.
Bringing it back to the Beastie Boys,
Sean was road/tour/personal (under Russell
Simmons) management for the Beastie Boys from their
early club dates, during the recording of Licensed to
Ill, and up to the Raising Hell, Together Forever and
Licensed to Ill tours. When the touring finally came to
a conclusion, Sean was given a desk job. Then when the Beastie
Boys sued Def Jam/Rush to break from their contract, Carasov
followed suit and also moved out to California to pursue
other opportunities. The Captain went on to do A&R work
for several record labels including Jive, Atlantic, and
Mammoth; he also signed A Tribe Called Quest and put together
the soundtrack for "Menace II Society" at Jive.
At one point, Sean took on a fair amount of writing gigs
- he wrote for Bikini and a couple of French magazines:
Max and Blast. In addition to those, he also wrote for a
couple of Japanese magazines including Asayan and Daytona.
And who could forget the articles that Carasov penned for
the Beasties' Grand Royal Magazine? Grand Royal #1 had a
full-page rant called 'The Captain's Beefs' that Yauch
tried to (and did) censor and also put a disclaimer of sorts
at the beginning called '.22 Automatic on My person...NOT'.
Then in issue #2, apart from the Slick Rick plea (which
Rick needs to see again, as the INS just recently popped
him) and his Mullet article, he had another few pages dedicated
to more of his "beefs." When Mike
D censored Sean's writing, the Captain quit and went
on to write for a rival 'zine that Eli
(Bonerz) X-Large was down with called Hollywood Highball.
In addition to his literary accomplishments, the Captain
went on to work in the adult film business; which he found
to be less sleazy than working in the music industry. He
scouted porn locations and was offered a mainstream publicity
gig at Metro. However, he turned it down and went to do
the same for Shane's World (it is always good to have something
to fall back on). When Beastiemania.com asked Sean what
else he had been up to he said the following: "I was
engaged to a porn star, who shot herself in the stomach
(she lived). Then I married a stripper at the Graceland
Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. I got DUIs on consecutive nights,
which was not as bad as the guy who got two on the same
night. And I shot a hole through my pinky with a .22 (just
to watch it die)."
These days The Captain is back working
with musicians - he did the music supervision on the Hughes
movie "American Pimp" and also worked on the movie
"Prison Song" which Q-Tip
co-wrote, produced, and starred in. Sean is currently back
in the A&R business at Ted Field's new label, ARTISTdirect
Records and recently he finished making an album for ARTISTdirect
Records with a crew out of Miami, FL called "No Good."
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