Smash Hits (11th of March 1987)
Chris Heath:
Let's go crazy apeshit!" screams Beastie Boy number three Ad-Rock for the quillionth time on stage in Dallas the previous evening. "Take all your clothes off and run around!" The audience take this as one of the typical Beastie Boys ad-libs they know and "love" - a bit rude, a bit vulgar and a bit obnoxious - and one girl, to the Beastie Boys' delight, even gets up on stage and very nearly follows out their instructions. Actually, though, "let's go crazy apeshit! etc." is the Beastie Boys in-joke of the moment, stolen from a Comic Strip video they've seen recently. Hardly surprising as the Beastie Boys are, in real life, remarkably like The Young Ones on TV. in other words desperately rude, mindlessly stupid, and horribly sexist - but only when they think it's funny to be.