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Beastie Boys:
On the breakup of The Young and the Useless: "We fell apart really bad.
The drummer went to military school in New Jersey." - Adam Horovitz, June
1994
"After [Polly Wog Stew] came out, my band, The Young and the Useless,
started covering Beastie Boys songs. When John
Berry went AWOL, I took his spot. I came up from the minors." - Adam
Horovitz
Family & Friends:
"When Adam [Horovitz] was 14 years old, he wrote and produced a record.
He produced a record called 'Real Men Don't Floss,' and it sold 10,000 copies
in New York City." - Israel Horovitz, 1989
[Note that less than 800 copies of the 7" were actually pressed, so selling 10,000 copies is a slight exageration]
Press & Print Media:
"The Beastie Boys and The Young and the Useless
played gigs around Manhattan's punk cellars during the first eighteen months
of the 1980s. Venues such as A7, CBGB's and Max's Kansas City provided them
with their first footings in live performance." - excerpted from Rhyming
& Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys by Angus Batey
"The Young and the Useless had opened gigs for the Beasties on several
occasions, and not only did Adam's [Horovitz] guitar style seem suitably rudimentary,
his band had even covered some Beastie Boys songs, so he didn't require much
tutelage." - excerpted from Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the
Beastie Boys by Angus Batey
"When the 'Polly Wog Stew' EP finally came out on the Ratcage label in
early 1982, the Beasties performed a few half-hearted 'reunion' gigs, until
guitarist John Berry grew tired of the whole
enterprise and left. Adam Horovitz's band, The Young and the Useless, were now
calling themselves "the Beastie Boys copy band," so he was a natural
replacement." - Record Collector, December 1998
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