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Family & Friends:
"The Wave was written by Scilken and was in part somewhat about his mother.
The mention of Hitler [was] inspired by an "after-school special"
movie that portrayed a school which was taken over by socialist thinking. Everyone
in the school just fell in line with what they were being taught. At the end
of the movie, during a school assembly it was revealed that the students and
school faculty were all emulating the Nazis. A Nazi swastika flag was even unveiled
during the school assembly." - Nick Cooper,
2003
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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