Beastie Boys - Sabotage Filming Locations AND So Much More!

[@erikreedy9397]

Kurt mentions photographer Glen Friedman several times in this clip. For those that don’t know, Friedman took amazing photos of the early Southern California skate scene, punk/ hardcore bands, & early rap groups. He also produced Suicidal Tendencies’ first LP. If you can find them I highly recommend Friedman’s two coffee table books “Fuck You Heroes” and “Fuck You Too”. You won’t be disappointed. He always had an ear to the street and caught priceless moments in Rebel culture with his camera.

[@AndreaEvansTribute]

This video is FIRE!! Thank you!! 😙 I was lucky enough to be snuck into the sold out Hello Nasty concert in Seattle by Cey Adams (their graphic designer and extended BB fam) at the time as a teenager! I didnt have the money for a ticket but he saw me hanging outside the venue all day to try and get one. At the end of day, before the show he took pity on me and gave me a backstage pass to sneak me into the venue and into some empty seats. So cool of him! Ill Never forget!! THANKS again Cey ♡

[@IrieFiery]

Sabotage is one of my all time favorite videos. Thanks for taking us to the locations, this was great. I sure miss So CA

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you!

[@sole__doubt]

Its been a few years since Ive been to LA too, Im horrified by how much is locked down or closed to the public in this video. Especially in 2022.

[@Anon54387]

@@80sLife The Check your Head photo location, I wonder how that sidewalk slab got lifted that high with no (apparently anyway) trees around. Odd thing.

[@Anon54387]

@@sole__doubt It's most unfortunate that the state government has taken all the teeth out of criminal penalties, and more unfortunate yet that we don't stop voting for soft on crime politicians. There's no need to be in fear for our safety if we'd just put dangerous people in prison and keep them there.

[@raimywinter2309]

Yesss! My all time fav beastie album is Paul's boutique.🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎱🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@80sLife]

It's a great one

[@robertg.7052]

I won an autograph skateboard of the Beastie Boys!!! Through the 5 boroughs tour!!! After MCA passed, I sold the board for $1,400. I mailed it from Philadelphia to Australia!!! It was one of 50 or 500. Beasties owned the first 3.

[@C-mac_in_the_6ix]

Beastie Boys are my favorite group of all time. Hit me very hard when MCA passed away as well. It seemed surreal. Some people are are bigger then life, and to me, these guys were so it took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that he actually died. "Pass the Mic" was one of my favorite songs, so a while back I investigated where it was shot and was shocked to find out it was LA, because it never seems to rain in LA and that video is very rainy and MCA is wearing those big boots. Anyway, I google mapped it and found that exact shot of the studio you were at. So cool. Great job and thanks for posting.

[@tacoenvy]

Sabotage is still one of the greatest music videos ever.

[@jeffreyrigged]

the greatest imo

[@80sLife]

It's a great one

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

Sabotage and Intergalactic are my all time favorite Beasties songs and videos!! Great stuff here!!

[@stevenwayne]

Soooo good! Ill Communication is one of my all time favs! Love the background beats in your edit 👍🏻

[@PREPFORIT]

Great research and a BIG nostalgia trip for me.👍

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@stevevorgias6734]

Great. Awesome. Fun video.

[@jamesjimenez1743]

That' was awesome ty again 80's Life always a thumbs up 👍.

[@whatitisbuddy9785]

Great work! We used to eat at Netty’s with the boys. Also, Hey Ladies interior disco shots were filmed in a Culver City night club. I’m in the video 🤓✌🏽

[@rfmrs2506]

Love seeing these sunny LA locations (especially as its so grey here in UK)with my favourites the B Boyz, thanks for taking the time to make this. Awesome!

[@lincbond442]

I really appreciate all the hard work you put into this video. Hard to believe it's been almost 30 years since this video was released. Don't mean to sound cliche but it feels like yesterday. The Beastie's Sabotage clothes were my go-to Halloween costume for many years. Most people my age would usually figure out who I was dressed like.

[@jamesisabeastieboysfan]

Very Awesome!

[@Tecumseh-rx5rn]

This video is stupid fresh. Great job as usual.

[@80sLife]

Haha. Thank you!!

[@tonytone5856]

I really enjoyed this and I appreciate all of the effort you went to for this.love the beastie boys.

[@davefilms345]

I love this, bloody brilliant, well done as always. Looking forward to the next one 😊

[@steventopping106]

Love the beasties, great video. Thanks!

[@jacobsilva4260]

I know i am late to the party, but this video was awesome. Always love taking a trip down memory lane through your videos.

[@damo5791]

Another great video! Where on earth do you find the level of detail you do on where all of these locations are? Such minute detail. Very impressive and so well put together with the original footage!

[@mobilecarm6018]

What an awesome video!! Thank you so much for making this!! I Got into the beastie boys just after sabatoge was released, and got to watch them in Toronto (MLG) in '94. Sadly it was their only concert I went to. Ill communication is still my fave!!

[@takUZnevim]

Oh, mate! Your videos are getting better and better...! Music videos? what a great idea! Love your work

[@cooperjackson614]

I really appreciate the effort and time you spent to make this(these) videos. One of my favorite things to do on a day off since the 80s was going to film locations. I was thought "Sabotage" was one to the great music videos of all time.

[@jbizzletx3420]

Great video brother 👍

[@enricru98]

so sick! good vid i was just listening to their "Aglio E Olio" EP. Adam had the gnarliest bass tone in Hardcore.

[@zroy9263]

Thanks for this video! I have a lot in common with the BEASTIE BOYS, we're all the same age, from NYC, moved to LA, and share a lot of the same things in interest in terms of our generation growing up in the 1970s thru the 1990s. They also toured with my frat bruthas FISHBONE as well. And of course, I'm down with their music! This video brought back so many memories of growing up in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s. It was a great time to be young and experience life!

[@jackedkerouac4414]

I miss LA already. I only had King Taco 4 times lol. Anyway another cool video. I can tell you did a ton of research for this one, fantastic job

[@robertg.7052]

This is an amazing video!!! I read their book front to back and you would not gain this knowledge!!!!

[@tomadrianaariannachristian7465]

Awesome you did this. Thanks💯💯💯

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@PolaBurrr]

awesome video .. its great how in depth you always go

[@yellowsubmarine1321]

Thank You❤️✌️❤️

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you

[@mtown671]

Well Done. A bit of knowledge along with the great locations. Nice trip down memory lane

[@astrojazzman]

RIP M.C.A 🙏

[@80sLife]

💜

[@cookingwell]

Thank you so much for showing us all these places….❤️

[@petegriffin4376]

THANKS so much for making this video. It was awesome to see. Great job.

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@danielgallegos8869]

My favorite group growing up, top notch vid!!!

[@MandoP-77]

Awesome video 👍

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@andrestorres-dr5cy]

Met MCA twice back in 2004. He lived right by my school near Canal and Broadway. Super cool guy. Still have my vhs tapes as well. they appeared in an MTV sports episode also. MCA had a mini I think.

[@80sLife]

Always seemed like he would be the nicest dude. Still breaks my heart.

[@stamford70]

Would love to see these locations for myself. Probably wont happen as I live in England. The next best thing is watching your videos. Amazing depth of research and top presentation as always Pal 👍

[@blackpellets]

This was a real treat. Thank you!

[@IndexFossilchannel]

Sabotage music video never get old!

[@graemewright7386]

How awesome was this episode! thank you

[@Lordylbc]

This was amazing thank you

[@v2vroth]

Awesome work

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@jonesdoug]

You’ve really outdone yourself this time Kurt

[@Olivia-ph2oi]

So Awesome to See! Hey Ladies 💋💄 Is my Favorite Beastie Boys song and Video! 🎶She got a gold tooth 🦷 you know she's hardcore She'll show you a good time then she'll show you the door😉

[@80sLife]

Really hoping to do a in depth video on Hey Ladies.

[@vonnie1999]

Pat me on the back, I saw Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Fat Boys live at Cow Palace in San Fran in the 80's. St. Paul is an underappreciated album. Much gratitude man.

[@evilboxing1]

For some reason I was not into beastie boys that much. Even growing up In the nyc area in the late 80s and early 90s… I don’t know but aside from a few of their tracks I was not feeling them that much. But regardless an enjoyable well made locations video by 80s life Thanks again for your hard work brother!

[@atomicbrainz]

More reasons to appreciate Echo Park! Love it. Did you see the Swan Boats? Awesome content!

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@BrainDamageComedy]

awesome video!

[@sole__doubt]

Love this tour. Im really surprised at the level to which things were closed and locked down in LA.

[@mannyc215]

Pass the Mic video was my favorite after all this time I kept thinking 🤔 where in New York did they film that song wow of all places here in my hood The West Side Cali love them a lot Mike D. Was my favorite also R.I.P. brother much love for the East Coast Beastie Boys……..😎

[@briantunney]

Brilliant!

[@BrunoParnell]

prolly my favorite of your series

[@kevinmaddox4198]

I'd be so cool if you could get the remaining beastie boys with you on these shoots!

[@johnnygacoustic]

This is awesome, great job!

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@Stevelives13]

Weather looks nice.

[@whatever8597]

Awesome channel, thanks so much for this. What track is playing from 11:27?

[@ceelos4979]

I grew up on Larga and I never knew about the recording studio! crazy!

[@daviddevonshire7213]

Hey 80’s Life, I was wondering if you could do a filming locations video on The Last Boy Scout ? Bruce Willis

[@80sLife]

That's a good one. Possibly

[@TitoMariategui]

Such a cool video, man. Thank you!

[@crush41gb]

Love Beastie Boys and these locations! 🤘🥳 Cracked me up at the this trash, mattress, pee bottles and devil weren't here then lol. *le sigh *

[@p.m-audio]

Great Video Mate, how do you know all this spot´s ? it seems you was almost there at this time when they shot the video

[@deco983]

Great job!!!

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@DWINC]

Dust Brothers! Some unexpected trivia, really love them. There’s not much DB online.

[@lic.enriquecontrerasrico.220]

Great video!

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@iblackfeathers]

thanks for the video. i thought you only did movies, but this is also a good. another music video-related one could be tom petty’s free fallin’ - that is if you haven’t done one already.

[@80sLife]

Unfortunately there isn't much left from Free Fallin. I've shown the Ventura blvd locations in one of my Valley Videos.

[@kevinmoody9708]

estate sale going on all weekend the Grasshop house if u wanna see inside! 😊

[@neilharrison2471]

Great job. 😉

[@BrainDamageComedy]

any chance you could link the background music that was used during the sabotage section please?

[@joseyeastwood]

Classic Beasty Boys Video Rest in Peace MCA.

[@snakefinger]

I’ve been lookin for that closure shot on Santa Monica and highland since forever ! Thank You ! That’s definitely a load off you have no idea !))

[@brutalboy1000]

I live near almost every one of these places!

[@OGGalleryCrew92]

14:12 what the track ?

[@iDSMB1]

Respect man.

[@ericswires8534]

When Fry and Bender saw the Beastie Boys on Futurama, where was that filmed ? Just kidn

[@jerrywilsonn8837]

I'm going to try to get access to the Castle. If I do, I'll let you know ; )

[@darthdebaucherous954]

So what’cha what’cha what’cha want ?

[@GucciGambino1967]

Seen them in concert with RUN DMC here in the Bay Area on their "Together Forever Tour" 1987. Glad to see JMJ & MCA before passing. 🙏

[@80sLife]

You are very lucky. I saw the Beastie boys twice, but never Run DMC

[@ThrifterPicker]

They actually still live there in Cali. I think they moved there permanently a few years back

[@KLEARSKITHEKREEPER]

Such a RAD channel

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@keithmccormack6248]

This videos was funky . . . . . . Like penicillin!

[@jimmyroberts197]

I have that same vhs

[@boag3144]

Nice video, i first saw Beastie Boys live at the Greek Theatre with Run DMC i believe it was after they played the palladium, then i sAW them a bunch of times after. My long sleeve beastie boys shirt said something on the sleeve in Japanese i believe, and it said get of my di#$. I remember driving by the silver lake reservoir when i heard MCA passed i had to pull over for a little, sad day. I always heard rumors about where the beastie boys were seen when they were living in LA.

[@roberthartmann782]

Any kool ice t videos location

[@80sLife]

Been looking into some

[@spetsnazrs9102]

Hello from Brasil

[@roberthartmann782]

Everybody needs a pee bottle!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@80sLife]

From time to time

[@jamesmuller1481]

You like all the stuff I like.

[@fromtheinvisibledeskofmiked]

How about 90s and 20s life¡

[@roberthartmann782]

I'd wouldn't like to skinny dipping in that pool.. Hahahaha!! Every one would see lil Willie.. Lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@80sLife]

Haha

[@zillsburyy1]

1:17 corey feldman ?! lol

[@jimmyjames6267]

I would love to own the blue ford in the sabotage video

[@jimmyjames6267]

Look closer, the north highland ave. Sign, to the right, you can clearly see where it says, Gasoline!

[@davidgoodman6924]

I can't stand it, I know you planned it I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate I can't stand rocking when I'm in here 'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear So while you sit back and wonder why I got this fucking thorn in my side Oh my God, it's a mirage I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage So, so, so, so listen up 'cause you can't say nothin' You'll shut me down with a push of your button? But you, I'm out and I'm gone I'll tell you now, I keep it on and on 'Cause what you see you might not get And we can bet, so don't you get souped yet You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage I'm trying to tell you now, it's sabotage Why Our backs are now against the wall? Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage I can't stand it, I know you planned it I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate Lord, I can't stand rockin' when I'm in this place Because I feel disgrace because you're all in my face But make no mistakes and switch up my channel I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle What could it be? It's a mirage You're scheming on a thing, that's sabotage

[@Benjamin-ib4to]

Yeahhhhh dude

[@krlm2280]

Dope rip mca

[@soufmaro502]

hmm why this with the gates became so common it not used to be like that, but the film locations always proof that everywhere they put gates

[@Thecabbieintheyyj]

Ll cool Jay had the nerve to say they weren't good mcs