Beastie Boys, good lookin out.

Thank you so much for being gracious enough to perform at my Wedding reception on 6-5-04! My fiancée Shannon and I are both ecstatic about your pending
performance. The reception will be held at The Signature Room in Woodridge IL, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. I decided that no other musical act would be more fitting than Beastie Boys. The main reason is because you gents are solely responsible for me meeting the love of my life about nine years ago. She was outside smoking a blunt with two girlfriends when me and my crew rolled up. I of course was sporting my Haze scripted Beastie Boy hat when Shannon noticed my hat and spoke her first words to me ‘I like the Beastie Boys, their pretty cool’. My territorial and ignorant response ‘Oh yeah, name three songs, and Fight for Your Right doesn’t count. Luckily Shannon was nice enough to look past me being a bastard and say ‘I don’t know, the one where they are jumping around in the woods’.
Soon after, our love blossomed, and then died, twice, but we are now ready to spend the rest of our lives together shortly after you perform at the reception.
It is a good omen. So lets get down to details:

The menu

Vine Ripe Tomato Basil Soup
Signature Caesar Salad w red onions and sourdough croutons

Parsley Potatoes ;garlic butter
Sonoma Broccoli

Roasted Chicken Breast w Mornay sauce
Grilled Blackened Shrimp

Amaretto Cheesecake w crème anglaise

I will of course have a vegetarian alternative, so don’t sweat it.

Dinner will be at around 7:00 PM, but don’t worry, you will be performing at this time anyway. So this is how it’s gonna go down: Next summer when your on
the ‘Mic check’ tour with A Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, Saul Williams, and the eight MCs that will open the show Battling Round Robin tourney
style in each city you can make time for the reception following this schedule:

6/2/04 St. Louis, MO - Savvis Center
6/4/04 Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena – after the show you guys can crash at my place. I’m only about 2 miles from the Allstate so we straight. I got the kind
nugs, a PS2, and all kinds of other fun stuff. MCA, you can sleep in the guest room, Adrock you got the big couch in the living room, and Mike, (sorry holmes)
but you can grab the loveseat in the living room. It’s all good though, I got central air & shit. I don’t know where MMM is gonna crash, but I’ll put him
up in the nearest Best Western or whatever.

Anyway, I’ll make sure you guys get some sleep, because you’ll have an early sound check and a long set on Saturday. This Is the preliminary schedule & set
list:

3:00 PM Soundcheck

6:00:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Cocktails while the guests are being received
Drinkin' wine
Bobo On The Corner
Eugenes`s Lament
Sneakin' Out the Hospital
Groove Holmes
In 3's
Lighten Up
Live at P.J.'s
Namasté
Pow
Sabrosa
Shambala
Alright Hear This
Flowin' Prose

7:00 - 7:30 Dinner
Finger Lickin' Good
Funky Boss
Negotiation Limerick File
The Update
7:30 - 8:00 Announce wedding party, Beasties eat

8:00 - 9:00 Get the party started!
Time To Get Ill
Do It
Maestro
Super Disco Breakin'
Move
High Plains Drifter
Dope lil' song
Posse In Effect
Stand Together
Hey Ladies
Blue Nun
Get It Together

9:00 - 9:06 You guys can break, while the woman gets her Etta James fix for the first dance.
Etta James - At last

9:07 - 9:11 I know you don't cover a lot of shit, but…
Beatles - When I'm 64

9:12 - 10:00 Start that shit back up!
That’s it (fresh for you)
I don't know what the title is, but # 7 always seems to be the shit
Number 7 from the forthcoming LP
Pass the Mic
Professor Booty
Shadrach
Shake Your Rump
Three MC's and One DJ
Bodhisattva Vow
B-Boy Bouillabaisse (at least the hellooooo Brooklyn part)

10:00 - 10:30 slow it down a bit
Boomin Granny
Car Thief
Electrify
Something's Got to Give
The Scoop
Transitions

10:30 - 11:00 getting stoopid time
Root Down
Intergalactic
The New Style
Gratitude
Sabotage

11:10 - 11:17 1st encore
The Sounds Of Science
Egg Man

11:22 - 11:40 2nd encore
Jimmy James
Putting Shame in Your Game

11:45 - 12:00 3rd encore
So What'cha Want
Unite

Now I know you don’t usually play six hours sets with three encores and I didn’t want to play this card, but you owe me. I am indirectly responsible for $238,000 worth of Beastie income. I have all the shirts, the wax, the CDs, been to the shows, bought a bunch of Grand Royal & X-Large shit, but more importantly I have always spread the Beastie gospel. I really do appreciate everything I have learned from your music, and all the entertainment and such, but I think it is your duty to hook a brother up. The last time I was completely broke was when Shannon & I drove from Chicago to NYC for the (97?) TFC show on Randall’s Island. It took twice as long to get out of that parking lot than you guys played for. I came home with nothing but memories and a ticket stub. Now that is commitment.

Not only will I give you the $800.00 I have budgeted for the musical act, I will also consider letting Adrock produce my debut record ‘Terra Incognita”. That
shits gonna go platinum yo. Once again, thank you and I’ll see you boys on 6/4/04. You should drop me a line soon though so we can discuss the ‘Mic check’
tour details because I will be hosting the MC battles. I also have some thought on the new LP, related video releases, and the PR shit; Beastie Boys on MTV cribs, Letterman again (Yauch, that chest bump was the shit), SNL, The Chapelle Show, Conan, and some warm up gigs in smaller venues.
Congratulations on having children, I’m glad to know there are more intelligent compassionate people out there teaching their kids that so we can make this
world a better place.

Much love,

Chris

Author: Chris (skinnybutphat)