Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys died today. I can't help being a little melancholy about this. I tease my Dad when he gets upset about jazz musicians from his youth and adulthood dying. He always wants a copy of the obits from the NY and LA Times newspapers. However, I think I understand it a little more. I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, but I was a fan. I didn't much care for their first album, Licensed to Ill, but was very much a great fan of the albums Paul's Boutique and albums after that. Yauch was only 47, only ten years older than me. However, what's scarier, is that this is a musician of my generation. One that I saw rise to stardom, and become a champion of equal rights throughout the world. Anyone can say what they want about the music, if you liked it or not, etc. But this guy was a humanitarian, and that is something the world could use a little more of...
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