The Beasty Boys From Late 19 82

Mike diamond, adam yock, getars john barry and drummer kate shellenbach. The first official beasty's gig was august fifteenth, 19 81 in john's loft at one hundredth street ind broadway in manhattan. After that, they gigged as a hard corps act around new york,. supporting the dead kennedys and working the stage at c b g b. Then they got bored and broke up. But it was at about this time when a friend named dave parsons approached them with a proposition. He already owned a record store in the east village called rat cage, but he was also thinking of starting up a record label