Ad-Rock & Mike D Remember Adam Yauch | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I've always had a memory because you. guys have that line about never Rock the. mic with the panty hose when I was on. late night and there was a band setting. up which will go on name just because I. don't think anyone remembers them but. they had a hit that week wow and they. were setting up and we could watch them. prepare on camera cuz the the cameras. were just on throughout 30 Rock so I'm. getting ready for the show doing my. stuff and I see this guy getting ready. and then I see him tying panties and. bras to his mic. stand and I go downstairs and I go in.

and I said to the guy you got to take. those off your might stand and he said. but this this is our act and I said if. that's your act you have no. act oh man but it only did it cuz I. remembered right. your is p it wasn't panty you're you're. kind of like passively aggressively. blaming that action on us basically I'm. saying you responsible for this for some. they weren't going anywhere he was at a. he was at a hardware store Two Weeks. Later their families remember them their.

friends remember them no they were all. taken away yeah because that's how bad. the band is but also to be clear but the. lyric is about the you know the like I. mean they're this is these this is not. paty hos on our mics we're using now but. it's you know it's kind of like a. technical term pop popil so I misheard. your lyrics took it out on a guy who was. just trying to make it on a late night. appearance and now he they're all gone. everying they do they're doing it all.

wrong there's no pop filter ASP just. that's some chachis he's putting on his. mic stand I mean it's disgraceful it was. Steven Tyler's and it had to stop I. mean it's Steven Tyler at least is. Steven Tyler he's supposed toos Smith. people know AOS. Smith I know they did go on to have. quite a lot of success yeah Aros Smith. do you think AOS Smith were Joe Franklin. is that Conan O'Brien bump wait all wait. hold arrol Smith arrol Smith could have. been on Joe Franklin they had to have. been on Joe Franklin in like 72.

everybody was on Joe Franklin and Joe. Franklin I was not on Joe Franklin but. we had Joe Franklin on my show in like. '93 really yeah or 994 and I think I sat. in a hot tub with him wait it's possible. um in a hot tub I I'm gonna ask. listeners was he fully clothed or not. well that's I don't want to talk about. it said he shutting it down we're. shutting it down okay fair enough I want. to congratulate you both on this. incredible run of being old no of just.

making it to this podcast okay of all. the things you've achieved You could. argue this is the Acme of uh of your. career it's a book end Joe. Franklin um not without I don't want to. get whatever sappy or anything but when. you go back and listen to the music one. of you is not here is it a joyous thing. for you to hear Adam when you're. listening to that music now.

is it. ever rough to listen to him or has. enough time gone by where it's it's all. good it's definitely not oh sorry go. well I say a we proba neither of us. listen to not to to burst the Buble well. we don't listen to our we're not going. to listen yeah I mean you go back and. watch uh old episode of your show The. Simpsons or all at night I wear a. tattered wedding dress and just watch in. my.

no I I I don't I don't we're yeah. shocking we're not the audience for our. own music but um no I don't I I think it. it's all the above we I think enough. time has gone there was definitely a. period of time where just I couldn't. even open up a a a m a computer music. file something that that we are working. on because I would just get too sad the. process would bring me right back to to. making because we really worked with. Adam up to very close to the very very.

end because that's what made him happy. um so anyway but that and I feel like. that time is sort of worked its. way um through and then there's times. like I'll hear something be like oh yeah. oh you know the rest is like when you. now I think once in a while like our. things will get licensed to like u i you. know we'll we'll give a sync license to. um like Mario Brothers or something so. you'll be like on an airplane or. something and that will you'll have. forgotten or at least at my uh point of.

Aging I'll have forgotten that we've. licensed that song and then the thing. will come on in the airplane oh yeah oh. that's kind you know it's sort of. actually nice be boy music in a good way. is it's out there it's you I I you're. going to hear it you know it's not it's. uh you don't have to go looking for it. to hear it in the best way so I'm just. curious if that you know when you hear. your own music is it evocative of. anything or do you just think like yep.

that was then this is now well well two. things for me I I feel very similar it. was very hard at first because not only. you know did we record all the music. together with Adam but we were also you. know best friends for decades and so we. were together every day and so to when. you lose a friend like that it's really. really hard and you know not everybody. has a friend who's like a musician whose. voice you hear every day it's it's it. was hard it's it's definitely.

less shitty now right um but the thing. about us hearing our music like for me. hearing the music it's the whole thing. is weird you know what I mean that. anybody likes our band that we've played. at Madison Square Garden or that we have. platinum records that people want to. listen to the whole platinum records. that are not our records multiple. platinum records the whole thing is. weird you know I mean yeah so when you. hear it in a movie or you hear it from a. car or something it's very weird still. still I don't you always be I think.

that's healthy cuz it is miraculous. anything like that is miraculous and to. get to a point where it's like but of. course for we are the beasty place it's. just like you. that's we also not like we don't know. how to make songs that's the the other. thing is we don't know how to like craft. a perfect song and write a good Melody. that brings you in with like the pre. chorus into the chorus with the vamp and. the thing we don't actually know how to. do that so what you're saying Adam is. you might have been like a potential.

hunts Hall but you bullshitting this. whole time no Linda Perry I am hunts. Hall not Linda Perry yeah well congrats. on the 30th Anniversary yes oh no I have. a question though so I mean you're not. allowed to ask me questions that's not. how this works yeah go ahead no I think. it's funny like what Adam's saying like. I really think did resonate with all. three of us even when Yak was alive of. just that we felt like how does this. work that we're just basically making. these side jokes and that it actually.

other people get LED in right it's sort. of miraculous that other people could. even appreciate them but wouldn't so. when you're crafting a bit on whatever. level whether you're writing for. somebody else or your own anyway but all. right but no writing but no but do you. feel the same way that like oh this is. just something we thought was funny to. us like I can't believe that it's going. out on the air and people most my career. has been all of my career I think has. been me thinking of things that I think. think might make one of my other comedy.

people laugh and then later on. someone's talking to you about it. because they saw it on television or it. meant something to them and I still find. that uh crazy you know it's just we're. we're all uh getting away with highway. robbery just we're having fun and uh. making things that Delight ourselves and. um then it's a thing and so it's nice.

it's a it's I think I'll always be more. fascinated. by your side of the business by music. because I I try to understand it but I. don't it's just not it's not in me I I. like to play it I like to play at it but. to create music on the level that that. that you guys did uh is mysterious to me. me and really endlessly fascinating and.

every comedian I know secretly wishes. that they were in a group and they were. making music and playing Madison Square. Garden no but there is a big there is a. a huge comedy music um crossover. appreciation like when we that last. video that we did that y directed for. Make some noise and you know we had some. reason you weren't in it but we had. basically every sounds like you close. but we had every alive was in it I.

remember uh me ins I don't mean that as. a shot I you know I mean I think it was. shot on the Warner Brothers lot and I'm. talking I was I was talking to Y and and. it would have been so easy for him to. say hey Conan you want to hop in got. five. minutes I mean and he think he had a. camera rolling yeah I mean he's like I. mean you know I remember him pushing me. out of the way of the camera actively. avoided asking you to be in it he leaned. against me to push me out of the way of.

the yeah he was like oh you know he like. you know will farell right he just. happens to be here he's no he he wanted. my Rolodex that's what he. wanted but uh no there is a funny. crossover and I think that's why I. always think when I would see you guys I. would think oh to make music that. everyone wants to sing along too but. also get to be funny at the same time as. you guys uh as you guys were was like.

that's that's that'd be fun but no I'm. here with you Sona I'm sorry yeah no I. love it oh okay that's nice we this not. you specifically oh oh this but I love. the process that's okay um guys I'm. going to wrap it up just. because I'm not getting paid it has been. 30 years where are the sponsorship. breaks like where are the we don't do. those here that's I won't have that's. dirty Lin where the where's the ads for. marijuana and stuff.

like we used to have really fun ads and. then this is like a crazy humble brag. but at the beginning and then this thing. got big where the ads now are all for. like legitimate boring. companies it it used to be for like. fracture prints which turned photographs. into glass and I had more fun doing. those ads yeah then it became you know. oh American Express and you're like. that's no fun mou mou was fun yeah. please I don't want to waste your time I.

don't really remember what it was but he. just kept the name of the company was. mou and you K just kept screaming okay. please now you're please we don't want. them to get into the mou. thing guys you can't call me a mou it's. a mou I'm a mou you're a mou I don't. remember what M did gentlemen I thank. you for being here um it was really nice. having you and uh I wish you both well. please come back if you ever can thank. you cuz you're super smart funny gifted.

people and it's nice to hang with you. and I appreciate it like I said before. we don't have jobs so we're. around welcome to work here if you like. well let's not get crazy it's just it's. just nice to be here.