Just a quick dumb one.
I spotted the above photo taken by the incomparable Lynn Goldsmith on the Facebook group, Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City, and was struck by some small details. Obviously, this is the License to Ill-era Beastie Boys, which leads me to suspect the photo in question is from about 1987. I've mentioned the Beasties innumerable times here before (most recently here, I guess). I'm a lifelong fan, and always will be, but that's not what caught my eye.
No, what got my attention were the flyers they're posing in front of. On the left, there's a flyer for the Kitchen, a fabled SoHo performance space the Beastie Boys actually played at, during their nascent period (and there's video of that performance to be seen here).
Apart from the invocation of the Kitchen, however, there is also there flyers by Flaming Pablum-favorites Missing Foundation (two are behind the Kitchen flyer, and third behind Ad-Rock). I've also mentioned Missing Foundation entirely too many times on this blog. Suffice to say, they're not to everyone's tastes, but interesting art never is.
If my chronology is correct, MF would have been promoting their first, eponymous LP, at the time, featuring such toe-tappers as "Kill the Hypnotic Bastards" and "Eat by The Pool."
These, meanwhile, were the `87-era Beastie Boys...admirably not trying especially hard to lip-synch to their big single, at the time...
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