The cover of The Lives They Lived issue this past Sunday featured a never-before-published photograph of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys taken by Glen E. Friedman. Amy Kellner, one of the magazine's photo editors, talked to Friedman about the story behind that photo. Here are some of the highlights of their conversation.
On meeting the Beastie Boys:
I've been friends with the Beastie Boys for a really long time. I met them through Arabella Field, our good mutual friend who grew up with Adam since they were born. (Field took the photo of Yauch with two cigarettes in his mouth, featured in the article.) I was actually living in L.A. when I met them, but I was in New York a lot. It was 1981 or 1982.
On photographing other bands:
I had already done my first album photo at that point for the Adolescents. I had also been photographing bands like the Bad Brains, Black Flag, the Stimulators, the Mad, the Circle Jerks and the Dead Kennedys. The Beastie Boys actually came to California as a group for the first time in 1985 (opening for Madonna!), and I had done a photo session with them because I was really inspired by them doing hip-hop. They didn't know anybody in Los Angeles, so I brought them all around and introduced them to some people and got them on a couple of radio shows because of my experience working with bands at that time.
On making a spontaneous photo shoot happen:
I came to California for Thanksgiving just to be with family in 1991, and I had given the Beastie Boys a call. We hadn't seen each other in a long time and they invited me down to their studios out in Atwater Village in Los Angeles to just hang out and see their skate ramp in the studio and listen to "Check Your Head" before it came out. I was just totally blown away and totally inspired by the album, and so I told them that we should take photos before I had to go back to New York. They said sure, let's do it, it will be like old times.
On the challenge of coming up with an album cover:
Unfortunately, they had said that the album cover for "Check Your Head" had already been picked, and I said that I'll try and outdo that. So Adam had an idea — he wanted me to create for them their own version of the photo that's on the back cover of Minor Threat's album "Salad Days." So we met up early in the morning at the Capitol Records building and we took a roll or two of black and white right in that area. There was a picture of them sitting on the curb that we took at the end of the first roll, and I knew that was their shot, I knew that was their version of the "Salad Days" photo and it became the album cover, replacing the original one they had chosen. When I had gotten back to New York after that, I faxed them all the photos right away — that was the way to get it to someone back then. I had a really good fax machine. They got the fax of the photos on the other end and literally they liked that one shot so much they put it on the album cover as a fax.
On shooting in an old torn-down structure:
After I took that shot of the three of them, we decided to keep shooting. I brought them down to Sorrento Beach, which is in Santa Monica right across from where there was this pool that everyone skated in back in the '70s. I knew about it because I partially grew up around there. So it just had some resonance for me. And then there was this old torn-down structure right across the street from the parking lot. It was late in the day and the light was hitting it just incredibly, and I said, "Let's climb up there and let's take these photos." That shot of Adam I guess was during some downtime while we were just playing around up there in that destroyed structure, and it was very close to the end of the day. It was just an outtake, an individual image of him and I didn't have an individual image of anyone else. It just looked cool, it just looked like him. He was very into snowboarding at the time, and that's why you see he's wearing his down jacket and that ski hat and stuff.
On digging up the photo:
When you let me know there was a possibility of a cover for The Lives They Lived, I dug extra deep into my extensive Beastie archive to find a solo shot of Adam that had never been published or even seen by anyone else ever. This one fit the requirements well, I thought, for our hometown newspaper. My only wish is that it had been shot in New York.
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