‘It Took A Lot of Balls’: How Mix Master Mike Helped Make the Beastie Boys’ ‘3 MC’s and One DJ’ a Hit
It took a lot of balls.” Mix Master Mike (né Michael Schwartz) recalls the courage it took to call up the Beastie Boys, who ...
How Mix Master Mike landed the gig with The Beastie Boys gig and kicked off one of their best tracks
If you’re looking for proof positive that persistence pays off look no further than the quest of Mix Master Mike, the DMC World DJ Championship-winning turntablist (in both 1992 and 1993) who’d been ...
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‘It Took A Lot of Balls’: How Mix Master Mike Helped Make the Beastie Boys’ ‘3 MC’s and One DJ’ a Hit
This is Mix Master Mike calling from Sacramento, um, I’ve been wanting to hook up with you maybe on some tracks. I got some shit right here. I turned my turntables into a wah-wah pedal.