May 13, 2018 ☼ beastie-boysmusic

What happens when you rent out your house to the Beastie Boys? About the iconic LA house the Beastie Boys rented while finishing Paul’s Botique. The landlords even get a shout out in a later album:

The trio would still recall the Grasshoffs [the landlords] fondly in the 1998 song The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin’),” comparing the couple to Thurston and Lovey” Howell from Gilligan’s Island.”