When they formed in New York in 1981, Anthrax and the Beastie Boys were two very different bands. But the Beasties’ hardcore-hip-hop would become a key influence on the thrash metallers, and their shared hometown. On the 10th anniversary of the Beasties’ final album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, and nine years on from the sad death of Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian remembers what the band meant to him, the rock scene and the Big Apple… “I first heard of the Beastie Boys locally around 1983. I remember seeing the name spray painted downtown, but I’d never seen them live at that point. I was a big fan of the New York hardcore scene, but the worlds of punk and metal were still very separate in those days. If you were a long-haired kid, odds were ...
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