Arts

In celebration of , and just in time for Hanukkah, 3200 Stories teams up with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival to curate a slew of Top 8 lists of some of our favorite Beastie Boys songs, images and videos.  

In this edition, artist Chris Fabbri picks his top eight Beastie Boys images. How many do you remember?

The Beastie Boys took pictures of themselves and each other for years in and out of the studio and they worked with some great photographers. I painted the images of them when they moved to California in the late 1980s "Golden Era" Pauls boutique Check your Head days. I like how they brought the NY style to California (old sneakers, street clothes and sporting a vintage look) which I believe matched their music, sort of an old garage funk sampling drum beats and witty lyrics. 

What I liked most about the painting I did was the way I captured the composition of how the stood in Bboy stances and were not afraid to put their faces out there wearing sun glasses, snow caps and mostly every picture seems relaxed and smiling, with grins expressed like they really enjoyed their career. I miss them making music and their productivity, most of all, REST IN PEACE MCA!

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Photo by Glen E. Friedman, 1992

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Photo by Glen E. Friedman, 1992

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Photo by Sunny Bak, 1986

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Photos by Christine Reily, 2004

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Photo by Cey Adams, 1985

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Photographer Unknown, 1987

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Photographer Unknown, 1985

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Photo by Rickey Powell, 1987