Ad-Rock's Seizure??

[Disco Dave]

Did anyone else know about this? Maybe I slept through the news when it first happened, but the SPIN article was the first I read about it.

Wow, that's some frightening stuff... says he still has issues with flash photog - must be a problem now with all the media coverage and photo shoots...

[staceybridie]

Yeh guess so! Though I havent heard about ad rocks problem over here in UK!! Wont there shows be harder now cause of the lighting they use?

[Disco Dave]

That's what I'm thinking...
I mean, talk about the wrong profession to have a problem with lighting.

Yikes.

[staceybridie]

Your damn right there!
I never been to one of their gigs i seen telivised ones though as I only really started listening to them!! I dont own any of their albums only a dvd.Do u have any ideas of which album would be a good starting pointone of my friends said something about Anthology Sound of Scienece but I cant get my hands on it it sold out everywhere!!

[Extra Cheese]

Dont do drugs

[staceybridie]

wow that was so random! did u say that cos seizures are side effects of drug use? or am i just being stupid?

[mastershake_045]

Originally Posted by Extra Cheese

Dont do drugs

YEAH WHAT HE SAID (TOKE) (PUFF)(COUGH)

[King Adrock]

Originally Posted by staceybridie

Do u have any ideas of which album would be a good starting point

Get "Licensed to Ill first". My reasoning? Its the least expensive one. :P

[staceybridie]

Originally Posted by King Adrock

Get "Licensed to Ill first". My reasoning? Its the least expensive one. :P

Yeh i think Ill follow your train of thought on that one!! One of my relatives got it on vinyl an it looks pretty good. Spose it depends where you shop though!! At the moment all the albums in HMV in Cambridge have been down priced! Are any of the others any good?

[adrock]

Originally Posted by King Adrock

Get "Licensed to Ill first". My reasoning? Its the least expensive one. :P

i started with il communication and pauls botique

[DontWearSheer]

Poor Ad. Hmm. Would really strong sunglasses help? I don't know. I'm an imbecile. Just a little freaked. My grandmother had her own seizure problems. At least she got through 'em. Wishing Ad best of health. -_-

[Peggy420]

Originally Posted by staceybridie

Your damn right there!
I never been to one of their gigs i seen telivised ones though as I only really started listening to them!! I dont own any of their albums only a dvd.Do u have any ideas of which album would be a good starting pointone of my friends said something about Anthology Sound of Scienece but I cant get my hands on it it sold out everywhere!!

My vote would be Ill Communication or Hello Nasty.

I cant believe this thread still exists....

[bgirl_jess]

[IloveMikeD*]

Sorry ! But seriously I am curious this is a scary thing!

[dee_bee_76]

Okay...I don't really like going into people's personal lives, whether they're a 'celebrity' or not, but seeing as how Spin brought it up...

I remember reading an interview in 1994 where Adrock mentioned he experienced a seizure during a photo shoot in 1989 (I think it was '89, don't quote me here) and that the flashes of one of those old-style cameras with the big floodlights brought the seizure on. There was more mentioned in this article but I just can't remember all the details and don't want to be mis-quoted.

The Spin article says the following: "These days, he also wears a medical alert bracelet on his wrist - last November, while watching TV with (girlfriend Kathleen) Hanna, he had a full-on epileptic seizure. The illness has been controlled, but he still can't handle flash photography. What's possibly the most interesting thing about Horovitz's epilepsy is that few Beastie Boys fans seem to know about it."

[FuzzyBeastie]

aw, i feel bad for him. my cousin has epilepsy, i think. got it from his mom.

[staceybridie]

Man thats well bad! It must be so difficult too! I mean id be worried that Id be set off at any time because they photographed so much these days!

[d.c.1]

maybe it's a bad idea then that they have a huge flashing wall of lights wrapping around Mix Master Mike's DJ booth at every show.



what about the rumor that Mike D has aids?

[FuzzyBeastie]

can you guys give me a link or something to that spin article? i looked to see if it was already put on the message boards, but i can't find it.

[captain_caveman]

At the Camden show -- and this was mentioned somewhere else on these pages - -he stopped the show so that everybody could get their cameraphone moment and get over it already. The Beasties all gathered around the edge of the stage and said "Cheese!" Maybe he was annoyed with the cameraphone flashing. Hmmm Could be?

[Laver1969]

Does this condition change as you get older? They've been exposed to the lights and flashes for decades and to my knowledge he's never had a seizure on stage or in public.

[adrockgirl369]

That's Sad!!! Someone that hot having problems w/ flashes and crap!!!!!

[sure shooter]

Originally Posted by d.c.1

what about the rumor that Mike D has aids?

My sources tell me this is true. Hang in there Mike D.

[MCPG]

Originally Posted by d.c.1

what about the rumor that Mike D has aids?

Yes, he has 2 aids. They help him on tour because he is very busy and can't do a lot of things for himself like laundry or banking, etc. In fact all 3 of the Beastie Boys have aids. These personal aids, or assistants are apparently irreplaceable and they could not live without them.

This thread should be deleted, this is exactly why the boys never visit their own site....and touch base with us. waaaaayyyyy to much gossip.

[BeastieGirl88]

Originally Posted by ASHLEY

This thread should be deleted, this is exactly why the boys never visit their own site....and touch base with us. waaaaayyyyy to much gossip.

you're so right..i'm felling kinda guilty to talk about their persinals lives and stuff..

but i think adrock's condition is something that fans should know about, so we know better the next time we'd want to take pictures of him (yeah like that happens a lot...but still)

[electronegative]

Are these facts? Let's get to the facts here. Being a scientist at heart, I like to get to facts. I am fascinated by science, particularly chemistry. I am an RN-just finishing my RN education and continuing on to get a degree in chemistry. Eventually, I want to attend medical school and become a psychiatrist. I am 30 now so I will be 40 by that time!! When someone is on certain meds, a reaction to light can be detrimental. I always have to monitor the light in the rooms of patients on meds that will cause certain sensitivity to light. This is serious and can be very frightening for the patient.
As far as epileptic seizures go, this is some of what I have learned and understand:
In normal brain function millions of tiny electrical charges pass from nerve cells in the brain to all parts of the body. In patients with epilepsy, this normal pattern is interrupted sometimes by sudden and unusually intense bursts of electrical energy, which may briefly affect a person's consciousness, bodily movements, or sensation. During a seizure, nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses at a rate of up to four times higher than normal. This causes a sort of electrical storm in the brain. A pattern of repeated seizures is referred to as epilepsy.

Seizures cause different physical effects depending on which parts of the brain are involved and how far the signals fan out. Some people have violent seizures that knock them to the floor unconscious and twitching. Others experience less severe seizures that may only blank them out for a few seconds or more. Some mild seizures pass so quickly that it seems the person is just daydreaming. But, when these "absences" happen hundreds of times a day, they can be debilitating. Often, people sense that something is about to happen to them right before a seizure. This feeling, called an "aura," makes them restless, irritable, or just vaguely uncomfortable. After a seizure, people often don't remember having the seizure.

The likelihood of a seizure, as well as its type, in photosensitive individuals depends on the intensity, the contrast of the visual stimulus, and the specific frequency of flashing. Extensive EEG studies have shown that a flicker stimuli between 10 and 30 flashes per second induces the generalized epileptiform discharges and the clinical features characteristic of an epileptic seizure particularly well. Television, computer, and video game screens produce a 50 Hz flicker and a vibrating pattern at half the alternating-current frequency, or 25 flashes per second within the 10 to 30 flashes per second range. The vibrating pattern is only visible when sitting close to the television. Therefore, most television-induced seizures occur at viewing distances between 1.5 and two meters. 100 Hertz televisions cause a vibrating pattern of 50 flashes per second and do not induce seizures.
-Amelia(Emilia)

[electronegative]

Okay........whoa, whao, whao, whao........this is just NOT okay to talk about Mike D. possibly being infected with the HIV virus. To have AIDS first of all is a diagnosis that has to fit a certain criteria. I do know this, I work with people living with HIV and AIDS as well as I have studied microbiology. The American Society for Micriobiologists released a new discovery in May of this year that an oral lactobacillus, one that normally exists in the human mouth has proven to deactive the HIV virus. So...this would inhibit the transmission from mother to child in breastfeeding. FACTS: 25% chance of mother passing the HIV virus on to child in the womb. Also, don't discuss a health issue so serious on a message board. As an RN, this is fingernails on the chalkboard for me. My heart goes out to anyone living with HIV. If he makes a choice to go public if he is indeed infected then maybe..but with some respect and compassion one should respond. The hardest job I have ever had was working at an AIDS hospice. This virus takes the life out of you so the key would be to support the person living with it and value the life they have to give. I can go into a lot more scientific detail but here are some..
Facts about HIV/AIDS:
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide pandemic . Abundant evidence indicates that AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , which was discovered in 1983. By leading to the destruction and/or functional impairment of cells of the immune system, notably CD4+ T cells, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers.

Why is there overwhelming scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS?

Before HIV infection became widespread in the human population, AIDS-like syndromes occurred extremely rarely, and almost exclusively in individuals with known causes of immune suppression, such as chemotherapy and underlying cancers of certain types. A marked increase in unusual infections and cancers characteristic of severe immune suppression was first recognized in the early 1980s in homosexual men who had been otherwise healthy and had no recognized cause for immune suppression. An infectious cause of AIDS was suggested by geographic clustering of cases, links among cases by sexual contact, mother-to-infant transmission, and transmission by blood transfusion. Isolation of the HIV from patients with AIDS strongly suggested that this virus was the cause of AIDS. Since the early 1980s, HIV and AIDS have been repeatedly linked in time, place and population group; the appearance of HIV in the blood supply has preceded or coincided with the occurrence of AIDS cases in every country and region where AIDS has been noted. Individuals of all ages from many risk groups – including men who have sex with men, infants born to HIV-infected mothers, heterosexual women and men, hemophiliacs, recipients of blood and blood products, healthcare workers and others occupationally exposed to HIV-tainted blood, and male and female injection drug users – have all developed AIDS with only one common denominator: infection with HIV.

HIV destroys CD4+ T cells, which are crucial to the normal function of the human immune system. In fact, depletion of CD4+ T cells in HIV-infected individuals is an extremely powerful predictor of the development of AIDS. Studies of thousands of individuals have revealed that most HIV-infected people carry the virus for years before enough damage is done to the immune system for AIDS to develop; however, with time, a near-perfect correlation has been found between infection with HIV and the subsequent development of AIDS. Recently developed, sensitive tests have shown a strong correlation between the amount of HIV in the blood and the subsequent decline in CD4+ T cell numbers and development of AIDS. Furthermore, reducing the amount of virus in the body with anti-HIV drugs can slow this immune destruction.

-Amelia(Emilia)

[i<3amelie]

I only joined to reply to this thread, Hehe.

I have Photo-Sensitive Epilepsy too and it's funny how there is such a big deal about someone in a band having it but people who can't go to certain gigs and get let down because they only find out at the last minute that one of their favourite bands are using strobes apparantly don't matter.

I'm 99% sure the Beastie Boys (and alot of other bands) wouldnt have even given it ANY thought to not use strobes because the MAJORITY of fans dont have Epilepsy. It disgusts me to be honest. Yeah i feel bad for the famous people that have Epilepsy too but before Ad-rock developed it do you really think he even gave it any thought to not use strobes because of the people that do have Epilepsy??.

I'd go on but i think i got my point across .