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?

[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?

[FuzzyBeastie]

um, anyways, back to the ORIGINAL topic of the thread...

so, what happened? where was it? does he have some sorta condition that makes him do that? poor little adrock...

[staceybridie]

sorry im responsible for the diversion of the topic! Didt mean it and dont intend to do so again!!
Had Ad Rock been like prone to this for ages or has it only recently developed?

[Daisy]

I believe he has epilepsy.

[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!!!!!

Originally Posted by Daisy

I believe he has epilepsy.

I do as well. I first was diagnosed when I was 4 around 1981 if I took a blow to the head they would happen. But it is something you can out grow I out grew mine Six years ago. Been free from that ever sense so I wish him all the luck of getting through this. I would basically stare off into space then start all the jerking and crap.....

Originally Posted by lethal_apricot

I dont think it does improve, but you know medicine is improving, its probably well controlled.
Strobe lighting is the worst for bringing on siezure. Maybe Adrocks condition is considered when venues do the lighting. ie.no strobes, sudden flashes

It is something that you eventually out grow but their is other cases that you don't. The meds made me sick. I didn't want to do anything I had no energy.

[burbboi]

I have a buddy that has had similar seizure episodes...

Remember that movie "Fire in the Sky"? Anyways, we were watching that one in the theatres and everything was okay, until that part when the guy is being abducted...you know, bright lights, he's looking up into it..

Well my buddy starts shaking and inadvertently elbowing people because of it. The people in the theatre were pissed off initially, but once they realized what was happening they all gave him some room and let it run its course.

He was just fine afterwards...a little disoriented but fine nonetheless. He doesn't have epilepsy but has these little attacks once in a while...and by that i mean maybe once every 2 or 3 years according to him.

Hope all is well with the King

[FuzzyBeastie]

my aunt had a type of epilepsy when she was a kid (she too grew out of it) where she'd be doing normal things, then suddenly just stop whatever she was doing and stand lifeless. my mom told me how one time she was carrying dishes, had an episode, and just stopped in her tracks and let the dishes crash to the floor.

[Niann-Tsyr]

My dad has epilepsy. It took the doctors two freakin' years to find out. His seizures aren't like the ones I've seen before with other people. So we didn't know until finally the docs said it. Sucks big time...

[like2_drink]

i remember my cousin having seisures alot while she was a kid , the docs had to operate on her head , cut somethin out of her brain i think .But shes fine now

but yea ,they could just use better lighting for there photo shoots , to not use the flash of cameras , as for concerts the ppl should definetly leave their camera phones and all that non-sense back home , and just enjoy the concert, thats what i think.

[John Ryall]

"Well I'm an epileptic, a skept-a-cleptic check it
I'm cutting up the beats from the bear I clept it
I fucked around and then I lost my tooth ahaa
I'm telling everybody it's the goddamn truth."

This is from Adrock in the "Skills to Pay the Bills." (back in 1992). I guess he told us all back then, but we just didn't put it all together. All of a sudden I just remembered this line after reading all of these posts...

[ramrod]

I don't think it has to do with flash photography. At the Philly show on the 18th he counted to three and told everyone to take a picture at the same time. If "having a seizure" means "being really awesome" then yeah... he had a seisure... he had like nine...teen of them.

[Audielicious]

Originally Posted by ramrod

I don't think it has to do with flash photography. At the Philly show on the 18th he counted to three and told everyone to take a picture at the same time. If "having a seizure" means "being really awesome" then yeah... he had a seisure... he had like nine...teen of them.

Well, the flash from the camera could probably trigger a seizure. I bet that all the pictures for that article that Spike Jonze took didn't use flash anyway. You made me smile with the comment about having a seizure equate to "being really awesome" because we all know how awesome Adam is.

[Benny Blanco]

Last Sunday a few hours before the Much Music Video Awards I'll never forget that day because that day was the day I met The KingAdrock and a Mr. Micheal Diamond here in Toronto at the Edge102 radio interview. I waited for two hours the interview was at 4PM and they were late but I didn't care I knew I was going to meet them. Anyways back to the epilepsy topic I was excited because I thought I would get a picture with at least one of them but about half an hour before the interview we were told that there was going to be absolutely no photos allowed at all because one of the Beastie Boys has epilepsy and the flash can set off a seizure so we were told no photos or security will take you out. I believed this actually because I had heard a few years back about Adrock having epilepsy and the medical bracelet. But the security at Edge102 kept saying that it was Mike D that had epilepsy so guys lets do this for Mike D. Anyways I was a bit disappointed with no photos but what am I complaining about here I am at the front of this crowd of about 50 people crammed into the radio station and I got to shake hands with Adrock and Mike D they were so cool too bad MCA was a no show but I can't complain. The interview was hilarious as usual and they said part of the video for the next single Triple Trouble will be filmed in Toronto. Their performance at the awards was great, too bad I was standing around a little too many Hilary Duff fans who kept singing one of her shit songs. Also one of the VJ's for MuchMusic mentioned that the Beastie Boys outfits for the red carpet may be used for some parts in the Triple Trouble video.

[tiny_salmon]

wow i had no idea he had epilepsy. that's pretty terrible. poor guy. but even so, he still rocks out like no other. adrock is such a gangster. i love him.