[GOOD]

I figured I'd ask this here since there are inevitably some Run DMC fans around here as well as some djs (or so I've been told). When Run DMC was in its prime I was too young to go see them and I'm curious about something...

In the track "Beats to the Rhyme" JMJ drops a ton of different scratch samples as well as other samples. When they performed live, did he drop all these samples live or did they just play the instrumental of the track? I'm curious because doing all that live would be damn impressive.

[streak]

have a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0nu27iUSik

[isolator42]

Cool video - whatever did we do before YouTube, eh?

I'm old enough to have seen Run DMC at Brixton Academy & if memory serves, the order of the day was that JMJ played instrumental cuts of the songs & the other 2 rapped live. There was plenty of turntable action however, even "scratching solos", with plenty of audience participation.
It was ace, truly.
Not meaning to be racist in any way, but if you were there in 1987 you'd remember us - we were surely the only white guys in the place!