If you've ever had the opportunity to talk to all three Beastie Boys together (that is Mike D, Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz), you'll appreciate this episode of Minimation. The experience was akin to herding cats.

By 2007, when this interview took place, it was well known that that's how talking to the Beastie Boys would go. Asking what inspired their then-new, all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up, probably never had a chance of getting any legitimate answer. Adam Yauch's answer, that they were influenced by Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, should probably be taken with twelve grains of salt; as should the ensuing debate over whether or not Mike D prefers Tusk to Rumours, which included shout outs to the Clash and Electric Light Orchestra.

As someone who has interviewed the Beastie Boys together, I can promise you that this is exactly what interviewing them was like. It was difficult, frustrating, fun in the way that a roller coaster that you can't wait to get off of is fun. And I wish I could have interviewed them one more time. R.I.P. Yauch.