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"Rick" Rubin..paging "Rick" Rubin

Michael Jackson working with EVH is almost as unlikely as the Beastie Boys working with Kerry King or Reba McIntire working with Dimebag Darrell.
The Beastie Boys were a rap band in the 80's and even in their punk days were unlikely to come across Kerry King.

The fact that Thriller was written by Toto is really whacked out.

Yep, Vernon Reid KILLED it.

Posts like this are why Dane ****ing rules.

LMAO I wish he had expanded on this. I'll bet those kids probably shit themselves.

Yeah, Rick Rubin produced for the Beasties and Slayer at the time. Not hard to figure that one out.

Beasties and Slayer were both on Def Jam Records and both were produced by Rick Rubin. Totally not a stretch for them to cross paths in that realm.

As for the Dime/Reba reference...check out David Allan Coe's Rebel Meets Rebel album, for which Pantera is his backing band. Not quite Reba, but quite a departure for Dime, Rex, & Vin all the same.

Egg Raid On Mojo...Egg Raid On Mojo!!!!

Actually this isn't entirely true...while Toto was involved with some production aspects they only wrote the song "Human Nature" on the Thriller Album. The rest of the songs were written by either Michael Jackson (Wanna Be Startin Somethin, Billie Jean, Beat It, The Girl is Mine) or Rod Temperton.

Quincy felt he needed a killer guitar solo on the record, so it seems weird to you that he'd call up the best guitar player of the era? ok.

The Beastie Boys had a pretty obvious connection with Slayer, so it's even more likely.

I laughed out loud. Good story.

I saw that story too.
Good read and a good laugh when he tells off Quincy Jones

I wouldn't say "even more likely". To me it's just an interesting factoid and an equally unusual non credited performance.

Good nugget there.

Toto IV is a good album too.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to check that out.