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"House of Blues, Los Angeles, March 5, 1999\r\n&amp;quot;How many of you here are from the old school?&amp;quot; asked Joseph &amp;quot;Run&amp;quot; Simmons to the crowd that packed Los Angeles&amp;apos; House of Blues last Thursday night. It was a rhetorical question, to be sure. As Simmons and Darryl &amp;quot;DMC&amp;quot; McDaniels kicked off the show with the groundbreaking &amp;quot;Rock Box&amp;quot; from their 1984 self-titled debut album, the fans rapped along with every word and crowded the edge of the stage to touch the duo&amp;apos;s Adidas shoes.\r\nSimmons and McDaniels have every right to be as old-school as they wanna be. In the early and mid-Eighties, Run-DMC led the way for the then-underground genre of rap, and became its most popular practitioners. Their 1986 album Raising Hell was a particularly huge success, and their remake of &amp;quot;Walk This Way&amp;quot; with Aerosmith&amp;apos;s Steve Tyler and Joe Perry catapulted rap into the mainstream. But while &amp;quot;Walk This Way&amp;quot; re-ignited Aerosmith&amp;apos;s career in a big way, Run-DMC hasn&amp;apos;t had much large-scale recognition since then -- partly because of the difficulty of living up to such huge initial success, and partly because they didn&amp;apos;t fit in with the gangsta-fied sound that dominated the rap world in the late Eighties and early Nineties.\r\nWith Jam Master Jay burning up the turntables, Simmons and McDaniels ran through their early hip-hop hits, largely ignoring their later material. The fans were hyped up enough by &amp;quot;My Adidas&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Sucker M.C.&amp;apos;s,&amp;quot; but halfway through the show, when Steven Tyler and Joe Perry made an unannounced appearance for &amp;quot;Walk This Way,&amp;quot; the crowd went insane. Almost unbelievably, Tyler, Perry and Run-DMC had never performed the song together in concert. A truly historic occasion -- and an unforgettable reminder of what a great moment &amp;quot;Walk This Way&amp;quot; is in the history of music.\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know what we&amp;apos;re gonna do after that,&amp;quot; Simmons admitted, which could serve as a summary of Run-DMC&amp;apos;s career. Still, they made a fine stab at avoiding an anti-climactic close. Waving their old-school flags high, they delivered an exciting show with nary a mention of weaponry or a single derogatory line about women all evening. It was refreshing to see that Run-DMC could make old-school rap sound fresh without resorting to the gangsta leanings that kept them flying below the radar for so long."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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