Mario C likes to keep it clean!

It’s not every day we get invited to kick it with producers immortalized in Beastie Boys lyrics. We met up with Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty engineer / producer Mario Caldato at his Hollywood home studio to dig through his endless collection of gear, in search of the perfect party rockin’ piece. And we found something. Mario C is the lucky owner of the original Check Your Head collage.

Mario remembers the creation of the collage as it took shape over the two-and-a-half years in which the album was recorded. “Everybody brought in pictures…the wives would work on this while we were in the studio,” he recalls. Seeing the handmade collage up close, one can only imagine what a blast those recording sessions must have been. A real family affair.