Filmage: The Story of Descendents\All Page #2

JOE:
Mid '77, we're hanging

out and this big kid

on this bicycle that's three

or four sizes too small...

My brother David goes, "Oh my god.

I know that guy."

DAVE:
I had met Bill before.

He was in my Spanish class,

so I already kinda

knew what he was like.

And I thought if he could

play any instrument

he'd be great to be in a band with,

because he had just the right attitude.

BILL:
Really I think I was a

bother to Dave. I would come

over every day and be like,

"Hey, you wanna hang out?"

You know, the friend that

just keeps coming over?

And you're like, "Oh it's cool."

And then Joe really, I think,

thought I was bother.

DAVE:
At that time, The Last

was making their first album,

and I gave him tapes like rough

mixes.

And that, he really

got into that.

He was really influenced

by our drummer, Jack.

BILL:
Once I heard The Last

"She Don't Know Why I'm Here"

I was a totally

groupie of The Last.

I thought they were the greatest

band in the whole world.

JOE:
What happened was

Bill was intrigued

by what David and

Frank were doing.

DAVE:
Frank made a demo

of his songs, and Bill

took a tape and overdubbed

backing vocals on it.

JOE:
David and Frank got the

tape back and said, "Oh my god."

"He may smell of fish,"

"and he may seem kinda weird,"

"but this is the guy.

He's better than we are."

DAVE:
That was truly the beginning

of the band right there.

BILL:
Frank got me

into punk rock proper:

Ramones, Dickies, Sex Pistols.

KEITH:
Those guys

were like twins.

The double-whammy-ultra-mega

duo, Navetta/Stevenson.

BILL:
Yeah, we really hit it off

and we would go fishing every day.

I was in awe of all these

great songs he'd written, and

he would play them on the

acoustic guitar really hard,

Johnny Ramone style,

all six strings.

He had this bitter resentment

that just drenched

every step he took and

every word that he spoke.

His songs were just filled

with that envy of people

that are better looking

and more successful.

It was just really inspiring

to just be around someone

that just hated everything

that much. It was just great.

BILL:
It was not that long

afterward where it was trash

day and I was bringing my

trash out to the curb.

And one or two houses down,

somebody had stuffed this

bass guitar, it was sticking

up out of their trash can.

And at that point I had

only played drums, and I

was like, "Whoa!" And I

went and I got that bass.

And I wrote "Myage" on that.

I thought, "Well, Frank can write

songs, so f*** it, I can write songs."

DAVE:
Soon after that,

we were rehearsing

in Frank's brother's

garage in Long Beach.

TONY LOMBARDO:
I lived on

Walnut Street in Long Beach.

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