Filmage: The Story of Descendents\All Page #3

Frank's brother lived on

Walnut Street in Long Beach.

I played in my garage. I

played the bass by myself.

BILL:
I guess Frank had heard

somebody playing bass down the alley,

and he's like, "Dude, I think..."

... Frank has a really high

voice, so when I do Frank I

gotta go into the Frank voice:

"Dude, I think there's some dude

down there that plays bass.

Let's walk down there and see."

Sure enough, Tony...

TONY:
They came over when

they heard me, and they were

standing there and asked if

I wanted to jam with them.

BILL:
He appeared to be

somewhat older than us, but I

have to say he looked and

acted very young for his age.

TONY:
I was in the band

when it was '79. I was

34 years old when I

started the Descendents.

And they were 15.

Now he looks at me

like, "Oh my god,

this guy's a f***ing freak.

Beep!"

BILL:
It all worked out.

There's me and Frank

being completely

ridiculous and asinine,

and Tony was in some ways the voice

of reason or the elder ambassador

that would yield a

modicum of propriety or

reasonableness to our

stupid arguments.

JOE:
What happened with Dave and

Descendents, he was

playing in two bands.

So he couldn't commit

to practicing with

the Descendents, so

they kicked him out.

DAVE:
It's not really the

Descendents as you know it today.

But I was there just

before it happened.

JOE:
The birth of the

Descendents as a live entity

corresponds with the epiphanal

birth of the Minutemen.

MIKE WATT:
We were called Reactionaries

then, we weren't Minutemen yet.

And the opening band was

somebody from Hermosa Beach.

One guy was kinda our age or even older,

but the other two were really young.

Their guitar man had fishing

boots, rubber f***ing...

I hadn't seen cats like

that in other bands.

BILL:
Milo was the

biggest Descendents fan.

At a certain point he would make me

pick him up and drive him to practice,

and he would just sit and watch us practice.

I mean I would pick him up every day.

MILO AUKERMAN:
I think one day I was

watching them practice and I said,

"I think I could probably sing

'It's a Hectic World.'" And

they said, "Okay. Just go and

do it. The mic's all set up."

BILL:
We were just in there, and

in between two songs Frank just

goes, "F*** it! Let's just get Milo

to sing these f***in' things!"

And we were like, "yeah!"

So Milo just got out of

his chair and started

singing and that was it.

It was like Frank saw the obvious

that none of us could see.

MIKE:
One thing about

the old days was that

the people involved

were very individual.

They were all characters.

Frank's image was kinda neat.

It was kinda

A-frame, with his legs

and his guitar up high.

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