Filmage: The Story of Descendents\All Page #4

And he was kind of a shorter

man, but he was a hard-charger.

GREG CAMERON:
The second

show I ever saw of the

Descendents was at the

Dancing Waters in San Pedro.

They broke into the set

and he was playing guitar

so hard and so angry that

his pants fell down.

He was an odd

character, for sure.

I can remember standing in

line at a Misfits show,

and all of a sudden he just

sat down on the ground

and started holding his head like

his ears were ringing or something.

And said something to the effect like,

"What am I doing here? Where am I?"

So that was Frank.

BILL:
Oh, to understand Frank.

I don't know. I know he had a

rough familial thing growing up.

Just a lot of familial discord.

And I think that can

fuel a fire pretty well.

I never sat and went, "Wow,

what made this guys so weird?"

I mean, I didn't really

have any familial discord,

I just didn't have

any familial at all.

MIKE:
Tony was a really good bass

player. Intense about opinion.

CHUCK DUKOWSKI:
Tony brings a

unique style of bass playing.

Every time their on a

chord, it's a run.

ROBERT HECKER:
He was such

a solid monster, you know?

He had that kill bass tone.

That growling bass sound.

It was just kill.

Kill!

MARK HOPPUS:
Tony Lombardo, his

bass playing on those albums of

the Descendents is only entirely

influential on my playing.

Just that eighth-note downstroke

powerful foundation of the melody.

His playing is phenomenal.

TONY:
This is duct tape

with fishing weights.

I used to wrap this

around my wrist,

and I would play... all

downstrokes, mind you.

After you took those weights off,

you felt lighter, you felt faster.

Might've been psychological,

might've been a little bit to it.

Oh, cool. Headband.

MIKE:
They all had an image,

but Milo, his image especially

I guess people didn't

expect of a dude in a band.

MILO:
"While I'm writing

songs about girls, I'm also

having these things where I

need to rip things apart."

"So I have to write these songs about girls,

but I also have to, like, rip it up."

MIKE:
He just became this

thing that was powerful.

The hand in the back pocket and

sing. This intense projection.

I don't think he thought about it.

He just was what he was,

but it came of being kind

of a "thing" that I loved.

DAVE:
Most other singers

were macho or whatever,

or put on some vibe like,

"I'm a f***ing weirdo."

But it wasn't that way. So kids

could relate to it. I did.

None of us were f***ing getting laid... we

were listening to hardcore, you know?

Milo was like our spokesperson.

MILO:
We were starting

to get into faster

paced music and drinking

a lot of coffee.

BILL:
Give me my coffee.

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