Descendents

Live recordings of Soundboard tapes 1982 1986



From my collection of low generation tapes i created this...best of!

essentialy was a job done FOR me in early 1998 i think... ...

now it's time to share!



SOUNDBOARD TAPES FROM LOW GEN ..tapes!!



01  Tonyage

02  I'm not a punk

03  I'm not a loser

04  kabuki girl

05  I wanna be a bear

06  I like food/hey hey

07  Weinerschitzel/ dont remember the title now

08  Mr Bass

09  Parents

10  Global probing

11  Like this way or not

12  Jane is dead

13  Suburban home

14  just this why i wanna

15  in your face

16  Instrumental

17  Kabuky girl

18  Good good things

19  Catalina

20  Sour grapes ( definitive live version)

21  I see red

22  Pervert

23  what? i dont remember!/weinerschitzel/Mr Bass

24  Silly girl

25  Hope

26  Bikeage

27  Christmas vacation

28  Wendy

29  Do you wanna now (how fuck dont remember the title)

30  Suburban home

31  I'm not a punk

32  Tribute to the minutemen

     (ealy january 1986, tribute to D.Boon death)

33  Silver ( he he he!!)





1-14   Mabuhay Gardens    1982

15     L.A T: Bird        1983

16-21  Berkeley square    1985

22-31  Wabash hall        1985

32-33  Live unknow jan    1986







Members on this recordings



   Bill Stevenson  1-33

   Milo Aukerman   1-33

   Tony Lombardo   1-15

   Frank Navetta   1-15

   Ray Cooper     16-33

   Doug Carrion   16-33

 







Descendents are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson as a power-pop/surf punk band.[1] In 1979, they enlisted Stevenson's school friend Milo Aukerman as a singer, and reappeared as a melodic hardcore punk band,[1] becoming a major player in the hardcore scene developing in Los Angeles at the time. They have released eight studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums, and four EPs. Since 1986, the band's lineup has consisted of singer Milo Aukerman, guitarist Stephen Egerton, bassist Karl Alvarez, and drummer Bill Stevenson.

History

Early years, Fat EP, Milo Goes to College, and first hiatus (1977–1984)



In 1977, friends Frank Navetta and David Nolte began writing songs on acoustic guitars with the intention of forming a band.[2] They initially called themselves "The Itch", until Navetta came up with the name "Descendents".[2] By the end of the year they had failed to attract any more band members, so Nolte left to join The Last with his brothers.[2] In late 1978 Navetta, joined by drummer Bill Stevenson, and with Nolte switching from guitar to bass, revitalized the Descendents project.[2][1] Nolte sang with the group at several of their early performances, but by the spring of 1979, The Last were becoming more active and he left the Descendents again, being replaced by bassist Tony Lombardo.[2] The singerless "power trio" lineup of Navetta, Lombardo, and Stevenson recorded the band's debut single at Media Art studios and released it on their own label, Orca Records, named after Stevenson's fishing boat.[2][1][3][4] Navetta sang "Ride the Wild" while Lombardo sang "It's a Hectic World". Nolte produced and mixed the session, and his brother Joe turned the lead guitar level up, resulting in the guitar being very loud in the mix.[2]

Redondo Beach, where the Fat EP and Milo Goes to College were recorded



The band's music at the time was described by Stevenson as a "coffee'd-out blend of rock-surf-pop-punk music [...] The sound consisted basically of Lombardo's hard-driving, melodic bass lines, Navetta's tight guitar riffing, and my 'caffinated' surf beats."[4] Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, describes the single as "a blend of Devo-style new wave and Dick Dale-like surf."[1] Ned Raggett of AllMusic describes it as surf-inspired power pop with a New Wave edge: "Not quite Devo if they grew up on the coast, but there's something to that comparison."[5]



After a six-month trial with a female singer, Cecilia Loera, they recruited Milo Aukerman as their new vocalist.[1] The addition of Aukerman led the band to write shorter, faster, and more aggressive songs in a hardcore punk style.[1] They later released the Fat EP in 1982. It was a record which established the band's presence in the southern California hardcore punk movement with its short, fast, aggressive songs.[1]

"Kabuki Girl" from Milo Goes to College (1982)

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The use of melodies and mixing them with hardcore punk found on Milo Goes to College was considered very unusual at the time by the punk scene but was considered as a massive influence by melodic hardcore and pop-punk bands.[1]

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For the recording of their debut album Milo Goes to College in June 1982, the band worked at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California with Spot, who had also engineered and produced the Fat EP.[6] While still short and fast, the songs on Milo Goes to College were also melodic. Aukerman later reflected: "It's interesting: we started very melodic, then moved to hardcore, but melded the two at a certain point and became melodic hardcore."[1] The album's title and cover illustration referenced Aukerman's departure from the band to study biology at the University of California, San Diego.[7] The illustration was done by Jeff Atkinson, based on earlier caricatures by a high school classmate of Aukerman's named Roger Deuerlein, who had drawn comic strips and posters depicting Aukerman as the class nerd.[2]



A note on the back of the LP read "In dedication to Milo Aukerman from the Descendents", and was signed by the other three members.[8] Aukerman later recalled that the band took his departure in stride:



   When I decided to go to university, the guys in the band were pretty hip on it because they knew how big of a nerd I was. Like, "What else would you expect him to do but to go off and be a geek?" I mean, I've got a Ph.D in biochemistry — how uncool is that?[1]



   The band had time off so I spent like two years with Black Flag. I got in over my head. When I joined Flag I had every intention of doing both bands but it was physically impossible. Flag had all this stuff in progress, so I put Descendents on hold.



–Bill Stevenson on the group's first hiatus.



The band continued performing for a time with Ray Cooper on vocals, who would switch to rhythm guitar, when Aukerman made return visits to Los Angeles.[7][9][10] At the same time, Stevenson had also joined Black Flag, intending to be in both bands at once but soon finding it too difficult due to Black Flag's touring and recording schedule.[4]



With Aukerman in college and Stevenson in Black Flag, the Descendents went on hiatus from 1983 to 1985.[7][9][10] During this time Navetta burned all of his equipment and moved to Oregon, while Cooper and Lombardo performed as the Ascendents.[2][9][10]



you are still here?  hehe love this guys, i saw em like all/descendents 4 times

( in teh country were i live) they are playing music like us..because the ARE like us

but nobody told me about the marò e neither to TURONE,

and this is bad.



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