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Filmage: The Story of Descendents\All Page #5
he said, "I got to focus on my
studies and do something real."
I mean, we were making five or 10
dollars per day and that's it.
We had nowhere to live,
so you can see how a guy with that kind
of brainpower would say, "You know what?"
"I don't have to sleep next to Bill's
drum set in the practice room."
MILO:
Part of it is that I neverreally considered music a career,
and so whenever I would
leave the band it was like,
"I'm doing this for fun, and my
real career in this other thing."
And actually, the more
seem like a career, the
less I seemed to like it.
In '87 I left the band, and
we did the final tour.
There wasn't like, "Well, I'm gonna go do
this for a while and come back to the band."
It was like, "I'm embarking on
my life's career to do this."
KARL:
At the end of theday, his gift is science
and he chose that road,
and I think that's great.
But from the standpoint of the guy in the
band with him, there's that moment of,
"Oh f***. What do we do now?"
JOEY:
Somewhere in the lateTheir answer was to form ALL.
MIKE:
I think Billy didn't push sohard to become "new Descendents."
to be a new band.
DAVE SMALEY:
I get off the plane,and they're all in the van.
They drove me to Alfredo's, we ate at
Alfredo's, and we f***ing practiced.
I'd been in a plane
for 30-million hours.
Alfredo's, practice, go!
BILL:
Here's your spot on the floor.Here's your microphone. Yeah.
DAVE:
We've got three Descendents, aDag Nasty, and a Black Flag. ALL!
BILL:
I wasn't writingfor a band name.
girl was treating me poorly,
and I was expressing myself
about it. Catharsis.
It had nothing to do with Descendents,
ALL, Dave, Milo or anything.
MIKE:
I know it was Billynow in charge totally.
RICHARD:
ALL is Bill, Bill is ALL.The concept of ALL,
you focus what you want like a dog
on a piece of meat and grab it and
you don't let go until you've eaten
the whole thing plus the bone.
MIKE:
He wanted to try this thingwhere everything was very focused,
and nothing is derivative. No creeks
or streams coming off the river.
Just Niagara Falls.
KARL:
Bill is very patient,and part of the byproduct of
that is he will make you go
over the part as many times
as necessary to get it down.
And I think most people
aren't used to that.
STEPHEN:
He would just push and pushand push and it could be really hard.
DAVE:
I don't know whatyou're talking about.
Just because I had to sing
"Just Perfect" for like four
hours in the studio before
he got the take he wanted.
BILL:
He probably told you thatit was excessively meticulous?
DAVE:
I said, "Dude, I'm really hungry. Let'stake a little break and I'll come back to it."
He comes back with
this big Snickers bar.
He tapes it to the other
side of the glass:
"When you're done
you can have it!"
And I'm like, "Oh my god!
Are you f***ing kidding me?
All right, f***ing push play!"
RICHARD:
It was constantlya battle with him.
He had ideas of the
Of the way the sounds should be.
Of the way the mix should be.
Of the way the songs
should be sung.
And it had to be his way.
It had to be his way.
And he was usually
right, I gotta say.
know who they were when I'd say,
"Hey, are you going to the ALL
show?" They're like, "Who's ALL?"
Milo was kind of iconic.
He had his own logo.
And with ALL it just never
took off the same way.
DAVE:
I was on the road for 9and a half months in one year.
And I remember, we were
doing laundry, and
Bill started talking
about the next tour.
We were gonna get back in two weeks, and he was
already planning the next one and the next recording,
and he looked at me and said,
"You're not staying, are you?"
BILL:
We just went outand out and out and out,
and I think he did what any smart
KARL:
There's that instant thingof, "Who do we get as the singer?"
the boy next door literally,
because Scott was practicing
with his band next door to us.
SCOTT REYNOLDS:
I had nothing back then.I had no money. I was living in my car.
I couldn't even get a shower. I was
basically a bum, a homeless bum.
And to be on tour playing music
was the whole reason I left home.
Even though I am too disorganized
and right-brained and
underachieving to ever be the
poster boy for the quest for ALL.
KARL:
Scott's got a great voice.I think he'd got a better
range than most of these
guys I see on American Idol.
STEPHEN:
You can justthrow him anything in any
key and he can just sing.
He's just awesome.
BILL:
It was like we haddiscovered some great gem
sleeping in his car outside
our practice room.
RICHARD:
It seems like on each album,Bill would have the song that he
knew was gonna bring people to the
band and bring people to the record.
And "She's My Ex"
was one of them.
STEPHEN:
That was where Scott got his firsttaste of how absolutely particular Bill was.
SCOTT:
I've never been in a band where phrasingwas so f***ing important as this band.
Karl would do some of that, too.
Not as bad a Bill. Oh God, Bill.
He'd just stop the tape. And it's terrible
because you're going "She'll always be..."
and then all of a sudden
the tapes stops.
And you're like, "What?" And
he's like, "You're flat."
And he goes back. So we got all done
with this thing after days on one song,
and he goes, "That's awesome. We're done." And I'm
like, "Phew!" And he goes, "Okay, let's double it."
STEPHEN:
"When Davewas in the band,
we intentionally didn't do
any of the Milo songs."
And then we went ahead and introduced
a few into the set with Scott.
SCOTT:
The first show I ever played, one dude wasyelling, "You're not Milo!" the entire time.
MALE VO:
Hey! Where's Milo!You're not Milo!
SCOTT:
A lot of what we did was we called inthe Descendents crowd, come see this band.
And they'd go crazy when we'd
play "Suburban Home,"
but I don't think that a lot of people that
might have liked what we did
got to hear it, because the Descendents/ALL
thing, we just pounded it down people's throats.
MILO:
It bothers me becauseevery single record they ever put out,
I just think why
isn't this top of the charts?!
If I could take a fan and
shake him and just go,
"No! That's not the way it is!
That's ridiculous."
SCOTT:
To this day, I still get alot of that, "You're not Milo,"
and I love the Descendents,
don't get me wrong,
niche because we were
always trying to get back
into that other niche.
REPORTER:
"In our first story tonight,since this band's inception in 1978,"
"they've released over a
dozen albums,
they're headed for Australia,
Japan, and even Europe"
"to tour and yet you've
probably never heard of them."
"They're formerly called the Descendents,
they hail from Los Angeles, California."
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