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Filmage: The Story of Descendents\All Page #7
up his songwriting. He just killed it.
SCOTT:
I can't say enough aboutwhat's upstairs with that guy.
CHAD:
He just has thishuge bank of knowledge.
TONY:
I consider Karl abetter bass player than me.
MIKE:
A little more out of thebox. A little more out there.
DONI:
This guy's killing itnight after night after night.
TIM:
Just him playing, makingevery other bass player just cry.
KARL:
I mean, f***, I'vebeen doing this a long time.
guitar player's guitar player.
TIM:
To see the chordsthat he pulls off.
cool, demonic-sounding leads.
STEPHEN:
What I do is filteredthrough a lack of true
knowledge of music, just
an incredible love for it.
DAVE:
He's a genuinesweetheart of a guy.
SCOTT:
I used to call him Poppy, because if Ihad a problem, I could go talk to Stephen.
MARK:
It's really gratifying when youmeet people that are your heroes
and they're actually as cool and
friendly as you hope they're gonna be.
Especially Stephen.
JOEY:
He's also very smart.Runs very deep.
It's weird that all those
guys are in one band.
It's almost unfair.
MIKE:
It seemed like they wereembraced by the punk community again.
JIM LINDERG:
Descendents were justtotal heroes to us growing up.
I literally had the tennis racket,
pretending to be in the Descendents.
And then our band got really
popular in the second wave,
along with Offspring, Rancid,
NoFX, and Green Day.
KARL:
This was an interesting thingbecause it was a convergence
of pop culture and what Descendents
had always been doing.
DAVE:
That's when you reallysaw people appreciate
the Descendents the
way they should be.
BRETT:
Milo is a great, integralpart of what the Descendents are.
TIM:
He's the anti-frontman.He's the underdog. The nerd.
MILO:
A lot of the stuffthat we do with our music is based on
having people throw
food at you in high school.
Those are the people we address
a lot of our songs about,
saying you may think I'm a loser,
but you're the loser, really.
TIM:
He's the antithesis of AxlRose or Bono fronting a band.
BRIAN BAKER:
He's seminal. He's aseminal American punk rock singer.
BILL:
It was one year of fury and then hewanted to resume back into his science stuff.
MARK:
Why won't the singer of myfavorite band sing in my favorite band?
What are you f***ing talking about you're
not gonna sing in the Descendents?
You'd rather go off and
do smart sh*t somewhere?
Why would you do that to me? It's
hard for people to understand.
GREG GRAGGIN:
When youstudy biology and
you go on to pursue other things,
you don't leave punk rock behind.
But then again, you do change
STEPHEN:
At that point we justdove right back into it with Chad.
CHRIS:
Mass Nerder was ahuge, huge album for them,
because it was coming hot off the
heels of "Everything Sucks."
ROGER MANGANELLI: If it had
said "Descendents Mass Nerder"
on it, it would have been
"Everything Sucks" all over again.
The songs were so strong.
BILL:
Well, on Mass Nerder we decided totake a little bit of a different course,
and we started opening for bands instead
of doing our own headlining shows.
We thought we'll suck it up and see if we
can play to some of these younger kids,
because there aren't that
many people 40-year-olds that
are gonna come out and see
us because they have kids.
They're at home watching
"Mad About You."
So we thought if we could get in front of
some of the younger kids they might like us.
It might postpone
our obsolescence.
CHRIS DEMAKER:
Our band was theska punk thing of the late '90s,
and we were riding that new
band, young band popularity,
and here we have ALL opening for us and going
out musically and crushing us every night.
But our fans, some of them got it, but
a lot of them just didn't get it.
BRETT:
ALL never had the commercial successof Descendents. They just never did.
Even though, as a label, we did the exact
same thing for one as we did for the other.
STEPHEN:
I think by Problematic wecould see the shows were shrinking.
They were smaller
and smaller crowds.
CHAD:
It is frustrating. You want to just keep gettingbigger and bigger and bigger. You just gotta deal with it.
JOEY:
I think that you never really getpast when a band changes to something else.
CHRIS:
Yeah and that'sall the power of a name.
BILL:
We all know that ALL is the bandguilty of not being the Descendents.
SCOTT:
Forever people have been saying, "Ilike the Descendents, and I don't like ALL."
And to me, I get that. I absolutely get that.
I don't give a sh*t, I'm not angry about it.
But the point is that I'm in
the middle of it and I agree.
CHAD:
I don't look at it that way.Musically it is this THING.
Descendents it's the same thing.
KARL:
Very simply to me it's a different singer.But I'm not the guy buying the records.
STEPHEN:
Milo really connects to anaudience. It's very peculiar to watch.
DAVE:
Milo is Milo and you can't replacehim. The great singers you can't replace.
MILO:
"People have kind of idealizedthat whole period in th early 80's,
and I think that
explains a lot of it."
Bill's my best friend and it just bums when these
things that he did that I thought were amazing
and world-changing didn't explode into the stratosphere
and make his band as big as it should have been.
GROHL:
"Believe me, it's hard to be in areally big band and then start another band."
It's a weird position to be in. You
do it for the love of playing music.
You don't do it because you want to be
better than the last band you were in.
You just want to keep playing.
"So for a band like ALL, it was
BILL:
But so what? Who cares? If 50 peoplelike your band then 50 people like your band.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's not shameful.
Where is it said that every band has to be huge
like Michael Jackson? Where was that written?
BILL:
"When you quest ALL you'requesting something much grander
and greater than getting up and
going to work at Winchell's."
BRETT:
If you took the Stooges"Raw Power" and did it with a kid
who was raised on "Help Me Rhonda"
BRIAN:
It would sound like Bill.Exactly.
RICHARD:
You know it's Bill.Bill was...
DAVE:
I'm sure that every person who gets interviewedfor this movie is gonna say the same f***ing thing.
JOEY:
Bill, I think,is a true anomaly.
CHRIS:
He's a conundrum. He'stotally a mystery to most people.
GROHL:
Oh God, Bill's so weird.BILL:
"He is Bill Stevenson.We can rebuild him."
CHRIS:
Dude, you wrote all these amazing songs.They're so insightful and you're so brilliant.
Why are you talking
like a homeless man?
BILL:
"Do you like to eatdogs?" "Yeah, I do."
"How come I never see
you eating them then?"
KARL:
A mathematician braintrapped in a caveman's body.
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