Filmage: The Story of the Descendents/ALL Teaser 2

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Filmage: The Story of the DESCENDENTS

Very stoked for a documentary about the DESCENDENTS.

Early 80s gems

Here's some rare videos from early 80s bands.

JFA-Little Big Man, 1983 at The Mad Gardens in Phoenix, AZ


Agression-Money Machine, 1984 L.A. Olympic Auditorium


Descendents-Catalina, Hey Hey, Bikeage and Jean is Dead, Early 80s. Milo with a Bad Brains shirt. Same footage as Flipside Video Fanzine Vol. 1 but with more songs.

2011 FYF Fest=DESCENDENTS

DESCENDENTS headlined the 2011 FYF Fest at the L.A. Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles. The SoCal kings of hardcore-punk-pop played for the second time in their hometown after more than a decade. In addition, other great acts such as OFF, Dead Milkmen, Kid Dynamite, Weakerthans, Guided by Voices and Cults played across the four stages named after our four favorite famous painters.

After watching a couple of decent bands such as Tijuana Panthers and Ty Segall in "Michaelangelo" and "Donatello", came one of the most anticipated bands by ourselves, OFF. This kick-ass band features legendary Black Flag and Circle Jerks lead singer, Mr. Keith Morris, and Steven McDonald from Red Kross. Hardcore Punk with an early 80s sound that provoked a couple of fights and broken noses at the ferocious circle pit. Songs like "Fuck People", "Peace in Hermosa" and "Jeffrey Lee Pierce", the latter dedicated to Gun Club's lead singer with whom Keith used to hang out at Chinatown's Hong Kong Cafe in the early 80s.

Then we went to the main stage aka "Leonardo" to see Cults, an indie band, who for my surprise sounded very neat. Catchy vocal harmonies and mellow songs that invited to chill out after OFF's energetic set. During their repertoire, a huge California Republic flag waved as the sunset started to go down.

We continued across the other side of the park to the isolated "Raphael" stage to see the Weakerthans and Kid Dynamite. After passing the merch booths of Amoeba Music, RevHQ and LA Weekly, we sat down to see Canadian folksy punks The Weakerthans. Good overall set with no major anecdotes.

The highlight of this stage came next with Philly Hardcore Punk legends Kid Dynamite. Old school hardcore anthems interpolated with melodic punk songs that invited to circle pit and stage dive. Almost during their entire set, lead vocalist Jason was singing at the space between the stage and the pit. Their sound sent me back through time to the late 90s hardcore punk scene. At this point: sun, fun and Raybans were gone and a kinda cold night was awaiting us.

After that, headed back to the main stage to prepare for the almighty fucking Descendents which was the main reason we were in this fest (our last one being 2008's Cultura Urbana). We sat down to see Broken Social Scene through the giant screens. Their set was ok and then it was the turn of 80s Ohio indie rockers Guided by Voices.

We took advantage and saw their entire set in the first row. They played some good punk-sounding stuff. Neither great nor bad, but served to see first hand, Bill Stevenson setting up his drum set. The excitement was reaching its highest point.

The clock ticked at 9:40 pm when Milo Aukerman, Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton and Karl Alvarez a.k.a. DESCENDENTS came on stage. They began with the song "Descendents" who excited thousands of screaming fans who were there to see history in the making. Milo put on a Dodgers cap that the crowd threw at him and sang the hymns of every album (the song selection was perfect).

Songs like "Pervert", "I like food", "Silly Girl", I'm not a looser", "Sour Grapes", "Bikeage", "Hope", "Rotting Out", "I'm the One", "Coffee Mug", "I don't wanna grow up", "Suburban Home", "Van", "Clean Sheets", among others completed their 1 hour set.

At the stage you could see Matt Skiba, Fat Mike or Fletcher from Pennywise singing as every other fan who was there. One of the highlights was during "All-O-Gistics" that a couple of young kids (I supposed some of their sons) recited some funny-as-hell postulates made for the occasion. In "Hope", Dr. Milo Aukerman went down to the pit to sang with his fans.

The constant stage diving and singalongs helped the South Bay legends make the best set of live-music I have ever seen. I waited 15 years for this and it was all worth it. It was perfection defined.

As good as it gets, we went back to the tiny isolated stage for the Dead Milkmen performance. They opened with their classic "Tiny Town" and continue with a couple more, such as "Punk Rock Girl". Good set but we were tired as fuck and needed to walk almost 2 miles through downtown to get back to our vehicle. After 12 hours of sun, fun, good music, organic food, attention-whore hipsters, punk rock and DESCENDENTS, I slept with a big smile on my face.

Professional Punks

Y no me refiero a la canción de los legendarios hc-punks canadienses Stretch Marks sino a varios personajes que han formado parte de la historia del punk rock y hoy en día son profesionales en diversos campos como el derecho, la contabilidad o profesores catedráticos en universidades:


Joe Escalante-baterista fundador de The Vandals en 1981 y después bajista y único miembro original de los reformados Vandals. Se graduó de Loyola Law School y fungió por varios años como abogado del entertainment business.










Greg Graffin-cantante y fundador de Bad Religion en 1980.Tiene un PhD de Cornell University y actualmente da clases de ciencias en UCLA.














Metal Mike Saunders-guitarrista/cantante fundador de Angry Samoans y baterista de VOM y Fried Abortions, entre otros grupos. Graduado de la Universidad de Arkansas en contabilidad ,hoy en día trabaja como contable y sigue tocando en los reformados Samoans con Bill Vockeroth (baterista) como únicos miembros originales.








Lyle Preslar-guitarrista principal de Minor Threat. Fue director de Caroline Records y alto ejecutivo de Elektra y Sire Records. En el 2007, se graduó de Rutgers School of Law en Newark.













Milo Aukerman-cantante principal de los Descendents. Tiene un PhD en bio-química de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison. Actualmente se dedica a experimentar en el laboratorio.







Mugger-roadie de Black Flag y cantante del Nig Heist. Se graduó de Master's Degree con 3.95 de GPA y trabaja como CPA en una gran firma. Imparte clases universitarias a tiempo parcial.









Estos son algunos ,pero debe haber muchos más en la comunidad internacional de punks. El estereotipo del punk no future y que muere de sobredosis de heroína cada vez esta más lejos de ser la norma , porque hoy en día los old punks estudian y se hacen de carreras y los new punks van a la universidad a estudiar y hacerse de trabajos profesionales. Ya Milo lo dijo en Suburban Home del Milo Goes to College del 82' de los Descendents : "I don't want no hippie pad ,I want a house just like mom and dad".