by norix » Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:00 am
Ok, I just joined this site since it's the only place I've seen on the internet where people have listened to more than MGTC from Descendents and actually kind off discuss these band. So hey, this is my first post.
So, I noticed peoples tastes in ALL here are quite different than mine. I like the Chad Price stuff more than the Dave/Scott stuff.
I guess it's because I'm an idiot and just joined a message board about a band I don't quite know :p.
My fav ALL track is "Never Took", "Teresa" and "Mary" as runner-ups (at this moment in time, I just recently re-discovered the musical wonder "Mary" is).
I think my fav Dents song is "Hope". I've been on a serious Chad-All spree, so I'd probably pick the wrong ones for runner ups. Although I really like "I'm the One" and "Catalina".
Never seen any of the two live, really sad cus I had a chance last year at Groez (live in Belgium). Would give a lot of money to see all iterations on one day.
What amazes me in Descendents are the basslines: both bass-players are highly creative and don't fall into the boring root-note pit. Karl plays some completely mental stuff in their late 90´s stuff.
Last topic I want to address in my post: I was extremely lucky in discovering this band. I was a bit into Green Day and basically the Tony Hawk game soundtracks (the later ones, apparently there is some descendents/ALL on one of the first ones): never heard of em. Read a magazine that has a huge part credited to music: never heard of em. I heard of em the first time when I swapped a Bad Religion cd I won for being the most "discusive" person in class at the end of high school for a fat wreck chords compilation album. Then the ball got rolling I guess.
What I wanna say is, I don't think there are a lot of young fans. Or how is the age distribution at the Dents/ALL shows?
EDIT:I always forget just how plain perfect Live Plus One is. I really like the more whimisical Scott lyrics on some stuff and I really like Chad's voice. PLus, there's really well recorded Milo as well.