All Live Plus One CD

LIVE PLUS ONE features 2 live recordings, one performed by All and the other by All's predecessor band, Descendents.

Recorded on March 30 & 31, 2001 at Starlight, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Recorded from October 10-14, 1996 at Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles, California.

These two discs represent the flip sides of the All/Descendents entity. All, being the band which somehow has more stature at the moment, won the cover and the first disc of live material. The Descendents are relegated to the second disc, without the nice big cartoon graphic. The lineups are virtually identical -- indeed, the album art of the bands are the exact same graphic, only with the lead signer swapped. Listening to the music, however, reveals a sharper distinction between the two incarnations. All, being the later form, has songs which show a better overall sense of pop craftedness. The problem is that All's songs lack the primitive drive, (post-?) adolescent emotion, and angst of a Descendents track. The recordings of the Descendents, made in 1996 during the "Everything Sux" tour, show a band which can still summon up the energy first exhibited on record in 1983. Not a bad feat for a band 13 years after the fact and with two different members. The constant non-vocal section of Alvarez/Egerton/Stevenson has grown since their first lineup in 1987. This can be heard in tracks such as "Bikeage," which has a bit more tunefulness to a track that was originally surprisingly melodic for a hardcore band. Even though the Descendents already have two live records out from their mid-'80s run, this later release shows that they can still exist in fine form. All is All, and that should suit their fans, but the Descendents steal the limelight here as the more vital band, and deserves to be heard by a wider audience. ~ Jeremy Salmon

Additional Tracks

ALL LIVE PLUS ONE:

All: Chad Price (vocals); Stephen Egerton (guitar); Karl Alvarez (bass); Bill Stevenson (drums).

Producers: Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, Jason Livermore.

Engineers: Jason Livermore, Jay Saylor.

DESCENDENTS LIVE PLUS ONE:

Descendents: Milo Aukerman (vocals); Stephen Egerton (guitar); Karl Alvarez (bass); Bill Stevenson (drums).

Engineer: Brett Gurewitz.

Personnel: Chad Price (vocals); Stephen Egerton (guitar); Ernie Ball (strings); Bill Stevenson (drums).

Audio Mixers: Jason Livermore; Bill Stevenson.

Recording information: Blasting Room, Ft. Collins, CO (10/10/1996-03/31/2001); Starlight, Ft. Collins, CO (10/10/1996-03/31/2001); Whiskey A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA (10/10/1996-03/31/2001).

Illustrator: Chris Shary.Q (10/01, p.140) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Proof that white suburban punkers goofing around is a far from recent development....clear blueprints for the bands currently cleaning up in the malls..."