I took a little piano growing up, I dabbled in a variety of instruments… literally just dabbled in because I would take a lesson and be like, ‘This is boring.’ (laughs) I think I took piano maybe for about a year, but I think I took sax for half a year and I took guitar for A lesson. When did you first start singing? Were you singing around home, like school choir, anything like that? I was like, ‘Cool, these guys are my friends and they’re like making this music, it’s cool.’ That’s kind of where I was primed and receptive to listening to a single that Bill (Stevenson) sold me at school, which was the Descendents as a trio. And then the new wave music was great, but it didn’t have loud enough guitars and wasn’t fast enough, and ended up listening to X and the Germs and that kind of stuff and Black Flag. So KROQ definitely primed me for the new wave. I had a brief dabble into kind of prog rock and came out the other side of that and wanted to hear something harder and then started listening to new wave at that point. The punk rock movement for me didn’t kick in until probably ’79, I wasn’t really that exposed to it before that point, so I was listening to more pop music. Some of that bad ’70s music still sticks with me, and when that gets played, you go, ‘Yeah, this sucks,’ but it’s in your blood a little bit and you gotta listen to it anyways. I was definitely raised on AM radio and the Beatles and all that stuff that was happening. There’s something very appealing about just turning something on and, for free, listening to music, and they’re gonna throw something different at you, hopefully, if it’s a good station. I could stream, but I still find myself listening to radio. A lot of radio listening, and I, curiously enough, I still listen to radio a lot even though there’s so many other options. Once FM was more of a thing, then it was KROQ, and KROQ, of course, then just became Rodney’s (Bingenheimer) show for me. Growing up, it was ‘KHJ! 93.’ And I think that was before FM kind of really expanded it’s whole deal. Well, maybe.Ĭan you remember your intro to music, maybe hearing stuff on the radio with your parents back in the day? It was a talk filled with energy and laughter about how we’ve all grown into top-notch adults. I phoned Aukerman, 56, last Sunday and here’s what we gabbed about. I caught a bunch of the band’s raucous and ultra-sweaty early gigs in the SoCal area - including a killer one on the Strand on the beach in Manhattan in 1982 - and my wife Cat and I continue to check them out to this day. Because we started the band back up in 2010 and it’s been just a blast ever since, so much fun, so why not just do it whole hog and just go for it?” On the full-time music career choice, he said: “That’s what I’ve been kind of dancing around for the past, at least for the last 10 years. He put his doctorate in biology into action at places like DuPont in his now home state of Delaware, but his science gig is now a piece of the past. Presently, the band is writing a new album and Aukerman is stoked to call music a career. It’s go time… all the time… for all times. Early fans’ pocket band has become a group for ALL, and Aukerman notes that they continue to satisfy and challenge themselves and their followers as the years add up. While at first they “couldn’t sell out a telephone booth,” the times and crowds soon caught up to and latched onto the Descendents. The young man who was so shy that his eyes were fixated on the floor during most of his early performances is now leading the charge - face forward with bolts of confidence - as the Descendents unleash their music to thousands of fans at a time.Īt age 18, Milo Aukerman’s enthusiasm earned him the vocal spot with the Manhattan Beach, CA-based band and those initial gigs and small crowds were tough to get a handle on, but the bespectacled singer forged on. Originally posted on “ There’s Something Hard in There January 7, 2019.
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