''Live Plus One'' is a live album by the American punk rock bands All and the

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, released in 2001 through

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. A

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, it includes one disc by All recorded in 2001 on their '' Problematic'' tour, and a second disc by the Descendents recorded in 1996 on their '' Everything Sucks'' tour. The two bands are composed of the same musicians—bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist

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, and drummer Bill Stevenson—but have different lead singers:

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for All and

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for the Descendents. ''Live Plus One'' reached #45 on ''Billboard'''s Top Independent Albums chart, making it the only All release and the second Descendents release ever to chart.

Background

In 1987 singer

left the

to pursue a career in

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. The remaining members—bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist

, and drummer Bill Stevenson—changed the band's name to All, releasing eight albums between 1988 and 1995 with singers

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, Scott Reynolds, and

. In 1995 Aukerman expressed a desire to return to recording and performing, so the band members decided to work with him as the Descendents while continuing to work with Price as All, and both bands signed to

. The Descendents released '' Everything Sucks'' in 1996, supporting it with a series of tours from September 1996 to August 1997. The recordings used for ''Live Plus One'' were taken from a five-night stand at the

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from October 10–14, 1996. The live recording was

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by Brett Gurewitz, the head of Epitaph Records and a member of Bad Religion. Following the ''Everything Sucks'' tours Aukerman returned to his biochemistry career, and All released two more albums on Epitaph: ''

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'' (1998) and '' Problematic'' (2000). In preparation for inclusion on ''Live Plus One'', the Descendents' 1996 Whisky a Go Go recordings were mixed by Stevenson, Egerton, and Jason Livermore at All's recording studio The Blasting Room in

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from March 20–29, 2001. All then recorded two performances at the Starlight in Fort Collins on March 30 and 31 for the album, engineered by Livermore and Jan Saylor, and these were mixed by Stevenson, Egerton, and Livermore at The Blasting Room from April 1–10. Both discs of the album were mastered by Livermore, while he, Stevenson, and Egerton served as

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s. The cover illustration of All was done by Chris Shary; an additional illustration of the Descendents—identical to the cover but with Aukerman in place of Price—was used for the inner liner. ''Live Plus One'' was released through Epitaph August 21, 2001. It was the final release for All on Epitaph: The Descendents moved to

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for 2004's '' Cool to Be You'', then returned to Epitaph for 2016's '' Hypercaffium Spazzinate'', while All has not issued any new recordings since 2001.

Reception

''Live Plus One'' became the first All release and second Descendents release to chart, reaching #45 on ''Billboard'''s Top Independent Albums chart. Jeremy Salmon of

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gave the album four stars out of five, calling the Descendents disc the more vital of the two:

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 Sucks'' 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 ..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.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. Band * Karl Alvarez –

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–

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(disc 2) *

–

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– vocals (disc 1) * Bill Stevenson –

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, producer, mix engineer Production * Brett Gurewitz – live recording engineer (disc 2) *Jason Livermore – producer, mastering, live recording engineer (disc 1) *Jay Saylor – live recording engineer (disc 2) Artwork *Eli Atkins – layout and design, photography *Chris Shary – illustrations *Chip Guthry, Soren McCarty, and Stacie Stevenson – photography

References

External links

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