In 1999, after an intense period of music including what Aukerman estimates to be about 250 shows in one year, he finished his postdoc, came to Delaware and began working for DuPont. “To hear my own voice on a record was pretty weird.” “I hadn’t even heard it yet, I had only heard the rough mixes so I walked over to his house and heard my record,” he says. A neighbor told him of a friend who had the record.
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While in San Diego, Aukerman heard the full album for the first time at a stranger’s house. The Descendents recorded Milo Goes to College in acknowledgement of his admission. He decided he wanted to become a scientist, and enrolled at UC San Diego in 1982. In 1981 they recorded “Fat” which – unsurprisingly – featured many songs about food.Īround the same time, Aukerman’s interest in science blossomed as a result of a class project about DNA. Shortly after, Stevenson asked Aukerman to join the band. He says he started watching the band practice and eventually sang with them in what functioned as an impromptu audition. “I bought it, I listened to it, I thought it was great,” Aukerman says. “That’s where the people are who are going to be most into it.”Īukerman’s involvement with the Descendents happened nearly by accident when he bought their record from drummer Bill Stevenson, his best friend in high school. “I’m heavily involved in booking and more of the local scene,” Elfers says. Sophomore Jonathan Elfers says he appreciated Aukerman’s small-town beginnings. “It was almost like they were giving me the thumbs-up to play more music, and that was perfect for me,” he said.
“It seems to make me more whole of a person to do both.”Īukerman’s family, including his two children, support his continued musical involvement. “I bounce off of each of these things on my own whim,” he says. He alternated his focus between music and science. In subsequent years Aukerman toured with the band, finished college and graduate school, moved to Wisconsin and married his wife. “We’d gone from being more of a surf punk band to being more of a coffee-laden, fast- fast- faster kind of band,” Aukerman says. Shortly after Aukerman’s involvement the band changed its sound. The Descendents took inspiration especially from Black Flag, and began in 1978 as a punk rock band of similar style. He attributes the origin of punk rock bands such as the Last and Black Flag to suburban beach lifestyle, and surmises that the mundaneness of suburbia might have fueled their rise in that area. “I think the period of punk rock music that I grew up in, I feel like it’s worthy of being nostalgic.”Īukerman spent his early years in Manhattan Beach, Calif. “I’m at the age now where you start to look back and be all nostalgic,” Aukerman says.
Aukerman spoke of his journey on Tuesday night to an audience of nearly 60 people at a Take the Mic-sponsored event in Gore Hall. But what is a man to do when passionate about both music and science?Īukerman, an adjunct professor at the university, is the lead singer of punk band the Descendents and a plant researcher for DuPont.
Milo Aukerman acknowledges the abnormality of his two particular careers. Take the Mic secretary Stefan Endres, treasurer Alex Northrup, Descendents’ lead singer Milo Aukerman, president Philip Chinitz and vice president Zachary Rachell after Aukerman’s Tuesday punk lecture.
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