Release of the album All

Aside from the concept of “All”, other songs on the album such as “Coolidge”, “Pep Talk”, and “Clean Sheets” dealt with themes of broken relationships, while “Iceman” was loosely based on the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill . The album was released through SST Records , who had purchased the Descendents’ previous label New Alliance Records that year and also re-released all of their previous albums. All was released in LP , cassette , and CD formats, the latter two containing the additional tracks “Jealous of the World” and “Uranus”. The band supported the album with a 60-day Spring 1987 tour, followed by the 50-day Summer “FinALL” tour, so-called due to Aukerman’s decision to leave the band to pursue a career in biochemistry . Recordings from these tours were used for the live albums Liveage! (1987) and Hallraker: Live! (1989). Following Aukerman’s departure the band added singer Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty and rechristened themselves All , a change Stevenson claimed he had wanted to make for eight years. “Well, basically, I’ve been wanting to work with David for a long time; but at the same time, Milo has stuck with me for almost nine years now, so I wouldn’t exactly feel right about just continuing to call us the Descendents. In a sense that would be kind of like discrediting Milo’s nine years worth of effort. It’s kind of like, ‘Let the Descendents be my and Milo’s sacred thing,’ or whatever. Who knows, at some point later on we might decide that we want to get together and record something.