Allroy's Revenge | ||||
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The album's cover depicts the band's Allroy character preparing to smash an anthropomorphic musical note with a mallet.
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Studio album by All | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Recorded | December 1988–January 1989 | |||
Studio | Third Wave Recording, Torrance, California | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 36:49 | |||
Label | Cruz (CRZ-006) | |||
Producer | Bill Stevenson | |||
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Singles from Allroy Sez | ||||
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Allroy's Revenge is the second studio album by the American punk rock band All, released in 1989 through Cruz Records. It was the band's first release with singer Scott Reynolds, replacing Dave Smalley who had left in late 1988. The album includes two songs written by Tony Lombardo, the original bassist for All's precursor band the Descendents. It also includes a cover version of "Hot Rod Lincoln", a 1955 song by Charlie Ryan that was a hit for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen in 1971. "She's My Ex" was released as the album's single.
All's first singer, Dave Smalley, left the band in late 1988, burned out by their constant touring schedule. To replace him the band recruited Scott Reynolds, who had moved to Los Angeles from Fredonia, New York several years prior: "I got out of college and got in the car and drove out here because I decided that I wanted to be a singer", he said in 1989. "So I'm out here and I live on a shelf in an office." He joined original Descendents bassist Tony Lombardo's post-Descendents bands Boxer Rebellion, Nuclear Bob, and Three Care Pileup, briefly touring with the Descendents when Boxer Rebellion performed as an opening act for them. The Descendents relaunched themselves as All in 1987 following Milo Aukerman's departure from the band. By the time they were looking for a new singer to replace Smalley, Reynolds was practicing with Three Car Pilup next door to All's headquarters in Lomita, California. "I had nothing back then", he later recalled. "I had no money, I was living in my car, I couldn't even get a shower. I was basically a bum, a homeless bum, and to be on tour playing music was the whole reason I left home. Even though I am too disorganized and right-brained and underachieving to ever be the poster boy for the quest for All." The members of All were impressed by Reynold's singing ability, and quickly recruited him into the band. "It was like we had discovered some great gem sleeping in his car outside our practice room", reflected drummer Bill Stevenson.