Tony Lombardo

Tony Lombardo
Origin	Long Beach, California
Genres	Punk rock
Occupation(s)	Bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, postal worker
Instruments	Bass guitar
Years active	1979–85, 1991, 1996
Labels	Orca, New Alliance, Cruz
Associated acts	Descendents, All, Spiffy

Tony Lombardo is an American musician who was the original bassist in the punk rock band the Descendents. He joined the band in 1979 and played on their debut single, the Fat EP (1981), and the albums Milo Goes to College (1982) and I Don't Want to Grow Up (1985). After leaving the band, he performed in other acts and worked for the United States Postal Service until 2005. He collaborated with the Descendents' successor band, All, writing two songs for their album Allroy's Revenge (1989) and teaming up with them for an album of his own songs, New Girl, Old Story (1991), credited to "TonyAll". He also collaborated with the reunited Descendents on their 1996 album Everything Sucks.

Lombardo is originally from the South Bay, Los Angeles, but later moved to Long Beach, California to attend California State University, Long Beach.

Lombardo joined the Descendents in 1979, while the band was still in its formative stages.Frank Navetta, David Nolte, and Bill Stevenson were rehearsing in Navetta's brother's garage in Long Beach. Hearing Lombardo practicing the bass guitar in his own garage up the street, they approached him and asked him to join the band. There was a significant age difference between Lombardo and the other band members: He was 34, while they were in their mid-teens. "He appeared to be somewhat older than us," Stevenson later recalled, "but I have to say he looked and acted very young for his age. It all worked out. There’s me and Frank just being completely ridiculous and asinine, and Tony was in some ways the voice of reason or elder ambassador that would yield a modicum of propriety or reasonableness to our stupid arguments."

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