This mixture is the essence of what is considered the band’s breakthrough album, intended to be Aukerman’s swan song as he left for UC San Diego and thus titled Milo Goes to College.Ģ1:47 – Milo hears the album for the first time freshman year.Īukerman did focus on school in La Jolla, notably breezing through O-Chem, running cross country and resuming his place as a mere fan of campus bands. The Descendents soon gained a following, owing to intense musical precision behind the frenzy and exceptionally sincere lyrics that spoke to those who felt perpetually on the outside.
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The fan-turned-frontman soon belted out blistering songs full of either teenage angst or more fatuous topics like fast food and fishing. “But I thought I could try singing I was pretty shy back then and thought it might help me overcome that.” “I was just a fan at first, hanging around their practices,” he says.
Eventually he’d join the Descendents, a band started by his classmates. “Punk and science were what did it for me.”īoth interests took hold of Aukerman in high school, where the self-described “nerd” was equally as obsessed with DNA as he was with bands in his hometown of Manhattan Beach, Calif., and nearby L.A. “All my life, I’ve just wanted to do things that are exciting and stimulating,” he says. And while punk rock stardom and scientific research may seem like polar opposites, for Aukerman, they’re simply two sides of the same coin. He’s done so for decades, all the while earning dual degrees at UC San Diego, doing postdocs around the country and embracing a career in molecular biology. Rock he does, and has, from the Che Café and The Pub on campus to concert stages worldwide.
The way he explains it, you might think Milo Aukerman ’86, PhD ’92, has a chronic condition, one he’s had to manage nearly his entire life: “Sometimes I just have this urge,” he says. Photo: Glen E Friedman A Triton’s life in punk rock and molecular biology.
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