Bill Stevenson (musician)
For the football player of the same name see Bill Stevenson (football player).
John William Stevenson (born September 10, 1963 in Torrance, California), better known as Bill Stevenson, is an American musician. He is the drummer for the California punk rock group Descendents. In late December 1981 he played a few concerts with Black Flag because their drummer ROBO was detained in England after a tour there. He went on to record with Black Flag on several of their albums until 1985. After this he focused his attention on the Descendents and played with them until Milo Aukerman left in 1987 to attend college. After Milo had left, Bill and the others from the Descendents got singer Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty and formed ALL. ALL went on to go through two other singers, Scott Reynolds (1989-1993) and Chad Price (1993-Present). Aukerman came back to do the 1996 album Everything Sucks and the newest, Cool To Be You. ALL and Descendents continue to tour (Warped Tour 04) between Bill's and Milo's respective careers as a recording engineer and a biochemist. However, it has been some years since either ALL or the Descendents have done any touring.
Bill Stevenson, along with Jason Livermore are the founders of the legendary punk recording studio "The Blasting Room" in Fort Collins, CO.
Currently, Bill is involved in Russ Rankin's side project Only Crime with former members of GWAR and Converge.
Selected Discography
- Puddle of Mudd-"Living on Borrowed Time" CD (2007) Co-Producer
- Comeback Kid - Broadcasting... (2007) Producer, Engineer
- Only Crime - Virulence (2007) Co-producer, engineer, drums
- The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads (2006) Co-producer, engineer, drums
- Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (2006), Producer
- Good Riddance - My Republic (2006), Producer
- NOFX - Wolves In Wolves' Clothing (2006), Producer, Recorder, Mixing
- McSmokerson - What We're Running (2005), Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead (2005) Producer, Enginner
- Silent Drive - Love Is Worth It (2004) Producer, Recorder, Mixing, Mastering
- Only Crime - To the Nines (2004) Drums, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
- Descendents - Cool To Be You (2004) Drums, Producer, Backing Vocals
- Descendents - 'Merican (2004) Drums, Producer, Backing Vocals
- The Casualties - On The Front Line (2004) Producer, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
- A Wilhelm Scream - Mute Print (2004) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Anti-Flag - The Terror State (2003) Mixing
- The Suicide Machines - A Match and Some Gasoline (2003) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Rise Against - Revolution Per Minute (2003) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Good Riddance - Bound By Ties of Blood and Affection (2003) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Bodyjar - Jarchives: 10 Years of Bodyjar (DVD/CD) (2003) Drums, Mixing
- Good Riddance - Cover Ups (2002) Drums, Guitar, Engineer
- MxPx - Ten Years and Running (2002) Producer
- The O.C. Supertones - Live! Volume One (2002) Engineer
- All/Descendents - Live Plus One [2 CD Split] (2001) Drums, Producer
- Good Riddance - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit (2001) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Slick Shoes - Wake Up Screaming (1999) Producer
- Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Leftovers (2000) Engineer
- Good Riddance - The Phenomenon of Craving (2000) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Bodyjar - Take A Look Inside (Import Bonus Edition) (2000) Producer, Engineer
- ALL - Problematic (2000) Drums, Producer
- Less Than Jake - Borders & Boundaries (2000) Mixing
- MxPx - At the Show (With Bonus Tracks) (2000) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Ace Troubleshooter - Ace Troubleshooter (2000) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- ALL - ALL (1999) Drums, Producer
- Good Riddance - Operation Phoenix (1999) Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Ann Beretta - Burning Bridges EP (1999) Mixing
- Ann Beretta - To All Our Fallen Heroes (1999) Mixing
- ALL - Mass Nerder (1998) Drums, Producer
- The Ataris - Look Forward to Failure (1998) Producer, Engineer
- Lagwagon - Let's Talk about Feelings (1998) Mixing
- Descendents - Everything Sucks (Descendents album)|Everything Sucks]] (1996) Drums, Producer
- Big Drill Car - No Worse for the Wear (1994) Producer
- ALL - Breaking Things (1993) Drums, Producer
- ALL - Percolater (1992) Drums, Producer
- Big Drill Car - Batch (1991) Producer
- Descendents - Somery (1991) Drums, Producer, Artwork
- ALL - Allroy Saves (1990) Drums, Producer, Backing Vocals
- ALL - Trailblazer (1990) Drums, Producer
- Black Flag - I Can See You (1989) Drums
- ALL - Allroy's Revenge (1989) Drums, Producer
- ALL - Allroy for Prez (1988) Drums, Producer
- ALL - Allroy Sez (1988) Drums, Producer
- Descendents - Hallraker (1988) Drums, Producer
- Black Flag - Wasted...Again (1987) Drums
- Bulimia Banquet - Party My Colon (1988) Producer
- Descendents - Liveage (1988) Drums, Producer
- Descendents - ALL (1987) Drums, Producer
- Descendents - Enjoy! (1986) Drums, Engineer, Backing Vocals
- Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up (1985) Drums, Engineer, Backing Vocals
- Minuteflag - MinuteFlag (1985) Drums
- Black Flag - In My Head (1985) Drums, Producer
- Black Flag - The Process of Weeding Out (1985) Drums, Producer
- October Faction - October Faction (1985)Drums
- Black Flag - Loose Nut (1985) Drums, Producer, Backing Vocals
- Black Flag - Live '84 (1984) Drums, Mixing
- Black Flag - Slip It In (1984) Drums, Producer
- Black Flag - Family Man (1984)Drums, Engineer
- Black Flag - My War (1984) Drums, Producer
- Descendents - Milo Goes to College (1982) Drums, Backing Vocals
- Black Flag - TV Party (EP) (1981) Drums
- Descendents - Fat (1981) Drums, Backing Vocals