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Frank Navetta was an original member of the punk-pop pioneering group The Descendents, whom he played with for 6 years. He formed The Descendents with Tony Lombardo and Bill Stevenson in 1979 and released the Ride The Wild/It's A Hectic World EP. The Descendents were then joined by vocalist Milo Aukerman, and recorded the Fat EP in 1981 and Milo Goes to College in 1982. The band took a hiatus when Milo went to college before they began recording I Don't Want To Grow Up in 1985. Navetta played on the title track, "Silly Girl", "GCF" and "Rockstar", but left after this. He moved to Oregon to become a full time fisherman and was replaced by Ray Cooper.
Frank joined Tony Lombardo and Bill Stevenson in the spring of 2002 for a reunion of sorts at ALL's quasi-annual festival Stockage in Fort Collins, Colorado. The group played songs as the original three-piece line-up that briefly existed before Milo Aukerman joined the group. His early guitar style was heavily rooted in surf music, somewhat similar to that of East Bay Ray, but as time went on, came to resemble the heavier sound of Greg Ginn's more, but with more full and open chords and less, if any, soloing. His songwriting had a darker and more negative side to it, both lyrically and musicaly, than his bandmates, focusing more on his parents, his father especially, (Fat's "My Dad Sucks", and Milo Goes To College's "Parents"), and America ( ...College's "Statue of Liberty"). He did, however, share Stevenson's themes of fishing (Fat's "Mr. Bass) and unfufillied romantic desires ("Ride the Wild" and ...College's "Marriage").
