Background
The tracks on Hallraker: Live! were taken from two performances: April 9, 1987 at Berkeley Square in Berkeley, California on the band's tour in support of All, and July 13, 1987 at First Avenue in Minneapolis during the last week of their "FinALL" tour, so-called due to singer Milo Aukerman's decision to leave the band to pursue a career in biochemistry. Following these tours the band's name was changed to All, and they recorded eight albums between 1988 and 1995 with singers Dave Smalley, Scott Reynolds, and Chad Price before reuniting with Aukerman to record Everything Sucks as the Descendents.
Hallraker: Live! is a companion album to 1987's Liveage!, which was recorded during the same two tours. Drummer Bill Stevenson explained:
Hallraker will be thought of as "the other" live Descendents LP. The Liveage LP served as a sort of "greatist hits" album, as well as being an accurate documentary of the band in concert. But at the request of fans telling us about all of the songs we "should have put" on Liveage, we decided to release another album with a completely different set of songs, giving people the entire view of the band, with nothing held back.
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