FTA: "Cervenka, who also was once wed to actor Viggo Mortensen, is now married to guitarist Jason Edge"



wow, did not know that/ what a mental image... Aragorn rocking out to "Johnny hit and run pauline"

Who?

See also: AC/DC.

Lucky biatch slept with Viggo.

I likes me some punk... only a select few tho...
like the Clash [were they really Punk, tho? they had so many different musical styles... hard to pin them down], Wire, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, Propagandi, etc.

But X did change. John Doe was bringing in a bit of country influence by the second album.

Tr0mBoNe: Who?

Run along, whippersnapper.

musical legacy? C'mon, no one actually listened to them any more than they listened or cared about the Vibrators. You go to one show of theirs so you can put it on your list.

Never particularly popular? They were so!

I saw them at the Greek in L.A. Must have been 1980 or 1981. Ray Manzarek taking a turn on the keyboard. Man, those were the days.

mmmm...Exene Cervenka circa 1980. I'd sleep all night in her soul kitchen.

I love X. I just started listening to them within the last year and they have become one of my favorite bands. This was a cool article and here is a cool video.

X on Letterman (new window)

Saw X in Houston on this tour. They were great.

Driving back soon to check on my house after the evacuation.

Lionel Mandrake: Tr0mBoNe: Who?

Run along, whippersnapper.

Sorry about the grass, sir.

Tr0mBoNe: Sorry about the grass, sir.

You should check them out and come back to the lawn party. They are awesome.

Unless of course you know who they are and were just joking around.

One of my musical heroes. God I love Exene. And John Doe, DJ and Billy, too.

Inigo_Montoya: Exene Cervenka circa 1980

X - America's greatest rock band.

Prove me wrong.

Dr.Zom: X - America's greatest rock band.

Prove me wrong.

Who??

The_Time_Master: Who??

See video above.

I saw Exene about a month ago. She's still awesome.

1979: Inigo_Montoya: Exene Cervenka circa 1980

Oh yeah. Always had a thing for frumpy punk chicks. Still do.

Well, X also never took it on themselves to beat up Star Wars nerds and lose. Like maybe had they done that, we'd have heard of them.

X were the best goddamn thing to come out of American Punk. Give me those guys over Black Flag or the Dead Kennedys or even the Minutemen any day.

Saw her and John do an acoustic set at...um... oh hell what was the club called - south side of the street on Hollywood Blvd., just down from Vine. Mid-late 80's. Someone help me here. Saw Jonathan Richman there too. Anyway - what a terrific night, just them and about 70 of us in the audience.

Rivals the time Peter Case played for the line waiting outside Club Lingerie because it was a sold-out show and knew we weren't getting inside.

/Get off my lawn.

Back in those days, you whippersnappers, we didn't have the You Tubes to look at bands. If we were lucky, we got to go see them live, at 2 am in the basement of some shiatty bar.

Or maybe a friend managed to tape them on their VHS taper machines -- assuming they actually stayed up late to tape it, and they wired everything up right. (More than a few times, my friends played back their tapes to see a blue screen and a screeching howl.)

So for more or less the entire time I was listening to X, I had only seen a few pictures of Exene, and I thought, "Hunh, reminds me of my crazy girlfriend."

Finally saw "X: The Unheard Music" at the local repertory theatre (look it up, anklebiter -- it's not like you'll find one anywhere other than the history books these days -- you got the Net Flicks instead).

I have never before or since had the simultaneous sensation of nearly shiatting myself and orgasming, both at the same time. Exene is like the uber-Goddess of Crazy Girlfriends.

In a way, Exene made my crazy girlfriend seem tolerable. In retrospect, this is why I hate Exene's guts. I should have left my crazy girlfriend after the first time she threatened to kill herself if I didn't come over right away and proofread her problem sets instead of thinking, "Oh this isn't so bad."

Maybe there wouldn't have been as much crazy-sex, but maybe I wouldn't finally end up getting married at age 44. Crazy-sex isn't all that great anyway.

Burning House of Love (new window)

This song should have been number 1 :(

Dr.Zom: X - America's greatest rock band.

Prove me wrong.




wrong 2 times!

I still have all their music on vinyl. They are my childhood.

/Get off my lawn

Gunny Highway: I love X. I just started listening to them within the last year and they have become one of my favorite bands. This was a cool article and here is a cool video.

X on Letterman (new window)

He: James Dean meets David Byrne, right down to the "Heh! Heh!" whatev.

She: Not singing.

Guitarist: Awesome.

/sorry

More Fun in the New World. Owned it vinyl, cassette, and now CD. DEVIL DOLL!

onion13: Dr.Zom: X - America's greatest rock band.

Prove me wrong.

wrong 2 times!


The Pixies weren't punk... although they would have been if they had started about 8 years earlier. Kind of like X.

Were X the Greatest American Punk Band evar? I rank 'em right up there with The Replacements, The Ramones and The Minutemen... just slightly ahead of Husker Du, The Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Bad Religion and The Descendents.

But, without a doubt, the Greatest American Punk Rock Band evar was Flipper.

Ok kids, listen up. This is how you do it.

Form band with "artist" girlfriend in Venice California
Get L.A. Weekly on your side
Play gigs
Go nowhere
Get N.Y. rock critics to love you
Go nowhere
Cover 60's hit after guitarist leaves
Get cover song included in crappy Charlie Sheen movie
License song you didn't write that isn't in your genre of music to MLB
Profit!

X was and still is a great rock and roll band. Back when they were playing small clubs in LA, it didn't hurt to have bands like Los Lobos or The Blasters as an opening act.

But what about the Minutemen, Flesh Eaters, DOA, Big Boys. And the Black Flag?

SockMonkeyHolocaust: musical legacy? C'mon, no one actually listened to them any more than they listened or cared about the Vibrators. You go to one show of theirs so you can put it on your list.

Srsly? If you equate X's influence with that of the Vibrators, "you don't know shiat about punk rock."

/obscure?

I hate when big popular bands are all, "Nobody ever liked us or paid any attention to us." Bull. X were huge, within their scene; I mean obviously they weren't outselling Foreigner, but that wasn't their context.

/Except for the occasional Velvet Underground or whatever, but even then....
//Shaggs?

Rode bike 22 miles on my bike to sneak into an X/Hunters and Collectors/Concrete Blonde triple bill in Phoenix back when I was 16... a roadie girl gave me a cigarette and the shirt off her back so I could get in (we traded shirts and I got a then-rare look at teh Boobies!) and then she let me sit just offstage for the whole show.

At the end of the night I was too tired to get myself home so I ended up letting all the air out of my tires and, claiming vandalism, hitched a ride back across town ...

One of the all-time great nights of my life.