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So, I really liked the band X, although I came late to the party, seeing them live at Slims in San Francisco in the 90s, and again I think at Lincoln Center Free outdoors concert maybe 10 years ago?
Unfortunately I am not that well versed in X material or history. I do know The Doors' Ray Manzarek played with them on occasion, and Produced some of their albums.
So, I'm scheduled to interview John Doe on Friday afternoon, and I could use any advice on good questions or youtube / music link references that any zoners could provide...
Thanks in advance, fellow Zoners!!!
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
Ask him why X doesn't write
Ask him why X doesn't write or perform any new material.
I've been a fan since their 3rd album, "Under The Big Black Sun" was released and have seen them many times. For a band that was formed after John and Exene met in a poetry workshop in Venice Beach, and received great acclaim for their songwriting, it is disheartening that they no longer write new material. The songs from the first four albums are great, but it has grown tiresome seeing them play the same set of songs. Exene, John and D.J. all create new music for their side projects, so why no new X material? They have turned into an Oldies act, which seems the antithesis of the Punk scene they sprung from.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
john doe has new material and
john doe has new material and an album...why X doesn't, i dunno...
maybe you can have him touch on the punk/country scene back in the day and how the 2 were intertwined from playing the same small clubs. they were influential in dwight yokam's success...
any plans for dusting off the knitters?
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Thankns, Dave & Turtle....
Thankns, Dave & Turtle....
"knitters"?
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The Knitters are their folk
The Knitters are their folk/country side project with Dave Alvin replacing Billy Zoom on lead guitar and John on acoustic rhythm guitar with Exene and D.J. in their usual roles and Johnny Batz on upright bass. Last time I saw them was the night Barack Obama was inaugurated at a show at Seattle's Tractor Tavern. Eddie Vedder sat in for "This Was Supposed To Be The New World."
I'd be curious as to how his acting career got started. Did working with Joe Strummer affect him in any way?
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"knitters"?
"knitters"?
dude, you need to do some homework buddy
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hie solo record the westerner
hie solo record the westerner is damn good, ask if anything new forthcoming from the flesh eaters
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
I love John Doe and think he
I love John Doe and think he's a really intelligent, articulate guy, but I don't really have any questions about his music. Maybe a question about Billy Zoom's health issues that many thought would lead to the end of X, and how they overcame that.
You could ask him about his acting career, how he got started in that, what his favorite acting performances are and maybe what he thinks about being in some of the best worst movies of all time, including Road House (where he's killed by Patrick Swayze) and Great Balls of Fire.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: dj_easy_wind
This is the show we will be
This is the show we will be promoting. All comments, video links & what -not welcome...
https://www.sopacnow.org/events/the-exile-follies/
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A lot of good stuff here,
A lot of good stuff here, guys! Thanks! I feel better going in now that you helped me prepare my homework!
>>>>"knitters"?
dude, you need to do some homework buddy>>>
This is funny , Turtle! As it turns out, I actually saw The Knitters once! Live at Lincoln Center Outdoors in 2008. I mis-remembered it as being X, but in fact it was The Knitters!
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Thanks to all you Zoners who
Thanks to all you Zoners who helped me put together a decent interview with good questions for John Doe. He answered a lot of them articulately! He was a bit snarky, probably cuz I was having some technical snafus on the air, but here is a pretty clean edit of the proceedings, embedded as a Podcat PLayer within this article that NJArts.net was kind enough to post:
NJArts.net Editor Jay Lustig summarized HGRNJ's Interview with John Doe, including an embed of my edited version on a Podcast Player:
https://www.njarts.net/73679