My favorite band of all-time, and a band that has been very influential on many others but is chronically under-rated: X. Exene, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake. Legends from LA. Formed by Exene and Doe, two punk poets/artists, and drawing on rockabilly, folk, country, and jazz and then fueled by the early punk rock of the Ramones and the Clash they were unforgettable. They recorded their best albums from 1978-1981. “Wild Gift” is the best of the lot but they are all good. “Los Angeles” from their debut album is the gtreatest punk rock song of all time...a gritty slice of life in the LA punk underground of the late 1970’s. Check them out. They do not sound dated because they never sounded like anything at the time, anyway. Love X!!!
I know LA punk very well and love X. Here’s one of the very first videos ever to appear on MTV and to me it was hypnotic, I’d never heard or seen anything like it.
X - “The Hungry Wolf” (apologies for poor sound quality)
I don’t know them much but I know one male fan who named his daughter secretly after exene and no one knows. Ha Ha.