Punk rock granddaddy John Doe recalls the 1970s LA scene! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: John Doe, singer, X, author, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

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JOHN DOE podcast excerpt: “X — our music — was always accessible. We weren’t trying to piss people off; we just did it naturally. There was no ‘marketing’; the term barely existed. The way you were DIY in those days was you went out, met people, lived your life, did your thing. I have no regrets; that’s the way you get cancer."

Key interview moments:

• 4:14 After appearing on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, who described X’s melodies as “being a little off” and that its notes “become flat in unusual places,” X co-founder John Doe shakes off the “backhanded compliment” and explains Exene Cervenka’s approach;

• 20:00 Doe compares the nascent 1970s punk scenes in New York, London, and Los Angeles;

• 37:30 It wasn’t that X didn’t want to be successful and commercial, Doe explains, it’s just the band didn’t fit well in its era the way Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Green Day would later fit in theirs.

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