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X: Live at the Whisky A Go Go on the Fabulous Sunset Strip

Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 27 May 1988

FOR ALL THE national accolades heaped on X throughout the '80s, the group never stopped viewing itself as an LA band stepped in the nitty-gritty of fringe life in Hollywood. And no outfit did more for the punk rejuvenation of the Los Angeles music scenario.

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