Are You X-Perienced?
Dropping the needle on X’s new album was something of a nerve-wracking experience for me. As a diehard X fan, I have vivid memories of joyously opening up my copy of Ain’t Love Grand, whenever that came out, only to experience intense disappointment and pain.
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Conrad Heiney
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Dropping the needle on X’s new album was something of a nerve-wracking experience for me. As a diehard X fan, I have vivid memories of joyously opening up my copy of Ain’t Love Grand, whenever that came out, only to experience intense disappointment and pain. Happily, See How We Are is an entirely pleasant listening experience: a hard-rocking, wellwritten, and tastefully produced chunk of music that has been running through my speakers and my mind since it came out.
John Doe seems satisfied with it too. In fact, sprawled on a couch in Elektra’s Los Angeles offices, the singer/bassist seems not only satisfied with the record, he seems happy about his new guitarist, Tony Gilkyson, his coffee, his hamburger, and even this publication.
“CREEM is really something special,’’ he enthuses, “Kind of the Mad magazine of rock ’n' roll. I love it.”
Bully. So how come it took you guys so long to put out a record?