(from X's online bio)
Q: When you look back at old photos, what do you think?

John: I don't
Billy: I was so thin!
DJ: We were so young
Exene:  I can't believe I thought I was so plain looking.  We were lucky to be around so many good photographers.

I caught the first two nights of X's four-night run at City Winery and, while the band sounded great the first night, it all came together on the second night. I don't know if I can attribute this increased energy to any one particular thing: Billy Zoom seemed to take more leads and his 'trademark' grin was more in evidence, DJ Bonebrake seemed to hit the drums a bit harder - ranging from tribal beats to jazzy fills - and John and Exene were all over the stage and seemed incredibly energized.

The crowd was having fun this night as this is the first time that I've seen City Winery staff try to get audience members who were trying to dance back in their seats. The band must having also been having fun as they played another 15 songs after wrapping up their Wild Gift set.

The set list for the second night was:

Set 1
01 The Once Over Twice
02 We're Desperate
03 Adult Books
04 Universal Corner
05 I'm Coming Over
06 It's Who You Know
07 In this House that I call Home
08 Some Other Time
09 White Girl
10 Beyond and Back
11 Back 2 the Base
12 When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch
13 Year 1

Set 2
14 The Hungry Wolf
15 Breathless
16 Drunk in My Past
17 Dancing with Tears in my Eyes
18 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
19 We're Having Much More Fun
20 How (I Learned my Lesson)
21 Nausea
22 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline
23 Motel Room in My Bed
24 Soul Kitchen

Encore
25 The World's a Mess, It's in my Kiss
26 Blue Spark
27 Because I Do
28 Devil Doll





I'm 'cheating' a bit as this video is from the fourth night (most the video posted to YouTube from the second night isn't that good quality) but this should give a good indication of what X's live set sounds like.

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X (the band)