X live - Seen them lately? Are they any good?

Cafe Society
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Has anyone seen the band X (American one, not the Japanese one) play live lately in the past few years? How was it?

I am having to choose between seeing them and another band (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists) that I really like in a few weeks, and I can’t decide if it would be worth it to see them. I mean, it’s X so that should be amazing - if it were 1980. I’m not sure how it would be in 2009. All the original members are playing, but it’s significantly more expensive than the other concert, and I don’t want to waste money on a bad show.

To counterpoint that, I did get to see the current incarnation of the Buzzcocks a couple of years ago, and they definitely proved that even aging punk rockers can still put on a good show. The show was actually pretty neat because there were a lot of original fans there along with the younger kids, and talking with them about seeing the band in their heyday was cool. What do you think?

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They played here last year. I was very sick and missed it, but everyone I know who went (a dozen or so) had a total blast and said they were blown away. I was so pissed I missed it.

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I saw John Doe and the Sadies play a small club here in Cambridge last week, but Doe came on stage with the very explicit warning “this is not an X show… if you came here to see X, you will be disappointed” (and I’m sure that if anyone came there to just to see X songs they would have been disappointed indeed, unless they were also fans of straight-up classic country!). So while I can’t comment on X of recent years, I can tell you that Doe himself is a pretty solid performer and that he definitely seems to still enjoy playing live.