# X live - Seen them lately? Are they any good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-live-seen-them-lately-are-they-any-good/496290 "2009-05-13T14:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-live-seen-them-lately-are-they-any-good/496290/1 "2009-05-13T14:42:58Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-live-seen-them-lately-are-they-any-good/496290/2 "2009-05-13T15:28:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mllz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Mllz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mllz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-live-seen-them-lately-are-they-any-good/496290/3 "2009-05-13T19:54:51Z")
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.