#exene cervenka

[undergroundrockpress]

X - Exene Cervenka (1981)

[iamdangerace]

Exene, photo by Ruby Ray - Search & Destroy punk zine

[combthecombel]

Doodled Exene while I was listening to Smoke & Fiction!

[batteredshoes]

Flipside #15

[punkrockhistory]

45 years ago today

Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X at Stardust Ballroom, Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, August 30, 1979.

Photo by Jenny Lens

[ridingwithmary]

Exene and Lydia at a book signing for Adulterers Anonymous c 1982.

Photo by Rob Allen

[meetmeinthesandbox]

[album-imagery]

X

photo by M. Hyatt, 1983

[noufuturevision]

[j3susbuiltmyhotdog]

sex and dying in high society

[littlewhispersmokesigns]

Exene Cervenka and Lydia Lunch, by David Arnoff

[undergroundrockpress]

Exene Cervenka. Photo : Ann Summa.

[iamdangerace]

Photo by George Rose

[slackville-records]

Exene Cervenka performing with X in 1979

photo by Frank Gargani.

[bitter69uk]

For me, the two essential, iconic “faces” of the Los Angeles punk subculture will forever be Darby Crash, the feral frontman of The Germs and twisted voodoo dolly Exene Cervenka of X. Here is the duo captured in their surly youthful glory on a Hollywood rooftop in the late seventies by photographer Melanie Nissen (from her book Hard + Fast). Crash (aka Bobby Pyn, real name: Jan Paul Beahm, 26 September 1958 - 7 December 1980) was born on this day sixty-six years ago. “He was Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious rolled into one, a befuddled punk prophet with a brilliant mind,” Chris Campion writes in “Darby Crash: Saint Anger” in the October 2014 edition of Dazed Digital. “Darby Crash presided over the birth of the LA punk scene in 1977 and signaled its demise with his own self-inflicted death three years later. His was a vision of chaos that would never come to pass but left in its wake a legacy of destruction and one fiery punk classic, the Germs' 1979 Joan Jett-produced album, G.I.” Swallow a fistful of ‘ludes, smear yourself in peanut butter and blast “Forming”, “Lexicon Devil” or “Media Blitz” LOUD today in Crash’s memory!

[punkrockhistory]

44 years ago

X live at Danceteria, New York City, June 1980

Photo Eugene Merinov