DJ Bonebrake may now be eligible for AARP—he even had the card for a year, but he never got around to using it—but the drummer for famed LA roots-punk band X hasn't slowed down a bit. In fact, he is absolutely shimmering on a caffeine buzz now, joking about his early years in a guerrilla Dixieland band that would burst in unannounced to Valley massage parlors and remembering reverently when he played with both Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker in one wild night. And when he talks about drumming for the Knitters—his countrified band with X's John Doe and Exene Cervenka, as well as Blasters guitarist Dave Alvin and bassist Johnny Ray Bartel—it's not like he's talking about a side project. Instead, he lights up like a bonfire in the... More >>>