X’s gift for the holidays: Guitarist Billy Zoom returns
Long-running L.A. punk band X will once again play a string of holiday season shows along the West Coast. In a surprise, lead guitarist Billy Zoom, who has been undergoing treatment for bladder cancer, plans to rejoin his bandmates.
Zoom is between rounds of chemotherapy, according to a band spokeswoman, and feels ready to play again on this year’s “A Family X-mas” tour. He had bowed out of X’s recent summer and fall tour, for which he was temporarily replaced by Jessie Dayton from John Doe’s band.
In the wake of that move, a GoFundMe campaign to help defray his medical costs generated $72,000 for Zoom from fans and fellow musicians.
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The tour — featuring the band’s original lineup of Zoom, Doe, singer Exene Cervenka and drummer D.J. Bonebrake — opens Nov. 27 in San Diego and includes four shows at the Roxy in West Hollywood Dec. 3-6. It continues with stops in San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, concluding with a New Year’s Eve performance at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills.
Zoom last performed in public with the band in July during a four-night run of shows at the Observatory in Santa Ana.
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