...on KROQ, and they were joined by Top Jimmy, who at the time, was sorta like a roadie for X. (BTW, this would be early 1980.)
During a conversation about the political aspects of some bands, Jimmy interrupted and promoted the Traitors, as he had been present at our very first rehearsal the day before.
Jimmy was friends with one of our then guitarists ("Bad Brad") so he showed up to the rehearsal with Brad.
After we spent the day working on the songs "Kill the Hostages" and "Red Alert," we all had tacos, made by my girlfriend. Jimmy loved my girlfriend's tacos!
This was when Jimmy was known as "Top Taco Jimmy" because he worked at Top Taco in Hollywood and would give free food to his punk band buddies.
Later, when we had recorded and released Kill the Hostages/Red Alert on 45, we ran it over to KROQ on Los Robles in Pasadena, saw Rodney's blue GTO in the parking lot, knocked on the back door - and there was Rodney, who took the record and played it for the first time later that night.
Also, our original bass player "Cash Cobra" was and still is best friends with John/Exene/X, after having spent years on the road with them doing their merchandising at gigs.
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