Since its inception in 1985, the Farm Aid benefit concert has become an annual event (there have been 27 of them so far). It might surprise you to learn that Los Angeles punk pioneers X played the first two. As John Doe was always one of the more countrified punk artists, maybe it isn’t that surprising after all.

The clip below comes from their second appearance, which indeed occurred exactly 28 years ago, on July 4, 1986, in Manor, Texas. “4th of July,” which was written by Dave Alvin of The Blasters, hadn’t been released yet, it would appear on See How We Are, which would come out in 1987.

It’s been a rough year for Exene, what with her incoherent online ramblings causing such an uproar and leading to questions about her mental state, so it’s nice to remember her in better times.
 

 
Thank you Annie Zaleski!