Chris D.

One of the more distinctive and challenging figures on the early Los Angeles punk scene, Chris D. -- real name Chris Desjardins -- was an aspiring filmmaker and underground poet who was supporting himself as an English teacher when he met John Doe and Exene Cervenka at a poetry workshop in Venice, California in 1976. Doe and Cervenka, who would form the band X, were familiar with the nascent Los Angeles punk underground, and through them, Chris discovered an outlet for his acerbic verse and corrosive vocal style, which he first honed in high school as a member of a fledgling g...