The original line-up included frontman J. Neo (Marvin), bassist Alan Korn (formerly of SF's The Catheads) and drummer Michael "Mick" Freeman. Neo offers this explanation of the band's name: "Still no agreement on a band name until Maati [Stojanovich, Neo's girlfriend] sees a graffiti on a sidewalk in the Tenderloin reading 'XTAL.' No one hates it; it grows on you. Somewhere along the line a hyphen is added to make it easier to pronounce, but for the next 13 years, confusion ensues as to whether the letter 't' is capitalized. (It's not.)"...
These are photos from concerts where X-Tal played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
St Patrick's Concert
Bedlam Rovers / X-Tal / Penelope Houston / Hellhounds Mar 17, 1988 San Francisco, California, United States Uploaded by Lilmikesf
