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The first time I called Don Bolles he was busy mixing a record. One that he is producing and recording at his all-analogue, Los Angeles-based Unisex Studios that he runs with fellow band mate, X-orb-X. I called Don several more times after that, and this was the case each time. Until one day, I finally caught him in a down moment, relaxing at home with his girlfriend. Don is a very busy, very involved and very prolific man, who seems now as interested in making and producing music as he ever was. He’s played in not one, but multiple influential bands, including the seminal Los Angeles punk rock band The Germs, but also Vox Pop, Nervous Gender, 45 Grave, and Celebrity Skin. Don later joined and recorded with the Seedlings, a band made up of the last lineup of the Seeds, with Don on bass and vocals in place of the original singer and bassist Skye Saxon who had died. Don also emcees and organizes the infamous Cub Ding-a-Ling night of live music and performance art at Silverlake’s Hyperion Tavern in L.A.