UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN Â 
  Bruce Joyner connected with keyboardist Ray Manzarek (formerly of the Doors) and helped out on the recording sessions for the X album Under the Big Black Sun.  Joyner left the Unknowns in 1983; when he began recording the full-length album Swimming with Friends (with his new band the Plantations) in 1986, Ray Manzarek and X guitarist John Doe both lent a hand.  (June 2011)  |