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, Manzarek and X guitarist John Doe both lent a hand. 

 

(June 2011)