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Home town: Orange County,CA
Year formed: 1979
Genre(s)/styles: Punk rock n' roll/rockabilly
Record label(s): Timebomb
Signature sound: Gritty guitars and Mike Ness' gravelly voice
Current lineup:
Mike Ness-vocals/lead guitar
Brent Harding-Bass
Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham-Rhythm guitar
Charlie Quintana-Drums
Previous members: Casey Royer, Rikk Agnew, Frank Agnew
Their Story:____________________________________________
In the late 1970s the first raw, sloppy, speeding guitar chords began to blare from the garages and backrooms of a Southern California suburb called Orange County. They echoed a sound forged in the preceding years in the seminal punk undergrounds of New York City and London.
By 1979, a 17 year old kid named Mike Ness had formed Social Distortion with drummer Casey Royer and brothers Rikk and Frank Agnew. The band's world centered around Mike's one-bedroom pad, dubbed "the black hole," in a nondescript Fullerton, CA apartment complex. After meeting Dennis Danell, a punk loving classmate, Ness insisted Danell, who at the time didn’t play an instrument, join the band on bass. Royer and the Agnew’s soon split from the band and eventually form The Adolescents.
FAST FORWARD TO...
On February 29, 2000, then 38-year old guitarist Dennis Danell dies suddenly of heart failure. At the time Mike is quoted: "I am saddened beyond any possible form of expression. Dennis and I have been friends since boyhood, starting Social Distortion while we where in high school. My deepest regrets to his family." In the Fall of 2000, Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham (guitar) and Charlie Quintana (drums) officially join Social Distortion. 3 years later Social Distortion head into the studio to record a new record - their first full-length studio record in 7 years and the first record without Dennis Danell. A live DVD, Live in The Orange County, is released in 2004. On August 5, 2004, after 20 years of serving as Social Distortion’s bass player John Maurer decides to leave the band for personal reasons after having completed the recording of Sex, Love and Rock'n' Roll, the new Social Distortion album.
The album is well received nationwide, bolstered by the success of the single "Reach For The Sky." Brent Harding of Ness' solo touring band joins Social Distortion as their full time bassist. In 2005, the band go on to sell out a record 6 nights at The Wiltern theater in Los Angeles, that’s in addition to the record 37 shows sold out as part of their regular year end multi-night stands at House Of Blues clubs across the Southwest - an almost annual tradition since 2001.
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 ARTIST INFLUENCES
- Johnny Cash
- The Clash
- Ramones
- Hank Williams
- Rolling Stones
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- '70s style street punk meets down-south blues
- If Johnny Cash somehow had children with the Clash
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- Feeling Down-"Reach For The Sky"
- Lusty- "She's A Knockout"
- Nostalgic- "Ghost Town Blues"
- Driving- "Highway 101"
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