Artist: Mike Ness
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Under the Influences
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Cheating at Solitaire
Year:
Tracks: 15
The frontman for punk survivors Social Distortion, singer/guitarist Mike Ness was born April 3, 1962, in Stoneham, MA. Raised primarily in Orange County, CA, he was kicked out of his parents' house at eld 15 and washed-out the days which followed in and out of jail and experimenting with drugs; after forming Social D in 1979, Ness' struggles with addiction deepened, and subsequently recording the now-classic Mommy's Little Monster in 1983, his self-destructive lifestyle (vividly captured in the 1985 documentary Another State of Mind) about broke up the band. After acquiring uninfected and sober, Ness reconvened Social D for 1988's rootsy Prison Bound, followed in 1990 by the group's self-titled major-label debut, which launched the strike "Ball and Chain." After 1992's Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, all the same, the dance band went on an extended hiatus, not resurfacing until White Light, White Heat, White Trash quartet days later. In 1999, Ness made his solo debut with Dirty at Solitaire. A covers collection, Under the Influences, followed by and by that like year.
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