What an honor. I got to chat with Mike Ness 20 years to the day that White Heat, White Light, White Trash was released just before Social Distortion took the Stage at Riot Fest to preform the album in it’s entirety. He talks about what it was like revisiting these songs, how he relates to the person who wrote them now, and how we are going to celebrate 40 years of Social D! đ
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