Artist: Mike Ness: mp3 download 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 strong-armer 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' sign 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 modus vivendi (vividly captured in the 1985 documental Another State of Mind) about stony-broke up the band. After acquiring clean 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 lot went on an lengthened hiatus, not resurfacing until White Light, White Heat, White Trash quartet years 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. |