Mike Ness
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Michael James Ness is an American musician who is the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, which was formed in 1978. He has also released two solo alb
Ness at the House of Blues Las Vegas in 2022
Mike Ness live in Madrid in 2009
Goldtop Les Paul with decals
Ness during a Social Distortion concert in Tilburg in 2012
Punk subculture
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The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-estab
Mike Ness
…rock scene. In the 1980s, Ness was the original renter of the one-bedroom apartment described in the Adolescents song "Kids of the Black Hole". The punk house is located in Fullerton and still exists today. Inspired by The Sex Pistols, Ness founded Social Distortion in 1978 with Casey Royer. He later recruited…
Punk with a red mohawk at Holidays In The Sun Festival in Morecambe, England, in 2003
Punks in 1984
Thomas Dellert aka "Tommy Dollar", one of the early London punk rockers, standing with the Sex Pistols in 1975.
Buzzcocks at the Cropredy Festival in 2009