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....
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