In the mid-'80s I had to decipher a lot of the stigmas and stereotypes and fallacies that came along with it. A surfer kid could be more punk rock than this kid who's all spiked out and tatted. To me it doesn't matter what get-up you have on. It's kind of our inner foundation.ĭoes punk mean something different now than it did when you started out? It's part of my personality just as much as the Carter Family is. We took from every genre and crafted it into our sound, but you'll still hear Generation X, the Clash, the Pistols and the Ramones underneath everything, and you always will. Yeah, I do, but we're also a whole lot more. with the release of Mommys Little Monster - its one of the best West Coast Punk albums ever. or even scarier, grandfather.ĭo you still consider Social Distortion a punk band? White Light White Heat White Trash by Social Distortion. I think that outweighs the fact that I could be some of the kids in the audience's dad. You start out as a young man and you end up as an old man, and along that road, not only do you gain wisdom and awareness, but you also hopefully become a better musician. I didn't think I was going to live this long, honestly, but ever since I was 5 years old I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Social Distortion first recorded in 1980. I remember in the mid-'80s listening to Jason & the Scorchers and telling Jonny 2 Bags, "Someday, you watch - Social Distortion is going to be like this, just harder." And that's exactly what happened. you can't help but start to make a connection. and seeing bands like the Blasters, X and Levi & the Rockats. I can remember as early as 1985 covering "Wanted Man" by Johnny Cash. How did you first blend punk with country influences? That's what always made us a little bit more than just a punk band. I grew up with all that music long before I ever heard the Clash and the Sex Pistols. My main foundation is in '60s and '70s blues-based rock. I mainly branched out to those grooves because you can get stuck in those one-two-three-four Ramones grooves, and then all of a sudden your whole album is that way. What inspired that?īlues-based rock, like the first wave of punk music - the MC5, or the Dead Boys, or Johnny Thunders - laced with Chuck Berry. There's a different feel to the new album. That just shows what kind of faith they had in the band. They signed us without hearing one track. I've been familiar with his label for a long time and just watched it grow. Me and Brett basically started our bands at the same time. It's every young band's dream to get signed to a major label, but once we were on it-I joke a lot saying it was one of the last forms of white slavery.
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