Thanks for posting this. An absolute classic, from a time when punk wasn't codified, or for sale at the mall. The same stuff parents buy for their kids at Hot Topic they used to burn on the Church lawn during Sunday Go To Meetin's, and cops would beat the shit out of you for it if they thought they could get away with it. How times have changed.
Punk isn't some fashion movement for fcks sake, it's a lifestyle. All the kids who think that they're so punk because they wear safety pins on their clothes and worship a guy named Sid have no idea what they're talking about.
This is rehearsal footage circa 1981. I used to see SD around that time, and they were an amazing band with an amazing sound. After Mike changed his look and lost his youth, some of their charisma went with it, IMHO.
@Skybox65 that was Social Distortions finest hour, watch their movie "Another State of mind" it shows them tour with Youth Brigades and bands like minor threat and a couple others
@toddscrivener The drumming on "Mommy's Little Monster" kicks that album's music into another gear. None of S.D.'s other albums ever quite captured the same energy, in my humble opinion...
Is that Dennis on bass? Wow!
Haters, Mike Ness is still the hottest and baddest ass in punk music!
Medusa51198 3 weeks ago
I used to see Social D when Mike looked just like this, with hardly any tats at all.
Sumokurt1 1 month ago
AMAZINGG!!
brewmaster138 1 month ago
So fucking classic. So fucking missed.
bps3013 1 month ago
Mike-do you remember Black Hole?
mpkpkm 3 months ago
If I have to hear one more fuktard, unoriginal bastard talk about Hot Topic for fucks sake come up with a fresh talking point.
pwyndam 4 months ago
I didn't know Andrew Dice Clay sang in Social D?
pwyndam 4 months ago
@pwyndam no thats mike
BarrioPunkRock 3 months ago
@BarrioPunkRock It was a joke Bud.
pwyndam 3 months ago
Fuccckk YeaaAaAaAa
BecksMarie69 5 months ago
fucking awesome sweet ol' american punk rock
mediattackrecords 5 months ago
...wow tht was Mike Ness. Look at now and then
TheJLM96 6 months ago
@TheJLM96 when you turn 50 look at a pic of yourself when you were twenty and you will go, wow that was me, look at now and then.
rjplamf61 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this. An absolute classic, from a time when punk wasn't codified, or for sale at the mall. The same stuff parents buy for their kids at Hot Topic they used to burn on the Church lawn during Sunday Go To Meetin's, and cops would beat the shit out of you for it if they thought they could get away with it. How times have changed.
Tubliophile999 7 months ago 3
@Tubliophile999 Amen!
chickenmanUSA 4 months ago
Why can't I get my hair to stay spiked that well?
FinkChrist 8 months ago
dennis RIP
mikekomalley 10 months ago
great pogo song
Gool349 10 months ago
So Hott!!!
Lauradiscriminado 11 months ago
awwww! Mike is so young and adorable!
IDidItSidsWay 11 months ago
Jesus, Mike looks like all of 16 or 17 then! Years later he's still taking names and kickin ass!
beerbellygdog 1 year ago
Nice dew Mike Rotten
DruDixon777 1 year ago
Fullerton Punk Rock !!
BarrioPunkRock 1 year ago 4
AHHH he was so young! How crazy, SD fo life! <3
claras91 1 year ago
i love the comments from the people who dont believe this is social d.
they were a hardcore punk band first and always will be 18 in my mind haha
reductobeam 1 year ago 2
top notch
thefightbeginswithu 1 year ago
social d is awesome... a bit too awesome at that
comicrelief427 1 year ago
yeahhhh
jsuasto 1 year ago
DOB IS A FUCKING MONSTER
ryankrone 1 year ago
sad brentt and dennis are gone
beeeana 1 year ago 3
I love that short little guitar solo Mike does before the end of the song.
TruemetalandpunkONLY 2 years ago
what type bass does brent liles use here?
viscous 2 years ago
looks like a late 70's Rickenbacker.
sunilthegreat 2 years ago
@viscous rickenbacker brah
zosothedestroyer 9 months ago
Punk isn't some fashion movement for fcks sake, it's a lifestyle. All the kids who think that they're so punk because they wear safety pins on their clothes and worship a guy named Sid have no idea what they're talking about.
razzberry82 2 years ago 3
This is rehearsal footage circa 1981. I used to see SD around that time, and they were an amazing band with an amazing sound. After Mike changed his look and lost his youth, some of their charisma went with it, IMHO.
Sumokurt1 2 years ago 2
what is this footage from?
StupidChicagoPunk 2 years ago
wow, i never tired of hearing "mass hysteria"!
theeuprise 2 years ago 4
another state of mind is on youtube the whole documentry
dannydanzig666 2 years ago 15
i own it, seen it countless times. but thanks
theeuprise 2 years ago
GREAT O.C HARDCORE!
frankieosf 2 years ago 3
YEAHHH!!!!
keithskookingklan 2 years ago 2
is that really mike ness???
Skybox65 2 years ago
Yes, of course
xDissident 2 years ago 11
Didn't you ever see Another State Of Mind...the movie about the 1982 north american tour? Thats what Ness looked like back then....punk to the bean!
sacredo07 2 years ago 2
@Skybox65 that was Social Distortions finest hour, watch their movie "Another State of mind" it shows them tour with Youth Brigades and bands like minor threat and a couple others
Afrosamurai532 1 year ago
@Skybox65 LOL??? of course!!!!
hansfork 2 months ago
god damn...nothing beats the good old dangerous days of punk rock eh fella's and ladies????
sikkinixx82 2 years ago 3
man this is what punk should be like today
Boogieboy138 2 years ago 3
killer!
neworldorder65 2 years ago
I couldn't miss Dennis Dannel more...
Seriously.
inkedpinup 2 years ago
I like how Mike has a fishing swivel for an earring :)
klxer 2 years ago 2
punk fucking rock....
matteric27 2 years ago 2
S.D. at their best. Derek O' Brien is an absolute monster! Totally overlooked punk drummer.
toddscrivener 3 years ago 22
@toddscrivener The drumming on "Mommy's Little Monster" kicks that album's music into another gear. None of S.D.'s other albums ever quite captured the same energy, in my humble opinion...
msalzano1 2 months ago
Hell ya! This is some hardcore shit...old school punk. Not like that crap of shit that passes for punk nowadays!
medxray 3 years ago
This is priceless footage. Mike's exactly like he was in 'Another State'.
getarrestedtoday 3 years ago 3
I need a strap like that for my new hollowbody.
mbipunkskinheadoi 3 years ago
Love this shit.
I love all of Social D's albums.
Sickboy973 3 years ago 2
killer!
msdivakara 3 years ago
good stuff
damthatfatmike 3 years ago