Mike Ness

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Sep 18, 2026

Lipps Service with Scott Lipps

Mike Ness of Social Distortion

Sep 18 · 4 Mentions

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Scott LippsHOST

2:09

Welcome back to SPIN Magazine's Lip Service.

Scott LippsHOST

2:11

I'm with the one, the only, Mr. Mike Ness of Social D.

Scott LippsHOST

2:14

How are you?

Mike NessGUEST

2:14

Good, good.

47 MINS LATER

Scott LippsHOST

49:43

Yeah.

Scott LippsHOST

49:44

Incredible.

Scott LippsHOST

49:45

Talk to me about the top five songs that shaped Mike Ness.

Mike NessGUEST

49:49

Oh, man.

Real Punk Radio Podcast Network

Redox On A Sunday #462 – Takin’ A Ride

Sep 16 · 1 Mention

JerryHOST

23:03

Let's see.

JerryHOST

23:04

Starting us off was Mike Ness with the song I'm in Love with My Car, taken from the Cheating at Solitaire LP of 99.

JerryHOST

23:11

I have to thank Jer for suggesting that one from the Social Distortion lead singer, Gone Solo.

JerryHOST

23:17

Love both of Mr. Ness's albums from that time.

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Ep564: Laura Jane Grace - Record Collector

Sep 14 · 2 Mentions

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Nate GoyerHOST

5:57

Yeah.

Laura Jane GraceGUEST

5:58

Well, when you first said that we, you can sit on the couch, I thought you were gonna talk about how they have Mike Ness' whole mid-century modern-

Nate GoyerHOST

6:05

Laura Jane GraceGUEST

6:05

Oh... it's your living room set up in the Punk Rock Museum.

Laura Jane GraceGUEST

6:09

So you can sit on Mike Ness's couch too.

Nate GoyerHOST

6:11

Yeah, a lot of couches you could sit on.

Nate GoyerHOST

6:13

Speaking of the Punk Rock Museum, when you walk in, you are like the first face people see, like on the tour.

Real Punk Radio Podcast Network

The Big Takeover Show – Number 608 – September 14, 2026

Sep 14 · 1 Mention

Jack RabidHOST

42:06

This is a great field trip, except, of course, my kids are experts already on music and knew the bands and knew the songs.

Jack RabidHOST

42:13

You know what? It was fun to go visit with Stephen and go downstairs and say hello to Mike Ness, who I've known, as I said, for 44 years now.

Jack RabidHOST

42:22

We had a nice time chatting with him too.

Jack RabidHOST

42:24

And out on the street, we got to run into Bill, the drummer on the Descendants, who I first met in December 81 when he came to New York to play with Black Flag in the Peverment Lounge.

RIP a Livecast

RIP a Livecast #884 - Splatter

Sep 12 · 2 Mentions

SidHOST

88:52

So instead I went with the lead singer of Social Distortion.

SidHOST

88:54

His name is Mike Ness.

SidHOST

88:55

He had a solo album back in 98 or 99.

SidHOST

88:58

And I went with one of the tracks off of that because that technically does not count as...

RobHOST

89:05

all rules that you created.

SidHOST

89:07

Yes, but I have to abide by them.

SidHOST

89:09

So I picked the track Dope Fiend Friends from his Mike Nessa solo album, and it features Billy Zoom, the guitarist from X. I

RobHOST

89:18

thought the person who invented Zoom.

Anti-Heroes with Zach Blair

TEPPEI TERANISHI-THRICE

Sep 10 · 1 Mention

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Teppei TeranishiGUEST

13:49

It's not a single coil, but it's, like, kind of in between, which is cool.

Zach BlairHOST

13:54

And I noticed, like, Mike Ness just takes regular sort of old Deluxes and puts the P90s back in them.

Zach BlairHOST

13:59

He takes the mini-buckers out and puts the, you know...

Zach BlairHOST

14:03

Oh, okay.

CJ Says: A Ramones Podcast

021 - 'Brain Drain' Side A Deep Dive

Sep 10 · 1 Mention

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CJ RamoneHOST

45:20

But, um, I, I can tell now that the younger kids, um, don't have that same connection as we did when we were young.

CJ RamoneHOST

45:31

I think a lot of it has to do with a lot of, a lot of guys from, from my era eventually gave up drugs and alcohol and were v- are very, uh, vocal about it, right? Guys like Mike Ness, Johnny 2 Bags from Social Distortion, both those guys got totally clean, you know, had, you know, had serious habits and got totally clean.

CJ RamoneHOST

45:55

Um, how many people over the years I've known that have, that went, went on the program and got clean and got away from it and ended up doing some of their best stuff, you know? That's, uh, that's, uh, you know, that's an important thing to point out, 'cause I don't, you know, I, I, I'm not a big believer in it ta- you know, you have to, you have to be under the influence to write great music.

CJ RamoneHOST

46:22

You don't.

Unknown podcast

Social Distortion’s Debut: The DIY Story of Mommy’s Little Monster

Sep 6 · 2 Mentions

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:22

Picture this, a group of young guys in Orange County where Agent Orange and the Adolescents were tearing up the scene, all pumped up but with almost nothing to back them.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:34

The guys, Mike Ness on vocals and guitar, Dennis Donnell shredding the second guitar, Brent Lyles on bass humming a line that could have come straight out of a classic rockabilly riff, and Derrick O'Brien on drums pumping 8-bar thrash beats.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:53

The whole thing was recorded in just a few hours at the Casbah, full of cheap studio tape hits and the kind of raw energy that would later get described as unpolished, but really captured that ferocious vibe those teens were living.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

2:10

No big budgets meant they had to press about 2,000 copies.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:09

The fans were not only listening, they were contributing by creating their own zines, disruption, and chaos, which ran the band's story with pictures from gigs and snippets of their lyrics, feeding back into the scene's narrative.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:26

By 1985, after dropping out of the original lineup with Donnell staying while Lyles and O'Brien left, Social Distortion kept touring the West Coast and began opening for bigger acts like X or Bad Religion in underground shows.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:45

During that time, Mike Ness was solidifying his lyrical voice.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:49

He'd start writing about personal demons, family struggles.

Unknown podcast

Orange County Hardcore: Skaters, Suburbs, and the DIY Explosion

Sep 5 · 1 Mention

speaker_2UNKNOWN

5:19

When they toured through LA and Orange County, the crowd was a mix of skateboarders in flannel jackets and white knitted jeans, all jamming to the same three chords while dreaming about board tricks.

speaker_2UNKNOWN

5:34

Social distortion, meanwhile, began with a more stripped-down, country-rocked punk that was shaped by Mike Ness’s garage band past and a sense that music could be as rough as the streets.

speaker_2UNKNOWN

5:48

Their early record Mommy’s Little Monster still holds that same grit, but later albums would see them trading out aggressive riffs for bluesy chord progressions.

speaker_2UNKNOWN

6:00

Still, all these bands were bound by the DIY ethic.

Where It Went Podcast

Episode 094 : The Nerve Agents "Days Of The White Owl" w/ Eric Ozenne, Timmy Stardust & Andy Outbreak

Sep 2 · 1 Mention

Eric OzenneGUEST

43:48

Yeah.

Eric OzenneGUEST

43:49

With eye makeup on all of us and just kind of throw off the hardcore vibe and sort of bring some of the Mike Ness, Kevin seconds, like eye black eye makeup to the stage and just see how that kind of threw people.

Eric OzenneGUEST

44:06

And I think we were doing that in kind of this way where I was like, you know, We don't need to look like a hardcore band.

Eric OzenneGUEST

44:15

We don't need to act like a certain way or anything.

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