Event Details
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2nd SHOW ANNOUNCED!
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Social Distortion
- With: Civet
- The Stranglers
- Date: Friday July 24, 2009
- Door Time: 7:00 PM
- Show Time: 8:00 PM
- Venue: Edmonton Event Centre
- City: Edmonton, AB
- Tickets (presale): $38.50
- Buy Tickets Now
- Licensed: Yes
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.
In 1979, 17-year old Mike Ness formed Social Distortion. The band’s world centered around Mike’s one-bedroom pad, dubbed “the black hole” (later immortalized by the The Adolescents with the song Kids Of The Black Hole), in a nondescript Fullerton, CA apartment complex.
It has been 30 years and Social Distortion have continually toured and released albums that have influenced different generations over and over. The bands most influential release was the 1992 album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell which became their most popular album to date, producing a minor radio hit in “Bad Luck” and keeping with their blend of punk, blues, country, and rockabilly.
It is hard to find a band that has been this legendary and current for as long as them. Whether it is Mike Ness solo work or any of the previous Social Distortion albums, the band has always been relevant at all times.
