First Times...

[Rob Slack]

I've been wondering about you folks on this board and the first time you heard Social D... where was it? When? Was it life changing?
My first time is actually pretty recent. I was driving cab one Saturday a few years ago and listening to the radio station from Lake Superior State when the kid introduced a song from the brand new Mike Ness album that had just been released. "Mike who?" I mumbled to myself.
A minute later I was sitting straight up and, I swear, the sun was shining a little brighter, the cab was smelling a little bit better. I had been listening to Hank Sr and Cash and the rest and to what punk I could find here for most of my life but that was the first time I had ever heard them successfully smashed together.
After that I made my way to the corporate record store, found a copy of Cheating At Solitaire. The first time I ever heard the words Social Distortion was from the kid with the killer burns behind the cash register - he warned me that this album was a lot different than them, but somehow the same... I was hooked and have been a Social D junkie ever since.
That's my lame ass story.
Feel free to mock or add your own...

[esn212]

I just remember hearing ball and chain on KROQ occasionally growing up and really loving it but never knowing who it was. Then one day, I must have been a freshman in high school (so about 5 years ago), I heard Ring of Fire in the car with my mom. I was in awe, and I bought the live album the next day.

[sickgirl62]

Since I'm one of the "old school's" around here, my first Social D experience(about '86) was when I was in high school and I started hanging out with these girls who were into skaters like me. So I heard the mommy's album in the car and I had to have a copy! We played that album EVERY time we went out and I played it everyday at home. Me and the one girl went to a Social D show in '89 and Mike actual hung out with us in the club (9:30 club in DC) but I didn't even know it was mike til later! Can you believe it??? It's crazy people from High school who are actual finding me now, because of good old myspace, know it's me as soon as they see Mike. I even found old letters to my boyfriend talking about Mike. Mike seems like part of my family since he's been around and part of my everyday life for so long! Ok, there's part of the story of my life... [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[naughty kitten]

It's good to hear from another recent convert; now I don't feel so bad for missing out all these years. The radio here in the midwest was never the best for giving new music a try, and it's only getting worse.

I first heard of Social D when one of my favorite guitarists Mike McCready mentioned them in an interview. He was asked what he was listening to at the time, and he specifically mentioned the White Light album. I found a used copy of White Light at the record shop a few months later. It was misfiled in the White Stripes section.....I put it in the player in the car and by the time I was halfway home, I was already planning my trip back to the store to see what else I could find. I still remember forcing myself to buy the cd's one at a time, and wondering how much of it I could find on vinyl.....I'm still looking for Cheating at Solitaire to complete my lp collection, but that's ok. The hunt is half the fun.

[PrivateHell]

First time was in my car junior year of high school. My friend popped in a burned CD and goes "Check these guys out, they sound like Sponge!". I Was Wrong then blasted through my speakers... even since then I haven't been able to stop listening to them.

[sean606]

i first heard 'Don't Drag Me Down' on Dave Mirra's BMX game a couple of years ago then didn't listen to it for like 2 years or so. It wasn't until June last year that i bought my first SD album (Live At the Roxy). From then on i was hooked and still am, favourite band by far.

[thom66]

I was in my military barracks in 97 listening to 91X when "I was wrong" came on the air and everything seemed to make more since when you listen to Mike explain shit like he does. Then a few months later caught them playing the Warped tour in San Diego.

dragtruck

[sandnash]

Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell...probably 12 years ago...I found them out the only way a girl who lives in the middle of nowhere can...by checking the "thank you's" in whatever album I was listening to at the time, and going out and buying the cd's of the bands who were listed. It doesn't seem to work as well nowadays.

[matt crummett]

I must be the oldest old school in here.Early 80,s Usa network ran Another state of mind on nightflight.A friend recorded it on beta,and still has it.We were at the oldest 10 around that time.Big fan ever since.

[Jonny_0110]

Like Sean606, I first heard don't drag me down on Dave Mirra. I immediately loved it and set out finding the album it was on. I then proceeded to look through all the shops in my area for White Light White Heat White Trash. Since SD are very underground in the UK (or at least in the northeast, where I live) no shop I visited stocked it. I decided to get it on Ebay, and had no toruble finding it there, but every time I saw a copy, I failed to win it. Finally, after SIX attempts to pick it up I succeeded. From there I bought Sex, Love and Rock n' Roll (which had just come out when I finally got White Light), Somewhere between Heaven and Hell, the self-titled album, Prison Bound, momm'y little monster, mainliner and Live at the Roxy, in that order. I used to like SD and NIN about the same but after seeing them both I have decided that SD are far superior live (though that's not to say that Trent and co. put on a bad show).

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