Happy Birthday to Mike Ness, American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, born on this day in 1962, Lynn, Massachusetts

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@historyofpunkrock During my first year of college at UC Berkeley in 1980, I vividly remember a group of mohawked punks hanging out at a BART station entrance with a boombox playing Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". It seemed so anomalous to me at the time, then 10 years later, Social Distortion releases their version of "Ring of Fire", and suddenly it made sense. Great band.
@gryllus @historyofpunkrock Cash got pulled in and adopted and coopted by the Country industry, but he always Rocked and was Punk as fuck.
@Sdowney @historyofpunkrock I agree. At the time, I thought much more narrowly about musical categories.