Under the Influences Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion

SOCIAL DISTORTION: The Untold Story of the Band & Mike Ness

🎸 🇩🇴 🎤 We leave Puerto Rico and enter the Dominican Republic. The chords of José Feliciano’s guitar fade, and ahead of us stands another visceral guitarist, an innovative composer, a creator of fusions between traditional rhythms and rock. A sonic architect who defied dictatorship, melting ancestral folklore into the acid of Dominican urban rock. In the early 1980s, he chose voluntary exile in New York. It was more than a change of scenery; it was a necessary rupture, a leap into another way