Another State of Mind (film)
| Another State of Mind | |
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| Directed by | Adam Small, Peter Stuart |
| Produced by | Adam Small, Peter Stuart |
| Starring |
Mike Ness Dennis Danell Brent Liles Derek O'Brien Monk Adam Stern Shawn Stern Keith Morris Ian MacKaye |
| Music by |
Social Distortion Youth Brigade Minor Threat |
| Distributed by | Time Bomb |
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Release date
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VHS: June 7, 1984 DVD: March 24, 2004 |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure of two punk bands, Social Distortion and Youth Brigade, as they embark on their first international tour. Along the way they meet up with another progressive punk band, Minor Threat, whom they hang out with at the Dischord house for about a week near the end of their ill-fated tour.
The bands head north up through San Francisco, Oregon, and Seattle. The film documents Social Distortion and Youth Brigade live shows; it also features Minor Threat at band practice. At one point in the movie, Social Distortion's Mike Ness sits on a porch and writes future underground hit Another State of Mind. The film documents not only the complex and challenging social dynamics of the punk scene, the touring bands and their crew, but also documents the DIY punk touring circuit in its infancy.
A final bus break-down in D.C. causes Social Distortion to split up. O'Brien, Liles and Danell abandon the group to stay with friends of Brinson's, where they voice their exhaustion with the tour and the rest of the group. Out of desperation, the others go to the local Kmart to shop for tarps with the members of Minor Threat.
Mike Ness ends up being stranded when the rest of Social Distortion heads back to OC where they feel they have a better chance of making money rather than staying on the difficult tour. Ness has really no choice but to grab a flight back to LA himself and try to regroup. Youth Brigade rents a truck and drives back to Los Angeles.
Three cast members (Dennis Danell (brain aneurysm in 2000) and Brent Liles (traffic accident in 2007) of Social Distortion and road crew member Louis Dufau (drug overdose in 1988)) have died since the making of this film. Additionally, Marcel, a wheelchair-using punk who is shown in the Montreal scene died in 1984. In the mid 1980s Mike Brinson went to nuclear engineering school in the Navy. He currently resides in Indiana where he has 2 sons and works in the aerospace industry.
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