Social Distortion Winter 2012 Tour

Winter Tour 2012

Concert by Social Distortion
Location	North America
Associated album	Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Start date	December 5, 2012
End date	February5, 2013
Legs	1
Number of shows	34 38 in North America
Social Distortion concert chronology

The Winter Tour (also known as House of Blues Residency was a tour by Social Distortion. As its name applies, most of the shows were based out of the House of Blues in Orange County (Anaheim, San Diego, West Hollywood) with a couple of shows heading out to Las Vegas and Tempe, Arizona. Even though similar, this tour was not a part of the Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes tour, as most of the material played here was pulled from most of the band's catalog. This is also not the first time Social Distortion has done a tour like this, it has been done before numerous times since 2001. As with previous House of Blues tours, the band played rare songs and new songs and brought out guests this time, such as Billy Gibbons and Mike Ness' own son Julian Ness. They also brought out Eric "Jailhouse Blues" Von Herzen who played harp for "It Coulda Been Me" and "Drug Train" on Social Distortion (album) and they also played ZZ Top's La Grange (song) with Billy Gibbons. The band also premiered songs like "Far Side of Nowhere", "Writing On the Wall" and performed songs that have not been played in a while like "It Coulda Been Me", "99 to Life", "Footprints On My Ceiling", "Hour of Darkness", "Diamond In the Rough" and even played the White Light, White Heat, White Trash album in its entirety at some shows.

Date[1]	City	Country	Venue/Event
North America Leg
December 5, 2012	Anaheim, California	United States	House of Blues
December 6, 2012
December 7, 2012
December 10, 2012
December 11, 2012
December 13, 2012	West Hollywood, California		House of Blues
December 14, 2012
December 15, 2012
December 17, 2012	Anaheim, California		House of Blues
December 20, 2012 [1]	Las Vegas, Nevada		House of Blues
December 21, 2012
December 22, 2012
December 27, 2012	West Hollywood, California		House of Blues
December 28, 2012
December 29, 2012
January 1, 2013	Anaheim, California		House of Blues
January 3, 2013	San Diego, California		House of Blues
January 4, 2013
January 5, 2013
January 11, 2013	Anaheim, California		House of Blues
January 12, 2013
January 13, 2013
January 15, 2013	San Diego, California		House of Blues
January 16, 2013
January 18, 2013	Anaheim, California		House of Blues
January 19, 2013	West Hollywood, California		House of Blues
January 20, 2013
January 22, 2013	Tempe, Arizona		Marquee Theatre
January 23, 2013
January 25, 2013	West Hollywood, California		House of Blues
January 26, 2013
January 27, 2013	Anaheim, California		House of Blues
February 4, 2013
February 5, 2013

Opening Acts

For this tour, Social Distortion brought out many different opening acts such as Old Man Markley and Jonny Two Bags. For almost every show, there was a new opening act.

• Dec. 5, 2012 - Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss
• Dec. 20, 2012 - Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss
• Jan. 16, 2013 - Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss
• Dec. 6, 2012 - Roll the Tanks
• Dec. 7, 2012 - Bob Wayne
• Dec. 10, 2012 - The Drowning Men
• Dec. 11, 2012 - Broncho
• Dec. 14, 2012 - Broncho
• Dec. 13, 2012 - The Bots
• Dec. 15, 2012 - Scott H. Biram
• Dec. 20, 2012 - Trapper Schoepp & The Shades
• Dec. 21, 2012 - Cadillac Tramps
• Jan. 15, 2013 - Cadillac Tramps
• Feb. 4, 2013 - Cadillac Tramps
• Dec. 22, 2012 - Old Man Markley
• Dec. 28, 2012 - Old Man Markley
• Jan. 1, 2012 - Old Man Markley
• Dec. 27, 2012 - The Record Company
• Dec. 29, 2012 - Plague Vendor
• Jan. 3, 2013 - Pass the Axe
• Jan. 4, 2013 - Crushed Out
• Jan. 11, 2013 - Crushed Out
• Jan. 19, 2013 - Crushed Out
• Jan. 5, 2013 - Jason Cruz
• Jan. 12, 2013 - Audra Mae
• Jan. 13, 2013 - Henry Clay People
• Jan. 15, 2013 - Red Devil Squadron
• Jan. 22, 2013 - Red Devil Squadron
• Jan. 18, 2013 - Cobra Skulls
• Jan. 20, 2013 - Fiction Reform
• Jan. 23, 2013 - Eddie Spaghetti
• Jan. 27, 2013 - Eddie Spaghetti & The Interrupters
• Jan. 26, 2013 - The Lusitania
• Feb. 5, 2012 - Jonny Two Bags