claimed that during the cutting of the guitar tracks, he used a '68 Gold Top reissue with P-90 pickups, a few SG reissues and a Silvertone through various Fenders, Marshalls and Soldanos. Ness said: "Me and [Social Distortion guitarist] Dennis Danell really wanted to get an sound," said Ness. "Something with a bottom end that would hit you right in the chest." Ness claims that Social Distortion "used all analog equipment until the very last moment", which he considered similar to 1970s rock. Ness was disappointed with the state of music that existed during the 1990s. When he wrote White Light, White Heat, White Trash, he was "reacting against" 1990s music. Rejecting grunge, Ness was inspired by the style of 1970s punk bands like The Clash, the New York Dolls, Generation X, the Dead Boys, and Johnny Thunders. Ness said he "don't like hardly anybody" who was making music during the 1990s. He then said: "I don't want to listen to this stuff. I want to listen to the real thing. It's very hard for me to get inspired by contemporary music." Ness said that 1970s punk rock "was also the only music at the time accurately portraying how I felt inside." Expressing his opinion of the way music was during the 1990s, Ness said: "Our intention is to bring back the soul and emotion of that first wave of punk in the late '70s, which I feel is sorely lacking today". He then said: "Punk has become a formula now. It's basically Cheap Trick with louder guitars," he said. "A lot of passion has been lost as it's become more marketable. The masses have decided that punk rock is safe, but we were doing this music when it was unpopular." Ness believed that punk rock was no longer countercultural or dangerous in the 1990s. "Punk was more dangerous back then," he recalls. "In Orange County in 1979, if you walked down the street in a leather jacket and spiked hair, you made a decision that you would have a confrontation that day." Ness said "there's just things going on today that just would never have been allowed" in the early years of punk rock, and he said that heavy metal, for example, was hated by punk rock musicians and fans during punk rock's early years. He then criticized grunge bands like Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots, describing