{"id":166,"date":"2007-01-25T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:45:20","slug":"social-distortion-bassist-brent-liles-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/social-distortion-bassist-brent-liles-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distortion Bassist Brent Liles Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KyR-7T23pjg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Sadly, <strong>Townsman<\/strong> <strong>The Great 48<\/strong> found himself listening to Social Distortion&#8217;s &#8220;1945&#8221; because of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PLACENTIA, California (AP) &#8212; Brent Liles, a former bassist for the 1980s punk rock group Social Distortion, was struck and killed by a truck while riding a bicycle, authorities said Wednesday. He was 43.<\/p>\n<p>Liles was hit on January 18. No immediate charges were brought against the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Liles, who was from Fullerton, joined Social Distortion in 1981 and played bass on the band&#8217;s &#8220;Mommy&#8217;s Little Monster&#8221; recording two years later.<\/p>\n<p>Fed up with turmoil inside the group, he and drummer Derek O&#8217;Brien quit the band during a New Year&#8217;s Eve performance in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Liles went on to play with other punk groups such as Agent Orange. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlehits.com\/blog\/?p=35\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a> from The Great 48.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Townsman The Great 48 found himself listening to Social Distortion&#8217;s &#8220;1945&#8221; because of this: PLACENTIA, California (AP) &#8212; Brent Liles, a former bassist for the 1980s punk rock group Social Distortion, was struck and killed by a truck while riding a bicycle, authorities said Wednesday. He was 43. Liles was hit on January 18. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/social-distortion-bassist-brent-liles-de\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}