Sublime

Sublime

For those of you who don’t know Sublime is a three man band of bros from the LBC (Long Beach, California) which pretty much mixed together trash punk, ska, reggae and dub riffs and made the greatest most original sounds the music worlds ever seen. Bradley Norwell, Floyed Gaugh, and Eric Wilson started their band in 1988 in their hometown and played their first gig their which started a small riot but gave them unbelievable publicity and made them make their way from lazy slackers to music geniuses.

  In 1992 they formed their own record company “skunk records” and began to sell their first album  “40oz. to freedom” and was definitely a success and an indie icon. In 1994 the second album “Robbin the hood” was released and was also recorded by skunk but so tightly budgeted that four of the tracks were recorded in abandoned houses, friends living rooms and also some help from legendary West Beach Studios Mr. Brett. In 1996 Sublime made their own self-titled album which included tracks such as “Santaria” and “What I Got” which became a huge success and brought them to full publicity and even won them an MTV music video award for “What I Got”.

As they were becoming a national icon of new relaxing music they started going on tour with a van and a motor home and their dog Lou who went everywhere with them on tour or just to the recording studio. As the tours went on they started getting wild and were changing thanks to drugs. Bradley started using cocaine and herion and pretty soon found himself addicted. The other two members were becoming very concerned with this as being best friends for over ten years and knew things would be changing. Then in May 1996 Bradley Nowell was found dead of a heroin overdose and became a national tragedy among Americans.  Floyed and Eric went on to form a new band “the Long Beach Dub All Stars” but definitely never made it as big as the first. Bradley Nowell was one of the most influential musicians of the 90’s and helped give Sublime their own unique sound, a sound just like Bradley Nowell will always be remembered but never redone.