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Remembering Sublime on the 25th anniversary of singer Bradley Nowell s death in an SF motel FacebookTwitterEmail Eric Wilson and Bradley Nowell (1968-1996) of the band Sublime perform at Wetlands Preserve nightclub, New York, New York, April 15, 1995.Steve Eichner/Getty Images On May 24, 1996, an emcee introduced a young ska-punk to an excited crowd at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma. “Ladies and Gentlemen, straight from Long Beach, the sickest, baddest, livest … mushroom-sized band, Sublime from Long Beach!” screams the emcee, his words muffled in a recording posted to YouTube. The band opened the show with “Garden Grove,” a song off their self-titled album, which would be released a month later and eventually go triple platinum. They followed this then-unknown song with energetic renditions of “STP” and “Date Rape” (which, despite condemning rape, has not aged well). Tragically, these songs would never be performed live by that incarnatio ....
One of rock s rising stars never saw how beloved his music would become. On May 25, 1996, Sublime singer Bradley Nowell was found dead in his motel room - just two months before his band s breakthrough self-titled album was released. Nowell had grown up in a musical household. Even though his father made a living as a builder, the patriarch was an amateur guitarist, known to play tunes at family get-togethers. Meanwhile, Nowell’s mother was a piano player and classically trained flautist. So, it was little surprise when little Brad started showing interest in making music of his own. In 1988 he formed Sublime alongside bassist and childhood friend Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh. Blending punk, ska and reggae influences, the trio made a name for itself in Long Beach, Calif. s music scene. The group became intrinsically intertwined with the SoCal surf culture, playing to hundreds of people at local house parties - and regularly having those gigs broken up by the ....
FacebookTwitterEmail In 2021, Sublime is a mainstay of rock music, if not one of the most popular California bands of all time. Their hits are so synonymous with Southern California that their songs have been used at least once in film to communicate that a character is in fact a huge stoner. That pop culture ubiquity belies the fact that they never achieved mainstream success with their original lineup. Tragically, Sublime lead singer and guitarist Bradley Nowell was found dead at age 28 from a heroin overdose in the Oceanview Motel in Outer Sunset, San Francisco. Two months later, the band s self-titled album – featuring the iconic singles “Santeria,” “Wrong Way” and, of course, “What I Got” – was released to immediate success. The album would go platinum six times and continues to appear on “Best Album of All Time” lists to this day. Sublime dissolved after the death of their frontman, and the majority of fans never had a chance to watch them p ....