SUBLIME BAND PAGE
 SUBLIME
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CURRENT NAME
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Sublime |
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FORMER NAMES
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- |
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ORIGIN
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USA |
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STATUS
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Disbanded |
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FORMED IN
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1988 |
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GENRE
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Punk rock |
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STYLE
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- |
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LYRICAL THEME
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- |
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BAND ADDED
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2004-05-26, 00:00 |
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LAST UPDATE
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2007-01-15, 17:26 |
Formed in Long Beach, CA, in 1988 as a garage-punk band,
Sublime grew to fame in the mid-'90s on the back of the Cali punk
explosion engendered by Green Day and the Offspring, though Sublime mixed up
their punk rage with reggae and ska influences. The band released just
two albums during its first seven years, finally finding a hit with the
self-titled third. It was Sublime's last, however, as lead singer Brad
Nowell died in May 1996, just two months before the album's release and
his pet Louie-Dog, born in 1989 and died 5-years after in 2001 of an
old age.
The trio which comprised Sublime — vocalist/guitarist Nowell, bassist
Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh — played their first gig on the 4th
of July 1988 at a small Long Beach club (a show which sparked the
infamous Peninsula Riot). The group began aggressively touring around the
area with an increasingly substantial following, especially among the
surf/skate beach crowd. After four years of concentrating strictly on live
shows, Sublime's first album (40 Oz. to Freedom) was recorded in 1992.
The LP was released on Skunk Records — the label formed by Nowell with
Sublime manager Miguel — and sold at shows, but it really started to
break when KROQ began playing the single "Date Rape" in 1995, two years
after its initial release.
Mostly due to the radio exposure, Sublime signed to MCA for 1994's
Robbin' the Hood, which revealed an experimental ethic more in keeping with
cut-and-paste dub than the well-tuned rage of the Cali punk revival.
The album performed well at college radio and set the stage for the
breakout success of their self-titled third album. On May 25, 1996, however,
Brad Nowell was found in a San Francisco hotel room, dead of a heroin
overdose. The band collapsed, but Sublime was still slated for a July
release. On the strength of the alternative radio hit "What I Got," the
album was certified gold by the end of 1996. A number of posthumous
releases followed, among them 1997's Second Hand Smoke, 1998's Live: Stand
By Your Van and Acoustic: Bradley Nowell and Friends.
Written by John Bush for Allmusic.com.
| Session musicians Add - Fetch |
| Unknown / none |
