Formed in as a garage punk band, Sublime rose to fame in the mid-'90s on the back of the California punk explosion engendered by Green Day and the Offspring , though Sublime boosted their punk influences with heavy elements of reggae and ska. The band released only two albums during its first seven years, and finally found mainstream success with a self-titled release in It proved to be Sublime 's last proper album, however, as lead singer Brad Nowell died in May , just two months before the record's release.
After four years of concentrating strictly on live shows, Sublime recorded their first album, 40oz. The LP was released on Skunk Records -- a label formed by Nowell with Sublime manager Miguel -- and sold at local shows, but it really started to break when local radio station KROQ began playing the single "Date Rape" two years after its initial release. Mostly due to that radio exposure, Sublime signed to MCA in time for '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, , however, Nowell was found in a San Francisco hotel room, dead of a heroin overdose. And that was only the beginning. Throughout , Sublime produced hit after hit, and the album has sold more than 2 million copies to date. Incredibly, the band that is no longer a band has become perhaps the biggest American rock act of T hese are a few of the things Brad Nowell loved: surfing; eating; drugs; his dog, Louie; his son, Jakob; his wife, Troy; and music — maybe music most of all.
He grew up gifted and musically inclined: His mother was a singer with perfect pitch, and his father liked to strum folk songs on the guitar.
At Christmas, the acoustic guitars would come out and Brad would spend hours playing and singing with his father, grandfather and uncle.
He devoured sounds, and could pick out a tune on the guitar after hearing it once. Nowell was 10 when his parents split up. Nowell was a master at melding these sounds into something new. Though there were few local clubs to play, house parties could bring a couple hundred bucks every weekend — enough to buy all the beer, pot and gasoline the band needed.
In , one semester before graduating from California State University Long Beach with a degree in finance, Nowell dropped out to devote all his time to the band. By then, Sublime were well-known up and down the coast; from San Diego to Santa Barbara, beach towns were their turf. In photographs from this period, Nowell looks like the prototypical SoCal surf rat: sun-bleached hair, wraparound shades and Hawaiian shirts. With his round face and easy smile, the cherubic singer gave off an air of bemused calm.
But behind the mellow exterior, Nowell was troubled. Nowell battled with his addiction for most of the time Troy knew him, kicking when his record deal with MCA was in the offing, in , and again when Troy got pregnant a year later.
But friends say he could never be comfortable without the drug. Perry Farrell and Kurt Cobain and all those guys did drugs, and Brad wanted to see what it was like. Then they honestly begin to think that they write better music! S ublime were a party band. They were, people will tell you, lovable, but they were also, the same people will attest, out of control.
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Allmusic: Retrieved March 2, Retrieved MySpace Blog Sublime's music was highlighted by bass-driven grooves, reggae rhythms, elaborately cadenced rhyme schemes and transitions between paces and styles throughout a given song, sometimes alternating between thrash punk, ska and reggae within the same song see "Seed".
Their music often contains psychedelic, harmonic minor-based or bluesy guitar solos, rhythmically improvised bass solos or dub-lines, turntable scratching and rolling drum transitions and heavy bass lines. They are known for being one of the first and most influential reggae fusion musicians. With the mainstream success of their self-titled album, going six times Multi-platinum and earning worldwide airplay, Sublime's impact persists to this day.
Over two decades after Nowell's death and the band's breakup, Sublime remains immensely popular throughout North America , especially in its state of origin, California. Its songs have been featured via soundtrack in a variety of media.
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