April 2010

  • Sublime with Rome at Oakland's Fox

    By selecter on 4/28/10 9:49am
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    Sublime w/ RomeSublime w/ RomeSublime with Rome, the new touring group playing the Sublime repertoire, was in Oakland this weekend and I sold out my instinct to go watch what I knew would hurt. I'm a die-hard Sublime fan, and with that is a sense that Sublime was Brad Nowell. Nowell died in 1996 from a heroin overdose in San Francsico months before his historic 6-time platinum album was released. The former members, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, tried various attempts to stay in the musical scene but quickly sunk to local band status. Starting off in Long Beach Dub All-Stars, a group of LBC musicians that tried to carry on Brad's vision and energy. LBDAS was honest and they played original songs with stand in vocalists like Barrington Levy. That fell apart after a few years. Eventually Gaugh formed a band with other deceased frontman leftovers from Nirvana and the Meat Puppets.

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