American ska-punk band from California that started out performing at parties in the Long Beach area. Sublime, Bradley Nowell (vocals and guitar), Bud Gaugh (drums and percussion) and Eric Wilson (bass guitar) were playing from 1988 for about for about 4 years before their first album came out on Skunk records in 1992. Their music eventually spread beyond the West Coast and they toured extensively. In February 1996 they recorded what would turn out to be their third and last album.
Bradley Nowell had started a two year heroin "experiment" claiming it would aid his "artistic creativity" and help the band get attention from a major label. When they got this attention though, he didn't stop using and his habit increase led to him pawning his guitars on a regular basis. A month before the release of his their first major label (and what turned out to be a hugely successful) album and 7 days after his marriage (to Troy Dendekker), Sublime went on a 5 day tour of California and sometime in the night 24th May, Bradley shot up some brown stronger than the Mexican tar heroin he was used to and just like that it was over at 28. A year after his death, their eponymous album was in the Billboard Top 20.
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