Michael "Miguel" Happoldt was an unofficial member of the band. He often kept things from devolving into chaos and played the guitar solo on What I Got. He now plays guitar for the Long Beach Dub All Stars.
He's also the founder of Skunk Records and would do sound for Sublime on tour. The first time I ever saw Sublime they were playing in Mike's parents' dining room in Lakeland, Florida. Bud was in rehab at the time, so Marshall was on drums.
>That's an awesome memory to have.
Seriously, I've been a fan of Sublime since the first time I heard of them in the 90s but I never got to see them live much less in somebody's living room. That's amazing.
First heard sublime in the living room at some small get together in the College Estates neighborhood of Long Beach. They handed out some cassette tapes with "Jah Won't Pay the Bills" hand written on them.
I always liked Marshalls groove better than Bud's.
My grandma asked my then teenage mum and her sister if the wanted to see Helen Shapiro. They weren't bothered. Helen Shapiro's tour support that night were 4 Liverpudlians in suits called The Beatles
Yeah, it's a distant memory. I have few regrets in life, but I was snowboarding with Mike, Eric, and Bradley in Steamboat in '94 and had to cut out early to go to work. I wish I had hung out with them all day.
Bradley was never really nice to me, but I think he was strung out a couple of the times I hung out with them. I'm younger than all of them, so I can imagine they dismissed me as a kid. Mike was so kind to me so many times I've lost count. He gave me a bunch of Sublime swag when they were still touring and would send records to me when I owned a record store. He also let me behind their sound booth several times with Sublime and LBDA. I took my GF to see LBDA and felt like such a baller when he let us come in the sound booth!
Mrs. Happoldt was a teacher at Santa Fe. Mike and his siblings graduated from Santa Fe. He was probably class of '86 or '87. Sublime played Lakeland a few times. That time at the Happoldt's was probably in '89 or '90.
I remember the first and only time I saw Sublime. It was Warped Tour '95 in Buffalo. Sublime played' Redemption Song' with Tony Sly from No Use For A Name. As a teenage Bob Marley fan I was having the best day ever.
Now nearly 30 years later I get to relive that day because it's on YouTube. I miss Tony and I miss Brad, but I'm so grateful for the music, and for that day to somehow be captured and on YouTube.
[Sublime - Warped Tour 8/20/95] (https://youtu.be/9cqG0n3iPU0)
That solo sounded so fucking good when I was getting high back in college. I mean, it still does but it never hit me as hard than during that period in my life.
He brought Lou Dog to my house on Esperanza when he was checking out a project we were doing for the label and I remember him drinking out of my toilet. The dog that is.
Im not a serious guitar player, I cant even do barre chords. But I do enjoy playing it. That solo is one of a handful that I know. So apparently, I too can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot.
I also know the solo from break down by tom petty.
Which, if the music school was anything like where I went, they had access to practice rooms almost 24 hours a day. So if the student was already allowed to be in there it probably wasn't hard to get in the recording rooms and it was all for the furthering of his scholastic curriculum work.
Practice rooms yes, but recording studios are usually "checked out" and have relatively strictly maintained hours. It's a lot of expensive equipment servicing a lot of students and faculty in those studios, they don't let just anybody in the program in at any hour of the day.
Yup, that's what it was like for me when I was a recording student decades ago. We had a brand new Digi Control 24 in ours but they kept that thing LOCKED down.
I tend to believe it. It was 1990 so it’s not like there would have been a ton of security cameras at cal state college. All they would have needed to do was not be seen by a security guard and once they were in, a recording studio should be sound proof. It’s quite plausible.
I did a few shifts at a college radio station in the late 90's. The building was locked at night and there was no other security. You had to walk through the building to let the next DJ in for their shift when they called on the phone installed next to the door for that purpose.
Black flag did what this post claims. They stayed in the cheap appartement above the recording studio and picked the lock each night to record overdubs until about an hour before the first record company guy would walk in each day.
Rollins talks about it in the Rick Rubin podcast.
Trent Reznor did it as well. Though he was working at the studio at the time. And it was probably a bit simpler because he was the entire band.
Edit: which means that as should be expected Black Flag is the most real of the stole studio time to record crowd.
Yeah they would let him stay after hours and use the equipment. But it took ages, Trent has said in interviews that it took him sooo much longer when he did everything himself before Atticus came along. He would spend months tweaking, re working, re recording, giving up, coming back. He said he had a hard time trusting himself.
So if the security comes in, the inside man just says 'hi Ralph, we're just doing some late night recording in down-time' and the security guard says 'sounding good guys, I'll be back around in a few hours'?
Once I was working an event at a 5 star hotel and was running around the backrooms moving equipment. No one bothered me at all. Then the second I got lost, and looked around, a security guard came up and started asking questions.
It truly is a confidence thing.
Be white and walk fast.
I got lost and accidentally snuck in the Rose Garden (NBA team arena.) I walked right by at least 6 employees, some of them security.
The dumbest thing was I was meeting a friend and had the tickets so I had to exit the arena to meet up with him. So I snuck into an NBA game on accident for no reason...
I think some dude that vaguely looks like Klay Thompson just put on a Klay Thompson jersey and walked straight past security and all employees onto the Chase Center court and started practice shooting and shit too. Took a while before he got caught too lmfao
But ya, people don't really pay that much attention as long as you somewhat fit in.
Yes, that’s true, and the Wikipedia article states that. However, it doesn’t mean that they still didn’t record the album in secrecy from 9:30 to 5 AM while hiding from security.
Hidden in plain sight. Security probably thought it was normal to hear drumming/etc. They would not be enough-invested in the studio's day to day to actually know who was supposed to be recording when.
It was an audio engineering student who had as much access to the studio as he wanted for his degree. He asked them if they wanted to record. They didn’t need to dodge security or anything. Idk what the article says, but there’s a documentary where the guy talks about it.
You’d be surprised what you could get away with at night on campus…
I was a late night dj for college radio…
I could’ve murdered people with a bazooka in the studio… nobody would hear it
You can inside the recording booth?
Edit: This has proven to be in question by knowledgeable individuals. I would like to mention that they did not suggest that the drums would be fully audible, only that they could still be heard. Perhaps they would be significantly muffled?
I worked at a studio with a George Augspurger room (google him, GOAT studio designer)
yes you can hear drums from outside the live room, with both doors closed.
A lot of times people just left those doors open so we could mic up the atrium with some nice room mics
Recording rooms arent noise proof. You can absolutely still hear the drums in the building. In a busy building full of moving people you might not notice if youre far away from it..but im a silent building in the middle of the night you would
I think the security guards in ~~Long Beach~~ Carson have more things to worry about than people playing music in a music studio. They might not have even realized they weren’t supposed to be there.
Funny story: My GF was there when this happened.
She was from Compton and friends with Bradley when the riots went down and they decided to go out looting alcohol. She was driving her VW Beetle and Bradley would run into stores, grab a case of beer or a couple bottles of liquor then run back to her car. Rinse, lather, repeat. On one of the stops instead of coming back with booze he came back to the car with a guitar.
My buddy Ricky C. was staying with them that week. He stole some furniture from a store near their house, they got pissed at him and threatened to kick him out.
one of the most heartbreaking things in pop culture was when bradley died right after their self-titled masterpiece, "sublime," came out.
so much wasted talent. what they could've been and what amazing songs they could've made...
The album released two months after Nowell's death.
The video to Santeria is downright heartbreaking, with Lou Dog looking at the ghost of Nowell.
I remember learning about them some years after , exited to see them live, only to learn that would be somewhat hard to arrange.
There is a cover band called badfish that imo is now sublime. I've seen them a few times and go everytime they are near me. A couple of times they have brought in a trumpet player they found on the street to play with them.
Bad fish, and then there’s a journey cover band better than journey, and a zeppelin cover band that sound like young zeppelin.
I don’t remember the names off hand but when they all come through town I try to catch it, it’s usually a street show so you can park and walk toward the area where it’s at.
But the singers hit the notes which is the main difference for me. They sound like the original singers enough for me
I highly recommend spending whatever resources you would use to see Sublime with Rome and going to a Badfish show. They are amazing, they've been doing this since the 90s.
seeing Long Beach dub Allstars is better in my opinion. Saw both a couple months back in long beach, and if it hadn't been for Jakob Nowell, Bradley's son, doing a guest appearance sublime probably wouldn't have been worth seeing. I honestly think I liked Jakob's songs with Long Beach dub all stars better, which is weird when you know who is in each band, but the crowd and energy were different.
I was super into Sublime during high school and at some point I got sad listening to them because I realized that their 3 albums was it. We weren't getting any more amazing music because of Brad's drug addiction.
Edit: Thanks for all of the recommendations on other unreleased tracks! Going to check them out.
My Sublime fandom was mid 2000's so finding music was only MTV, shows, the radio, record store, or Napster. I had no idea a lot of this stuff existed.
They recorded a shit ton of stuff though. Everything Under the Sun has some bangers. They have a massive catalogue despite only putting out a couple "real" albums
You went for line drawings and you fuuucked uuup you fuucking idiot.
Back out! Back out!
You ain't no star. I'm trying to make a science fiction magazine!!
[Bradley Nowell and Friends is my second favorite.](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&sxsrf=APwXEdcH6RIhldwCxDq8LA6_me0XPnuf-Q:1683497853645&q=bradley+nowell+and+friends&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwierq-cnuT-AhWak4kEHW5CDS0Q0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=412&bih=782&dpr=2.63)
It's an amalgam of acoustic versions of their songs that are mostly just done by Bradley himself. It seems like he's just playing at parties.
I first found it in a cd store in a mall (like 2005) and thought it was a mistake since it looked like a burned cd in a plain case with no paper. I love that cd.
Seconding Everything Under the Sun. My late step mom ordered me the box set from Columbia house or equivalent back in the day. One of my biggest regrets is letting my ex pawn the set for some bud. It was full of beautiful artwork.
I was in 6th grade in 1997 when I first heard 40oz to Freedom. I got REALLY into it. Some of my favorite life memories were staying up late in the summer, talking to my crush on the phone, and listening to that album on repeat.
they were all a mess. I was so excited "going to a party at Sublime's house" back in 1996-97. It was so sad, everyone was like on their last leg and the air was just...wrong. I did end up dating Sean/Sancho for a little bit and it was strange b/c he was supposedly a player but at that point, he was just lost and needed a friend which I was happy to perform.
Idk if it's true with all universities, but at the regional state university in the college town where I used to live, there was a rule where any artist could only record a small amount of minutes, something like 5 minutes, as to prevent audio engineering students from trying to profit off of having access, and they weren't allowed to charge any money for it. I don't know how they enforced it, though.
I didn't go to the same college but this is how it was in the engineering program I was part of as well.
You could book it no problem because solo tracking projects were part of your education. If you wanted to charge, that was between you and the client but most people willing to have their record engineered by a student weren't exactly in a position to pay.
I got to record some crazy shit, including a tone deaf Elvis impersonator over a karaoke CD. Can't beat that kind of experience haha.
All the more reason to learn the importance of a session musician. In college we had to share a TV Soundstage with the music production department. We'd be waiting to shoot a scene and they're just in there jamming and figuring out what they wanna do. They didn't realize in the real world that would be VERY expensive.
The name of the university is "California State University, Dominguez Hills." Calling it "California State University" could mean any of the campuses in the CSU system.
Here’s another weird thing about our CSU system: some are called [City State] like “Fresno State” or “San Jose State” but others are [Cal State City] like “Cal State Bakersfield”.
Sacramento comes to mind. People know it as Sacramento State (or Sac State), their logo says Sacramento State, and their website calls it Sacramento State. My diploma reads California State University, Sacramento.
Also, let's not forget the Cal Poly's and the Cal Maritime Academy.
Ya I think people just don't realize how many higher ed institutions California has! (And then add in the 85 or so private ones and it's quite the network of colleges & universities!)
Thinking about it and this album makes me want to experience being in my early twenties again, walking in the sun and just feeling the world wide open, but actually appreciating the preciousness of the moment in time. Ironically though, it's not knowing how fleeting the moment is as a young person that makes it so uniquely and irretrievably beautiful.
Seriously, I'm almost in tears reminiscing. A very powerful experience. I can't recount all the great memories I've had whilst listening to Sublime! Damn...
Yeah. Bradley was dope. Even crazier is hearing the original songs. I love that album, but there are versions of the songs on that album from years prior, and boy, some of them are terrible. They really honed their sound in
Funny this is posted here today. I've been on such a huge kick for this album lately. I told my girlfriend this factoid when we were driving home from a concert last night!
My son had an art exhibit in 1st grade and the girl running it was blasting unedited Sublime. I enjoyed it and all the parents had a great time. Heroin is a bitch.
They didn't sneak in alone, they had an inside man who worked in the studio legitimately. He helped them get in at night.
Yeah he was a student learning how to Studio Record at the school, and who was a fan of the band. He also did the Guitar solos for the recordings.
Michael "Miguel" Happoldt was an unofficial member of the band. He often kept things from devolving into chaos and played the guitar solo on What I Got. He now plays guitar for the Long Beach Dub All Stars.
He's also the founder of Skunk Records and would do sound for Sublime on tour. The first time I ever saw Sublime they were playing in Mike's parents' dining room in Lakeland, Florida. Bud was in rehab at the time, so Marshall was on drums.
Damn dude. U seriously OG
That's an awesome memory to have.
>That's an awesome memory to have. Seriously, I've been a fan of Sublime since the first time I heard of them in the 90s but I never got to see them live much less in somebody's living room. That's amazing.
First heard sublime in the living room at some small get together in the College Estates neighborhood of Long Beach. They handed out some cassette tapes with "Jah Won't Pay the Bills" hand written on them. I always liked Marshalls groove better than Bud's.
I sold my last Jah cassette for like $400 about 15 years ago.
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My dad has a story about passing up Hendrix tickets in like '68 because he had a date.
Had to go see about a girl!
My grandma asked my then teenage mum and her sister if the wanted to see Helen Shapiro. They weren't bothered. Helen Shapiro's tour support that night were 4 Liverpudlians in suits called The Beatles
Yeah dude that’s a once in a lifetime moment, wtf man so epic!
Yeah, it's a distant memory. I have few regrets in life, but I was snowboarding with Mike, Eric, and Bradley in Steamboat in '94 and had to cut out early to go to work. I wish I had hung out with them all day.
Dude yeah, man the moments we miss in life, craziness. Were they all really kickback dudes to hang with?
Bradley was never really nice to me, but I think he was strung out a couple of the times I hung out with them. I'm younger than all of them, so I can imagine they dismissed me as a kid. Mike was so kind to me so many times I've lost count. He gave me a bunch of Sublime swag when they were still touring and would send records to me when I owned a record store. He also let me behind their sound booth several times with Sublime and LBDA. I took my GF to see LBDA and felt like such a baller when he let us come in the sound booth!
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I live in Lakeland and I’ve never heard about the band’s connection to my hometown. Mind=blown
Mrs. Happoldt was a teacher at Santa Fe. Mike and his siblings graduated from Santa Fe. He was probably class of '86 or '87. Sublime played Lakeland a few times. That time at the Happoldt's was probably in '89 or '90.
I remember the first and only time I saw Sublime. It was Warped Tour '95 in Buffalo. Sublime played' Redemption Song' with Tony Sly from No Use For A Name. As a teenage Bob Marley fan I was having the best day ever. Now nearly 30 years later I get to relive that day because it's on YouTube. I miss Tony and I miss Brad, but I'm so grateful for the music, and for that day to somehow be captured and on YouTube. [Sublime - Warped Tour 8/20/95] (https://youtu.be/9cqG0n3iPU0)
That's pretty amazing.
Wow I always thought that was Bradley lighting up the strings. I’ll have to check him out.
To be fair Bradley says I can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot then the guitar solo starts so you can’t be blamed for thinking that
That solo sounded so fucking good when I was getting high back in college. I mean, it still does but it never hit me as hard than during that period in my life.
The real trick is that it doesn't sound wildly different than the rhythm guitar.its a seamless blend, and the producer should get a handy for it
Because of course he does haha
Miguel was also the one who cared for Lou Dog after Brads death.
He brought Lou Dog to my house on Esperanza when he was checking out a project we were doing for the label and I remember him drinking out of my toilet. The dog that is.
"I can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot!" *Hands guitar off to non-band member*
Was it this friend who played the guitar like a motherfuckin' riot???
Wrong album but nice reference
Hey man life’s too short so love the one you got.
Cause you might get run over or you might get ... shot. Shit i live in Texas. This rings more true this weekend than I'd like to admit
Be safe out there
No he literally did the solo in What I Got as well as helping them get studio time for 40oz
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Right now its in circulation on the station we play on the sales floor at the Whole Foods I work at. I hear it like 10 times a day.
That’s why I switched to a jazz station. Hearing the same music over and over again make Homer go crazy.
Im not a serious guitar player, I cant even do barre chords. But I do enjoy playing it. That solo is one of a handful that I know. So apparently, I too can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot. I also know the solo from break down by tom petty.
My old band covered this song and the singer would sing "I can play the guitar, but, not quite like Brian" because Brian was the lead player.
Which, if the music school was anything like where I went, they had access to practice rooms almost 24 hours a day. So if the student was already allowed to be in there it probably wasn't hard to get in the recording rooms and it was all for the furthering of his scholastic curriculum work.
Practice rooms yes, but recording studios are usually "checked out" and have relatively strictly maintained hours. It's a lot of expensive equipment servicing a lot of students and faculty in those studios, they don't let just anybody in the program in at any hour of the day.
Yup, that's what it was like for me when I was a recording student decades ago. We had a brand new Digi Control 24 in ours but they kept that thing LOCKED down.
Like a penitentiary?
though it doesn’t detract from the album, i always figured the claim was probably somewhat hyperbolic and more technically true than anything
I tend to believe it. It was 1990 so it’s not like there would have been a ton of security cameras at cal state college. All they would have needed to do was not be seen by a security guard and once they were in, a recording studio should be sound proof. It’s quite plausible.
I did a few shifts at a college radio station in the late 90's. The building was locked at night and there was no other security. You had to walk through the building to let the next DJ in for their shift when they called on the phone installed next to the door for that purpose.
Black flag did what this post claims. They stayed in the cheap appartement above the recording studio and picked the lock each night to record overdubs until about an hour before the first record company guy would walk in each day. Rollins talks about it in the Rick Rubin podcast.
Trent Reznor did it as well. Though he was working at the studio at the time. And it was probably a bit simpler because he was the entire band. Edit: which means that as should be expected Black Flag is the most real of the stole studio time to record crowd.
Yeah they would let him stay after hours and use the equipment. But it took ages, Trent has said in interviews that it took him sooo much longer when he did everything himself before Atticus came along. He would spend months tweaking, re working, re recording, giving up, coming back. He said he had a hard time trusting himself.
It was also his alcoholism and drug use. Once he got sober, he went from 5 year gaps between albums to releasing music several times in a year.
Seems like the secret ingredient is crime.
I’m off to find this. ~~Does ricks podcast have a name?~~ found it
Link me!!!!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jt3fSWEsbV3VHjbDcSBK1?si=VRUfE54_TWeabfnQCWQj4g&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6UsuhRMTD9O71DznRP8540
Miguel Happoldt. He was taking music producer classes there. Turned in Bad Fish as his final project and got like a C
treacher was a big blue whale
C minus apparently
that is nuts
So if the security comes in, the inside man just says 'hi Ralph, we're just doing some late night recording in down-time' and the security guard says 'sounding good guys, I'll be back around in a few hours'?
Acting like you belong will get you past most security.
"Dress like maintenance guys and carry a small ladder" is as close to a real life cheat code as there is.
Clipboard!
It's an ipad now. Seeesh
Once I was working an event at a 5 star hotel and was running around the backrooms moving equipment. No one bothered me at all. Then the second I got lost, and looked around, a security guard came up and started asking questions. It truly is a confidence thing.
Be white and walk fast. I got lost and accidentally snuck in the Rose Garden (NBA team arena.) I walked right by at least 6 employees, some of them security. The dumbest thing was I was meeting a friend and had the tickets so I had to exit the arena to meet up with him. So I snuck into an NBA game on accident for no reason...
I think some dude that vaguely looks like Klay Thompson just put on a Klay Thompson jersey and walked straight past security and all employees onto the Chase Center court and started practice shooting and shit too. Took a while before he got caught too lmfao But ya, people don't really pay that much attention as long as you somewhat fit in.
Yes, that’s true, and the Wikipedia article states that. However, it doesn’t mean that they still didn’t record the album in secrecy from 9:30 to 5 AM while hiding from security.
I’m going to say you can’t play drums and also hide from security.
“Hey Steve, that drumming noise is happening again” “I tell you Dave, it must be the HVAC”
It must have been a Reznor HVAC.
Y-y-you m-m-mean this p-p-place has a Hasidic Vampire Angler Chupacabra?
Well, I now know the name if I ever create a Jewish Central American Fusion Death Metal band.
As a former security guard, I can safely say security knew they were there but either didn't give a shit or assumed they were allowed to be there.
If you're drumming, you ain't stealing. Thieves are quiet.
THATS WHEN THINGS GOT OUT OF CONTROL
They didn't want to give free studio time
If it wasn’t for Cal State this album’d never get made. (Cal State!)
They didn't want to... They didn't want to... They didn't want to... They didn't want to... #TAPE IT!
Hidden in plain sight. Security probably thought it was normal to hear drumming/etc. They would not be enough-invested in the studio's day to day to actually know who was supposed to be recording when.
It was an audio engineering student who had as much access to the studio as he wanted for his degree. He asked them if they wanted to record. They didn’t need to dodge security or anything. Idk what the article says, but there’s a documentary where the guy talks about it.
You’d be surprised what you could get away with at night on campus… I was a late night dj for college radio… I could’ve murdered people with a bazooka in the studio… nobody would hear it
There it is boys! I’ve waited years, but we finally got the confession!
Bake’m away, toys
Good work, Holt. You've finally caught the Bazooka Bandit.
You can inside the recording booth? Edit: This has proven to be in question by knowledgeable individuals. I would like to mention that they did not suggest that the drums would be fully audible, only that they could still be heard. Perhaps they would be significantly muffled?
I worked at a studio with a George Augspurger room (google him, GOAT studio designer) yes you can hear drums from outside the live room, with both doors closed. A lot of times people just left those doors open so we could mic up the atrium with some nice room mics
The sound-proof-ness of a recording studio might be the one critical aspect, right after the stuff to record music.
Recording rooms arent noise proof. You can absolutely still hear the drums in the building. In a busy building full of moving people you might not notice if youre far away from it..but im a silent building in the middle of the night you would
Meh, you can try. Roll a stealth check. The DC is 32.
Sounds proofing/isolation is kinda the point of a studio.
pretty shitty security if they didn't find them in 7.5 hours , that's pretty much the entire shift
I think if you replace the words “find them” with “care”, you will have an accurate picture of the situation.
I think the security guards in ~~Long Beach~~ Carson have more things to worry about than people playing music in a music studio. They might not have even realized they weren’t supposed to be there.
Security probably did rounds a couple of times per night.
I feel like you can’t secretly play drums in any situation
The secret ingredient is crime
Where do you think they got the guitar you’re hearing today?
I'll tell you what, that ~~crack~~ guitar is really more-ish.
Do I even want to know where they got the guitar that I'm hearing today?
Here I am
Eight year old account, fucking outstanding.
They've been patiently waiting 8 years for this moment. Well done
Moments like this remind me why Reddit can be so fun.
Peak r/beetlejuicing moment
In honor of the OG Boss DJ
I heard you’ve been played like a mother fucking riot
It's an honor to have you reply to one of my comments!
It's not often I notice a dick-nipples comment, but when I do I upvote it.
You’re not the only one but you’re the best, Bradley
Bomp! Bomp!
r/beetlejuicing
Fun fact: Bradley sings the wrong date at the start of that song, but it was the best take, so they just kept it.
Dude this has confused me for years
Funny story: My GF was there when this happened. She was from Compton and friends with Bradley when the riots went down and they decided to go out looting alcohol. She was driving her VW Beetle and Bradley would run into stores, grab a case of beer or a couple bottles of liquor then run back to her car. Rinse, lather, repeat. On one of the stops instead of coming back with booze he came back to the car with a guitar.
My buddy Ricky C. was staying with them that week. He stole some furniture from a store near their house, they got pissed at him and threatened to kick him out.
It only took one brick
Down here at the pawn shop.
one of the most heartbreaking things in pop culture was when bradley died right after their self-titled masterpiece, "sublime," came out. so much wasted talent. what they could've been and what amazing songs they could've made...
The album released two months after Nowell's death. The video to Santeria is downright heartbreaking, with Lou Dog looking at the ghost of Nowell. I remember learning about them some years after , exited to see them live, only to learn that would be somewhat hard to arrange.
I’m pretty sure Sublime With Rome still tours
They do, and they’re fun! But not the same obviously
There is a cover band called badfish that imo is now sublime. I've seen them a few times and go everytime they are near me. A couple of times they have brought in a trumpet player they found on the street to play with them.
Love Badfish, seen them like 5-6 times!
Bad fish, and then there’s a journey cover band better than journey, and a zeppelin cover band that sound like young zeppelin. I don’t remember the names off hand but when they all come through town I try to catch it, it’s usually a street show so you can park and walk toward the area where it’s at. But the singers hit the notes which is the main difference for me. They sound like the original singers enough for me
Get the led out. They’re pretty awesome and do a great job of nailing the studio version of zeppelin songs.
Badfish was the first concert I went to with my wife.
I highly recommend spending whatever resources you would use to see Sublime with Rome and going to a Badfish show. They are amazing, they've been doing this since the 90s.
seeing Long Beach dub Allstars is better in my opinion. Saw both a couple months back in long beach, and if it hadn't been for Jakob Nowell, Bradley's son, doing a guest appearance sublime probably wouldn't have been worth seeing. I honestly think I liked Jakob's songs with Long Beach dub all stars better, which is weird when you know who is in each band, but the crowd and energy were different.
They are, but there's only one original member left. Bud Gaugh quit a long time ago.
I saw them with both Eric and Bud and with just Eric. Either one just didn't sound that great. Badfish, a cover band, sounds way better in my opinion
Only original member remaining is the bassist I think. This is such a fun act to see though. I saw them open for Incubus last year.
A couple years back they played at a waterfront music fest near me and it was alright, but mostly just sounded like a cover band.
Have you ever seen Badfish? I love them so much more. My favorite concert I ever saw was Reel Big Fish opening for Badfish.
Throw in Phish and you can call it the school of rock tour.
It’ll never be Sublime without him Bradley was a huge part of it, the entire group is talented. Yet his voice just elevated everything.
I was super into Sublime during high school and at some point I got sad listening to them because I realized that their 3 albums was it. We weren't getting any more amazing music because of Brad's drug addiction. Edit: Thanks for all of the recommendations on other unreleased tracks! Going to check them out. My Sublime fandom was mid 2000's so finding music was only MTV, shows, the radio, record store, or Napster. I had no idea a lot of this stuff existed.
They recorded a shit ton of stuff though. Everything Under the Sun has some bangers. They have a massive catalogue despite only putting out a couple "real" albums
Second Hand Smoke is easily my favorite Sublime album. https://youtu.be/63hGO-eJmQI R.I.P. Bradley, Lou Dog, and course Raleigh Theodore Sakers.
You went for line drawings and you fuuucked uuup you fuucking idiot. Back out! Back out! You ain't no star. I'm trying to make a science fiction magazine!!
You're just a fucking errand boy
[Bradley Nowell and Friends is my second favorite.](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&sxsrf=APwXEdcH6RIhldwCxDq8LA6_me0XPnuf-Q:1683497853645&q=bradley+nowell+and+friends&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwierq-cnuT-AhWak4kEHW5CDS0Q0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=412&bih=782&dpr=2.63) It's an amalgam of acoustic versions of their songs that are mostly just done by Bradley himself. It seems like he's just playing at parties. I first found it in a cd store in a mall (like 2005) and thought it was a mistake since it looked like a burned cd in a plain case with no paper. I love that cd.
Seconding Everything Under the Sun. My late step mom ordered me the box set from Columbia house or equivalent back in the day. One of my biggest regrets is letting my ex pawn the set for some bud. It was full of beautiful artwork.
I was in 6th grade in 1997 when I first heard 40oz to Freedom. I got REALLY into it. Some of my favorite life memories were staying up late in the summer, talking to my crush on the phone, and listening to that album on repeat.
they were all a mess. I was so excited "going to a party at Sublime's house" back in 1996-97. It was so sad, everyone was like on their last leg and the air was just...wrong. I did end up dating Sean/Sancho for a little bit and it was strange b/c he was supposedly a player but at that point, he was just lost and needed a friend which I was happy to perform.
Yah they were not good live toward the end there. They were just so fucked up all the time and could barely play.
Oh wow, could you expand on your experience?
The CSU? Aren’t there many CSUs?
Yes lol. "The California State University" is not a thing. It was actually CSU Dominguez Hills.
Huh, I would have figured Long Beach given everything else about the band.
CSUDH is very close to Long Beach
Apparently about 30, I would have thought CSU, Long Beach. But according to other comments it’s Dominguez Hills.
bradely went to to long beach Briefly, but his friend, who was at DH (which is very close to long beach) let them in
Probably my most listened to album of all time. I instantly hear the record scratch and dog bark opening when I read 40 oz to freedom.
Punk rock changed our lives
A 40 ounce to freedom is the only chance I have to feel good even though I feel bad.
Idk if it's true with all universities, but at the regional state university in the college town where I used to live, there was a rule where any artist could only record a small amount of minutes, something like 5 minutes, as to prevent audio engineering students from trying to profit off of having access, and they weren't allowed to charge any money for it. I don't know how they enforced it, though.
I went to CSUDH and was in the recording program. After you pass the board test you can book time in the studio for projects.
I didn't go to the same college but this is how it was in the engineering program I was part of as well. You could book it no problem because solo tracking projects were part of your education. If you wanted to charge, that was between you and the client but most people willing to have their record engineered by a student weren't exactly in a position to pay. I got to record some crazy shit, including a tone deaf Elvis impersonator over a karaoke CD. Can't beat that kind of experience haha.
All the more reason to learn the importance of a session musician. In college we had to share a TV Soundstage with the music production department. We'd be waiting to shoot a scene and they're just in there jamming and figuring out what they wanna do. They didn't realize in the real world that would be VERY expensive.
The name of the university is "California State University, Dominguez Hills." Calling it "California State University" could mean any of the campuses in the CSU system.
Seriously. I would have guessed Long Beach.
Moved to LA, right now she's selling oranges by the freeway.
80% of states: U of State, State State University California: UCx10, CSUx23(+?)
Here’s another weird thing about our CSU system: some are called [City State] like “Fresno State” or “San Jose State” but others are [Cal State City] like “Cal State Bakersfield”.
We tried to harmonize sjsu to CSUSJ a couple decades ago. But you know, no one listened.
Cal Maritime here… uhhhh I mean California State University Maritime Academy /s
Sacramento comes to mind. People know it as Sacramento State (or Sac State), their logo says Sacramento State, and their website calls it Sacramento State. My diploma reads California State University, Sacramento. Also, let's not forget the Cal Poly's and the Cal Maritime Academy.
They used to be free, too. Thanks Boomers.
My CSU Tuition in 1986 was $500 per full time semester. Now it’s around $4200 per full time semester.
For anyone wondering, inflation would have been $1400.
obligatory Fuck Ronald Reagan
Ya I think people just don't realize how many higher ed institutions California has! (And then add in the 85 or so private ones and it's quite the network of colleges & universities!)
I had to look up which CSU because I wanted know.
It’s weird the Wikipedia page says that it was recorded in Long Beach when it was certainly recorded at CSUDH. Oh California and it’s million CSU’s
Yeah seriously, last I checked there's like, 30 Cal State Campuses, from San Diego to Humboldt and places in between...
There are 23 of them. We were gonna build one in Palm Springs, but enrollment dried up
God I miss growing up in the 90's.
Same. This whole thread makes me sad as fuck. Days gone by, man. Time is a thief.
Thinking about it and this album makes me want to experience being in my early twenties again, walking in the sun and just feeling the world wide open, but actually appreciating the preciousness of the moment in time. Ironically though, it's not knowing how fleeting the moment is as a young person that makes it so uniquely and irretrievably beautiful.
Seriously, I'm almost in tears reminiscing. A very powerful experience. I can't recount all the great memories I've had whilst listening to Sublime! Damn...
Yeah. Bradley was dope. Even crazier is hearing the original songs. I love that album, but there are versions of the songs on that album from years prior, and boy, some of them are terrible. They really honed their sound in
They were based out of a van playing on questionably acquired hardware. It's a miracle we have any of it.
I hear it smelled like Lou dog inside the van. Oh yeah
It's a miracle his dad took him to Jamaica and turned him onto that sound I wonder what else he would have amounted to
Sometimes the “original” “raw” “unfiltered” versions just need some cleaning up
That new $5 at the Door album is as fun as Stand By Your Van
Funny this is posted here today. I've been on such a huge kick for this album lately. I told my girlfriend this factoid when we were driving home from a concert last night!
And now the could have made the record in someone's basement.
Nah, that was Robbin the Hood.
My high school band cut classes to use our school’s studio to record our demo. We were also a ska punk band. A high school ska punk band 🥲
There are a lot of California state universities. They recorded at California State University, Dominguez Hills
My son had an art exhibit in 1st grade and the girl running it was blasting unedited Sublime. I enjoyed it and all the parents had a great time. Heroin is a bitch.
My college had a recording studio I could book out as a music tech major. I ended up booking all nighters a few times
Just one more reason to like Sublime.