![]() Singer/guitarist Nowell, drummer Gaugh and bass player Eric Wilson were Sublime’s trio lineup that recorded all three of the band’s studio albums.Īlthough Nowell came from a comfortably upper-middle-class family, he and the rest of the members of Sublime lived a fairly scrappy existence in their road to stardom. Goodman was eventually replaced on drums by Floyd “Bud” Gaugh, but he continued to work with Sublime as a songwriter. It was a scene that was also racially integrated, as Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, former Sublime drummer Marshall Goodman (also known as Ras MG) and Sublime friend Opie Ortiz remember in the documentary. Sublime-formed in 1988 in Long Beach, California-was part of a music scene in Southern California that blended influences from punk, ska, reggae, hip-hop and rock. In the case of Sublime (whose band name came from Nowell’s then-girlfriend picking it out of a dictionary), the band’s breakup was an unexpected occurrence caused by Nowell’s death, but Sublime had already been headed down the “burnout” path even before Nowell’s untimely passing. Band burns out and either breaks up or goes on a downward spiral. Band struggles with fame, egos and drugs. We’ve all heard this story before: Band struggles for years in the local music scene. But under director Bill Guttentag’s storytelling style, he makes sure that there are plenty of happy memories told without glossing over the dark pattern of behavior that led to Nowell’s death. Since most people who see this movie already know what happened to Nowell (he died of a heroin overdose in 1996, at the age of 28), the documentary is essentially a ticking clock to what we know is going to happen at the end of the film. The documentary “Sublime” is a fairly conventional but well-made telling of the band’s story, with new commentary from the surviving members of Sublime, their associates and several of Nowell’s family members. Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, INXS’s Michael Hutchence, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon and Sublime’s Bradley Nowell all share this deadly legacy. The history of ska-rock band Sublime is tied to the tragic string of rock-star deaths in the 1990s, when several lead singers of famous bands died too young, with each singer leaving behind an infant/toddler child to grow up without their father. World premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 28, 2019. Bill Guttentag, Bradley Nowell, Bud Gaugh, documentaries, Eric Wilson, film festivals, Gasoline Alley Records, Long Beach, MCA Records, Miguel Happoldt, movies, music, New York City, No Doubt, reviews, Sublime, Tribeca Film Festival, Troy Dendekkerīy Carla Hay Sublime members Eric Wilson, Bradley Nowell and Bud Gaugh in “Sublime” (Photo by Greg Abramson)
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