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Bud Gaugh on the future of Sublime

Contributed by alex101. Posted by adam on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

An interview with Sublime founding drummer Bud Gaugh was posted recently on the band's MySpace page. In it he discusses the band's October 24th reunion show at the Smokeout Festival and their new lead singer / guitarist Rome. As for future plans he revealed:

It'd be great to get back into the studio and make some new music. It'd be great to tour again. But we're taking it a step at a time and as long as each step feels good, then we'll keep on going. One major project under development that we're psyched about is code-named "Brad's House." The idea is to provide free addiction recovery service to underprivileged teens in Brad's honor. The entire Sublime family was devastated by Brad's loss and we would like to help prevent that from happening to others. The band has agreed to allocate proceeds to get this started. We'll begin with one facility but our hope is that we can get other bands and organizations to join us and we can eventually scale it all across the country.

Sublime originally called it quits in 1996 following the heroin overdose which took the life of frontman Bradley Nowell. The band's reformation has come with a host of legal challenges. The trio's use of the name Sublime has been challenged by Silverback Management's Jon Phillips, who according to the LA Times has acted as the band's co-manager since 2003 (we're not sure how that works -ed), as well as the estate of Bradley Nowell. Nowell's family publically disapproved of the reunion and unsuccessfully tried to block it with a restraining order.

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Babrook (October 26, 2009)

The buttsweat sound leaked.

Whats_Wrong_With_The_Kids (October 26, 2009)

yup.... african elephants is out there too. What a treat on a Monday morning

Cos (October 26, 2009)

Just don't call yourselves Sublime. Weak.

LinoleumMagazine (October 26, 2009)

"Sublime originally called it quits in 1996 following the heroin overdose which took the life of frontman Bradley Nowell."

They lost the guy who played guitar, wrote the lyrics, the music and sang. The band fucking ended when Brad died. They didn't have a choice.

This is so dumb. Just start up shitty ass Long Beach Dub All Stars again and bastadize Sublime songs that way.

mill83 (October 26, 2009)

Totally agreed. Can't add anything to that, exactly how I feel. Except for some reason I kinda liked LBDAS.

LinoleumMagazine (October 26, 2009)

They pissed me off when they played Warped a while back ('01 I think). The singer got pissed because someone was throwing shit at the stage and they ended up being little bitches and ending their set early.
It's a punk show. Most bands get stuff thrown at them at Warped Tour. Deal with it.

Dante3000 (rich) (October 26, 2009)

I think the last time they played warped was '00 and the singer was a huge douche. His favorite past times included getting loaded and accosting females on the tour.
-Dante
P.S. on a side note, they apparently still had the same dog that Brad had during the Sublime-era...and he had huge dangly dog nuts.

AmericanRiot (October 26, 2009)

to be fair Brad only wrote about 30% of the lyrics. the other 70% were stolen from various other songs

MonsterLobster (October 26, 2009)

How does Sublime have a future?

Dante3000 (rich) (October 26, 2009)

Time is cyclical.
-Dante

friokir (October 26, 2009)

where's Tom_Delonge when you need him?

kidgotham (October 26, 2009)

They rev the Delorean up past 88 mph, go back to the early 90's and try again. Perhaps the singer will avoid death a second time around.

MonsterLobster (October 26, 2009)

If the lightning from the clock tower hits that spoon he's holding, he's done AGAIN!

kidgotham (October 26, 2009)

Win

OverDefined (October 26, 2009)

Sublime continuing without Brad is just dumb.

However, from a band name trademark perspective, the name belongs to the band as they continue. The law doesn't recognize the concept of a "key member" and as long as some members continue, the continuing band retains the rights to the name. This is a relic of the big band days and needs to be updated to reflect the realities of modern music groups.

mikexdude (October 26, 2009)

Four stars; would read again; compelling; deserving of considerationl; love that shit.

LookingForCorpses (October 26, 2009)

It actually doesn't necessarily belong to the remaining members. There isn't a "standard" in this.

Dante3000 (rich) (October 26, 2009)

Yeah, your in a band who celebrated drugs and alcohol, 90% of your listening audience are pot heads (or frat boys) you just played the "smoke out" and your lead singer died of a heroin overdose. Opening a drug recovery center sounds like the next logical step.
-Dante

LinoleumMagazine (October 26, 2009)

Marijuana's not a drug bro. It's from the earth, man.

SocalRichKidonLSD (October 26, 2009)

Nice I like how you used the tobacco argument... 100% of our audience smokes cigs, but if we campaign our own dollars for kids and young adults not to smoke it is justified...

dev (October 26, 2009)

*you're, then your and your.

Dante3000 (rich) (October 26, 2009)

Dice and cheese man.
Think about it.
-Dante

Lifebystereo (October 26, 2009)

even though everyone hates them, I used to love Sublime. But doing anything sans Brad is just fucking dumb as hell and isn't "Sublime" at all.

Gritty (October 26, 2009)

wow, they are attempting to go on without Brad? That's too funny. did they forget that he wrote everything, and was the lead singer? have some fucking dignity. the sad part is, no one gave a shit about sublime until after brad died, and now they get the money he earned.

Brett-NOLA (October 26, 2009)

Worst thing ever in the history of bad things.

paulsilence (October 26, 2009)

Sublime sucked. The guy shot heroin for inspiration and OD'ed. Who didn't see it coming?

Gritty (October 26, 2009)

Considering he started using at 26 and died at 28, I'd say not many

paulsilence (October 26, 2009)

Yeah because < two years is a helluva long time, right?

fox82 (October 26, 2009)

Wouldn't these guys still draw pretty much the same fucking crowd if they had 'featuring the other two dudes of Sublime' under a new band name?

a_cobb (October 27, 2009)

You mean like how Eyes Adrift packed houses back in 2002?

LookingForCorpses (October 27, 2009)

That was just the drummer, right?

nick_s (October 26, 2009)

Co headlining tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Nirvana.

3PuttBogey (October 26, 2009)

perhaps they can just change the name to "Sublime CA" or "Sublime116"

Brett-NOLA (October 27, 2009)

P.S.- I forgot to mention...

http://setbacks.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/sublime/

I can't believe this silly cartoon is still relevant a year later. I thought the Rapture would have ended this unnecessary "reunion" by now...

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