Sublime "What I Got" 12" Skunk Records (US)

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Track Listing:

A1. What I Got (Album Mix) A2. What I Got (Total Access Mix) A3. Doin' Time (Album Mix) B/W B1. Get Ready (Album Mix) B2. April 29, 1992 (Miami) (Album Mix) Early career (1986–1991)

Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh were childhood friends having grown up in the same Long Beach neighborhood. Eric's father Billy Wilson taught Gaugh how to read music and play the drums. Gaugh and Wilson together with future Sublime manager formed a three-piece punk band called The Juice Bros during their high school years. About this time, Bradley Nowell joined the band.

Sublime played its first gig on , 1988 in a small club, reportedly starting the "Peninsula Riot" in Harbor Peninsula which led to seven arrests. For the next several years, the group focused primarily on playing at parties and clubs throughout . They recorded a few songs and put forth a number of short beside the well known , containing several songs which would later appear on their major releases.

40 Oz. to Freedom and Robbin' the Hood (1992–1995)

Eventually, Sublime developed a large following in California. After concentrating on playing live shows, the band released 40 Oz. to Freedom in 1992 under Nowell's label, . The record established Sublime's blend of , , , and , and helped to further strengthen the group's growing California following. Initially being sold exclusively at their live shows, the album became widely known in the after rock radio station began playing the song, "". In June 1994, Sublime was signed to the label Gasoline Alley of by Jon Phillips who subsequently became Sublime's manager.

The band toured extensively throughout 1994-1995, their popularity increasing gradually beyond the West Coast as "Date Rape" began earning radio play. Nowell was known for his tendency to play heavily intoxicated to the degree that he sometimes seemed to not even be able to play the guitar, as seen in the majority of the videos featuring the band live. In 1995, the band co-headlined the inaugural nationwide . Being one of the most popular acts on the tour, their drug use led to tensions with the tour management. Gaugh was arrested several times for possessing . Similarly, the band's famed practice of keeping their dogs with them everywhere, including on the stage, resulted in concert-goers being bitten. Sublime was actually kicked off the tour for some time before the tour management was forced to reconsider and bring them back due to popular demand. After the Warped Tour and the subsequent Three Ring Circus Tour, the band was pressured to begin producing new studio material as a proper follow-up to the suddenly-prosperous 40 Oz. to Freedom.

Nowell's death, final album and breakup (1996)

Early 1996 saw Sublime headline the very first . In February, they began recording what would comprise the band's and their major label debut album. They completed it before Nowell died of a on May 25, 1996 at the Oceanview Motel in , California, two months prior to the release. The album became a huge success, including the single "", which made it to #1 at the Modern Rock Chart. The album earned the band worldwide fame, and has since gone five-times . Beside "What I Got", the album included several popular singles including "", "", "" and "", all of which received heavy airplay.

Jason Westfall, one of Sublime's managers, was quoted as saying that the surviving members of Sublime had no interest in continuing to perform and record under the "Sublime" name. "Just like , Sublime died when Brad died", Westfall said.

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