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The Late Great Bradley James Nowell - vocals, guitars, percussion, sampler, bass, and congas
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"Sublime is a hodgepodge of all types of bands I have been into since I was a kid. Not like I mix it all up on purpose but more like it's a subconscious type of thing. As a young kid I was heavily into hardcore punk, like the Circle Jerks and Black Flag, then I first heard the ska sound from bands like The Selector and The Specials. I though this was the best music I had ever heard. Then came the rub-a-dub style of dance hall reggae music which I have never been able to get out of my head since! A little later I was into Run DMC and the whole NWA sound. I was blown away when I heard groups like Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One mixing rap and reggae. It was devastating. Without really trying I now seen to put a dance hall style lyric melody over much of my attempts at writing other types of music.

The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are so necessary to slap on music. It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction. They will be up all night trying to slap a label on Sublime. Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody." - Brad Nowell


Eric Wilson - bass, organ, percussion, vocal, and congas
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Wilson's dad, Billy, a drummer who toured with big bands in his youth and played on a cruise ship during the Depression, was Gaugh's drum teacher. Though Billy Wilson was much older than the parents of Eric's friends, he was also much cooler; it was he who introduced his son to marijuana. "He got into it while he was hanging out with all those jazz cat, I guess," Eric says of his dad. "He smoked now and them, and to hide the odor he carried around a little bottle of Binaca." Wilson played trumpet for a while but says he sucked at it and switched to guitar and then bass. When he was in sixth grade, he met Nowell. The two began playing music together before Nowell took off for Santa Cruz, to start college at the University of California. During one of Nowell's breaks from school, Wilson introduced him to Bud Gaugh, and the three started jamming together.

Floyd "Bud" Gaugh - drums and sampler
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Gaugh attempted to reach out to his band mate- though often in destructive ways. "I felt like kicking his ass," recalls Gaugh, who himself had been hooked on speed and heroin for years. "I mean, I'd been there and was still struggling with it. So I was all things that I could be to him during that time. I tried to be his conscience; I tried to be his nurse. I even tried to be his drug buddy; I mean, we got loaded together a couple of times."

Miguel - sampler, guitar, vocals, piano, organ, sonicmanipulation

Field Marshall Goodman - drums, turntables, and vocals