FORMED: 1988
DISBANDED: 1996
I first met Sublime in the Fall of 1988, me and Brad were students at C.S.U.L.B. The band was the most popular group on campus and on the way to being the biggest draw in town. At the time, I was playing in the Ziggens and Brad would occasionally let us open up. One day I decided I was going to release all the Ziggens demos I was working on in the cassette format. I got a sharpie marker and scribbled out Skunk Records for the xeroxed liner notes. You can t just do that said Brad. Sublime had just completed a 4-song, 16-track demo, so we said, why not put out your tape on our new label? So began a partnership that would propel the music from keg parties to video music awards and platinum plaques. Don t Push and Slowride were from this first tape.
Prior to our meeting, was the infamous 8-track demo that Romeo and New Realization are from. This tape would have been lost if it wasn t for Trey Pangborn (guitarist for Falling Idols). The master tapes were long gone, and back then there was no DAT for a bunch of punk rockers from Lon... (
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