Written by Mike Wood
Saturday, 29 October 2005
May 25th 1996 was a day which Sublime fans will never forget. It was during the late morning hours that lead singer/songwriter Bradley Nowell died due to a heroin overdose. It was a sad day and left the remaining members of Sublime, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh with a problem, what was MCA to do with the remaining commitment of Sublime records? Well, one answer was 1998’s release of live music, taken from 3 shows, a 1994 show at Kommotion in San Francisco, a 1995 Warped Tour stop in New Jersey, as well as a House of Blues show a month before Brad’s death. Enough regressing, this is a review of Sublime’ only OFFICAL live release, (there are a TON of bootlegs of varying quality). Onto the CD, well for a live CD the quality is decent, as theres crowd noise but not overpowering. However, the clarity isn’t awesome because the shows were not meant to be released live, so there are some bootlegs that are of BETTER quality. Brad’s songwriting talent shines through in this live mix of Sublime’s 3 studio releases. Now his singing is quite good but as Brad didn’t always perform sober, he sometimes forgets the words, or the entire way to start a song….however he recovers or the crowd fills in the gaps and its truly a great listen. If you never got to see Sublime, as I never did, this is the best you can do….and if this CD was any indication they were while not always coherent, and didn’t always pair the right words to the right songs, they were still great. Someone once said it was the “feeling” that mattered during a Sublime show….and the feelings of togetherness and laid back attitude was strongly evident on this CD.Hot TracksDJ’s (extended into from 40 oz. edition) New ThrashPool Shark (even through Bradley forgets how to start the song)Rating- 9/10
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