LONG PEACH
RISING FROM THE ASHES
OF SUBLIME. LB DUB HAVE
NOT COME TOGETHER TO
PLAY PUNK ROCK HIP-HOP.
DUB
HARDCORE. REGGAE, OR DUB. INSTEAD. THEY'VE GATHERED
BASE ELEMENTS FROM ALL OF THESE FORMS. CREATING
SOMETHING FAR GREATER THAN ANY ONE GENRE COULD
OUTPUT ON ITS OWN. LONG BEACH DUB ALL STARS PLAY
ROOTS MUSIC. PURE AND SIMPLE.
LONG BEACH DUB ALL STARS ARE: BUD. DRUMS:
ERIC. BASS: RAS 1. GUITAR: FIELD MARSHALL GOODMAN.
DJ/PERCUSSION: MIGUEL. DUB SCIENCE OPIE. VOCALS:
JACK KEYS: TIM. SAX.
RH: You guys played in a dance
club called Nero's 2000 at a
Tahoe casino last night. How
did that
go?
O: It sucked.
RAS: The kids were pretty crazy;
there was hardly any security and
these girls were getting trampled in
all this broken glass around the
front of the stage.
It's not really a place for
shows, is it?
RAS: Not at all. They were play-
ing booty music. Rave music.
Have most of the places you've
been playing sold out? The rea-
son I ask is you don't even
have an album out yet, but you
seem to be doing well just
through word of mouth.
O: Yeah, except for in Europe.
Europe's not ready for us yet.
Tell us about the new record.
What's the content?
RAS: Maybe there will be one lit-
tle slice of punk rock on the new
record. But it's mostly reggae,
some hip-hop,
rock
'n' roll style
reggae, rub-a-dub style...
M: If you have a computer,
there will be some songs at
skunk.com which we'll release as
the album is getting ready to
come out, so you can check out
that stuff beforehand.
How did you end up recording
with The Wailing Souls?
RAS: Through our manager.
B: That Wailing Souls record we
did, Psychedelic Souls, just got a
Grammy nomination for Reggae
Album Of The Year.
Did you all play on that record?
RAS: A lot of us. Bud, Eric,
Field Marshall; I played on that
shit too but in all the advertising
it only said "Featuring Bud and
Eric from Sublime."
Some Thrasher
readers might not
know what dub
music is.
M: Dub came
from sound sys-
tems. They would
have a backing
track, and then
make a dub plate which
was just a backing track
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ALL STARS
with no vocals. They would take it
to a sound system, and then all the
local DJs would go over the new
rhythm. After they had the instru-
mentals, they would let the vocals
go on, then cut it out or delay it. It
was born after that.
RAS: It actually means our drum-
mer Bud, but backwards.
A lot of punk kids don't like
reggae; they see it as hippie
music and don't draw the con-
nections between reggae and
The Clash, or the fact that both
and
reggae punk are music of
the working class.
M:
The way I look at it, any
form of music is 99% shit and 1%
volume.
ume. The thing about reggae
is-well, there's a lot of bad reg-
gae out there, just like there's a
lot of bad blues, bad jazz, and
bad punk. You have to be pretty
into music to know what's good;
you have to weed through a lot.
We all come from different back-
grounds, as far as what types of
music we listen to.
RAS: We don't play hippie reg-
gae. We play punk reggae.
And how do you come up with
"punk reggae"?
E: You get a bunch of punkers
together who like to play reggae.
M: Here's how you get punk reg-
gae. You get some Meyer's Rum,
maybe some Bacardi, you get a RAS
and some ice and Coke and a guitar...
RAS: Then you give Eric a full
bottle of vodka and say, "Hey! Let's
play reggae!" And it comes out
punk reggae. You have to have
been on drugs for at least two or
three years of your life to be a
good punk reggae artist.
What bands are you into
right now?
M: I like Hepcat.
E: Slayer.
RAS: I've been getting into a lot
of, um...old B-52s.
O: That's great, RAS.
What was the first punk record
you ever bought?
RAS: Probably a Suicidal
Tendencies record, or Dead
Kennedys' Fuck Christmas.
O: That wasn't Dead Kennedys,
that was FEAR, dumbass. You're
not punk. Asshole.
What was the first reggae
record you ever bought?
RAS: Probably a Bob Marley
record
record.
How
much of
I your set consists
of Sublime songs?
B: About half.
Everyone wishes that Rancid
would play an Operation Ivy
song or that Fugazi would play
a Minor Threat song...
M: And they never do.
RAS: We like to play
Sublime songs.
B: We're sort of nostalgic in
that regard.
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RAS: Yeah, and besides that,
most of the Sublime self-titled
record never had a chance to be
played live. Who else is going to
do it?
Eric, RAS was telling me about
your frontside grinds at the
skatepark last week.
E: That would be Opie.
O: I've been skating since I was
pretty young. Since before the ollie.
We used to speed towards cracks
in the sidewalk and lift up and
jump-those were the first ollies I
ever saw. I used to skate vert a lot.
What about skating and music?
O: It just all goes together so
well. If you have a piece of
bread, you want to put butter on
it. Same thing.
Who is influential to you as far
as skating goes?
O: I like Donger, Daewon,
Kareem, Gershon Mosely....
So what's next? You're playing
in Rosarito this spring, right?
M: We're playing there three
days over a week's time.
RAS: It's gonna be all about surf-
ing and somas-dog tranquilizers.
O: Surfing on somas.
So you guys have a veteri-
narian hookup?
O: Yeah. Mexico.
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