If you have simply everything, you couldn't be happier, and flush it all down the drain and yourself with it, does that follow any logic?
The story of Bradley Nowell adds a whole different intensity to the music of Sublime, the sunny californian lifestyle ... and it's downside.
Sublime were different, took a totally different turn on the mixture of punk and reggae and Bradley wrote songs which definitely took you somewhere away from where you are right now, and even more so considering his person and the story behind. It's a tragic story. The story of the genius true musician in the league with others who do not need to be mentioned here, but shared his destiny. He was real, talented, so committed to his music, that he sucked at basically everything else, especially life itself. An outstanding fragile guy, over-challenged and overwhelmed by life and who finally gave in to the final temptation. It seems that when you're genius at a certain thing, you're a total fail at another one. The greater, the worse.
His story and the story of his band are hard to believe. As described by his friends and family he was intelligent and understood the danger to nothing less than his life by the drug he was dealing with. This is sadly well described by himself in the song 'Pool Shark', in which he faces his addition and paints a dark picture for himself:
"Lyin' in my plastic bed
thinkin' how things weren't so cool to me
my baby likes to shoot pool
I like lyin' naked in my bedroom
tying on the dinosaur tonight
it used to be so cool to...
But now i've got the needle
and i can shake but i can't breathe
i take it away
but i want more, and more
one day i'm gonna lose the war"
Take the time and watch this documentary from the series 'VH1 -Behind the music' and find out more behind the band Sublime, what made them who they were and what evantually killed them.
Rest in peace, Bradley Nowell, thank you for the music!
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