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My slideshow of Brad, his wife and son Jake, and Lou Dog. With one of my fav songs he sang…RIP Brad..

Bradley James Nowell (February 22, 1968 May 25, 1996) was an American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the popular genre transcendent band Sublime. He died at 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime’s self-titled major label debut. In 1988, Nowell founded Sublime with bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh, whom he had met while attending Cal State Long Beach. Sublime eventually became one of the most popular bands in Southern California. Specifically, they were the most popular band on the campus of Cal State Long Beach, where they often played at parties and bars in exchange for alcohol. In 1989 Nowell and Michael “Miguel” Happoldt created Skunk Records, the label for which Sublime’s early recordings were produced and distributed. Skunk Records was named for Sublime’s combination Ska and Punk genre, and the names of the two were fused into “Skunk”. The band’s demo tapes were later sold at shows and local record stores. A few years later, Sublime produced its first studio recording, which resulted in the popular cassette tape called Jah Won’t Pay the Bills and released it in 1991. As Nowell prepared to tour with the new material, he found that Gaugh was battling a drug problem. Gaugh soon decided to check himself into a drug rehabilitation center. Rather than tour without Gaugh, the trio decided to focus on recording their music in the studio. In 1992, 40 Oz. to Freedom was released. Drummers Marshall Goodman and Kelly Vargas …

Amid the tropical heat of a Philippine prison, convicted murderers, rapists and drug dealers on Saturday paid tribute to Michael Jackson with a reprise of their youtube dance hit, “Thriller.” A rendition of Jackson’s 1980s smash hit by prisoners at the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the central Philippines garnered more than 24 million views since 2007, when prison supervisor Byron Garcia first uploaded it! (CNN)