Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

On today's show, we're going to be talking about The Legend of Sublime, which is one of those weird 90s stories that just never

ends Bradley Noel the band's frontman of course died in 1996 before the band actually

broke out but as with many things in the 90s, it persisted.

And in some form, Sublime is still touring.

It's called Sublime with Rome,

and has Eric Wilson, the original bass player,

and this guy Rome Ramirez, who's a little bit of a miracle in his

own right, this kid who basically grew up worshipping Sublime and ended up in a version of Sublime who really learned everything about Bradley

Noel and is able to play like him and kind of sing like him and hopefully put his own twist on it.

We had the current version of

Sublime with Rome in the studio and we talked about what they're doing now and

we also had Eric really break down in great detail exactly how Sublime got together. He ended up being a great storyteller, but let's hear the beginning of my conversation with

Sublime with Rome. I wonder if you guys could just for the sake of the listening audience could go around and just say who you are and what you do in the band so they know who's talking

What's up? I'm Rome. I'm the with Rome. My name is Carlos. I play drums

I'm Erica. I'm fish. All right these guys have a new album out called Blessings. Let's hear a single from that spiderweb And before we really dig into it,

tell me a little bit about how that song came together.

The music bed for that song, the guitar chords and the arrangement came together for just a record that I was doing for this random Australian artist.

But I really liked the music bed and he didn't end up using the record. So then when we were doing our album I brought it in and

as per usual like soon as he fucking plays bass on that shit man it just becomes like a

different record it like moves different then he put some live drums on it and then so it just started to

really sound like something and then lyrically this was right around the time

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