Boon, the late singer of the Minutemen, the adventurous early-'80s punk-alternative band. It’s telling that the first words on Sublime’s hot-selling “40oz.” album-"Punk rock changed our lives"-come from the sampled voice of D. (Wilson also came to the interview with a pet, his little basenji-terrier mix, Toby.) Hanging out with Sublime for a while does nothing to dispel the impression that this is a band that believes in the punk ethic of not making a great separation between life and art. If you examined Sublime’s album art, song lyrics and publicity photos, you might assume that Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Floyd (Bud) Gaugh were much taken with the pleasures of drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking pot and keeping dogs. “He cruises through the audience, he’s on stage. “Louie’s like Brad’s alter ego,” Dendekker said last week as she stood near the patio of a waterfront restaurant, where Sublime had decided to turn an appointed newspaper interview into a lunch outing for its extended family. to Freedom” CD, stayed home with Nowell’s girlfriend, Troy Dendekker, and their other dog, a young Rottweiler named Bishop. With its topical but cartoonish song “Date Rape” jumping onto alternative-rock playlists around the country, Sublime was able to afford hotel rooms for the first time as it toured over the past three months.īut that meant traveling without Louie, singer-guitarist Brad Nowell’s pet Dalmatian and, until lately, Sublime’s touring companion on the group’s low-budget, sleep-in-the-van road trips. Sublime has moved up in the rock world lately, but the punkand-reggae band’s progress has brought certain sacrifices.
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