How Sublime Recorded 'Santeria' | The Breakdown
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- In the latest episode of Rolling Stone's 'The Breakdown,' Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh traveled to Austin, TX, reconnecting with producer Paul Leary and engineer Stuart Sullivan to tell the story of how 'Santeria' came together.
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I got the self titled album in the fall of 96, my freshman year of high school. Another guy in my class was also really into that album, and we became friends and started hanging out. Eventually we both had their entire discography, plus a half dozen bootlegs. We would drive around in his S-10 listening to sublime compilation tapes and smoking tons of weed lol. We are still friends to this day, I'm about to be 39 and he's 40. We still hang out, smoke weed, and listen to music. Thanks Sublime!
Fuck yeah man! I'm 39 and remember this becoming popular that same fall of 96, my freshman year. Still absolutely one of my favorites. One of a kind
This was awesome to read haha.
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When they played Bradley's isolated vocals it gave me goosebumps.
Exactly. The first time I heard what I got I just knew there was something about it. His voice is really something.
A little haunting, but everlasting
Made me sad
Yea such an incredible musician. I was such a fan. It was so sad when he died. I was in college at the time. Such a bummer. Love hearing his isolated vocals.
Agree
It's a fact, Bradley was a fucking genius guitar player and singer. Flawless, raw, gritty and downright dirty blues 'n' reggae progressions!! Still listen to it till this day!!RIP BRADLEY.......
"I can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot", proceeds to play the shittiest guitar solo of all time.
@@mikeygabbard9268 that wasn’t him playing, he was already dead at that point. That was Mike Happoldt playing
@@mikeygabbard9268 that’s also not an original opinion of yours, I’ve heard that said verbatim by at least six people. Make up your own mind you kook
He could find a vein better than the best of them
@@bmxbear729 wait - Really? I didn't know this. is there any proof
Can we talk about Eric Wilson on the Bass. It sounds so good.
He wrote all the music essentially for this track.
Fuggen Legend
Yeah weirdly ignored
Yea wtf, the bass carries its own melody in this song. Baffling how such a major piece to the song could be disregarded. Sublime had one of the baddest rhythm sections ever.
The hardest bass line for me to learn. Was actually this one. Eric is a hell of a bassist man. And as a bassist. I truly think that he’s easily the most under looked and the most under appreciated. Dudes a beast
Damn shame Bradley wasn't able to partake in all the glory he produced. One of the most iconic bands of all-time, along with Nirvana and Rage, changed the course of music.
I also feel this way about blind melon. Their singer was also charismatic yet tortured and wrote alot of some chilled tunes.
Well,kinda. I love sublime. And he was a GREAT front man. But, Chris Cornell was better, my only argument is between Cornell and Lane. I don't know. I really don't. Bradley is in his own group of stars. R.I.P.
@@mikeconti3537 Going to have to disagree with you on that. Chris Cornell, like most of the other artists that rode the Nirvana wave was overrated. He had the vocal style of cats having sex. Brad Nowel was a much better singer.
@@jeffking4472 all three are just in my elite artist group. Cornell was better with any band than nirvana ever was. Chains my favorite of that Era. But Bradley was a legend.
Well said
There hasn’t been another band like sublime. Sure there are good reggae rock bands since then, but they just don’t make them like sublime anymore. One of a kind
The expendables is the only band that I feel personally brings the same type of vibe.
@@jonathanjulian7677 hell yeah and pepper as well
Cause you cannot 'make' the greatest.
That's because they were the first non JA band in the US to rip all JA riddims and turn em into rock songs. Now when others do it, it's just stale and old.
There won't be another band like Sublime? Well, Thank God! Sublime was garbage and were horrible dog owners.
It'd be nice if they could release the documentary they filmed back in 2019 so we could hear more of these stories.
There's already a primo doc.
@@thedjartillery The one from 2019 is supposed to have never before seen footage from the mid 90s, etc.
@@volumefreak1372 There's one from the early 2000s called lies, exaggeration, and something. Tells the whole story and all the guys are in it.
@@thedjartillery its STLE
Stories, tales, lies and exaggerations
(Click the clowns nose if you have the dvd)
Its fire but the 2019 documentary is supposed to be better
@@thedjartillery I think Stories, Tales, Lies and Exaggerations is from 1998. Was really looking forward to seeing some new footage because a lot of sublime youtube videos recycle the same clips over and over.
Finally someone mentions Brad's guitar playing, he was fantastic...and tasty in his solo's.
He was underrated for SURE! Kind of like Wes with LB.
Miguel did some of the solos
@@brentcraft4340 examples?
I’d say he was pretty averagely good. If it wasn’t for the drugs and booze he’d probably would’ve been better.
@@smelltheglove2038 He played with more feeling than half the Berklee cats I know.
I got chills when they played the vocals. Bradley truly was amazing. Watching bud listen, you can just feel him missing his friend. Missing someone we lost never gets easier. Dont care what anyone says. We just find our ways to cope the best we can.
This actually made me emotional to watch, what an amazing band they were and the legacy they have left behind will live on forever
Same
Makin the rounds?
Fr, i wanna cry thinking about what Brad missed out on and what we missed out on when he died
Bud Gaugh's half time shuffle feel is flawless. Real great drumming there.
Bud gauge will be bangin up there 🎵
@@larsonfamilyhouse and we'll be all singin' with version.
I’m 37 now and I can remember listening to this tape ( then eventually a CD 😂🤙🏻) every single day for YEARS. Legendary album, it changed my life and put me on the path to guitar. Which I still play. Thanks for the good times.
Awesome
I'm 37 too. I remember just blasting the CD in the summer of 2003 on my way to work at a golf course in Michigan. There music was always a positive for me. Through so much with sublime as the soundtrack. I play guitar too and Sublime was a big reason why I started.
y'all into dat Croce too?
That group will always have a special place in my life. Their music changed me for the better in so many ways.
The best thing about that era of music was how all the bands sounded different from one another. They all had unique styles that you could distinctly hear.
As someone who grew up in that era we had a ton of mediocre clones of whatever was popular at the time. That’s kind of the problem looking back, all the great bands stand out making it seem more diverse than it was. Still think that was one of the great eras of music if you can ignore it also saw the rise of boy bands.
Still plenty of unique artists out there. Go listen to Rival Sons, Sturgill Simpson, Jack White, or so many others. Every era has amazing music, it's about whether you have the time or desire to find it.
Not necessarily. Only in hindsight have you forgotten about or never knew all the clones and shit bands
All the bands had to be good. Had to be unique. Nowadays anybody can record something and put it out. There's 5455392937570 bands/artists now. And honestly a lot of them sound the same. So it's just noise.
Not so sure I agree. Sublime (the album) was from 1996 and there were a gazillion and one artists that sounded the same.
I grew up in the '80s and was *very* into music as a little kid, and now I'm 45 and having tons & tons of musicians that sound alike is nothing new. It's always been that way.
There's also nothing wrong with it if people enjoy it.
I could listen to an entire conversation just about the making of this record including all the nerdy recording/engineering stuff. Love it. Brad had a such a tone to his voice -- you're born with that shit man.
It's on sirius xm. It's fantastic. I heard it this summer on a road trip on their "lithium" Channel. I imagine it can be found
Listen to the Song Exploder podcast. Or Questlove Supreme, if you're into R&B, hip hop, and jazz at all. Both podcasts go deep on talking about production.
You're so right! 100% born with that shit. That white boy had soul. I miss him and Tupac the most. Even though we lost so many greats, those were the ones that shaped me the most. RIP to all the legends we lost too young 💗
Sublime is one of my favorite bands of all time and the self-titled album is one of those 5 albums I would take to a desert island
Capturing lighting and Genius in a bottle like that only happens every once in 50-100 years in recorded music history.
Bradley Nowell had a proven IQ of 142 on paper even by age 11. He was placed in a program called M.G.M mentally gifted minors by his parents in Orange County CA. He was the true unspoken genius of the 1990s. Sublime is without a doubt my favorite band of all time.... They have brought this world so much happiness with their music and into my life. Hearing Brad, Eric, and Bud’s solo tracks was haunting, amazing, and bitter sweet all at the same time. Thank you Rolling Stone for covering this... watching this brought me great joy, chills down my spine, and watery eyes. The most influential band in my entire life, mixing Reggae, Punk Rock, Ska, Blues, Hip Hop, Folk, Dub, Freestyle, Electronic flawlessly crossing genre to genre showcases how truly special this band was. Santeria will be heard by people 100 years from now and onward...
Bradley is truly missed.... but the music will always speak for itself. Amazing 🙏
You forgot how he cured aids and fought the space insects.
@@SatansSimgma don't ever forget!
@@SatansSimgma I think that was Brian Boytano
It would only figure that Bradly passed away in my home town, just right down the road from the street I grew up and lived on for 20+ years. Every time I pass the hotel he was at, I think of him.
…Too bad he cured AIDS after Freddie Mercury died….. We still got a lot of mosquitos flying around my house, so I doubt the space insect thing.
One of the few songs that will come on in a bar and everyone will sing along to. Every time, no matter where, there will be at least one guy who sings it from his heart too.
I’m that guy😂😂
I am also that guy
brad's solo track is hauntingly beautiful
Ya gave me the chills for sure
amen
I cried like a bitch.. :( What a badass!
You should listen to Layne Stayley isolated vocal tracks... you can FEEL his pain.. we lose the great ones early... and get left with the mediocre... r.i.p. to legends
RIP Brad. Sublime's music will live on for generations.
His passing was a real bummer. What a talent. Sucks seeing creative people go down so young.
There are some lucky instances in time, when a perfect band is formed every now and then.
Sublime had it all. From Bud's soulfull precussion, to the absolute tight, groove machine that Eric was, and ending in Bradley's incredible voice and guitar feeling. What a match!
40 and still blasting this in my car like I'm in highschool.
Brad was such a musical genius I wished he got to see how much of a impact he has made
This is my childhood as far as teenage years go! Always has and always will be my favorite band!
Idk how Bud and Leary can sit there and listen to Brad's voice on that track and not bust out in tears
Because they aren’t insane
Because they aren't emotional cripples. They are normal well adjusted people.
They're probably still half pissed he did that to himself to be honest, conflicted emotions make you numb potentially.
They've had over 25 years to mourn him, it gets easier as time goes on.
Brad you pissed me off when you OD'd but I still love you man
Died to soon . Rip Brad … I remember when he died in 96’ , Sublime was still unknown to the world , but in SoCal especially in LA county were I’m from , you heard of them through word of mouth . So when he died the band was just taking off main steam . Forever young .
I knew who they were in bumfuck Pennsylvania in 92. I have been playing them.since 40 ounces to freedom. I was so sad when Brad died.
Even when Bradley hummed a melody it sounded so good. The man had a golden voice
That record made life amazing.
The world doesn’t even know what it’s missing.
great vid, hearing Brad solo made me tear up a bit
his pitch is so good. RIP
Ditto on that ~ 🎶💗🎶
Me too 🙌🏼
hm
I was wondering how that drummer was keeping it together
I'd love to see a track breakdown of the master tapes from this album! This video was superb but desperately wanted it to be longer!
Check out KLOS sessions with Christian James Hand. There might be a vid on youtube, but it's def on soundcloud. Not the whole album, but this song and a ton of other classics.
As well respected as Brad is these days, I still think he’s a bit underrated. The guy stands out in an era of music where brilliant songwriters were hiding behind every corner. Easily right up there with Cobain and Jerry Cantrell. I think because his songs were relatively simple and had a party vibe to them they get overlooked. But everything the dude touched turned to gold. And man, could that guy sing and play guitar or what?
He didn't write most of there songs though 🤔
@@michaeljwolley What do you mean? The majority of Sublime’s catalog consists of original tunes. Sure, they played a slew of covers and Brad would mix and match bits of music/lyrics that came from other sources, but they definitely, 100% played more original tunes than covers. And several of their covers are pretty reimagined, like Doin’ Time, for instance.
He's very underrated, his talent of mixing genres was like nobody at that time. Bradley was an amazing gifted musician all around, his passing was truly unfortunate. Just as they were getting shit together on stage. RIP Bradley
Completely agree. Sublime has always been in my catalog and I mean always cause I was born in 2001. I know Bradley's voice like a friend.
Some say he could play the guitar like a motherfucking riot
I've always loved how they fused the reggae vibe and the speed and rawness of punk / punk rock. RIP Bradley. Gone way too soon.
My absolute favorite band of all time, and that story of the double note in the solo gave me chills!
I don't know about chills, but I did feel emotional. I'll explain.
I've been playing that solo for many years now. People always transcribe it without the double note, but I hear it there, and so I've always played it as a double note. Nevertheless, it has always confused me because no matter how quickly I try to alternate pick it, it never sounds quite right. I'd wondered if there was some other technique going on there that I hadn't thought of, lol.
Of course, Brad's dead, and it's such an obscure question to ask anyway,-it never even _occurred_ to me I'd ever get an answer to that question. So when he started telling that little story...man, my jaw dropped a little. What are the chances?!? after all these years. It feels like a cross between nostalgia and resolution.
Same here. I knew exactly what notes he was talking about before they even played the tape. Albums that were recorded analog are always full of happy little accidents like that one.
I can listen to this album start to finish and it never gets old
yes sir it's solid gold brotha
Hearing the soloed vocals and guitar tracks is something
The one band that never fails to get me and all my friends singing. This album is a true blessing for an LA beach boy. I believe it captures our way of life like no other album.
that guitar solo though, what a treat to hear it isolated.
This truly is the perfect song.
Bud looks sad at the end of the vid. The vocals are amazing. RIP Bradley. The world missed out on so much.
Bud was the one to find Bradley dead so I’m sure he’s messed up from that. I found a friend dead from an OD and You can’t get that image out of your head
In college I played this song along with what I got at hundreds of late night drunken smokefest Jam sessions. No matter what the time or place or people, Sublime songs always made people happy and good energy
Hearing the song broken down man so many memories they don’t make
Music like this no more still love their music
This album is an essential part of my life. Love it from first listen and it has never gone stale. Love this album, love this band. RIP Bradley, your music will live on.
They were my high school band here in LBC. LEGENDS
I really love the tone that Brad developed in the later years of sublime. With the Dan McDonald guitar and having bud on the drums.
I’d like to see the whole album broken down this way
All the music we never got is crazy to think about. Sublime would have been a dominate force for years to come.
Damn, Bud has morphed into Jesse Gregory James.
Still miss Brad and LouDog
Yeah, so do I.
I recommend the “Bradley’s House” podcast on all platforms - episode 35. Jon Phillips their manager goes into detail of the recording of this album. Brad was stoked - but knew he could do more and better… wanted to go to Jamaica and record. Big up the sublime family.
How are we all so old now? Ugh those were the days man ❤
RIP Brad, RIP Lou Dog, thank you for the soundtrack to my high school and college years.
yessir. graduated high school in 99 and anytime we played sublime it was always the whole album and everyone belted it out loud. great times great memories great band amazing people and the best music
love Leary's stopwatch story. felt sad to hear Brad's voice solo'd, wish he was still around
I like to think he had to go when he did, there’s no way they can mess up the music like so many others…Gwen and Steve Miller just to name a couple. Woulda liked a couple more bangers though fer sure👍🏼
I love that as I immediately paused to rewind the isolated guitar solo track, I noticed that that's the most played part of the video too. Music :)
Bud is one of my absolute favorite drummers.
I cry every time I hear just Bradley solo singing. So beautiful. He was so talented.
I cannot turn up Lincoln Highway loud enough. I cannot get enough. And I thank you for that
I wasn’t alive at the same time as him but he has had such an affect on my life, his story, his words. His voice. He’s inspired and put me on to so much in this life. I can’t wait to catch him in the next
"New Song" is probably my favorite Sublime track. There's so many amazing tunes in their catalog. There's very little filler on their records, even Robbin' the Hood is great background music.
Pure gold right here ladies & gents!!! The 90$ were the best
It was in my stereo and that era totally reminds me of 311 also, good times
As well as these guys could play, the FEEL is what did it for 'em. As Bob Marley said, "he who feels it, knows it"......these f'in dudes certainly knew it. Such a brilliant entire record.
This my go to karaoke song!! I love u sublime you made high school tolerable.. graduated in 97!!! Saw sublime with time 3 years ago before covid, will never be the same without Bradley..
Lost a lot of my close friends to overdoses who we all chilled and listens to sublime with back the day.. sublime holds my heart.. still saving up to get the sublime sun tattooed on my back with all the detail.
It's such a great play through album. The songs are so varied it never gets that same song for 40 minutes feel.
Sublime holds a special place in my heart. I know they weren’t the greatest but they introduced a young me to more music than I could ever imagine. 🤙🏾
The drums sound so amazing on this record
IMO, brad's guitar playing on the pre cursor to santeria, "lincoln highway dub" on robbin' the hood, is even more impressive
Any future producer's out there, this is how it's done. Utmost patience. What skills!! Fantastic 5 minutes.
Sublime will always be one of my all time favorite bands. I wish I could’ve seen them live before Brad passed, he was one in a million. Such a soulful singer/guitar player, who matched perfectly with Bud and Eric (and Miguel and Marshall too). I really hope they will finally release the documentary they made a couple years ago.
Sublime is one of the greatest bands ever, full stop.
This album dropped the year I graduated High School. Actually, that summer. My brother got a hold of the album, the tape. We were hanging out with my older cousin's husband and his friends after work and he introduced us to a lot of great music. When I heard this, first track Garden Groove, next track What I Got, I knew that this band was something special and we had embarked on something that was going to endure for a long time. A watershed moment of our generation. That and the death of Pac.
I saw Paul Leary and instantly clicked. Didn't even know it was Sublime but I was immensely surprised to find that Paul produced that album. Love the Butthole Surfers and Sublime!
Driving up and down Front Beach rd in Panama City Beach blasting this song out of our 4runner like 'ya'll got to hear this!'. Spring Break '97 til now and the song still hits the same
I love this. It teared me up a little, hearing Brad's vocals alone. I'd love to see and hear more of this stuff. I came of age with Sublime. Jah Bless!
Brad I believe did have perfect pitch. I’ve never heard him sing a bum note and I’ve heard every single song he ever sang! Such an injustice to lose him at that point. We love ya guys and thanks for the memories! ❤️
Listen to him live tho
Such raw, soul-driven music that just doesn't exist today. Let's get back to this kind of music can we??
This is seriously so incredible. Bradley, Bud and Eric made magic recording this album. I know you probably can't go back, but I'd watch an hour long special on the album as a whole. It's a modern classic. I first heard "What I Got" when I was 10 I'm 35 now. As in love with Sublime as ever. Bud Gaugh is such an underrated drummer too!
Bradley's voice is so raw and hypnotizing. Dude was blessed with those awesome vocals 💯
I got to see Sublime play at house parties in the high desert, I had a copy of 40oz to freedom on cassette.
Sublime is so underrated! and Eric is one of the greatest bassists of all times!
And all these years later, I still have to play this album in my car, with the windows down on the first warm day of Spring. I’m older now, my hair is thinner, I have some gray on my beard, but Brads voice is still right there, in that moment at that eternal age. It’ll never get old.
Now all these clueless kids runnin around with Sublime t shirts. They don’t know what’s up🤣. Here’s to getting older brotha🤦🏼♂️
Ill tell u right now, sublime is king amongst the beach crowd here in florida. Im 35 and grew up on indian rocks beach and everyone jammed to sublime. To this day, when it comes on at a beach bar or something you can tell who the locals are. No matter whats happening, everyone shuts up and sings along.
I haven’t said this in about a decade. But thank you CZcams. Y’all been fucking this world up with yalls algorithm. But today. You really touched my soul placing this video in front of me. I was in 7th grade when I first heard Sublime. Loved them forever
One of the top 100 rock albums of all time 🙏💵🇭🇳 thanks sublime!
Thanks for the interview !
Love to hear the stories behind the songs. I think it wudv been hella epic & fun AF being part of ANY recordings from Sublime. I'm a music junkie & have been a loyal fan of Sublime since day 1. It speaks volumes that they continued for the love of music & celebrating Brad's life. Gotta say Bud that the "steal your face" just reiterates that certain band's that run the gauntlet of my entire life have an energy all their own & I cud hardly walk away from them as I cud any loved ones in my life. Keep on keepin' on Bud, "you crazy, crazy fool"... much love ~ 🎶☀️💗🐬🎶
One of my few front to back albums
Can't tell you how many house parties I went to in San Diego in the late 90s, that had that album blasting.
The way the engineer describes their creative process is absolutely fascinating
great recounts thank you for this production
This awesome. I somehow got chills and put a smile on my face
OMG how am I just now finding this!!!
“There’s a universe in his voice “ ❤
That solo sounds so clean... beautiful!
this is beautiful. thanks for making this video!
My dad always thought he was the man when singing along and has since passed same way as brad but so much of my memories involve this song it was my childhood and it was rad
I was drunk on vacation in Mexico partying on the beach first time I heard Santeria. What a fucking jam!!!
def had this on repeat when I was a wee lad
Wow ! Thanks for this ♡
Man, I was a freshman in High School 1998 when I first heard of Sublime. They do not make music the same now a days