MM-aRchive Session, 8/12/15
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00:00MMR's Dreamstream Concert Series, 93.3 WMMR, Everything That Rocks.
00:07It is 93.3 WMMR here in Philadelphia.
00:10I'm Pierre Robert, and we have the great pleasure of the company of three very talented gentlemen
00:15who will appear at the festival pier tonight.
00:18Their name is Sublime with Rome, and a great pleasure to welcome them
00:22as they celebrate their second release as a band together, and it's called Sirens.
00:26We have Eric Wilson on the bass, we have Rome Ramirez on guitar and vocals,
00:31and we have Josh Freeze on bongos.
00:34Bongo.
00:35Okay.
00:36And I think you'll start by playing us a song.
00:38Yeah.
00:39All right.
00:42And he's 12 years old, and too much will be a horn.
00:46Nobody ever told her it's the wrong way.
00:50Don't be afraid about the quickness you get laid.
00:54For your family get paid, it's the wrong way.
00:59I gave her all that I had to give.
01:03I'm gonna make it hard to live.
01:06Sad details run down to a chin.
01:09It smears up the make-up you never wanted.
01:13A cigarette passed between her lips, but I'm staring at her.
01:18It's the wrong way.
01:20I'm saying if I can, but I am only a man, so I take her to the can.
01:25It's the wrong way.
01:27The only family that she's ever had is the seven homie brothers and a drunk guy's dad.
01:34He needed money, so we pulled her out the street.
01:37Everything was going fine until the day she met me.
01:41I'm happy how you sat.
01:43Wanna shoot your dad.
01:44I'll do anything I can.
01:46It's the wrong way.
01:48We talk all night.
01:50Trying to make it right.
01:51Believe me, shit was tight.
01:53It was the wrong way.
01:55Run away if you wanna stay.
01:58Cause I ain't here to make ya.
02:01Oh no.
02:02It's up to you what you really wanna do.
02:05Spend some time in America.
02:08Double stop.
02:24Give you all that you ought to give her.
02:27I'm gonna make it hard to live.
02:30Slightly tears running down to a shed.
02:33Add a smith up and make up and never want to.
02:37So we ran away.
02:39I'm sorry when I say.
02:40She took this peri day for some prom, babe.
02:44She took a hike.
02:46No matter if I like it or not.
02:48Because she only wants the prom, babe.
02:51You're willing and hard to give.
02:54And soon you take it.
02:57I don't know.
02:58Her two brown eyes are leaking like a sip.
03:01But soon to make up and never want it.
03:06You're good.
03:10Yeah.
03:1193.3 WMMR in Philadelphia.
03:14That is Sublime with Rome.
03:15They play tonight and a few tickets remain at Festival Pier.
03:18Gonna be a perfect Friday to get out and see a show.
03:20Now you've celebrated this new album.
03:22Sirens came out on July 17th.
03:25And you guys recorded at a place called Sonic Ranch in El Paso.
03:30And I've never heard of this recording studio.
03:32Not that that means anything because I haven't heard of it.
03:34But I've heard that you liked it because there were fewer distractions.
03:38Is that right?
03:39Yeah.
03:40It's incredible, man.
03:41You're like in the middle of nowhere, man.
03:42Really?
03:43It's pretty nice.
03:44I gotta say, I've recorded at a lot of studios around the world.
03:47It might be my favorite studio.
03:48Really?
03:49Yeah.
03:50This is Josh talking.
03:51I recorded at the best studios in LA, the best studios in New York.
03:52I recorded in Atlanta, Chicago, London, Italy.
03:56This place, there's no place like it.
03:58Why?
03:59It's on this like thousand acre pecan orchard.
04:01I used to come through town through El Paso with other bands that I was in years ago.
04:05And this guy would always show up with this beautiful brochure of this place that looked too good to be true.
04:10It looked like some fantasy land place that you go to.
04:13It's right on the Texas, Mexico border.
04:15There's these women that cook these incredible meals for you while you're there.
04:18You don't drive a car.
04:19You don't handle money.
04:20You do your laundry.
04:21Really?
04:22You do your laundry.
04:23You live there.
04:24You wake up.
04:25You better not forget your acuerdamente.
04:26What you do is wake up and go to the, not only are you on this remote beautiful place, but they've got this gorgeous, great rooms, amazing equipment with these Neve consoles and the best equipment you could want.
04:37Wow.
04:38There's nothing like it.
04:39And a cappuccino machine, I think, right?
04:40Oh, yeah.
04:41Which is vital.
04:42But you're kind of far from a Starbucks or any form of civilization.
04:44You're far from everything.
04:45Wow.
04:46So we're speaking with Sublime with Rome.
04:48Now, Rome, you talked about how making an album, sometimes things come easily, but you used a word I really like or a phrase I really like.
04:55But you said sometimes you have to chisel a bit as if you were a sculptor.
05:00I like that reference.
05:01I like looking at it quite that way.
05:03Yeah.
05:04I mean, you know, sometimes you'll have something that everyone kind of likes, but it's not there yet.
05:10And instead of just abandoning the idea, sometimes if it's good enough, it's worth the effort to sit around and chisel it, so to speak.
05:18Isn't that hard, though?
05:19I mean, do you get frustrated?
05:20You go, should we move on to the next track?
05:22Or should we stay and continue to chisel?
05:25I mean, you kind of know.
05:26After like a day or two or three on a song, if it ain't sounding right by then, the song probably sucks.
05:32You know?
05:33You shouldn't have to chisel anything that hard.
05:34But also, you can come back to it, though, too.
05:36Sometimes, you know, you can sit there and work on it for a long time and get somewhere.
05:39Or sometimes you just, you can stop, move on, and come back to it a few days later and go,
05:44God, you know what?
05:45That actually, when you look at it in a different light or in a better mood or whatever, you go,
05:49this could work actually, but maybe let's play it slower.
05:51Let's do it faster.
05:52Let's lose.
05:53And sometimes it just happens like right there, you know?
05:56Like first try, you're like, damn, that was awesome.
05:58Well, and different songs on the record, different members of the band would just take off and do something.
06:04Like, I think, Eric, there's the song you were fiddling with with the bass and that became a full song.
06:08Oh, yeah.
06:09And there's a button on the mixing board that says suck and you turn the suck down.
06:14Eric, is Eric the comedian in the band?
06:16He's the comedian artist.
06:18The album artwork, I'm always a fan of album artwork, but it's really cool.
06:22I forgot who the guy is who designed it.
06:25Drew Brophy.
06:26Right.
06:27Tell us about that.
06:28It's actually a really boring story.
06:30I'll tell you real quick.
06:31We met him at the Grey Helm bus station.
06:33I had an idea for an album cover and I wanted a siren on it, original.
06:39And we had a conversation, me and him, we were introduced by someone in our management.
06:44And we just talked about what I wanted on the album cover.
06:47I'm like, I don't know.
06:48I just envisioned a siren.
06:49And he's like, okay.
06:50And he sent me back that picture right there.
06:53Wow.
06:54He was like, okay.
06:55So, you know, whatever notes, it's okay.
06:58Like, I could take it.
06:59You know, I'm a man.
07:00You know, I'm like, what the hell do you want me to say?
07:03This is gorgeous, dude.
07:04It's really beautiful.
07:05He hand painted it all.
07:06Really hand painted?
07:07That's not Photoshopped.
07:08Wow.
07:09So cool.
07:10Nice.
07:11Josh, you have a call coming.
07:12As soon as that phone started ringing, I go, who's the jerk that left their damn phone
07:15on?
07:16And I look down, it's my wife calling.
07:18No, really Josh has publicity on that.
07:20He wanted everybody to hear it.
07:22One last question before the next song, which is, I love reading the thank you credits
07:26that each band member will often put on an album.
07:29And each of you have some cool people that you thank.
07:31But Eric, you thank almost all Native American tribes.
07:34Why are you guys laughing in the back?
07:37It's kind of a long story.
07:38It's a long story.
07:39An abbreviated version would be?
07:41The honest one, or do you want to hear it?
07:43Talk into the microphones so we can hear you.
07:45Oh, okay.
07:46Well, I've been on a lot of albums, and I try to put all my friends and everybody that's
07:52helped me and everything, and then I always forget someone, and then they'll never, you
07:56know, let it down.
07:57I mean, they just give me beep, you know, forever about it.
08:01So, I just thanked all the Native nations, because, I don't know, I think I was just
08:06watching a show.
08:07No, I was reading a book about Native Americans, and so I saw a list of all these tribes, and
08:13plus we go to their casinos, you know.
08:16And I went some money there, too.
08:18So I put that all down there, but I meant to put it at the very top, but someone took
08:22it off was To All My Friends, like in the movie Barfly with Murkowski, but someone took
08:28that off, so that messed that whole thing up.
08:30Well, proving that you're the comedian in the band.
08:32That man was all my friends, really, and the Native Americans.
08:35Well, you do all the Native Americans, but at the end you go, quote, and I would not like
08:39to thank General Custer.
08:40Of course not, thank you.
08:42No thanks to George Armstrong Custer.
08:45No, he died with poop in his pants.
08:49We have Sublime with Rome with us.
08:51They're playing at the Festival Pier tonight.
08:53The new album has got so many great songs on it.
08:55Are you going to do the new one now?
08:56Yeah, this song's called Wherever You Go.
08:58Tell us a little bit about it before you play it.
09:00This was the very first song that we kind of put together for the record, with the exception
09:04of Skankin', but that's like our rendition of a Fishbone song.
09:08But this one, this was the song that kind of sparked everything off.
09:12We had gone in December to record and write, mainly write, some of the album.
09:17And we didn't really come back with nothing that we felt was definitive yet, with the exception
09:23of maybe a couple songs and Skankin' being one of them.
09:26And then we went on tour in Brazil, and then we came back, and straight from tour we went
09:29to Sonic Ranch, the studio.
09:31And this was the first song that we put together, and it was like the very first day
09:35we were there, the second day.
09:37And then after that, like, seriously, like 18 songs got tracked in that three week period.
09:41It was just, the time just wasn't right in December, and this time it was, I guess.
09:44Could I talk about the Skankin' to the Beat?
09:47Yeah, yeah.
09:48Well anyways, years ago, when me and Brad, when Brad was around, we went to go see Fishbone
09:54when they were just coming up in Receita Country Club at a free gig, and we were blown away.
10:01And they were in the air the whole time, throwing their horns and everything.
10:05And we went home, and that inspired us to write Date Rape.
10:10Wow.
10:11So then years, years later, they covered Date Rape.
10:14When somebody was playing Pandora, and that song came on, I was like, that's my favorite Fishbone
10:21song.
10:22I was like, dude, that's your song.
10:23It's just one.
10:24Like, oh, shh.
10:25They got really good.
10:27Yeah.
10:28They played it better than us, I'll tell you that.
10:31So the least we could do is do Skankin' to the Beat, you know, theirs, because they won't
10:35do that song anymore for some reason.
10:36I keep trying to give them-
10:37So we'll do it.
10:38Whenever I run into them, I'm like, why did I play Skankin' to the Beat?
10:40And they're like, I don't know if you don't play it.
10:42Okay, well we'll play it then.
10:44Yeah.
10:45That sounds great on the record, but you're gonna do Wherever You Are here, right?
10:47Yeah, Wherever You Go, yeah.
10:48Or Wherever You Go.
10:49No, you have to buy the album.
10:50Here, Skankin' to the Beat.
10:51Oh, either album.
10:53Yeah, Fishbone, ours.
10:55This is Sublime with Rome on 93.3 WMMR.
10:59I wanna be bad with you, girl, like we're robbing bank.
11:04I wanna be mad at the world, like it took you away.
11:09Don't wanna be mad at myself for my stupid mistakes.
11:14I wanna go back, I wanna get mad, wanna go back to the days.
11:21Just tell me we can, just for the weekend.
11:26Go somewhere far, go somewhere nice.
11:30Yeah, no time for thinkin', burnin' a blinkin'.
11:36Yeah, just you and I will move it slow.
11:41Wherever you go, I wanna know.
11:43I wanna walk with you to the show.
11:46Break down the walls, run through the fire.
11:49Promise me now you'll always stay wild.
11:51Wherever you go, oh, oh.
11:54I wanna know, oh, oh.
11:56Don't let me hope, don't let me wander out your sight.
12:01I'm gonna be mad when I show up and there's somebody there.
12:07Inside of my bed, sleepin' with you.
12:10Girl, I shoot it in my bed.
12:12I wanna go back to the days when it was all in my head.
12:17I wanna go there, I wanna get mad.
12:20I wanna go back to the light.
12:23Just tell me we can, just for the weekend.
12:29Go somewhere far, go somewhere nice.
12:32Yeah.
12:34No time for thinkin', burnin' and blinkin'.
12:39Just you and I will move it slow.
12:42Wherever you go, I wanna know.
12:45I wanna walk with you to the show.
12:48Break down the walls, run through the fire.
12:51Promise me now you'll always stay wild.
12:53Wherever you go, oh, oh.
12:56I wanna know, oh, oh.
12:58Don't let me go.
13:00Don't let me wander out your sight.
13:04Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
13:08Don't let me out your sight.
13:10Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
13:13I'll search for you deep in the night.
13:16Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
13:19Don't let me out your sight.
13:21No, no, no.
13:25Wherever you go, I wanna know.
13:30Wherever you go, oh.
13:33I wanna know.
13:35Don't let me go.
13:38I wanna know.
13:41Wherever you go.
13:43Wherever you go, I wanna know.
13:46Wherever you go, I wanna know.
13:49I wanna walk with you to the show.
13:51Break down the walls, run through the fire.
13:54Promise me now you'll always stay wild.
13:57Wherever you go, oh, oh.
13:59I wanna know.
14:01Oh, oh, oh.
14:02Don't let me go.
14:03Don't let me wander out your sight.
14:06Don't know.
14:08Ooh, ooh, ooh.
14:10Wherever you go, wherever you go.
14:13Wherever you go, I wanna know.
14:18Don't let me wander, wander, wander.
14:23Wherever you go, you want me, but I wanna know.
14:28Yeah, hey.
14:34It is 93.3 WMMR.
14:36We're joined by Sublime with Rome.
14:37We have Eric Wilson on the bass, Rome Ramirez on guitar and vocals, and Josh Fries on the drums.
14:42They'll be at the Festival Pier.
14:44A few tickets remain at the Festival Pier.
14:46Ticketmaster.com.
14:47You can head down there.
14:48Perfect night for a show.
14:50I wanna turn our attention to your drummer, because the original or the two remaining members
14:55when you guys sort of reconvened were Bud and Eric.
14:58Now, Bud left a few years ago, and this incredibly talented man stepped in, and I think Rome said
15:04that you felt reconnected as brothers when Josh arrived, right?
15:09I mean, he's just like a more open person, and we were just really able to just really get along.
15:18Like, no one was really walking on eggshells or anything.
15:21I've known Josh for a long time, because we grew up in Long Beach together, and we'd go see him with Vandals and Dweezels,
15:28and me and Brad would go see him and just dream about having him play drums for us.
15:32Wow.
15:33Like, you know, wet dreams or something.
15:36I gotta say, Josh, first of all, your mom was a classical pianist, if I understand correctly.
15:41Your dad, Stan Fries, conducted the Disney World band in both Florida and in California.
15:47A tuba player, too.
15:49Really? A tuba player? Wow.
15:50Yeah, yeah.
15:51So, if I get this right, you started playing drums at 8.
15:54You were playing professionally at Disneyland in the band there by 12.
15:57So it's safe to say that music is in your bloodstream, right?
16:00Yeah, yeah.
16:01Yeah, pretty much.
16:02Oh, and then you've gone on.
16:03I mean, the list of who you've played with just floors me, and this is only partial, but you've played with everyone,
16:08or recorded with everyone from Weezer to Daughtry on his debut album.
16:12Did a guest spot on Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes.
16:15You played with Sting, Michael Bublé.
16:17You toured with Guns N' Roses, Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, obviously the Vandals, as Eric just mentioned,
16:22and even Devo, which just...
16:25All my years.
16:26Oh, my God.
16:27So you remind me of the Kenny Aronoff of a younger generation.
16:31Kenny Aronoff was the, or is the drummer, was the drummer who made all the great John Mellencamp songs rock so hard,
16:37and he's gone out to play with everyone from Bob Seger to Melissa Etheridge touring now with John Fogerty.
16:43But, I mean, the amount of...
16:45I've also worked with Melissa Etheridge and John Fogerty.
16:47Really?
16:48That's awesome.
16:49I'll have you know.
16:50I just got the moose bumps.
16:51So you've worked with...
16:52Well, I've played with all his artists, too.
16:53You're so talented.
16:54You've also played bass and guitar, and you sing, but the one band I just have to ask you about is Devo.
16:59I saw them during the Whip It tour when they played the Tower Theater.
17:04It was one of the best productions I've ever seen, and I'm wondering what they're like now.
17:08Because they don't play very often.
17:10They're ornery.
17:11Are they?
17:12Yeah, they're grumpy old men.
17:13I love them.
17:14You know, I grew up...
17:15I mean, the first record I ever got, I got Devo, Freedom of Choice, and Queen the Game on Christmas when I was like eight.
17:21Wow.
17:22They may be listening right now.
17:23And Devo...
17:24I became such a big Devo fan and remained one, and as I got older and older, I understood them more.
17:30And they went from being kind of cartoon characters and something I kind of laughed at when I was eight or nine, to going,
17:34God, these guys are really heavy, and these guys are really serious.
17:37And when we got the earlier records, and I met the guitarist, Bob Too, where he produced a Vandals album.
17:45The first Vandals album I made in 1990 called Fear of a Punk Planet, Bob Ghazali produced.
17:50And I kind of clung onto him, because I was like 17.
17:53I wasn't afraid.
17:54The other guys are trying to be cool around him.
17:56But I was like, dude, I'm your biggest fan.
17:58And I remained friends with him.
17:59And Devo was kind of on hiatus at the time, and they started playing shows again in 96.
18:03And when they started, they all wanted to be involved, except the original drummer.
18:06So Bob said, I know this kid from the Vandals.
18:09He'll do it for...
18:10Wow.
18:11He'll do it for peanuts.
18:12So I started working with them, and I've worked with them for...
18:14Next year will be 20 years.
18:16But Devo's not very active right now.
18:18I just wish they would tour.
18:20It's just such a great show.
18:21Yeah.
18:22It's great.
18:23Now, one last thing on Josh, because you have a website, and there were various things you could buy.
18:30And there was a...
18:31Oh, that's so good.
18:32That's so good.
18:33But there was a special incentive package that one could purchase for $75,000 at joshfreeze.com.
18:40It's still for sale.
18:41I bought it.
18:42Limited edition of one.
18:43The website is joshfreeze.com slash buy now.
18:46Can I tell you something?
18:47I haven't looked...
18:48I'm going to be honest.
18:49I haven't looked at my website in probably two years.
18:52I haven't even looked at it.
18:53I don't even know if it's still up there.
18:54And I thought about the other day and going, I should update things on there.
18:57I'm just so not interested.
18:58It's bad for you.
18:59Oh, my God.
19:00All right.
19:01What does one get for the $75,000?
19:02Oh, I can't remember.
19:03I mean, I was inundated with stuff like that back then.
19:05That was in 2009 that all that crazy stuff was up online.
19:08And it was kind of pre-Kickstarter, you know?
19:11And I got a lot of props for it, actually, all around the world from newspapers to radio stations to magazines.
19:17Got a lot of write-ups.
19:18I got people like Tony Hawk that would call me and go, hey, I'm going to do a thing similar to you.
19:22Is it cool if I do it?
19:24Because I don't have a patent on it.
19:25Right.
19:26But I'll give you props online and I'll mention your name.
19:28And it's like, you know, it was pretty wacky, the direct-to-fan stuff I was doing back then.
19:32But I got so exhausted because I did a lot of that stuff and a lot of those packages that were less than $75,000.
19:37But still really expensive.
19:39I sold a lot of them.
19:41And it was fun for a minute.
19:43And then it got really old.
19:45I just was, you know, if somebody came up and said, all right, I'm going to write you a check for $75,000.
19:49I'm just trying to make payments on this house.
19:52Yeah.
19:53I don't want to.
19:54You still don't know what you'd give them for that.
19:57Oh, yeah.
19:58There's like, I join your band for a month.
20:00You and I take shrooms with Danny, the drummer from Tool.
20:03Listen.
20:04That's rad.
20:05My favorite one.
20:06My favorite one.
20:07Just go do this.
20:08Go to YouTube.
20:09But if you put my name in, and since 1972 is the name of the album, there's like a commercial that I made.
20:13It's really like crummy, right?
20:15And, but it's, yeah, it's a, so we take shrooms with the drummer from Tool and cruise around Hollywood in his Lamborghini.
20:21That's so rad.
20:22And I join your band for a month.
20:23I make a whole EP about you and release it, you know.
20:26What about that?
20:27What about eating food in the bathroom on the airplane?
20:29Oh, I do that for free.
20:31It's just one of my own little weird fetishes.
20:34On 93.3 WMMR, we're joined by Sublime with Rome.
20:37And, you know, before we get you to play your final song.
20:42They're showing off on the thing.
20:44That's the commercial.
20:46That's the commercial.
20:47B.F. Chang's B-Show.
20:48They're bringing up your commercial on the big screen here in the giant Kristen and Steve studio.
20:52The school in Cambodia.
20:54It's all, see, you could have had that if you had gone there in 2009.
20:59You guys have such a legacy.
21:01And what I remember interviewing Brian May and Paul Rogers when Queen decided to go out with a couple of members, Roger and Brian.
21:12And then they got another singer.
21:14And that was Brian May.
21:16And then they've done it since then again, you know, and gone out and tried a couple of different things.
21:21And it's really worked.
21:23But what they mentioned specifically and I thought was kind of cool is, listen, we're not trying to be that band that we were with Freddie.
21:31We're paying tribute to that music and keeping it alive.
21:33And I see a similarity between that and what Sublime with Rome is.
21:37Would you agree?
21:38Well, a hundred percent.
21:39I mean, you know, we're different times, different places.
21:43You know, Bradley lives in a different time.
21:45Different president.
21:46Different laws were outside.
21:47He went through different lives.
21:48Like if I was playing in a surf band or a Zydeco band, the fans are going to come and they're going to want to hear reggae.
21:55And if they don't hear it, they're going to throw stuff at us.
21:57I mean, obviously we're not going to come out and be like a metal group.
22:00You know what I mean?
22:01You know, it's not going to.
22:02But, you know, there's there's a I mean, there's this is just a continuation of like a wonderful legacy that's already at hand that will always be around forever.
22:11You know, whether or not we're playing or not, that music will stand the test of time.
22:15I believe that.
22:16But we help bring it to a live audience and to people who had never had the opportunity like myself, who were just too young to be able to see the band play.
22:26And even greater, we're now starting to take it over to other countries where Sublime hasn't has never even been before.
22:32It hasn't been played.
22:33So it's kind of a unique situation.
22:36And it's definitely a very honoring situation to be able to be somehow tied into the legacy.
22:41When we completed the self-titled album, Brad had passed away about two weeks afterwards.
22:46So I was never able to play those songs live.
22:50I'm sitting on the mic more.
22:52Yeah.
22:53Yeah.
22:54Can I say can I say something, too?
22:55Because I saw Sublime, you know, back in the early 90s, like Eric said, we've known each other for 25 years.
23:00And Sublime and the Vandals used to play gigs together.
23:03And I watched the whole rise, right, of the band.
23:06When they started playing shows about five years ago and right before I started working with them, you know, I went to go see them play at the Palladium.
23:13You know, and here's a bunch of people, a generation of people that have waited to hear these songs played live that didn't get to see them, you know.
23:20And I went with an old friend of mine, the singer in the Vandals, who's old friends with Eric and was the first guy in Long Beach to champion Sublime and play me their cassettes, you know, like back when we were teenagers, you know.
23:32And it was just great seeing this room full of people so psyched to hear these songs finally.
23:39Right. And then a couple months later, I'm playing drums of Weezer.
23:42We met up with these guys and played a couple like radio fests.
23:45And I'm on the side of the stage watching them and they sound great.
23:48And they're looking at the audience and seeing people that are so happy to hear these songs finally played because everyone, everyone got cheated, you know.
23:55Brad got cheated, the band got cheated, the fans.
23:57It was just such an unfortunate, horrible thing that went down, like Eric said, right when the record was coming out.
24:02I was watching the audience going, this is so great.
24:06And this is before I knew that I'd be playing drums with these guys and doing it, you know.
24:10So I think it's really special.
24:12It is amazingly special.
24:13And it's marvelous to keep this music alive.
24:15The ultimate irony being that Brad never got to live to see the great success of that record and those songs.
24:21You have one more song you'd like to...
24:22He lived a full life in that short amount of time he was alive, I'll tell you.
24:28I'll tell you.
24:29Yeah.
24:30I'll just put it that way.
24:31I have no doubt of that.
24:32Yeah.
24:33You have another song you're going to conclude your visit with us by playing.
24:36Yeah, we'll play that fifth?
24:37Sure.
24:38It's a sweet song.
24:39I'll be right back.
24:49When you grab a hold of me
25:08Tell me that I'll never be set free
25:13Cause I'm a parasite
25:19Creeping call I step into the night
25:25Two pints of booze
25:31Tell me are you a bad fish too
25:36Are you a bad fish too now
25:39Ain't got no money to spend
25:42I wish this night would never end
25:49Lord knows I'm weak
25:54Somebody kept me off of this reef
25:59Baby, you're a big blue whale
26:05I'll be brief when all the time fails
26:11But I swam, but I wish I'd never heard
26:17Water's too polluted and the wind jumps
26:22I dive deep when it's ten feet overhead
26:27I breathe underneath my bed
26:33Underneath my paper
26:35But I ain't got no coral sweat jar
26:38No, no, no, no
26:41Ain't got no time to go hold
26:46Lord knows I'm weak
26:50Lord, somebody kept me off of this reef
26:56Happy early birthday
27:09Ain't got no money to spend
27:23Ain't got no money to spend
27:37I wish this night would never end
27:44Lord knows I'm weak
27:49Lord, somebody kept me off of this reef
27:55Happy early birthday, my man, from our band to your radio station
28:00Thank you so much
28:02Thanks for having us, man
28:03Sublime with Rome, Eric Wilson, Rome Ramirez, and Josh Freese
28:07One last thing before you go
28:15Influences, you guys have talked about your influences
28:19And gosh, they're so wide-ranging
28:20You know, obviously the fishbone, the bad brains
28:23Things like that, bad religion
28:24But, you know, I've heard everything from ABBA to Frank Zappa
28:28And, you know, you've covered some cool people
28:32Including the song I want to conclude with is a cover
28:35In the Sublime catalog
28:37And it's the good old Grateful Dead
28:38Tomorrow is Jerry Garcia's birthday
28:40Or would be
28:41And Scarlett Begonia's you guys covered
28:44And did a wicked version of it
28:45Every time I play a block of Sublime
28:47People will call or text or email
28:49And please throw in Scarlett Begonia's
28:52Scarlett
28:52Do you remember recording that, Eric?
28:55Yeah, of course I do
28:55But I have a better story than that
28:58Cool
28:58We were doing some award show in Northern California
29:04And I was in the Long Beach of All Stars
29:07And we played that song
29:08And Bobby Weir came to play with us, right?
29:12And it was a total honor, right?
29:13He came before the show to practice the song
29:16And we were just getting ready to play it
29:19And then there's a guitar player in our band, Rass
29:21He tells Bobby Weir
29:25He goes, it's in the key of, what was it, in B
29:28And he's all, yeah, that's the key I wrote it in
29:31I was like, he thought it was our song
29:36Oh my God
29:37That is brilliant
29:38I thought it was your song?
29:39Yeah, that was Rass
29:40Oh my God
29:41Well, you know
29:42Typical Rass
29:42But there's a parallel in a way
29:45Because obviously Jerry's no longer with us
29:47Bradley's no longer with us
29:49But members of that band have kept that music going in various forms
29:53And I just
29:53Bobby is, we want him back
29:54We need to play again with him
29:56You ought to
29:57I went to Chicago
29:58Call him up
29:59Yeah, call him
30:00I went to Chicago to see the last of the three shows that they did
30:03How was that?
30:03It was amazing
30:04Are they going on tour now?
30:06No, they're not
30:06They were billing those as the final shows
30:08But what was so great about it is
30:10The fact that
30:11That, you know
30:13Each night they broke records at Soldier Field
30:16The last night being 71,000 people
30:18Showing up to hear the music of the Grateful Dead
30:20And I, you know, I see a parallel
30:22In the music of Sublime
30:24Being kept alive by you guys doing that
30:26Or them, you know, carrying on the music of the dead
30:28It sure would be cool to sell 70,000 tickets a night
30:32Well, there are some tickets remaining
30:34That's the one unparalleled part
30:35There are some tickets remaining
30:37If you'd like to go see
30:38God, what a great night of music it's going to be
30:40And a perfect evening to head outside to Festival Piers
30:43No rain is in the forecast
30:44Only nice warm temperatures
30:46The new album is Sirens
30:47Only been out a short while
30:48I have listened to it
30:49It is great
30:50And Sublime with Rome
30:51Thank you so much for stopping by to play with us
30:54Thank you for having us, my man
30:54Appreciate it
30:55Thank you
30:55Josh and Eric
30:56And, of course, Rome Ramirez
30:58And let us close with that song
31:00God bless the Grateful Dead
31:02This song is called
31:02Never Trust a Deadhead
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