They played their first show on July 4, 1988 at Harbor Peninsula, a small club in Long Beach, California. As legend has it, the performance initiated a small-scale riot, now known as the Peninsula Riot.
Their first record, 40 Oz. to Freedom, was released through a homemade label, Skunk Records, started by Nowell and Sublime manager Miguel. It sold an amazing 5,000 copies before they were signed to MCA and spent over 50 weeks on Billboard's Alternative New Artist chart.
Brad Nowell was 28 when he died on May 25, 1996 in San Francisco from a heroin overdose. Sublime's hits - songs like "Santeria" and "What I Got" - were all released on their third (self-titled) album that July, two months after Nowell's death.
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