Stand by Your VanĮric Wilson (Bassist, Sublime): We had just finished the album. So to mark the anniversary of Sublime's last show in Petaluma, I've decided to pull together those memories, stories, and loose threads-from regular showgoers, people behind the scenes, and performers on stage. (He once sicced his dog on a skateboarder and expected me to back him up in a beatdown, an incident I wrote about here, 10 years ago.) But hearing everyone's memories since, I've always wondered how the rest of their final show went down. My band played the Warped Tour with Sublime the year before, and I'd gotten my fill of them already, to say nothing of Nowell's impulsive behavior. I was there that night, but I left after four songs.
The rest of Sublime's millions of fans always want to know: what was it like? But only 900 or so people witnessed Nowell's final performance. An audio bootleg exists legal issues over still-unreleased video footage have continued for years and snippets of people's memories can still be overheard at parties in and around Petaluma. Sublime would go on to sell over 17 million records, and for obvious reasons, that final show in Petaluma has attained mythic status. But no one knew at the time, either, that singer Bradley Nowell would be found dead of a heroin overdose the next morning at a motel in San Francisco. On May 24, 1996, Sublime played their last show at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma.
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