The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Sublime

In the final months of Nowell's life, he, Gaugh and Wilson were busy cutting the album Sublime in Austin, Texas at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio. But according to Rolling Stone, it was clear in those months that even though Nowell had tried to kick his heroin habit a few times, he was worse than ever. 

Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers produced the album. He told Rolling Stone, "They're the sweetest bunch of guys, [but] it was chaos in the studio. There were times where someone had to go into the bathroom to see if Brad was still alive." 

At one point Leary sent Nowell home to get it together. Nowell's dad, Jim Nowell, told Rolling Stone, "It was the worst I'd ever seen him."

The Sublime recordings lasted from February to May 1996, when Nowell was found dead in the Oceanview Motel in San Francisco, according to Rock and Roll Roadmap, who reported that the singer was cremated and his ashes released in his favorite place to surf in Surfside, California. 

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