One hopes that documentaries like this will help increase awareness for musicians and everyday people that addiction can rob the world of incredible talent and people. Thankfully a lot of rock musicians today know the patterns that so many musicians have fallen into or addiction, drug rehab, and death, and are seeking help more than ever. The drugs robbed him, and the world, of a great talent, and he wouldn’t be the first or the last. He just wasn’t able to stick around long enough to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
“He knew he had to get clean before the could happen.”Īs his story on earth ends, he was able to accomplish everything he wanted when he was here. In 1994, “he decided on his own that he wanted to go to rehab,” the source continued to Rolling Stone. Nowell certain did his best at getting into an addiction rehab before he signed his first record deal. He said it was very rock & roll…Brad wanted to see what it was like.” As one source told Rolling Stone, Nowell “wanted to be a rock star. While Nowell wasn’t able to overcome his addictions, his childhood friend Tood “Z-MAN” Zalkins, was able to get sober after being addicted to painkillers for seventeen years.Ī lot of musicians believe the myth of sex, drugs and rock and roll before they decide to clean up and head into drug rehab. Nowell was the subject of a previous documentary as well, The Long Way Back. To date, Sublime has sold 17 million albums, and the world was robbed of decades of more music from Nowell.Īs this review explains, “Nowell comes across in the film as a mostly sweet but troubled soul, a college dropout and beach hum whose battle with hard drugs unleashed his darker loose-cannon side.” Nowell was 28 when he overdosed on heroin and died in 1996. The Hollywood Reporter writes that this documentary has “a tragically familiar crash-and-burn-story arc,” and it is indeed something we’ve seen so many times in rock and roll. Now a new documentary on the band, called Sublime, helmed by an Oscar-winning director, is reminding the world of Nowell’s talent, and the cautionary tale of his addiction and death. It’s too bad that Nowell is no longer around to see how much the seeds of his success have grown. Perhaps more than ever, people are realizing how great Brad Nowell was as a songwriter, and his work is still a significant mainstay of radio and music streams. Sublime is a band that has lived on for a long time. Home / Uncategorized / A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON SUBLIME SHEDS AN IMPORTANT LIGHT ON ADDICTION
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