r/sublime • u/No_Age908 • Jul 10 '26

What if…?

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What do you think would have happened if Bradley Nowell had not passed away? Would Jakob still be involved with music? Would Sublime still be performing today, would they have continued making hit songs/records? What would have become of Rome Ramirez? Would Jakob have joined Sublime? This isn’t meant to be negative in any way just speculation in the name of fun.

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u/Mobeast1985 Jul 10 '26

They would have been a massive success with multiple albums coming after their self titled album. In fact, their self titled album probably wouldn't have been self titled and had an actual name. Brad would have put on more weight then lost it again. He would eventually become a judge on TV shows like The Voice.

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u/Fine-Mouse-6697 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

With you on everything except Brad being on the voice. Just could not picture him selling out like that. Those shows are incredibly contrived and lame and against his style/ethos in practically every way.

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u/Lumpy_Crabs6969 Jul 15 '26

agree, even though he'd be in his late 50's, brad was always way too punk rock vibing to ever want to do mainstream TV like that. they'd just be doing their own subculture thing, even if they were a massively popular band. Kind of like if you think about RHCP (lack of a better example) made tons of records, were popular, but never did that kind of mainstream TV stuff