Bootleg goes legit with Sublime’s $5 At The Door (Live at Tressel Tavern, 1994) from Surfdog Records
Photo courtesy of Surfdog Records.
For those not lucky enough to catch a copy of one of the most bootlegged Sublime shows (known up until now as Memories), the good folks behind Surfdog Records decided to officially release the recording as $5 At The Door (Live at Tressel Tavern, 1994) on April 21, 2023.
This offering is the perfect opportunity to experience some of your favorite songs in a completely different light, and you may even hear a song or two you haven’t before.
Containing over two dozen tracks within the eighty minute collection, there’s a lot to listen to; many of the greatest hits you’d expect, tangled up with some of their lesser known, more punk-driven creations.
As a huge Sublime fan, I’ve been fond of this live album for years (and with this official release, I can finally add it to my Spotify playlist and do a little punk-reggae thrashin’ on the way to work!). Captured twenty-nine years ago – and as rough as the recording is – it’s never sounded sweeter. With all twenty-five tracks restored and mastered, you can hear more of the crackles, hums and imperfections in a high quality, lo-fi atmosphere that I personally wish I could experience every Sublime album in.
Some songs flow into each other seamlessly and lyrics are often switched up for that version you can only get live as the boys bang out that LBC flavor they’ve held the rights to for the past thirty-five years. I enjoy the between-song guitar riffs and band banter that can be heard over the crowd in what I can only imagine was a packed house that night at the Tressel Tavern in Everett, WA. Listening to this playlist in its entirety invokes every sense of what it was like to be at a Sublime show in the 90’s if you were able to catch one.
The recording is a time-machine back to ‘94, two years prior to Nowell’s untimely death when the Sublime train was really gaining steam (Brad passed away before ever seeing the success of the self-titled album, recorded in 1996 at Willie Nelson’s studio in Austin, TX). It’s raw, rough and a perfect window into what it was like to be there, something nobody today can experience if they haven’t already. Huge thanks to Surfdog Records for putting this out into the world!
Sublime paved the road for so many great artists that we are surrounded by today, and the amount of love that is still given back in the name of Brad Nowell is nothing short of legendary.
Please visit out https://thenowellfamilyfoundation.org/ for ways to support addiction recovery within the music community.
SUBLIME: $5 AT THE DOOR
(LIVE AT TRESSEL TAVERN, 1994) TRACKLIST:
1. Don't Push / Right Back / New Thrash
2. Work That We Do
3. 40oz. To Freedom
4. House Of Suffering
5. Badfish
6. Leaving This Babylon
7. Prison Oval Rock
8. We're Only Gonna Die For Our Arrogance
9. Let's Go Get Stoned
10. Pool Shark / Pool Shark Reprise
11. S.T.P.
12. I’m Not a Loser
13. Scarlet Begonias
14. Loving / Good Hole College
15. Cost of Living
16. D.J.’s
17. Saw Red
18. Jah Is My Light / Greatest Hits
19. Jailhouse
20. 54-46 That’s My Number
21. Date Rape
22. Ebin
23. Youth Are Getting Restless
24. Romantic Girl / Winner Takes All
25. Myage
26. Slow Ride
