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Podcast: FRUMESS
Episode: Sublime's Last Show: The Oral History of May 24, 1996 at Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, CA | Frumess
Description: On May 24, 1996, Sublime played their last show at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma. No one knew it’d be their final concert. But no one knew at the time, either, that singer Bradley Nowell would pass away the next morning at a motel in San Francisco. Sublime would go on to sell over 17 million records, and for obvious reasons, that final show in Petaluma has attained mythic status. 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. But only...