![]() ![]() The members of Badfish - though they admitted they hadn’t gotten much sleep - knew how to have fun on stage. The band played everything from classics still heard on the radio today - “Santeria,” “What I Got,” “Doin’ Time” and “Wrong Way,” - to Sublime fan favorites, “Garden Grove,” “Seed,” “Boss D.J.,” “Smoke Two Joints” and “Date Rape,” which most of the audience knew the lyrics to. “Party time,” Downes announced when the band finally emerged. Then before the band took stage, the lights in the venue went off and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” played in its entirety, the crowd singing every word and beginning to pack tightly together, eager for Badfish to begin. ![]() The crowd went wild on Sunday when the staff released the Badfish tapestry on the background of the stage - a design of a trippy, colorful fish smoking a cigarette. “Everybody we knew loved Sublime and we figured it would be something that our peers would be interested in seeing a live performance of.” “Sublime served as somewhat of a soundtrack to our college years,” Begin said. For the band itself, it’s all about making sure the music of Sublime lives on. During the concert on Sunday, keys player Dorian Duffy also picked up the guitar vocalist Pat Downes played a saxophone Begin played acoustic guitar and the brass players contributed to back-up vocals and percussion.īecause of the death of Sublime lead singer Bradley Nowell in 1996, Badfish is as close as fans can get to seeing the reggae rock band live - although Sublime with Rome exists, they seem to have a slightly different style than the original material. Besides Hanks and Begin, the band also has a vocalist who also plays guitar, a keys player, a trombonist and a trumpeter. ![]() They now play an average of 130 shows a year, and generally have three or four small tours annually.īut one of the most defining characteristics of Badfish is that each member is multi-talented and can play more than one instrument. When their first show was a major success, they decided to continue performing regularly and eventually became a touring band. Instead, they all gathered at The Westcott Theater to watch the Sublime tribute band, Badfish perform.īadfish, named after one of the band’s most famous songs, formed when members Joel Hanks on bass and Scott Begin on drums conceived the idea to put on a Sublime tribute show during their time in college at the University of Rhode Island in 2001. For Syracuse fans of the ska-punk band Sublime, the Academy Awards were not the biggest event that occurred on Sunday night. ![]()
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