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Podcast FeedA Reflection on Sublime with Rome and Summer
Chris reflects on a great show experience. Slideshow photographs by David Gaertner.
Back in August I covered a 311 show with openers Sublime with Rome, and looking back, the pictures of the band were way too good to miss out on article for all to see. I wrote a little blurb about the show, which is shown below, but I felt there was a need to spice it up with new words from my vernacular. Now three months later, I’m still obsessed with the new CD “Yours Truly”, but cannot wait until the temperatures rise back into the 80 and 90 degree temperatures so I can feel the reggae, California punk tunes in the weather that they’re supposed to be enjoyed with. As the temperatures start to drop, and our pumpkins dilapidate into moldy piles of a mush, read this quasi article, pump up the heat in your home, apartment, car, and throw on “Yours Truly” and think of next summer when the band will hopefully be back on tour with more good music. And if you are unsure if you’re going to see 
Sublime with Rome the next time they come to Charlotte, read this short recap of their presence on stage; I’m pretty sure it will dissuade your concert-going negligence.
Sublime With Rome opened with beers in hand and cigarettes in mouth, ready to uplift the crowd and revitalize a population that has probably never gotten a chance to hear Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh rock together on stage since the loss of Bradley Nowell back in 1996. As for their lead singer, Roman (Rome) Ramirez, there is no one else on the earth that could bring the same energy as Nowell once had, and provide the respect due to the legendary band. Hearing songs like 54-46 sent the crowd into an uproar, while the calmer songs off the new CD, Yours 
Truly, like “Take It Or Leave It” had the whole crowd dancing to the new powerhouse which is Sublime With Rome. Once Sublime With Rome ended with the exalted “What I Got” and one last older tune, the crowd calmed down to the summer setting sun, and the air cooled just enough to dry up some of the sweat on everyone’s bodies.
(shown here in center) Hailing from Rochester, NY, at 5'8'' and 155 lbs., the once dubbed "Hurricane Thurley" now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, to get his M.A. in Engish Literature. An alum from High Point University and the biggest 311 fan you've ever met is now getting to write about the local music in Charlotte. Anyone that has ever had a car ride with this man knows that this is the right job for this singing maniac. Either he's reading about Shakespeare, checking 311's tweets, rocking out in his room, or researching new bands that he'll inevitably talk about constantly for a couple of weeks.
He currently has a paper in the process of being published on his favorite author, Anthony Burgess, and intends on writing and speaking about him much more in the future as well.
