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Marshall of the Long Beach Dub All-
stars, Warped Tour, 7/24/00, Randall's
Island, NYC, Photo © 2000 NY Rock
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Friends since high school, many members of the Long Beach Dub Allstars began as the multi-platinum band Sublime. Two of the bandmates, bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh, met in 1979. They, along with late singer/guitarist Bradley Nowell, formed Sublime in 1986. “Field” Marshall Goodman – who met Wilson and Opie Ortiz (vocalist for the Dub Allstars and former artist of Sublime) in high school – performed with Sublime from 1990 to 1992. Marshall now plays drums, turntables, percussion and programs for the Dub Allstars.
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NYROCK:
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How's it going?
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MARSHALL:
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The tour is great. A lot of great bands. This is our first time on the Warped Tour as Long Beach Dub Allstars. We were out with the Warped Tour with Sublime about two years ago and during the first Warped Tour.
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NYROCK:
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What are you doing after the tour?
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MARSHALL:
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We're going to Japan in August. And then we're doing our album in September. Most likely, first couple months of next year we'll do a tour.
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NYROCK:
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How does your music fit in with the other bands on the Warped bill?
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MARSHALL:
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Our style of music is accepted by the same type of fans of MXBX, NOFX, Green Day. We're a mixture of punk rock, reggae, ska. It kind of all falls into the same genre, so we're accepted well.
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NYROCK:
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How has the Internet been for your band?
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MARSHALL:
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We've done well. We have skunk.com. Then we have our own website with DreamWorks. It's the new age. The new way of doing business.
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NYROCK:
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What do think of the Napster controversy?
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MARSHALL:
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Long Beach Dub Allstars
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I don't think it's so much of a controversy. If your stuff is out there, it's out there. It's up to the fans. If they want to go out and get everything for free and not support the musicians, then that's what they do. It's up to us – if we have something sacred, which is our art form – to protect it. Don't let anything that's not released out of your hands. Don't let it get bootlegged or taken. There are a lot of other ways. There were bootleggers all the time selling CDs on the street. It's really no different from that. It's really not illegal what Napster's doing. It's just the kids putting stuff up. I have nothing against Napster. It's a good thing. It's a good marketing device for bands to get their stuff out there. It creates a little hype if you have something that's unreleased that's on Napster.
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NYROCK:
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Anything else you'd like to add?
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MARSHALL:
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To our fans: Thanks for your support. We know you make it happen for us. We have a new album coming out in April, but Right Back (1999, DreamWorks) is on the record shelves right now. If you get a chance, check out marshallartsmusic.com, which is my website. It's a whole new source of different styles of music coming out of Long Beach.
August 2000
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