The stuff I told them, I tell to everybody. To their credit, they listened and put it into action. The first record is pretty hard. Unfortunately, Brad never got to hear it. Their second record, The Longest Barrel Ride , was the first to be recorded at a real studio. I remember Miguel used to call it metal-dub. It was jammy and really experimental.
The way their vocals meshed together, there was nothing else that sounded like that. I thought this could go beyond the Southern California punk scene. It had the potential and the elements of Jimmy Buffett or the Grateful Dead. And that band got bigger than Sublime as a live band, overnight.
That put them in front of a huge audience. They worked hard, toured constantly. Sublime had blown up and were maybe the biggest band in the world. We were talking to labels, and there were deals on the table for Slightly Stoopid. All they cared about was going out and playing music for the fans. I give them credit for that. Their philosophy was to bring the music to the people.
The guys would tour in a van, sleep on floors—any means necessary. They wanted to play the best show of their lives that night so those five or fans would spread the word. One time, I was the last man standing. Everyone had quit or been fired. He wanted me to meet James and the band. By , Bausch had departed. After Adam, we toured with a few different guys. I have nothing but love for all of them. All those guys contributed to us moving forward.
Finally, we found Ryan Moran. When he came around, it really stabilized the band. Adam helped put us on the map. I see him out on the water all the time. We tell each other we love each other—no hard feelings. At the time [of his departure], we were probably butting heads.
Being in a band is a marriage. It was pretty much: Play live for 40 minutes. At the time, they were between drummers. Kyle and Miles went in with just two acoustic guitars. It was so good. It was a huge, career-changing thing. We started getting requests from people all over the country wanting to hear it.
It was a different look for them; very folky mixed with reggae. That did two things for us. The goal from the get-go was to have everything under our own wing. We wanted to build our own independent label and put out records on our own, to have complete creative control of our music and what we wanted to do. I would never want to jeopardize that for the sake of a label.
Doughty and McDonald have often pointed to their fortunate positions allowing them to give back as a constant source of inspiration. Slightly Stoopid is and continues to be a musical brotherhood that always welcomes guest musicians and the art of collaboration. Doughty and McDonald remain unwavering in their principles of independence, honoring their diversity of influences and mentors, and furthering their inherited legacy of the Southern California sound.
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