Long Beach Dub Allstars

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Long Beach Dub Allstars

Background information
Origin	Long Beach, California, United States
Genre(s)	Reggae, Punk rock
Years active	1997–2002
Label(s)	DreamWorks
Associated acts	Sublime
Former members
Eric Wilson Jack Maness Marshall Goodman Bud Gaugh Tim Wu Opie Ortiz RAS-1 Miguel Happoldt Trey Pangborn Todd Foreman Isaiah Ikey Owens

The Long Beach Dub Allstars were a reggae band formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2002.

Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh met in childhood (in 1979) and later started their first garage punk band, consisting of drums, bass and vocals. They later formed Sublime with Brad Nowell. The Long Beach Dub Allstars (LBDAS for short) were founded after Brad died in 1996 of a heroin overdose (frequent contributors to Sublime including Michael "Miguel" Happoldt, Todd Foreman, and "Field" Marshall Goodman are also members of the band).

The band released their debut recording called Right Back, issued in 1999 and their second album was Wonders of the World in 2001.

In 2002 rumors that the band had broken up began to surface. Apparently the band had taken a hard-drug-free vow and some of the band's members had broken this vow, which caused Bud Gaugh to quit.

Eric Wilson, Trey Pangborn and RAS-1 formed Long Beach Shortbus with former Slightly Stoopid and temporary Sublime Drummer, Kelly Vargas (later replaced by Damion Ramirez). Jack Maness and Opie Ortiz formed Dubcat, with members of Hepcat. Shortbus has had slightly more success than Dubcat, though the latter has yet to release an album.

Their feel-good song "Sunny Hours" is used as the title track for the sitcom and successor to Friends, Joey.