![]() Even though those genres didn’t originate in SoCal, pockets like Long Beach, Venice and most of Orange County became epicenters in the late ’80s and ’90s for the music and the culture that surrounded it, with bands like Sublime creating one of the more recent chapters in the area’s rich musical history. With those two headliners and a name like High & Mighty, one can easily imagine the scene that unfolded - Rastafarian red, yellow, and green at every turn, white guys with dreadlocks, one particularly pungent and unavoidable smell - all soundtracked by a formidable lineup of ska, hip-hop, and reggae bands.īut there’s more to High & Mighty than meets the suspiciously bloodshot eye. A crowd full of these locals descended upon Village Green Park in Garden Grove on Saturday for the first annual High & Mighty Festival, a two-day event from the minds of the contemporary incarnation of Sublime (Sublime with Rome), the Dirty Heads and local radio station KLOS. If you can’t recognize that song in the first five notes, you’re not from around here. Interview with Sublime with Rome, Hearing The Voice, June 11, 2011.For Southern Californians of a certain age, Sublime’s 1996 hit “Santeria” stands as an unofficial anthem.Interview with Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome,, April 24, 2010.^ "Sublime With Rome Finish New Album".^ "Rome Ramirez Talks About Sublime Reunion". ![]()
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