The Strange Yelling on a SUBLIME Album Solved - MYSTERIOUS MUSIC Special
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 січ 2022
- Sublime, a popular band from the 1990s, had an unlikely mystery floating throughout their second album ROBBIN' THE HOOD. Three tracks contain the rambling and yelling of a man named Raleigh Theodore Sakers. The things he'd say ranged from humorous to troubling, but always entertaining; and these tracks fascinated listeners for 27 years. Aside from his name, however, not much else was known about him, until now…
Marriage record provided by u/One_Jack_Move
Featuring music by:
- "Two Sides" by SefChol
- "S.T.P." by Sublime
- "Cold Cracks Us" by TrackTribe
Facebook - wwwcwschultzcom
GoodReads - www.goodreads.com/author/show/743096.C_W_Schultz
IMDb - www.imdb.com/name/nm4439042
Patreon - www.patreon.com/cwschultz
Reddit - u/cwschultz
Twitter - @C_W_Schultz
Website - www.cwschultz.com
#sublime #raleightheodoresakers #mystery - Розваги
I met Sublime DJ Miguel Happoldt in an alley in Arcata, California in 1995. They were in town playing a show with The Wesley Willis Fiasco and Lordz of Brooklyn. I asked him how they found Rollie - he said they bought a used 4-track (or some amount of tracks, I can’t recall) and there was a tape of Rollie in it. He said they found him by accident.
"you dont know what love is...until you learn the meaning of the blues" robbin the hood is great man. My mom recites the Raleigh bits.
I'm pretty sure every single girlfriend I've ever had has been forced to hear my Raleigh impressions.
❤thats right, im an american
I grew up in Long Beach with the guys from Sublime. In high school they played at parties damn near every weekend, hell they even played in my back yard for my birthday party. Great guys, all with incredible senses of humor.
I can tell you that That Raleigh tape was legendary at Wilson High back in the mid and late 80's.
Bradley, Eric or Bud no doubt got the Raleigh tape from a dude named Greg, who started spreading it around Hill Jr. High in 1983. That's when I first heard it.
Mad respect to you and anyone who contributed for solving the Raleigh mystery. I hope more SUBLIME fans (and people associated with the band) find this video ‘cuz it deserves way more views.
🎵 “You don’t know what love is, ‘til you learn the meaning of the bluuuues…” 🎵
Glad you enjoyed the video, Mateo. I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching.
@@CWSchultz I actually tracked down Christine Gontara about 15 years ago. Turns out she is a MI6 agent in England. Gives some credibility to Raleighs rant. He is probably a test subject from the MKULTRA days.
HOW AM I JUST SEEING THIS VIDEO
I remember reading every word inside the cd booklets. I literally looked up every band that Sublime sent shoutouts to. Was the coolest way to find great music. Even so many that were not mainstream at all.
this was gnawing at me for 20+ years. can't thank you enough for putting this together!
Glad to hear you found this video helpful. I appreciate the kind words. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
@@CWSchultz also shared with several friends who were/ are still big fans. I know at least a couple will watch.
I found a copy of robbin the hood at a church rummage sale for a dollar
What a steal
Freaking loved this video dude! Great job, I’ve always wondered about this guy for years & years since I heard this guy going nuts on Robbin the hood lol
Glad you enjoyed! Happy to know the video answered some of your questions about Rollie. I appreciate the kind words. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!!
I'm so glad to find this. I grew up on Sublime and in my adulthood I've moved on to other music, but lately I've rekindled my love-affair with the band. I was listening to Robbin' The Hood a fee nights ago and I got very curious about Rollie, understanding that now days we have the internet and wanted to unlock some of the mystery. I found the uncut 30 minute version and I was blown away. The man is obviously insane, but some of what he says makes a certain kind of sense. He has obviously been twisted and completely fucked by resentment. So much so it seems to have made him crazy, but there is a kind of brilliance about him at the same time. I'm a classically trained actor and have also been away from that in my adult years and also wish you rekindle my love-affair with performance and Rollie makes an excellent character study and I know I could make it extremely interesting, so I've done a lot of searching to find what I can about him. I never thought this was fake or acted out. He is too crazy to not be real. It's too genuine for a bunch of strung out beach bums to have forged. This video confirms that I believe he was definitely real and the recordings are authentic.
Thanks again! Please share more if you ever find aanything. I'd love to know all that I can about him for the character study.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Great to hear your thoughts; it's nice to know that others also found Rollie fascinating too. I'll certainly share any updates. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
My friends dad came in his room one night we were kicking back.. while raliegh was on his rant his pops goes" you know what his trip is? He thinks hes the only real American left!" After all these years and now im almost 40 ,i think i get what his dad was trying to say😂
As a Life long Sublime fan, I wanted to say thank you for a very Nostalgic, Educational and amazing video.
Raleigh Soliloquy's have always been some of my favorite material Sublime has put out.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found it educational. Thank you for the kind words.
Well done, thank you for putting this together. My friends and I had his rants memorized back in the day and lines continue to pop into my head to this day. A regular feature of my mental landscape, for better or worse! Raleigh's the best.
Glad you enjoyed, Gary! Thank you for the kind words and taking the time to watch.
Excellent work. Thank you for keeping his memory alive. He impacted so many people in such an unorthodox way. I love that he captured portraits, someone out there somewhere has got to have one.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Karly. I agree that his artwork is out there somewhere; I'll definitely follow up if I ever come across any. Thank you for the kind words and making time to watch.
@@CWSchultz this was my fave part of sublimes underrated genius sense of humour.. only a malnourished drug addiction in their manic state could appreciate this regardless of their blood to THC levels
@@CWSchultz more on him please and thank you for unearthing this much info 🎉🎉😅❤😊
Thank you!
I always used to wonder about those tracks... It was exactly how you said too, lol .. at first I just wrote them off, then after time I grew fascinated with them ... Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Joe! Thank you for the kind words.
this is the kind of stuff i’m way more interested in than i should be- i used to rewind his little rants over and over when i had this cd
A fascinating man with a fascinating life. Thank you for telling us the tale of Raleigh.
Calm down people. It was misspelling on the internet. 🙄
Raleigh.
Raleigh * Theodore Sakers. Put some spect on His name
@@lukehunter3902 just because my spelling is trash doesn’t mean my intention was to disrespect.
This is fantastic. Good work my dude.
Thank you, Simple Alien!
Outstanding detective work.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Adam! Thanks for the comment.
This is so awesome! But why hasn’t anybody asked the remaining members of the group?
This was nicely done! Excellent work, dude! Would happily hear you explore more mysteries like this!
Thanks, DefyJoe! Glad you enjoyed. More mysteries to come…
So cool hearing this story after all these years, thanks.
It was my pleasure, Joe! Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Great video! Was fascinated with him as soon as I heard the Robin the Hood album way back in the day. Behind every crazy person was a once potentially normal and insightful life. We all have a story. You just told part of his. Kinda sad though to know that he started out as an obvious creative person but ended up in the loony bin for whatever reason.
About time the mystery of Raleigh be done with and his life be known.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, Matthew. Thank you for leaving a comment. Maybe some of his art will turn up one day; and if it does, I'll gladly make a follow-up. I also had always been intrigued ever since listening to Robbin' The Hood. The more I dug, the more fascinating I found the man.
Thank you for this Deep Dive into Robin Da Hood's most fascinating parts. I always was a little disturbed listening to this and now I know why.
I appreciate the kind words. Glad you found the video informative.
Great video! Learned a ton.
Glad to hear it, foreal. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
I really enjoyed this video! I’m not much of a Sublime fan, but I loved hearing such a reverent and informative summary of such an interesting life. thank you!
Thanks, miaAlex!
Sounds like a tragic life, unfortunately (figured as much). Thanks for the info! A question long asked, finally answered!
Thanks for watching, Brayden!
Nice work. Its really interesting to find out Raliegh or Rollie is from St. Louis. My group of friends used to listen to this album on a loop back in late 90s at my buddies crash pad in Stl. We knew every word, as im sure every sublime fan did. We still quote Rollie to this day.
Im sharing the hell out of this to my homies. Lol
@@Thelopius Glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for the comment and sharing the story.
First time I heard it was in the late 90's while camping with friends. Instead of the usual music by the campfire we were entertained by the unique comedic genius of this legend Rolli. I don't think I've laughed that hard since! 😅
Wow, thanks for doing this. Glad I found it. I was intrigued the first few times I heard those tracks and would return to them in fascination every few years, always cracking up a little. I particularly found the interactions with the orderly to be humorous. I randomly searched his name today and came across this video. Kind of a sad story, as you say, but it is pretty cool that you put all of this together. I look forward to any follow up videos!
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video, EP. Rollie was such an interesting person. Thanks for watching.
great video.i remember hearing part 2 of the soliloquy when i was about 12 or 13, and was like "what the hell was sublime doing back then?" and for some reason the part about the psych ward had stuck in my head over the years along with rollie saying "back out!". i guess this album showed me that musicians like to make weird stuff in their albums too.
I’ve watched a lot of documentaries and do not recall where i heard this from… I heard Bradley used to buy used tapes from garage sales and one lot of tapes were from Rollie’s estate sale… usually they would record over the tapes but in this case they played them first… heard Rollie’s recordings and used them in their 2nd album.
I have the full 31 minute 41 second rant, and it is pure gold from start to finish.
Omg we grew up on this guys ranting! If you can sift through the swearing and name calling, you can find some of his rantings actually make sense.
Awesome content keep it up !!! 👑😎💯🙌 As a stoner of often wondered about this on the album thank you so much for completing my sublime fan experience full circle! ⭕
Glad you enjoyed. I appreciate you leaving such a supportive comment. Thanks for watching!
Everything related to Sublime is always guaranteed to be Sublime, and this is no exception
I'm glad you think this video is no exception. Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for the kind words.
I have always wondered what the story with Rollie was. Just from the way he sounded and what he said I was sure it was real and organic. When Rollie is arguing with the orderly, and you hear a 3rd person laugh in the background, always struck me as true.
Thanks for putting this together and giving me some answers!
Glad you enjoyed, Michael! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
He is very real and alive and well. He lives in San Diego county. His real name isn't Raleigh.
This is amazing. Well done!!! Thank you. I’m looking forward to checking out your other videos
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching and sending along your kind words.
Thank you for this!!!
I was obsessed with these tracks as a teen. They were the funniest fucking shit.
You did a great job on this video. The amount of research and effort put in is admirable.
I have listened to those rants so many times on Robbin the Hood.
Great stuff! Keep up the great work
Glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate the kind words. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch.
Really great work, there's almost nothing out there on him I could find and I've been interested in the topic for years. Were you able to find any pictures of him that would have been taken closer to the time of the recording? Again, amazing work!!!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Laser. No pictures from around the '90s yet; I'm also eager to see some of his art and listen to his song (if a recording of it even exists), so I'll continue to research and hope to share more details of Rollie's story someday. Thanks for watching!
Really well produced and written, and answered a funny question I've had for decades. Consider me subscribed!
Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video, Dyno.
Great video. Thank you kindly for sharing 🙏
My pleasure, Ryan. Glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool bro! Thanks for the research. Robbin the Hood is one of my all time favorite albums.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed. I appreciate the kind words. Yes, Robbin the Hood is one of my favorites as well!!
Thanks for sharing this! Some questions have been answered.
Glad the video was able to answer some questions! Thanks for watching.
If Bradley Nowell lived I believe he would have been the male version of Gwen Stefani in terms of fame.
Aside from the impact on his friends and family the death of Brad Nowell is one of the biggest rock n’ roll tragedies involving musicians dying young in the 90’s - along with Braniac’s Timmy Taylor, Hole’s Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Shannon Hoon, Selena, and Bill White & Timothy Bender.
Thank you .great work man.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video! I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
Nice!
more people need to see this. thank you for answering some questions
Glad you enjoyed, carrind! Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave an encouraging comment.
Yeah this has been a mystery for years. Of course I never dug this deep to find out more so thanks for making this. Sounds like a reasonable story. I see the whole 31 minute rant is not on UA-cam though. I used to have it on cd 💿 but those days are gone now. I’m officially old now
Rollie Theodore Saker was the most significant artist and thinker of the 20th century.
underrated video
You get a sub for this excellent research piece . Great work.
Much appreciated!
Awesome, man - thanks
Glad you enjoyed, Edward. I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
This was very informative. I've trolled a few people with Raleigh's rants before. There's something that's not only authentic but absolutely genius about how he expressed himself. One time quite recently I left a copy of his rant in a trolls inbox on twitter and watched as he told all his friends I was schizophrenic. Then he tried telling me I was insane and brought it up, so I linked the song and laughed. He then tried to claim that he knew exactly who Sublime was, so of course I responded 'Then you must have known where the quote was from and just lied about me being insane, right?'
He didn't like looking stupid in front of his friends at all. Good times. Psycho-semantic police indeed.
Great work, personally I never believed the rumors that Rollie wasn't real. The things he says are just too perfect o have been written if that makes sense. I mean they were clearly the ramblings of someone with "interesting" ideas. In any case, thank you I have been thinking about this guy for well over 20 years and now I feel like I have some resoution.
Glad the video could give some closure, Nunya. Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave a kind comment.
Tremenda info, gracias!
De nada. Me alegro que hayas disfrutado. Agradezco tu comentario.
Always wondered this. Never thought he'd have such a crazy life! Makes me like it more. Very unique recording.
I agree, Tim. Rollie had always interested me when I listened to Robbin' The Hood; but the more I researched his life, the more fascinated I was by him. Thanks for watching!
@@CWSchultz awesome man! Anytime. Subscribed.
Great video
Thanks Christy! Glad you enjoyed. I appreciate you taking the time to leave the encouraging comment. Cheers!
Nice job!
Thank you, Daylan! Glad you enjoyed.
Thank you
Nice video, I always wondered about Rollie. When Rollie is arguing w the orderly, someone laughs in the background and it sounds like Brad. Would love to get confirmation
This was fascinating. I always wondered what was up with that.
Glad you found the video interesting, Keith! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
@@CWSchultz Absolutely! I've been wondering what was up with that for so long, The man had a fascinating life. You did a fantastic job for real 👏 🙌
Holy shit... this was amazing! Appreciate your efforts. Would be cool if you had his wife's name to see if there were any ancestors still around.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Great suggestion, maybe I'll do a little more research and locate a relative of his ex-wife who can give more details. I'll keep you posted if there are any new developments. Thanks for watching.
My friend and used to monologue Pt. 2 to each other. I can still quote every word.
Edit: Damn! His registration card says he’s employed at 8 mile/Gratiot! I’m not too far from there.
Every word? Nice! You've clearly done your Holy Homework, Tony. Two capital H's and all. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
awesome video
Thank you, Carl! Glad you enjoyed.
Great, investigative work. Please share any further information you can gather up on this mysterious but intriguing individual.
Thank you, Jamie. Hopefully we'll get more information; if we do, I'll be sure to make a follow-up video!
Raleigh sounds like a modern day US politician, possibly even a presidential candidate.
Except Raleigh makes a lot more sense.
me and rollie got the same birthday
🤯
I began digging up on who Raleigh or Rollie is and this is the video that I found to have the most information about him. The man, the myth? The Legend!
So was he in The Cisco Kid?
Glad you found the video informative, Duane. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. Yeah, Raleigh is in the intro of Cisco Kid: "That's chapter 1. Would you like to have chapter 2? You better…"
Fascinating!
Thanks Luke! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Fantastic
Thank you so much. Cheers! 😀
There is some Rollie stuff on the Unwritten Law album.
I always assumed it was a skit because the orderly has that Surfer accent all the dudes have
That SoCal accent 😂
Theres a clip of Bradley Nowell in the lost surfing house and at the end a video of Raleigh or "Rollie" is shown on the tv with his hair on fire.
UNWRITTEN LAW actually have a Raleigh part 4 on their LP "Elva" I believe it is!
I hit the floor laughing!
Robbin the Hood is prob my fave and those Raleigh tracks are just TOO funny!!!
Raleigh is also featured on an album released by the band after Brad’s passing called “ bums lie “
Ehhh, if we’re getting technical, it’s not actually released by the band. It’s a bootleg album released on “OPM” Records (official Sublime releases always on their own Skunk Records and Gasoline Alley / MCA Records) in the late 90s, when you could order these bootleg albums from a catalogue in the back of most rock magazines (Hit Parader, Cream, etc) for $29.99 each.
This was long before the laws for music piracy got super strict (the whole Napster thing didn’t happen for another 7 or 8 years later) and CD burners were not commercially available yet.
“bumS Lie” is a collection of rare versions, radio interviews, and unreleased tracks (at the time, most… if not all of these tracks are now available on the box set “Everything Under The Sun”) with some of the Raleigh quotes sprinkled in at the intros and outros of some songs. This bootleg came out before the all-Raleigh CD “Psycho Semantic Blockage”, mentioned in the video, was released on the Skunk website, so a lot of these Raleigh quotes contained on this “bumS Lie” bootleg were completely new to us fans.
Sorry about the rant…
@@SmokeyMcPotProductions I picked the cd up from Bionic a few years after Brad’s passing and the word around town was , the band released it , as a bootleg so the record company wouldn’t take the proceeds, that they were using to go towards Jacob. I was never sure how true that was , but that was the buzz
@@jamesshepard4743 hmm that’s interesting… Ive never heard that. To be fair though, certain record stores would sell these bootlegs, typically the independent ones, and not chains like Wherehouse Music or Tower Records. I remember going into a small record store in Hollywood CA in the late 90s and saw all these Sublime CDs Id never heard of… Dog Gone Blues, The Black Album, War On The Blvd, Living In A Boring Nation, Lou Dog Went To The Moon… I was like WTF are these. But I mean, what you’re saying could totally be true, the band was known for their DIY Sublime products… maybe some of the other bootlegs were for the same cause too.
Do you still have your copy? And I’m curious, do you remember how much you paid for it..? Was it a normal CD price or was it a weirdly jacked up price of like $30?
@@SmokeyMcPotProductions I do still have it somewhere buried in a box, and it was around $18, I also still have the Bradley Knoll at firecracker lounge , ( both purchased after Bradley’s passing ) and Sensimilla , ( pre-sublime sublime album ) But I live adjacent to Long Beach and that store was a friend of the band.
@@jamesshepard4743 yeah bro, I grew up in the Lakewood / Bellflower area in the 90s so needless to say, Sublime was a huge part of my life growing up. I still have my copy of Jah Won’t Pay The Bills cassette and my 40oz CD with Get Out! on it… though both are unplayable now from years of abuse.
Killed it!
You went for line drawings.
I always wondered what was his connection to the band? How did they learn of him ?
Yeah, kind of a mystery within a mystery. Section 7:49-8:46 in this video is the closest I could get to reliable information, but it's still not solid.
More!
Glad you enjoyed, dollar. Thanks for watching. More content to come!
What i want to know is why the acoustic album doesn't show up on the sublime youtube page along with all the other albums. It use to but its not there anymore. I wonder if there was a lawsuit between the band and the parents.
I recall seeing a photo of Brad and Raleigh sitting together somewhere
I named my dog Raleigh Theodore Sakers.
When he gets loud, do you tell him that he better cool it down right now or he's gonna go to the psych ward?
Wonder what his musical career was like it's crazy how it ended with the sublime excerpts
DUDE, you gotta get that song and do a follow up! please...
I named my cat Raleigh
Crazy
He went nuts because the east Carroll Park house was under investigation.
You should investigate the hidden homicide of Bradley Nowell by the drummer Bud F
Please tell me about his days in Milwaukee bro and how this recordings were release via Very Mean Recordings pre-RTH. Do tell bro. Nice science fiction story though. Information that you have is from what Dale, Swear Jar, JD, and myself discovered. Also there is tons of information about Rollie that out there. But to say the fact that few know almost ALL the tape is is 32 mins long was used by sublime and unwritten law and other skunk releases and some independent LB bands over the years. Also the og tape used to make the transfer was master by Greg O'dell of the Fallin' Idol and came from a second gen dub from Eric Willson of sublime whom got it a party and dub over a black flag tape. The og source call from Madison WI and Very Mean Man Recordings in 1993 which had an association with Butch Vig whom produced the Nirvana release. Butch Vig was friends with Brad Conyers of the Ziggens and the tape got in the hand of Kelly Vegas whom gave it Matt Vargas when All Day LB did a party which Eric attended.. The Butch Vig connection can be shed light on due to Chris N former of Nirvana playing in a band with Bud and Miguel called Volcano. Rollie moved to Milkaukee in the late 1980's and recorded there and had post trauma treatment there. He went back to Calli like in the late 1990's due he had family there and died there in the early 2000's. And all your information is correct to our resources. Thanks to One Jack Move and Swear Jar.
I've heard the "Very Mean Man Recordings" topic in a couple of places. If additional information about Rollie comes up, I plan on including information about this in the a follow-up video. Thank you.
💯
Soy un perdedor. Thanks for watching!
1:14 where is this ive never seen it?
The video is "Ebin" live from Costa Mesa in 1994. Solid performance of a solid song by a solid band! Here's the video: ua-cam.com/video/owAkfKnMLck/v-deo.html
And people just leave things along commenting and talking about every little thing in the world 😂
Were you able to find Raleigh's original song?
Sooooooo is that a no?
Sadly, not a whole lot of news on Rollie's original song or his art. Still keeping an eye on it, and will hope to retrieve something eventually. Unfortunately, Rollie's brother still hasn't gotten back to me; I hope not, but it's possible he passed away and the email I found is inactive. He'd be in his mid/late 80s, and I think it's crossing a line to call him out of the blue. Hopefully someone from the Saker family finds out we're interested in knowing more about their family member, and that gives them a willingness to share with us. However, I feel like if I dug any deeper than I already have, I'd be disrespecting someone's privacy.
@@CWSchultz ah, what a shame.
It (rts soliloquy)was recorded in a flophouse. That was not an orderly.
That opening shot IS NOT Long Beach, CA. Do some homework.
Thank you for the feedback. This is stock footage I obtained from Pexels with the caption, "Drone Footage of the Peninsula, Long Beach". Recommended tags include 'California', 'Long Beach', 'Southern California' among others. I've never been to Long Beach and thus wouldn't be able to spot whether or not the information provided was accurate, so I'm not sure what additional Holy Homework could've been done.
A 2nd hand smoke was their 2nd album
No
What the hell
He is in my house I rent a room to him