Sublime With Rome Drummer Bud Gaugh Quits Band to Focus on Fatherhood

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Sublime With Rome drummer Bud Gaugh announced that he's leaving the band. "The story is that I'm gonna be a dad here again real soon, and I just wanna be there for my family," he revealed before the band's set at KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas on Dec. 10 in Los Angeles.

The former Sublime drummer and bassist Eric Wilson teamed up with singer Rome Ramirez in 2009 to perform tracks from their old albums as well as new material. Sublime, kwown for such hits as 'What I Got' and 'Santeria,' originally disbanded following the 1996 death of singer, guitarist and main songwriter Bradley Nowell.