For the SKRATCH 100th anniversary issue, drummer Adrian Young was nice enough to spend some time with me and answer all the questions I have had building up for the past 10 years.

No Doubt fans may detest the idea of Stefani busting up a good thing - and if the band does split, she's sure to be blamed - but at least one bandmate doesn't begrudge his friend solo success.

Tom Dumont can rest assured that the doubters have been put in their place.

No Doubt could be no more. Guitarist Tom Dumont says the band is on a permanent hiatus so front-woman Gwen Stefani can tick off a very long to-do list.

“We’re going on seventeen years," says No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal rather wistfully. To celebrate, the SoCal rock group will release the four-disc retrospective Boom Box on November 25th, featuring its singles, videos and some rarities.

The rise of No Doubt, once a marginal band on the fringes of LA's punk movement, is one of rock's most unlikely success stories.

Forgive me for noticing, but there is more to No Doubt than cutesy frontwoman Gwen Stefani.

No Doubt drummer Adrian Young went to see Rush in concert not long ago, partly out of curiosity about a band he had loved as a kid and partly to marvel at one of rock's most fearsome rhythm sections.

"We just stuck it out." That's how No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont explains the band's sometimes frustrating, sometimes thrilling ride over the past decade.

One night back in 1987, a fresh-faced kid named Adrian Young went to a rock club in Southern California, as he did all the time, and just happened to see a young, fun band called No Doubt who blew him out of his boots.

"To be together 15 years is beyond anything we dreamed," bassist and cofounder Tony Kanal says. "We didn't have goals of super rock stardom. We were just trying to not be bored in high school."

Everybody and their mother probably knows what Gwen Stefani did between No Doubt's last concert and the new leg of her band's tour, which kicks off Wednesday in St. Paul.

Tom Dumont answers frequently asked questions on the official band website.

Here's what their guitarist Tom Dumont had to tell Songlounge about songwriting, collaborating 
and working with producers in the studio.

Tom Dumont answers frequently asked questions on the official band website.

Tom Dumont answers frequently asked questions on the official band website.

Tom Dumont answers frequently asked questions on the official band website.

Tom Dumont answers frequently asked questions on the official band website.