NOFX interview

[Spiritofmosa]

hello. This friday the 13th(tomorrow), a friend of mine(who is working from a local Podcast) has an interview with Fat Mike from NOFX!
We are all excited by this because we never had such a big band on our show before.
Basically im not a big fan of NOFX so i'll need suggestions and questions.

[AIRIC]

Ask him if he would **** the nubs girl.

[Henrik]

Ask him what his favorite song/album is and cliche stuff like that.
He better answer Green Corn as best song.

[tappenzee]

Business stuff/gossipy sh*t:

How do you feel about Fat Wreck as a label, and as the head of that label, do you feel caught by the trappings of that at all?

Does the business side of things interfere with personal relationships with band members?

Any bands he's got his eye on to sign over?

What happened with Against Me? Did they have a falling out, or did they just seek a better opportunity with Sire? Any feelings on it in general?

What was the deal with Propagandhi?

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Music/random Questions:

-Details on the next album? (obviously)

-Why are you usually so reluctant to interview?

-Any new political initiatives he's planning on working on?

-How's John Kerry doing? (lol)

[lynch_me]

The Propagandhi/Nofx "situation" is not anything worth mentioning.

[Zesty Mordant]

ask him what the best he's ever golfed

[yourstruly]

do we get to hear this interview?

[RetiredAt21]

Ask him if he would **** the nubs girl.

LOL.

[username77]

Ask him what his favorite song/album is and cliche stuff like that.
He better answer Green Corn as best song.

No ****.

Ask him if he would **** the nubs girl.

Haha.

[Buzzbomb]

You really aren't the only one, althought I kinda think Fat Mike is a douche, I'll still listen to them on occaision, The Decline is still awesome.

[lynch_me]

You really aren't the only one, althought I kinda think Fat Mike is a douche, I'll still listen to them on occaision, The Decline is still awesome.

Do you think Fat Mike is a douche because you itemized his receipts
and PowerPointed his balance sheets?

[pedro durruti]

I met this guy this weekend who was telling me about some of the interviews he did. He said he interviewed Tom or Marcus in Blink 182 while whichever one of them was getting head, and we were all like WHA? I asked how, where, wha? "I was looking up"

I'm still trying to figure that one out.. maybe I was just too drunk.

[RandyfromPennywise]

Where is the podcast?!

Is the Punk forum dead these days or what?

[Henrik]

No people just don't listen to pennywise anymore :p

[RandyfromPennywise]

Ha, neither do I :lol:

[lynch_me]

No people just don't listen to pennywise anymore :p

Dude, that guy is like one of the oldest users in this forum ever. Hahaha.

[Liebensaft]

Dude, that guy is like one of the MOST DEDICATED users in this forum ever. Hahaha.

fixed.

[Henrik]

Dude, that guy is like one of the oldest users in this forum ever. Hahaha.
Which doesn't explain his need for a nofx interview.

[lynch_me]

Which doesn't explain his need for a nofx interview.

Why does he need to justify why he wants it? Plus what I said was just a statement.

[RandyfromPennywise]

I wouldn't say I'm dedicated, I am dedicated to the Official Football Thread in the Sports forum but that's about it. And yeah, just wouldn't have minded hearing the interview with Fat Mike. Hell they are that rare these days.

And **** you're right I have been here a while. I didn't realise it but yeah it'll be six years I've been here in a couple of months. That's crazy long.

[Henrik]

Why does he need to justify why he wants it? Plus what I said was just a statement.
Mine was too, I didn't say he needed to justify anything.

It doesn't even matter, it seems like Threadstarter doesn't response.

[RandyfromPennywise]

Yeah doesn't look like we'll be hearing this 'interview'...

Anyway I've enjoyed my visit back to the Punk forums, it's been great, I'll see you all again in another three years.

[lynch_me]

Mine was too, I didn't say he needed to justify anything.

It doesn't even matter, it seems like Threadstarter doesn't response.

You just made it seem like an explanation was necessary. Misinterpretation.

[Spiritofmosa]

oh sorry guys.. i'll post the link of the interview shortly. I hope my friend knows what to say because i didn't give him anything.

[Spiritofmosa]

here http://rampageontheairwaves.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-04-20T09_28_24-07_00.mp3

haha its pretty good compared to previous episodes.

[IgniteYourAvail]

here http://rampageontheairwaves.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-04-20T09_28_24-07_00.mp3

haha its pretty good compared to previous episodes.

That dude giggles like a little girl. I lol'd.

It was cool but it was hard to hear what the interviewer was saying.

[lilrampage]

hey guys. sorry for the wait! if id known about this thread earlier i wouldve used some of the questions. but anyway. i got to talk to Fat Mike for quite a bit the other day.

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hope you guys enjoy the interview, thanks for listening! and in case you really cant hear the questions and/or answers, here is the transcript!
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LR: This is Lil'rampage from Rampage On The Airwaves, we have on the line, Fat Mike from NOFX.
Fat Mike: Yeah hey this is Fat Mike and you're listening to, podcast. Some kind of podcast. Its awesome man, we all listen to it.

LR:You're playing in China tonight?
FM: Yeah.
LR: How has China been treating you so far?
FM: It's been pretty fun, we just been, y'know, doing touristy stuff. It's interesting. The show in Korea was totally great.
LR: Were there like, tons of people?
FM: Well, the club sold out but it only held 500 people.

LR: On the 20th of April you're playing in Singapore which is, the first time you're playing in Singapore. Is this whole asian tour a new thing for you and uhh, like the venues that you've never played before?
FM: Yeah, it's weird because every country has different rules, and its kinda scary.. Oh, **** that's my room phone, hang on a second.
FM: (Yes? Okay. I'm getting off an interview right now. Yeah. Okay.)
FM: Okay anyway. There are so many different rules everywhere. It's hard to uhh, know what's right and wrong. In China, its pretty crazy, there's ****ing prostitutes everywhere. You go to get a massage, and it, yeah it's just really weird. I tried to get a massage in my room at my hotel and the girl wanted to ****. I'm like, 'Holy ****, i just wanted to get a massage.'
LR: Was it from the hotel?
FM: Yeah, but i'm staying at a nice hotel. I wanted to get an entire massage and, and the girl asked me if i wanted her mouth or her pussy. I was like 'Holy ****.'

LR: NOFX has been around for 23 years and you've played like, almost every single venue, so what do you think was the weirdest one that you've played at?
FM: The weirdest venue huh? We played Iceland a few years ago, at a small bar. That was pretty weird. It was about a 300-seater bar, it was 21 and over to get in, was about half full, and we just drinked alcohol with everyone in the crowd all night and, it was pretty crazy. I think uh, we played in Ecuador this year. We played at a country club on the tennis court. That was pretty weird.
LR: On a tennis court?
FM: Yeah.
LR: How did that come about?
FM: Well y'know, the kid wanted to book a show and apparently his family had some money so he got permission to use his parents' country club to book his show.
LR: That must've been cool. Were there a lot of people there?
FM: There was about a thousand people. It was fun. And then afterwards we went to the kid's house, and he had this huge mansion, we had a house party there afterwards. And it was fun. Everyone's doing drugs and his parents were there too. It was weird.

LR: NOFX have been going on for about, 23 years?
FM: That's right.
LR: What i wanna know is, what keeps you going for the 23 years because most bands that go on they cite like uhh, all sorts of reasons that they cant keep the band going and all that. So what do you think is it with NOFX that keeps it going?
FM: Well, everyone in my band is actually really cool, and there's not a lot of egos, and we never get into arguments. We just all like each other cos we're all pretty nice guys. And as long as we keep coming to new places, its still fun and still interesting. And as long as they let us drink their alcohol then uh, we're gonna have a good time.

LR: One of the key things about NOFX are its lyrics politically, socially and all that. And you majored in social sciences in college?
FM: Yeah that's right i graduated college in 1991.
LR: Alright so do you think that's how your activism started and that's what contributed to the lyrics in NOFX?
FM: Well, going to college definitely influenced my lyrical writing in the 90s and, if you're a punk band i suppose you have some kind of responsibility to write some kind of socio-political lyrics. You don't have to y'know, you can write songs like The Dickies or Guttermouth or something. But i think most bigger punk bands sing about some issues that are socially relevant.
LR: Do you think that's still true up till today?
FM: Well i think it's still true today. And i think there's a lot of big bands that sound like punk bands but aren't really punk bands, that are getting popular in the mainstream but i don't really wanna talk about them.

LR: What would you say are some of your favourite punk bands of today?
FM: I like Rise Against a lot. I like Against Me.
LR: Yeah i was just thinking of Against Me as well because of the lyrics?
FM: Yeah.
LR: Like i think one of the songs about Condoleeza Rice was nominated for some award or something like that.
FM: Yeah. I like a band called The Spits.

LR: There is another band Lagwagon who is on Fat Wreck Chords isn't it?
FM: Yeah.
LR: So they wrote a song called E. Dagger. What i wanna know is that is it really about your wife?
FM: Yeah it's about my wife.
LR: It's a very catchy, groovy song, so how did it come about?
FM: Joey the singer of the band, he's one of our best friends. So, y'know, we see each other a lot so he just wrote a song about her i guess.

LR: Recently there was this whole thing about President Bush saying that he would veto any bill that came in withdrawing troops from Iraq and all that so what is your personal opinion about that?
FM: I think we should get all of our troops out of Iraq, and i think the Democrats are working on doing that. He's the worst US president of all time.

LR: Once you were writing anti-vegetarian songs but now you're vegan am i right?
FM: No, you are wrong. I don't eat mammals and there's a lot of animals i don't eat but i'm not vegan, no. No i mean, i'm definitely y'know, a member of PETA and i don't eat farm-raised animals but i eat fish and some stuff now and then. I'll tell you one thing about Taiwan is, we'd had the best vegan food i've ever had last night.
LR: Taiwan?
FM: Yeah, ****. Good vegan food here.
LR: I wouldnt've guessed. What did you have?
FM: I don't know what it's called. It's just a bunch of fake meat and a bunch of crazy vegetables and y'know, super hot spices. It was great.

LR: What do you think is the key to your success that, y'know without any major media endorsements and all that, that got you guys such a huge following?
FM: I don't know, i think uhh, our songs are pretty good, and i think we're real. And kids like real music. People like real music, we're not fooling anybody. We don't rely on gimmicks or trends. We just write decent songs and have a good time and people enjoy that.
LR: It's that simple.
FM: Yeah it's that simple. I mean, why are we popular in Taiwan? We never sold any records here. It's word of mouth. People play it for their friends and it gets around.
LR: So what would you say to punk bands who would like to start out today?
FM: Well it doesn't really work like that anymore today. It doesn't really matter how good you are now, you need something more than just good songs. You need to be doing something that makes people believe in you and really shocks people or just gets people's attention because there are too many bands now.
LR: How was it when you guys first started out because i think it must've been very different from nowadays.
FM: Yeah we were terrible then.

LR: Are you guys gonna continue writing songs and putting out CDs and uhh, because it doesn't seem like you guys are stopping.
FM: Yeah we're not really stopping because we don't seem to be losing popularity. We seem to be going along just fine, so why stop now? It's fun.

[keptblue]

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