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- Fat Mike writes almost all music (even for trumpet he can't play) and lyrics for NOFX.
- They always sing The Brews and Buggley Eyes at the end of their concerts.
- Buggley Eyes is dedicated to the beautiful girls in the world.
- Johhny Appleseed is dedicated to Erik Ghint that fucks a girl in every town he goes.
- The Brews is for kids in Fairfax ghetto in California which is full of jews that look like skins.
- El Hefe joined the band in 1992 for The Longest Line.
- Erik is White Trash, Fat Mike and Eric are Two Heebs and El Hefe is a Bean.
- Fat Mike of NOFX owns Fat Wreck Chords, the record label which can be found at http://www.fatwreck.com/. Recently he found another record label, Honest Don's, I think it's at http://www.honestdons.com/.
- Eric Melvin of NOFX used to own coffee shop Melvin's (Melvin's, 8205 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, 213-653-6118).
- El Hefe of NOFX owns a night club called Hefe's.
- August 8th was the day hippie Jerry Garcia died and Woodstock was on.
- Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) was an anti-communist and Catharine McKinnon and Andrea Dworking were some great feminists (as in The Black And White).
- Fat Mike except in NOFX plays with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes with Spike (Fat's shipping guy), Jake Jackson (No Use For A Name), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), and Dave (RKL).
- Eric Melvin except in NOFX plays with his punk rock karaoke band.
- Malachi Brothers are bad guys from Happy Days show. Each of them crunched the opposite side of Fonz and Pinkie Tuskadaro's car so they would not participate in a derby.
- Some people say NOFX stands for NO Fucking straightXedge.
- I don't know about the others but El Hefe and Mike are married (El Hefe has a kid also).
- El Hefe does all the strange vocals like in Kill All The White Man, Johhny Appleseed and Straight Edge.
- Fat Mike has his nickname since college days when he kept gaining weight.
- Liza & Louise don't exist. It's just that Fat Mike likes lesbians. Still, Lori Meyers does exist.
- Fat Mike likes golf and plays it all the time.
- Song Please Play This Song On The Radio is soundtrack in the movie The Chase.
- Jeff from Jeff Wears Birkenstocks is a hippie who works at Epitaph.
- Cathay De (from The Desperation's Gone) is a punk bar where Mike used to hang when he was young.
- Vincent was originally written by Don McLean.
What does NOFX mean?
The truth is - nobody can tell for certain. And don't hope to hear the corect answer from Mike, he likes to lie in his interviews. The meaning I think is the most possible is that it means NO Fuckin' sXe - No fuckin' straight edge.
Which is their first album?
The first album that came out was Liberal Animation. They released it on Fat Mike's Fat Wreck Chords, Which he started for the purpose of releasing Liberal Animation, after beeing cheated out at Mystic. Leighter it was re-released by Epitaph. BUT! Maximum Rock 'n' Roll is the first album they recorded, it came out on Mystic, after Liberal Animation, and it's a compilation of all the singles and shit they released in their earlyest days.
- Erik Sandin changes his name on every album, so he's Erik Ghint, Erik Shan, Herb Reath Stinks, and Smelly.
- Fat Mike is Merried. his wife's name is Erin Kelly Burkett. No, I don't have photos of them having sex! Man, that's sick!
Who's the chick singing in Lory Meyers?
The chick singing in Lory Meyers on Punk in drublic is Kim Shattuck from The Muffs. She's also the one on the cover, on the photo with Drop the world Lyrics, holding her tits.
- They play Buggley eyes on the ond of every show, it's dedicted to all the beautiful girls out there.
- Fat Mike and Eric Melvin have been in the band from the beginning. They are both jews.
Who are white trash, two kikes and a spic / two heebs and a been?
Erik Ghint is white trash, kike/heeb is a rasistic name for hebrews, and those are Mike and Eric, and Hefe is a spic/bean.
- White trash, two heebs and a been is CD/cassete version, and White trash, two kikes and a spic is the LP version. The songs on both are the same. Same goes for Heavy petting zoo and Eating Lamb.
- There aren't actualy any guys like the ones from The Brews. Fat Mike saw some jewish kids with shaved heads, who looked like skinheads, so he thought it would be neet to make a song bout jewish racist, who go around beating everybody else, like the skinheads.
Do they play in any other bands?
Fat Mike also plays in Me First And The Gimme Gimmes. Their line up is:
Joey from Lagwagon - guitar
Dave from Lagwagon - drums
Mike from NOFX- bass
Jake from No use for a name- guitar
Spike (guy working on FAT)- vocals
Also Billie Joe from Green Day and Tim Armstrong from Rancid have played in MFATGG. Around 20 members went through the band.
Eric Melvin plays in a karaoke band.
- El Hefe has a club called Hefe's. NOFX sometimes playes there, along with other bands. Eric's got a coffee shop called Melvin's (8205 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, 213-653-6118).
- Timmy Turtle from Drop the world is their technitian, he travels with them on tours and helps around the stage.
- On August 8th the hippie Jerry Garcia died.
- Johnny Appleseed is about Erik Ghint, who fucks a shitload of girls when they're on tour.
- P.M.R.C. is the Perental Music Resource Center. They are the fucks that put a "perental advisory - explicit lyrics" sticker on the CDs. And yeah, they can suck on it!
- On HOFX, NOFX play with Don Ho. That's why it's HOFX, get it?
- They were one of the first bandsto join Epitpah, when Mr Brett from Bad Religion was starting it. NOFX are pretty tight with Bad Religion, some say BR are they're gurus.