Fat Mike

trunkshope6 · #1 09-13-2006, 12:11 AM

Thats right Fat Mike ,sure he plays punk and with a pick but hes propably the best at what he does. So what do you guys think of him and do you guys know about the picking technique he uses? i heard its something close to what a banjo player would do

scuba steve · #2 09-13-2006, 08:51 AM

he uses alot of upstrokes. i can't stand the guy, he makes me sick, i think him and nofx are overrated and i wish they would never play music again. the world would be a better place without fat mike. he's probly the only musician i feel this way toward. yeah, you asked what we thought, so...i could say some more...

vindy500 · #3 09-13-2006, 08:56 AM

i personally think the world would be better off without people who think they just because they dont like a genre post on a board saying they suk.

3toes · #4 09-13-2006, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by vindy500

i personally think the world would be better off without people who think they just because they dont like a genre post on a board saying they suk.

Well the OP asked for opinions... I personally like freedom of opinion, otherwise every thread about every bassist just turns into a giant circle-jerk.

I can't stand "punk" so naturally I don't think he's very good at all.

vindy500 · #5 09-13-2006, 09:00 AM

for the record i like him

fenderx55 · #6 09-13-2006, 11:22 AM

I saw them at warped tour and it was one of the best shows of that day. There are very few true punks left--social gadflies--even among the other bands on the tour (I reference that special on Fuse where fat mike went and sat in on a bible study group hosted by underoath).

Technique wise, he's punk. They write solid songs and he holds the bottom. I was gonna ask how he get's such beefy tone out of those dano basses.

jady · #7 09-13-2006, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by vindy500

for the record i like him

Me too........

Techmonkey · #8 09-13-2006, 01:06 PM

I think Fat Mike's fantastic

its not easy to play like that. and Nofx's songs are original, and his style of playing suits them - he can go from middy and growly and harsh to warm and smooth very well.

*shrugs*

Ed2Strings · #9 09-13-2006, 01:21 PM

He does make those Danos sound good. I don't seem to recall what he played before that. Gotta look at my old cds and 7 inches. Now as far as those danos go, are they vintage, are the Jerry Jones, or are they the ones that were made a few years ago that weren't very good. Anyone know?

Techmonkey · #10 09-13-2006, 01:46 PM

I've seen him a couple of times using DCs. There's a local punk band with the bassist running a dano DC through an Ashdown stack, and that thing growls like a motha! very Fat Mike like sound - tho somewhat deeper.

Reid · #11 09-13-2006, 05:30 PM

I don't listen to punk much anymore, but I'll be damned if every NOFX cd that comes out doesn't rock. I think he records with fenders alot. He only started using danos on tour because they're the lightest basses around, he's been touring as long as I've been alive.

Dale Gribble · #12 09-13-2006, 06:28 PM

Yeah something about his back. He's good, I'm not all that into Nofx but he has some interesting stuff. I prefer Mike Dirnt though.

**SoComSurfing** · #13 09-13-2006, 07:18 PM

I like him. Some of his later tracks to me sound more shrill and almost twangy, and I don't really dig the tone, though it works for him. I dig the band, but prefer them more around the time of "White Trash...", "So long..." and "Pump Up the Valium". Just yesterday I was wondering what happened to my copy of "45 or 46 songs" and thinking about buying it again this weekend.

fenderx55 · #14 09-13-2006, 07:22 PM

I seem to remember a video with him playing an old P? Thanks for jarring my memory, lightness while touring would make sense.

You guys get the new album? the marxist brothers and you're wrong make me really really happy.

MarztekMilita · #15 09-13-2006, 07:45 PM

the video that your thinking of fenderX55 is the "stickin in my eye" video, back when fat mike was not so fat mike.

NoFX are one of my personal favorite bands around. they have been around longer than almost any other band, and with the original line up.

his style of playing and singing at the same time has always entranced me. For a really good song of his, checkout the last track on "American Errorist" called "whoops I OD'd".

that song always gets me alittle choked-up.

fenderphile · #16 09-13-2006, 09:39 PM

death to evrything thats not punk!!!!!!

Matt Till · #17 09-13-2006, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by fenderphile

death to evrything thats not punk!!!!!!

Oops, bad news, punk is dead... you've lost.

Ed2Strings · #18 09-14-2006, 06:41 AM

Come to think of it, I did remember him rockin P basses, back in the day. Does anyone know what kinda rig he's got? I gotta look thru some old videos I got, it may show his cabs and stuff.

**SoComSurfing** · #19 09-14-2006, 06:59 PM

Last time I saw them ('02 or '03) he was still using the 8x10 cab from the "white trash..." era, painted like that ice cream that's the different flavors....brown, white, and pink, as well as a newer Ampeg 8x10. Do't recall what it was head-wise.

scuba steve · #20 09-14-2006, 11:00 PM

i believe i read in a bassplayer mag, that he uses an older mesa head, maybe a 400.