NOFX's Fat Mike Plays His Favorite Bass Riffs

#NOFX legend #FatMike joins Loudwire's #GearFactor to play his favorite bass riffs. NOFX's newest record, Single Album, is out now.



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[defacedmusic]

Sober Fat Mike is awesome to see, he seems happy and is playing more correct notes than I've ever seen before

[eliasst]

It's admirable seeing such a good player who is not afraid of making mistakes.

[stevenmerrell]

"I have a really good idea, let's pan his voice hard left and we'll pan the bass audio hard right. I'm sure people will love that."

[jaxnotdead]

He's so enthusiastic, positive and not toxic here, can't believe it's him!

[theshuriken]

"our job as a bass player ; we make other people sounds better" -fat mike 2021

[RickyMackie]

Nofx - Stickin in my eye intro is one of my favorite bass lines to play. 20 years later I still play it when I pick up a bass. I’m not a bassist either haha.

[xsteveconwayx]

Proof that you don’t need to be the best player in the world. You just need to make songs that are undeniably catchy and that’s exactly what NOFX is.

[SlapNSniff]

I like a bass player who can't even play one of his own riffs that he wrote himself...reminds me of myself

[demazy]

Playing his instrument, that's where you'll find the real Fat Mike. Fragile, authentic and vulnerable. He can't hide behind it.

[edwardssistershands]

After listening to the Decline 200+ times, watching Fat Mike struggle to play it is charming and classic. I'll have to dig out my CD.

[illitero]

I've always been fascinated with his picking style. Dominant upstrokes and hybrid picking, always fun to watch

[epicmeade]

I love that Mike mentioned Bomber from RKL showing him Blocked Out and Hangover. Bomber was the drummer of RKL, but he was amazing on bass and guitar as well. My band used to rehearse in the basement of a club called the Chatterbox where RKL and NOFX used to hang out a lot. And once when we were rehearsing Bomber came down and insisted on showing us some new songs he had written. He grabbed our bass players bass and tore through the song, jumped behind the drum kit, then grabbed my guitar and wailed out the guitar parts stomping on my wah pedal so hard that he broke it. I always look back on those days as a kind of golden age of the SF rock scene.

[adamrassi]

The Decline is such an underrated EP. The horns on it -- and the bass lines -- are just A+.

[fattmusiek]

People sleep on how great a bassist Fat Mike is. Reminds me to start on the upstroke sometimes...Long live NOFX.

[NOFX]

One of my favourite riffs... " Place a wager on your greed, a wager on your pride..."
Nice Mike.

[ronwhitefan]

I have a fever, and the only cure is more bassist interviews!

[kevinconnor]

I like how he took the time to identify which Bad Religion song he learned, and then proceeded the bass line from every Bad Religion song.

[anggeraprasetyo]

When he is sober, he looks so nice and different. his expression is just different, and it is great! living legend. Glad to have their old cassette albums.

[ThirteenMusic]

Seriously underrated bass player. I’ve always loved his style and his subtle runs and lines. He can really play but doesn’t shove it in your face.

[macdad]

I didn't realize how great Fat Mike is. Now I do.