NOFX

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NOFX
NOFX 2007
NOFX 2007
General information
origin Los Angeles , United States
Genre (s) Punk rock , skate punk , melodic hardcore , ska punk , street punk
founding 1983
Website www.nofxofficialwebsite.com
Founding members
Fat Mike (Mike Burkett)
Electric guitar , vocals
Eric Melvin
Erik Sandin
Current occupation
Vocals, electric bass
Fat Mike (Mike Burkett)
Eric Melvin
Erik Sandin
Lead guitar , backing vocals, trumpet
El yeast (Aaron Abeyta)
former members
Drums
Scott Sellers (1985-1986)
Drums
Scott Aldahl (1986-1987)
singing
Dave Allen (1986)
guitar
Dave Casillas (1986-1989)
guitar
Steve Kidwiler (1989-1991)

NOFX [ ˌnəʊ.ɛfˈɛks ] is an American punk rock and melodic hardcore band.

history

NOFX was founded in 1983 by Erik Sandin , Eric Melvin and Mike Burkett alias Fat Mike . The name NOFX is based on the Boston hardcore band Negative FX . Initially, Fat Mike didn't like the abbreviated band name at all, instead he had pleaded for the trio to be called The Banned , but could not prevail in the democratic vote, in which guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik Sandin voted for NOFX, with his proposal . In 1985 the band signed a record deal with Mystic Records, a year later Dave Casillas joined the band as the second guitarist, for the lead part on the six strings, so that Casillas increasingly integrated differentiated melodies into the sound. With this line-up, the album Liberal Animation was recorded in 1988 , but Casillas left the band amicably shortly after the recordings because of his drunkenness and the associated unreliability, and was replaced by the technically skilled metal guitarist Steve Kidwiler, although Kidwiler was not a punk player. Rock liked. Unlike later releases of the band, Liberal Animation is much more influenced by hardcore punk . According to Fat Mike, the album Suffer by Bad Religion caused a musical change of course, mixing the intensity of hardcore with more catchy melodies. In the following, NOFX not only signed with Epitaph Records , the label of Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz , but also adapted their style to a more melodic direction on the following two albums S&M Airlines (including a guest contribution by Greg Graffin , singer from Bad Religion) and Ribbed . Both albums also ensured NOFX growing popularity within the American punk scene. NOFX completed their first European tour in the summer of 1988 instead of the punk group Adolescents , which could not take an already fully booked tour on the continent, which is why the German booking agent had to sign another American band as a replacement. A feminist group demonstrated against a NOFX appearance in Frankfurt am Main at the time because of the song On The Rag (in German: “ She has her days ”), which can be interpreted as misogynistic. During the Frankfurt concert, the feminists threw fireworks and beer bottles onto the stage, the militant activists also sabotaged the loudspeaker system, and a male visitor almost had a fight with the Californian punk musicians. After this tour, NOFX had to fly home with a significant financial loss.

When NOFX performed in Minneapolis as part of the tour for the album S&M Airlines , which was released in 1989, the two guitarists Eric Melvin and Steve Kidwiler talked backstage after the show with a young concertgoer who seemed shy and awkward in social interaction, whereupon Melvin and Kidwiler invited the young people to the after-show party that followed. During the party, the youngster flirted with another man's girlfriend, which is why a horde of skinheads beat up the youngster, so that the police and ambulance had to arrive. Afterwards, the lynched youngster died of serious physical injuries. In order to process this dark experience psychologically, the punk band composed the song The Malachi Crunch , which is on the 1991 album Ribbed and is dedicated to the dead concert-goer. In chapter 46 of the official NOFX autobiography The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories , ex-guitarist Steve Kidwiler writes about it: “ The anonymous punk boy's death probably barely made the local news, but the song will hopefully give him a certain immortality . "

During the conflicting recordings of the Ribbed album , there were often arguments between singer / bassist Fat Mike and producer Brett Gurewitz, who wanted NOFX to sound like Bad Religion based on a harmonious sound, in contrast to Fat Mike, who solidified a more individual sound style and none wanted to represent a musical copy of Bad Religion. When the grueling recordings, in Fat Mike's memory, the worst of his life, were finished, Gurewitz and Fat Mike were finally reconciled. The song Green Corn , which opens as the first track on the record Ribbed , is based on the 1987 film drama Barfly by director Barbet Schroeder and writer Charles Bukowski . Charles Bukowski, who wrote for the punk rock fanzine Half Truth , edited by Rich Wilkes otherwise mostly listened to classical music , as a guest author a review of this NOFX album. After Ribbed was released , Steve Kidwiler left the band and was replaced by Aaron Abeyta aka El Hefe . Discouraged, Steve Kidwiler, who disliked the months of traveling on concert tours, soon gave up his career as a professional guitarist to work as a tattoo artist and to start a family. Because of tendinitis , Kidwiler had to stop tattooing after more than 25 years. El Hefe's broad musical spectrum of ska and reggae - in addition to guitar, El Hefe also plays the trumpet on some NOFX pieces - was first reflected in the EP The Longest Line and the 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean . The lyrics of the song Bob , which can be found on the album White Trash ... , can be traced back in part to a homeless friend of the band named Bob Lush, a Korean with dreadlocks who let his girlfriend work as a prostitute so that the couple could get away with them Money could buy drugs. Bob Lush was also a member of the street gang Dog Patch Winos , which also included drummer Erik Sandin. Because of alcoholism, Bob Lush's liver was badly damaged. When his girlfriend gave him a bump in a relationship argument, his liver cracked and Bob Lush only survived thanks to emergency surgery. Some time later, Bob died of a drug overdose. The fact that Bob was supposed to have been a skinhead, as the lyrics describe, is fictitious .

In the band's autobiography " Die Hepatitis-Bath ... " two German postcards from 1988 are printed, which Fat Mike sent to his mother Eileen Burkett during the first NOFX European tour. One postcard comes from the Reeperbahn , textually permeated by the anarchic humor typical of Fat Mike, for example by telling his mother about the prostitutes in Hamburg. Booking agent Dave Pollack has organized every NOFX European tour since the album S&M Airlines was released . After the third European tour in the spring and summer of 1991, when up to 400 concert-goers appeared per show, NOFX was able to record a financial profit of 2,500 dollars per band member. At this point, drummer Erik "Smelly" Sandin was suffering from intense thoughts of suicide because of his excruciating heroin addiction. When Nirvana released their mega-selling album Nevermind in September 1991 and ushered in the era of grunge and alternative , this trend noticeably lifted many punk bands, including NOFX, to a higher commercial level, as punk was an important influence on the grunge genre . When NOFX went on tour through Europe again in 1992 to present the newly recorded EP The Longest Line live on the music club stages, the punk band was again able to increase the number of visitors to their concerts and thus made a profit of $ 10,000 per band member, not least thanks to the talented planning of tour manager Dave Pollack. During the European tour in the summer of 1993, NOFX were allowed to play at festivals in front of a large audience for the first time, for example at the German Bizarre Festival on the Loreley open-air stage in front of 15,000 visitors. During this performance Courtney Love , the singer of the grunge band Hole , who also performed there, jumped on stage and hit the drummer Erik Sandin on the head with a drumstick. At that time the NOFX single Sticking In My Eye had just come out . In the video clip for this song you can see the uniform jacket of the street gang Dog Patch Winos , in which drummer Erik Sandin was a member. All members of this gang wore a blue denim jacket with an American national flag on their backs. For drummer Erik Sandin, the 1993 Bizarre Festival is one of the three most memorable concerts in NOFX's history , alongside a performance in Reno in front of 300 visitors in the early days of the punk band and a performance on Three Mills Island in front of 10,000 visitors in London . In January 1994, NOFX went on tour in Japan for the first time . On the first tour of Japan, the punk band did not travel in a bus, but in public trains from venue to venue, with the band members having to carry their luggage and equipment from the train station to the respective concert location on foot.

The final breakthrough for NOFX, as for many other American punk bands, came in 1994 during the punk revival of bands like Green Day and The Offspring . The album Punk in Drublic , released in the same year, is considered one of the classics in the genre of skate punk . NOFX shot an official video clip for the song Leave It Alone contained on the album , after which the combo did not produce any video clips for their songs for twelve years, as NOFX did not agree with the profit-oriented business conduct of the music television channel MTV . In addition, band boss Fat Mike feared that they would only run music videos for one summer as part of a short-lived trend on MTV and then lose both their old commercial-critical scene following as well as the newly acquired audience, only to then disappear into insignificance. Fat Mike also found the visual appearance of the NOFX members unattractive and his " quacky voice " not expressive enough to be compatible with NOFX for the glamorous pop market. Starting with the album Punk in Drublic , NOFX gave almost each of their following studio albums a linguistic play on words as the title, Punk in Drublic is a corruption of the English phrase “ Drunk in public ”. The 2003 album title The War on Errorism is a joking allusion to the slogan " War on terrorism ", a quote from US President George W. Bush referring to the war on Islamic terrorism as a consequence of the September 11th terrorist attacks 2001 related. Unlike bands like Green Day, NOFX refused to capitalize on the newly inflamed interest in punk rock. Interviews were rare and offers from major labels were consistently turned down. In 1996, Heavy Petting Zoo, a slower, more experimental album followed, the original cover of which - a man and a sheep based on the ambiguous album title in oral sex - was indexed in Germany. The song Drop The World on it deals with the accidental death of a close friend named Dana, who was killed on the way home by a drunk driver after a NOFX show in Hollywood.

Just one year later, So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes was released, an album that returned to the typical NOFX sound. NOFX's penchant for unusual releases manifested itself in 1999 with the EP The Decline , which only included the title track, but with 18:19 minutes brought one of the longest punk rock pieces of all time to the market. The album Pump Up the Valuum , released in 2000, was the last NOFX album to be released via Epitaph. The band then switched to Fat Wreck Chords , the label of bassist and singer Fat Mike, which, alongside Epitaph, has blossomed into the central label for American punk rock since the early 1990s.

In 2003, The War on Errorism, an unusual political album for NOFX, was released, which particularly sarcastically takes up George W. Bush's foreign policy . Two years later, instead of a new album, the band planned to send a new single to subscribers each month as part of their 7-Inch of the Month Club . Even if the schedule of a 7-inch record per month could not be kept, especially in later months, the project was carried out completely. In 2006, Wolves in Wolves Clothing again released a regular studio album, which, like its 2009 successor Coaster, continues the socially critical direction of The War on Errorism . In the same year, a documentary series was broadcast on the US broadcaster Fuse with Backstage Passport , which NOFX on tour a. a. accompanied by South America and Israel.

Based on the band's initial sound and the DIY spirit of the hardcore scene, an untitled EP with eight covers of mostly unknown hardcore bands from the 1980s was released in 2011. The tracklist was never officially given and a ninth song was written by NOFX itself, contrary to other statements. On all nine songs, unlike usual, Eric Melvin can be heard singing. With Self-Entitled , NOFX's twelfth studio album was released in 2012, but the band played a key role in the soundtrack of the musical Home Street Home , written by Fat Mike, which was released in 2015 and features numerous guest musicians, mainly from the area, in addition to the singing of the actors Find Fat Wreck Chords.

It wasn't until 2016 that the band released their next studio album, First Ditch Effort . In contrast to earlier albums, Fat Mike deals with significantly more personal topics in the lyrics, be it his years of drug use , the bitterness of his (deceased) father or cross-dressing .

Members

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Punk in Drublic
  DE 72 07/18/1994 (9 weeks)
I Heard They Suck ... Live
  DE 62 09/18/1995 (8 weeks)
  US 198 09/09/1995 (1 week)
Heavy petting zoo
  DE 40 01/29/1996 (9 weeks)
  AT 20th 02/11/1996 (13 weeks)
  UK 60 02/10/1996 (1 week)
  US 63 02/17/1996 (4 weeks)
So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
  DE 49 11/17/1997 (2 weeks)
  US 79 11/29/1997 (2 weeks)
Pump up the value
  DE 64 06/12/2000 (3 weeks)
  CH 91 06/25/2000 (2 weeks)
  UK 50 06/10/2000 (1 week)
  US 61 07/01/2000 (6 weeks)
BYO Split Series Volume III ( Split album with Rancid )
  UK 75 03/23/2002 (1 week)
  US 147 03/23/2002 (1 week)
45 or 46 Songs that Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
  DE 89 06/10/2002 (1 week)
  AT 57 06/16/2002 (4 weeks)
  CH 97 06/23/2002 (1 week)
  UK 77 06/01/2002 (1 week)
  US 80 06/08/2002 (3 weeks)
The War On Errorism
  DE 27 05/19/2003 (3 weeks)
  AT 46 05/25/2003 (4 weeks)
  CH 25th 05/18/2003 (12 weeks)
  UK 48 05/17/2003 (1 week)
  US 44 05/24/2003 (6 weeks)
Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
  DE 60 04/28/2006 (2 weeks)
  AT 46 04/28/2006 (4 weeks)
  CH 56 04/30/2006 (3 weeks)
  US 46 05/06/2006 (3 weeks)
Coaster
  DE 50 05/08/2009 (2 weeks)
  CH 100 05/17/2009 (1 week)
  US 36 05/16/2009 (5 weeks)
Self Entitled
  DE 60 09/28/2012 (1 week)
  AT 48 09/28/2012 (1 week)
  CH 79 09/30/2012 (1 week)
  US 42 09/29/2012 (2 weeks)
First ditch effort
  DE 16 10/14/2016 (1 week)
  AT 28 10/21/2016 (1 week)
  CH 33 16.10.2016 (1 week)
  US 54 October 29, 2016 (1 week)
West Coast vs. Wessex (with Frank Turner )
  DE 42 08/07/2020 (1 week)
  CH 38 08/09/2020 (1 week)
EPs
The Decline
  US 200 12/11/1999 (1 week)
Regaining unconsciousness
  US 187 04/12/2003 (1 week)
Never Trust A Hippy
  US 186 04/01/2006 (1 week)

Studio albums

EPs and singles

  • 1985: NOFX (Mystic Records)
  • 1986: So what If We're on Mystic! (Mystic Records)
  • 1987: The PMRC Can Suck on This (Wassail Records, re-released 1992, Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1988: S&M Airlines (Split 7 ″ with Drowning Roses, in-house production)
  • 1992: The Longest Line (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1993: Liza and Louise (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1994: Don't Call Me White (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1995: Leave It Alone (Epitaph Records)
  • 1995: HOFX (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1996: Fuck the Kids (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1998: All of Me (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1999: Timmy the Turtle (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1999: Louise and Liza (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 1999: The Decline (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2000: Pods and Gods (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2000: Bottles to the Ground (Epitaph Records)
  • 2001: Surfer (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2001: Fat Club (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2003: Regaining Unconsciousness (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2003: 13 Stitches (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2005–2006: 7 ″ of the Month Club (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2006: Never Trust a Hippy (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2009: The Myspace Transmissions, Vol. 11 , (published online via Myspace Transmissions)
  • 2009: Cokie the Clown (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2009: My Orphan Year (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2011: Hardcore (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2012: My Stepdad's A Cop And My Stepmom's A Domme (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2012: Ronnie & Mags (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2013: Stoke Extinguisher (Fat Wreck Chords)

Compilations and live albums

  • 1992: Maximum Rocknroll (Mystic Records)
  • 1993: Bob Live
  • 1994: Drunk in Publik Live in Belgium
  • 1995: I Heard They Suck Live (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2002: NOFX / Rancid BYO Split Series Vol. III ( Byo Records )
  • 2002: 45 or 46 Songs that Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records (double CD; CD 1: B-sides, CD 2: "Surfer" -EP & "Fuck The Kids" -EP) (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2004: The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us) (Best-Of-Album) ( Epitaph Records )
  • 2007: They've Actually Gotten Worse Live (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2010: The Longest EP (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2010: NOFX / The Spits - 7 Split (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • 2012: 126 inches of NOFX: Singles Collection [Box Set 17 Singles + 1984 Thalidomide Child EP] (Fat Wreck Chords)

Video albums

  • 1994: Ten Years of Fuckin 'Up (also on DVD since 2003)
  • 2009: NOFX: Backstage Passport (DVD)
  • 2012: The Decline Live DVD (DVD)
  • 2015: NOFX: Backstage Passport 2 (DVD)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 73
  2. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 46
  3. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 100
  4. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 126-133
  5. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 110
  6. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. P. 107 f.
  7. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 144 f.
  8. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 153 f.
  9. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 154
  10. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 157 + 161 f.
  11. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 182 + 165
  12. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 120
  13. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 182 + 165
  14. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. P. 109 f.
  15. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 152
  16. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 156
  17. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 163.
  18. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 157
  19. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 223–226
  20. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 242 + 263
  21. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 289
  22. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 247 ff.
  23. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 251 f.
  24. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. pp. 253–255
  25. NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 164
  26. a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  27. Music Sales Awards: US
  28. ^ "Live Session With NOFX on MySpace" . Noise Press .

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