Fat Mike Gets Strung Out - I'm a Rat (Official Video)

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  • Опубліковано 13 чер 2023
  • Written by: Fat Mike
    Orchestration by: Bastien "BAZ" Brisson and Fat Mike
    Conducted by: Bastien "BAZ" Brisson
    Players: Jenny Takamatsu, Gary Terzian, Elizabeth Mennemeyer, Rodney Wirtz, Hakeen Holloway
    Recorded live at The Sun Rose - West Hollywood, CA
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  • @Punker43
    @Punker43 Рік тому +143

    I don't have words to describe you Mike, I just wish you live long to keep living your life the way you do!! Thank you for being you!! Thank You, Melvin, Smelly and Hefe for being NOFX!! Man, I saw NOFX for the first time here in Portugal in 1997 on the first row, it was a dream come true...and I saw NOFX in Barcelona 3 days in a row in this final tour, for the last time (?) I'm very proud of my favourite band of all times!!!... and as we can understand in the "Book" you always carried NOFX on you back on the most difficult times, as they carried you further 🤍 THANK YOU!!!

    • @FilipGrozni
      @FilipGrozni Рік тому +1

      shiiit I missed Austria. that was closest to me. They'll be touring up to oct 2024 so I hope they come somewhere near Slovenia. Had the privilege to see them 4 times - would love to see them one more time

    • @skakadak
      @skakadak Рік тому +4

      @@FilipGrozni Linz show was terrible and emotional at the same time. Mike promised to come to Vienna in 2024, but another Cvetličarna show would be perfect closure... or they can come to Belgrade finally 😀

    • @therandomband2007
      @therandomband2007 Рік тому +2

    • @christianobermeier7862
      @christianobermeier7862 11 місяців тому

      @@FilipGrozni Austria was pretty a crazy show ....come to Vienna 24 !

    • @andrecampones977
      @andrecampones977 11 місяців тому

      E deviam vir cá novamente! É bom saber de um parceiro que gosta de NOFX aqui em Portugal. Sempre cumprimento. Um abraço amigo!

  • @dolfanrob262
    @dolfanrob262 Рік тому +34

    You can hear all the Fat Mike trademark type melodies. This is truly pure as fuck. I love his evolution.

    • @yeahnah7220
      @yeahnah7220 Рік тому

      😂 of course you do. That's literally what happens when an orchestrator turns something composed into a score. 🤯

  • @Paddy.C
    @Paddy.C Рік тому +23

    Fat Mike stuff has been the soundtrack to my life since the '90s.
    Nice to know if I ever were to suddenly get classy, that wouldn't have to stop now.

    • @Wisk-mg4wh
      @Wisk-mg4wh 25 днів тому +1

      See you at the retirement club, buddy

  • @lacesoutchris
    @lacesoutchris Рік тому +39

    There's Bowie, Lennon, Dylan, Prince, and there's also Fat Mike. What a fucking treasure this man is. Mike, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything. Fucking love you dude!

    • @_Liquid_Snake
      @_Liquid_Snake 11 місяців тому +4

      @jessemanderson Yes, his an artists, just like Bowie and Prince. The fact that prince and the others were MTV an pop radio bitches doesn't change anything.

    • @johanisnotagamer
      @johanisnotagamer 11 місяців тому +3

      ​@@jessemandersonFat Mike is a lyrical, musical genius. That's not really up for debate. He can hold a crowd as well as any of the people above. The different is he is brilliantly unpredictable and as such, completely unmarketable as mainstream entertainment 😂

    • @johanisnotagamer
      @johanisnotagamer 11 місяців тому +2

      @@jessemanderson I have too (not seen them live but I came from the 90s punk rock scene, skater crowd and all that too, all my bestfriends were metalheads though 😅) and you're not wrong. All I'm saying is there are comparisons to be made. Maybe its because I don't know much about making music or being a musician though, I just know what strums the brainwaves the right way, so maybe to me the gap doesn't appear to be as large as it does to someone who knows what they're looking at musically.

  • @scamlmm2319
    @scamlmm2319 11 місяців тому +33

    Thank you Fat Mike !!
    Japanese Hi-STANDARD fans will never forget to thank you.
    I was in tears when I heard it.
    With love from Japan.

    • @Karaoke_em_HD
      @Karaoke_em_HD 7 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/LfLuZApVXfA/v-deo.html
      karaoke version for the original song of Hi-Standard - I'm a Rat // ENJOY ! //

    • @deltapyr
      @deltapyr 7 місяців тому

      I knew it sounded familiar lol

  • @nicarracdi5428
    @nicarracdi5428 Рік тому +55

    Thank you. For so much great music that truly has changed my life.

  • @tommytahjudin7660
    @tommytahjudin7660 Рік тому +14

    It's So Beautiful Mike , rest in peace TSUNE ✨

  • @mateosamora
    @mateosamora Рік тому +96

    This is the song he wrote for HI-STANDARD as their last song ever, so check that out if you wanna hear the punk version.

    • @bryonsteik7435
      @bryonsteik7435 11 місяців тому +5

      Yeah you can make out the vocals with the violins

    • @averyisland
      @averyisland 11 місяців тому +15

      Hopefully it won't be the last Hi-STANDARD song :( Ken and Namba announced that Hi-STANDARD will continue as a band (in some presently undecided capacity) and they are currently holding open auditions for a new drummer, so nobody (not even Ken and Namba!) knows where that will lead. I even heard a rumor that Namba said the band had some new songs written before Tsune passed. Tsune is irreplaceable but I still hope Hi-STANDARD keeps making music because they are such a special band.

    • @noki2644
      @noki2644 11 місяців тому +11

      いや、なんか違う。日本語訳がおかしいのかもしれないけど、現行体制の曲として最後でHi-STANDARDは解散していない。

    • @Karaoke_em_HD
      @Karaoke_em_HD 7 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/LfLuZApVXfA/v-deo.html
      karaoke version for the original song of Hi-Standard - I'm a Rat // ENJOY ! //

    • @tomoshiosan
      @tomoshiosan 2 місяці тому +1

      Hi-Standard will never end.They vowed to keep the band going until the end

  • @jaduenas
    @jaduenas 10 місяців тому +6

    NOFX really have something special. You've been there for each other through thick and thin - and everything in between. That's pretty fucking cool when you think about it. Thanks for the music too. I can't imagine my college years in the 90s without my NOFX mix tape! Linoleum got my ass going a shit ton of times...

  • @onixfake
    @onixfake Рік тому +6

    Rest in peace tsune... thx for every music mike, your punk rock safe my life...

  • @dominicthomas8726
    @dominicthomas8726 Рік тому +12

    Mike this kicks ass. Well done for not getting cancer.

  • @RagsLars
    @RagsLars Рік тому +6

    Love you Mike, you and NOFX made my whole life a lot easier back in the 90s. Saw you play in Oslo Norway back then, good memories man, good memories!

  • @marcofenanti2315
    @marcofenanti2315 Рік тому +10

    NOFX nel cuore per sempre, anche se non parlo americano, ma quello che mi date è felicità eterna

  • @christianobermeier7862
    @christianobermeier7862 Рік тому +1

    Your Music is always an Inspiration thank you for all the years and a lot more to come with great Music from you Mike...my pleasure is with you !

  • @Delekhan
    @Delekhan Рік тому

    Hell of a thing man... thanks for the awesome vid and keep on, keeping on!

  • @aaronbaertsch9269
    @aaronbaertsch9269 Рік тому +3

    First saw you when I was in high school 🏫 in the 80s, probably 30 times since then. Thank you for a lifetime of Punk Rock 🧷

  • @deniselopez
    @deniselopez Рік тому +1

    I freaking love this intro.
    Thanks FM

  • @dicksnyder6753
    @dicksnyder6753 11 місяців тому

    Outstanding. Really lovely.

  • @xDIRECTORSRULEx
    @xDIRECTORSRULEx Рік тому +4

    please release the whole set!

  • @markrivera3705
    @markrivera3705 Рік тому +10

    Love ya Mike!!!
    NOFX forever!!!

  • @swissmochaj
    @swissmochaj Рік тому

    From the VHS "Ten Years of Fuckin Up" Ashland, Oregon 1987 to where you are now. Congrats to all of NOFX for what they have done!

  • @user-hm6ep5yt3b
    @user-hm6ep5yt3b 3 місяці тому

    Very cool elegant performance!!! Cheers from Colombia, South America... Will never forget that show NOFX gave in Bogota!!! Pure Punk Rock Elite Class!

  • @yulblanpied636
    @yulblanpied636 Рік тому +3

    The conductor, BazTheFrenchman, is amazing. What a guy!

  • @SLURM187
    @SLURM187 11 місяців тому +3

    The looks on the faces of the musicians behind him are priceless

  • @nakamachifam
    @nakamachifam 11 місяців тому

    Thank you so much from🇯🇵

  • @joe5834
    @joe5834 День тому

    Thanks for everything, my regular sized Michael.

  • @TheDmanMA
    @TheDmanMA Рік тому +6

    ide actually love a disc of NOFX tunes played to classical/ orchastrated music...it works. GET ON IT!!!!!!!

  • @MonkDoob
    @MonkDoob 11 місяців тому +2

    no one puts a smile in my face like fatty does, thanks a lot for being you!
    you make me a better person.

  • @boivbam
    @boivbam Рік тому +1

    Mike and Baz = Absolute perfection

  • @chrisparnell4590
    @chrisparnell4590 Рік тому +2

    I have never missed a show when yall are in Dallas. As far back as Galaxy Club!

  • @rodup88
    @rodup88 Рік тому +9

    Miiiike! Please don´t stop doing music. You´re one of my references. I saw you in GRU airport last time nofx was in Brazil, but I was ashamed to talk with you and the guys. Keep doing your best. I know you will.

    • @lildeathbear6233
      @lildeathbear6233 Рік тому

      Ashamed? Because you were shy in the face of greatness..? Or because you were afraid that someone you knew might see you with those rat bastards & think less of you for it 😂🤣

  • @ThePunkCellist
    @ThePunkCellist 11 місяців тому +2

    That cello part in the beginning is not easy, and he played it beautifully.

  • @ryanjavierortega8513
    @ryanjavierortega8513 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @yukamiya587
    @yukamiya587 Рік тому +4

    R.I.P Tsune I love you

  • @juliandarionanezpaz7712
    @juliandarionanezpaz7712 Рік тому +3

    Thanks fat mike you are really awesome 🔥

  • @MsNaeners
    @MsNaeners 9 місяців тому

    This is amazing!!! I hope to see you all in Bako soon!

  • @Popskull_666
    @Popskull_666 11 місяців тому

    This was a very beautiful arrangement

  • @NoShoesPlays
    @NoShoesPlays Рік тому +1

    Outstandingly beautiful. I love you, and I love this.

  • @samghost13
    @samghost13 11 місяців тому +1

    The most beautiful thing from Mike

  • @ShinyaKatagiri-kv6lb
    @ShinyaKatagiri-kv6lb Рік тому +2

    Thanks, Fat Mike.
    RIP TSUNE-SAN.

  • @cojohnso80
    @cojohnso80 Рік тому +2

    That beat the heart right out of my chest.

  • @philipmartin3075
    @philipmartin3075 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful Mike, Baz, and orchestra. Thank you!

  • @PNWAFOL
    @PNWAFOL Рік тому +1

    I hope you live forever mike

  • @TheDmanMA
    @TheDmanMA Рік тому

    Mike B. -you are such a prolific artist....brilliiant...and im not bein a sychophant!!!

  • @mastaboog749
    @mastaboog749 11 місяців тому

    thanks for the sick violin samples

  • @nyarlathotepthecrawlingcha6869

    Man I love this.

  • @Uncle--Fatty
    @Uncle--Fatty Рік тому +3

    IF THAT don"t bring a tear to the eye. . . .

  • @therandomband2007
    @therandomband2007 Рік тому

    Great!

  • @etchpac
    @etchpac Рік тому +1

    Thanx for Selling Me Youth!

  • @justacatwhocantype
    @justacatwhocantype 10 місяців тому +1

    Fat Mike, hero since my childhood ❤

  • @user-uy3zy4tz7y
    @user-uy3zy4tz7y Рік тому

    Thank you Mike.I can't stop crying.R.I.P TSUNE-CHAN

  • @liammcooper
    @liammcooper Рік тому

    beautiful

  • @morifx1543
    @morifx1543 Рік тому +4

    Hi-STANDARD

  • @antonionevone7320
    @antonionevone7320 Рік тому +3

    I actually like this A LOT.

  • @shmick4203
    @shmick4203 11 місяців тому

    Very nice

  • @namupunkrock
    @namupunkrock 11 місяців тому

    好好聽‼︎ I would love to here the opera version.

  • @DjSuess
    @DjSuess Рік тому +1

    Cool-Cool-Cool! 🤘...But , Orlando!!?? Cmon, We coulda been so great!....still have my ticket mind you but..the burg all day!

  • @Sebastiano_il_bello
    @Sebastiano_il_bello Рік тому +4

    Nice tedtalk mike

  • @HEREONOUTBAILEY
    @HEREONOUTBAILEY 11 місяців тому +2

    I thought Mike was now sober? I saw him drinking vodka at a show recently too …

  • @ndtschau
    @ndtschau Рік тому

    Mike, are such an awesome entertainer!
    Maybe you should do a big "Fast-Mike-show-world-tour", just telling stories (I bet
    there are a lot..) and do a few songs...
    Should be fun! 😉

  • @sean78745
    @sean78745 Рік тому +4

    Is that Baz? I knew he had something to do with this

  • @sherrybomb666
    @sherrybomb666 Місяць тому

    Look at this distinguished gentlemen. 🧐 look up to you, always. ❤

  • @jbar260d2
    @jbar260d2 Рік тому

    very cool Mikey

  • @VisceralVerbals
    @VisceralVerbals Рік тому +3

    Go on rotund Michael lad!

  • @wattdee666
    @wattdee666 Рік тому

    Oh you got your voice back... good for you mike, hope finish what you started in austria

  • @dismantledbrain5910
    @dismantledbrain5910 3 місяці тому

    The fact that no one clapped for him being 10 month sober shows how hard it is for these artists/entertainers to stay clean...

  • @5kidmonty
    @5kidmonty Рік тому +1

    that is really fucking good !!!

  • @alexwindley2673
    @alexwindley2673 Рік тому +5

    Love you fat Mike

  • @christianmores157
    @christianmores157 Рік тому

    Complimenti

  • @marcofenanti2315
    @marcofenanti2315 Рік тому +1

  • @joshjordan1313
    @joshjordan1313 9 місяців тому

    my guidance, my light, my idol

  • @tatoguimaraes1
    @tatoguimaraes1 Рік тому +3

    I heard this with Hi Fucking Standard. . .Or Ken Yokohama. . . . This is gold. . . A Bleah from Brasil!!!

  • @user-fe6xi7ww6q
    @user-fe6xi7ww6q 2 місяці тому

    なんだろう、自然と涙が流れた😢

  • @patsgarage8593
    @patsgarage8593 Рік тому +20

    Weird....it actually sounds like a nofx song but classical lol It's awesome

    • @punkportaldan
      @punkportaldan Рік тому

      It’s a future nofx song. Hi-Standard also released it recently

    • @jagofarrell-sloane1846
      @jagofarrell-sloane1846 11 місяців тому

      Well, funnily enough it is in fact written by NoFX vocalist/bassist. So wouldn’t ya know! It does sound like a NoFX song but classical

  • @notchism
    @notchism 4 місяці тому +1

    I heard he was sober”

  • @punkamirbj287
    @punkamirbj287 Рік тому

    Yeahhhh. Mike 👍👍👍

  • @hansrudolph8343
    @hansrudolph8343 10 місяців тому +1

    In some nicer parallel universe, tony sly has written the most stunning lyrics 4 this. 3:30 made me listen 2 under the garden afterwards #NFTS

  • @josephupchurch7138
    @josephupchurch7138 11 місяців тому

    Mike, dude...
    Look into stand up.
    In my opinion, you're a funny dude, and the couple minutes you did here? Hysterical.
    After NOFX, be the comedian we all know you can be.
    Much love, brother 👏

  • @ASM881
    @ASM881 Рік тому +3

    Is this the Hi-Standard 7-inch, song?

  • @dillonmacpherson3350
    @dillonmacpherson3350 Рік тому +5

    I feel like it's time for Mike to do a stand-up special

  • @user-vk7sf5uh1o
    @user-vk7sf5uh1o 25 днів тому

    ありがとうFAT MIKE

  • @wackyruss
    @wackyruss 11 місяців тому

    4:16- “That was a kickin’ BASS Glissando!” -FryLock, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

  • @umagnovenju
    @umagnovenju 11 місяців тому

    The musicians at the back thinking "did I really went to the academy for this? Oh well, at least is well payed. Can't wait to get back home"

  • @stevenschleigh1002
    @stevenschleigh1002 11 місяців тому

    Ass soon as i seen mike with strings in the back..
    First thought..
    Wheres Baz?!
    Well fucking done.

  • @b3naqua
    @b3naqua 11 місяців тому +4

    The hi-standard version slaps so hard too 🤘🏼

  • @scroll_serpent
    @scroll_serpent Рік тому +1

    actually made me cry; beautiful performance...

  • @jbtallullah7009
    @jbtallullah7009 11 місяців тому

    You don't know until you know. Fat Mike is the greatest.

  •  9 місяців тому

    This piece really proves it he is the Frank Zappa of punk rock.

  • @K.F.J.
    @K.F.J. Рік тому

    Mom is Momsplaining 💅🏻😌

  • @howardb.6205
    @howardb.6205 Рік тому

    *THERE IS STILL NO SKATEBOARDING ALLOWED IN THE PUNK ROCK MUSEAM!*

  • @luevelvet8910
    @luevelvet8910 11 місяців тому

    Is there a link for this whole show?

  • @popunkid
    @popunkid 3 місяці тому

    Fast forward 8 mos or so, and Mickey Mouse is doing lines of cheeze-wiz with rat traps clamped to his nips to this song.

  • @mdemostra8325
    @mdemostra8325 11 місяців тому

    I was on the front seat 🫠🫶🏻🥰 te amo Mike la 🐚 de tu mami !

  • @dundabird3203
    @dundabird3203 Рік тому +28

    Fat Wreck is going to be such a weird label when NOFX have released their last album. From Orchestral to whatever Codefendents is, to Melvin's messing around with the sound generator on a macbook, and I'm sure some bands will be making punk still.
    Great as NOFX are and Transplants-but-without-the-one-good-song as Codefendents are, I think NOFX coming to an end might unleash Fat Mike and the others into total creative freedom and I'm really looking forward to where it goes. Also get the podcast going again, It's great.

    • @brianastruss7027
      @brianastruss7027 Рік тому +2

      I think they’re still going to release albums from what I understand. Just not crazy tours

    • @russelltaysom145
      @russelltaysom145 Рік тому +1

      Percy description of Codefendants

    • @marcturner5277
      @marcturner5277 Рік тому +2

      Transplants-but-without-the-one-good-song is exactly it. well done.

    • @lildeathbear6233
      @lildeathbear6233 Рік тому

      NOFX will never come to an end!! Regardless of whether they no longer tour, they are & will always be the robustly beating, racing & occasionally palpitating heart that keeps Punk Fkn Rock alive & well!!!...or if not totally well, at least not dope sick 😁

    • @ramayomama
      @ramayomama 11 місяців тому

      @@brianastruss7027their new albums all suck these days though 😂 ✌️ 💀 a live show for some average renditions of the classics is about all they are good for now.

  • @subparinternet4014
    @subparinternet4014 Рік тому

    Whoah, Fat Mike wrote this?
    Bro fuck yeah

  • @d.c.8828
    @d.c.8828 Рік тому

    **Slow claps** 👏 👏 👏

  • @MartyMcFly88
    @MartyMcFly88 Рік тому +5

    Mike, when are we getting a new Gimme Gimmes album?? It’s been 9 years!

  • @badPirateMonkey
    @badPirateMonkey Рік тому

    Plasmatics shirt💙💙

  • @finch3r
    @finch3r Рік тому +1

    nice song. Fat Mike you still have something to do in Austria. please come back as soon as possible.

    • @fuckthatcrapnameshit
      @fuckthatcrapnameshit Рік тому +1

      Vienna, to be exact ;)

    • @farbenflo
      @farbenflo Рік тому

      !!!

    • @finch3r
      @finch3r Рік тому

      @@fuckthatcrapnameshit Where did you get the information from and is it safe?

  • @nouseforafap
    @nouseforafap Рік тому

    It's funny because when i first heard this song by hi standard, I automatically thought Fat Mike!