The Dysfunctional Diaries of NOFX (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- Part one in my history lesson on LA’s skate punk pioneers NOFX! Along with some added trivia and thoughts from yours truly. Enjoy!
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Chapters:
0:00 - 2:06 Intro
2:06 - 5:43 Early Beginnings
5:43 - 7:18 First 7” & Erik Sandin’s Departure
7:18 - 11:41 Sandin’s Return, So What if We’re On Mystic, & Dave Casillas
11:41 - 13:20 The PMRC Can Suck On This & Liberal Animation
13:20 - 16:02 Steve Kidwiller, S&M Airlines, & Signing to Epitaph
16:02 - 18:43 Ribbed
18:43 - 23:54 Smelly’s Addiction & El Hefe’s Introduction
23:54 - 28:40 The Longest Line, Smelly Getting Sober, & White Trash Two Heebs & a Bean
28:40 - 33:32 Punk In Drublic
33:32 - 37:14 I Heard They Suck Live, Heavy Petting Zoo, & Ryan Greene
37:14 - 40:30 Moto XXX, Gimmie Gimmies, & So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
40:30 - 41:41 The Decline
41:41 - 46:54 17 Year Legacy
46:54 - 47:56 Outro
Really well done! I have worked at Epitaph since 1991, and this really brought back a ton of memories. Can’t wait for the second installment! FYI, Fat Mike wrote a song about me called Jeff Wears Birkenstocks.
Wears his birkenstocks to work, is he a jerk? No just confused, Jeff dont wear regular shoes.
ha ha ha I loved the line about the tie-dyed rancid shirt it painted such a great image. Jeff you must be cool to get your own song, for a confused guy!
Too cool. It's quite a difficult song to play well (for me at least) because of the palm-muted rhythm guitar part.
No he didn't lol
ty Jeff, and your shoooees!
The first NOFX song I heard was “We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for arms and no eyebrows” off of the Punk o Rama 3 comp in 98. From there I had a bootleg copy of So long and thanks for all the shoes on cassette that throughly hooked me in and THEN I moved over to listening to punk in drublic and the greater back catalog.
Guys, NOFX literally has an autobiography written by every member that details all of this and is a very easy and very fun read. I highly recommend it, especially if you found this video interesting.
This video was very well done as well, though, and I plan on checking out more of your videos for sure. But the book gets deep into the craziness of their careers and is crazy how much they went through.
Where do you think I did my research? 😂
Heavy Petting Zoo was the first NoFX album i listened to back in 96. This skater kid sat behind me in science class and he had the CD. He asked if i knew who they were, i said no. I became a fan that day.
great album
One of their best albums
Great album intro
That album was the start of NOFX becoming meme. Just completely full on pop
I remember when punk in drublic came out.
I was on furlough from rehab and me, and this skater kid made our way into the record store.
If it was like, wtf?
I had been into punk for a bit by that time.
In 93 rancid self titled was realeased. It blew my mind.
Never heard a punk band quite like them.
Then a year later nofx does the sams thing.
Then a year later outcome the wolves.
And many many more awesome records.
Please please please do a snfu history. You always do these bands justice and snfu is super important and underrated
I learned guitar from NOFX tabs now im a music teacher guitar bass piano and synth thanks Mike thanks Jussi Heinonen
I learned bass from his tabs and IMO, JiiHoo tabs is fully part of the NOFX ethos and history at this point.
Damn I love NOFX. I’d heard the name mid to late 90’s and found a used copy of Heavy Petting Zoo. I’d heard the name and the album cover was so wildly inappropriate in the most hilarious of ways, I knew it was time to check them out. Changed my life forever. I dove in to punk hard.
Looking forward too see them in the netherlands this year . Ribbed is my favorite album with absolute classics (in my view) like “cheese wheres my slice” and “malanchi crunch” etc
Very cool video. My brother, Jeff Floyd, was the lead singer for Subculture. NOFX would always come out to the lake during their tours and hang out for a few days.
Love your channel, just today I was in a gas station ( Raul Montana)and rancid was playing, I told the young 18 year old kid behind the counter that I appreciate him playing Rancid he insisted that it was minor threat, I had to slow him down and let him know that he’s going down the right path but there is a plethora of information for him to go through I’ve been listening to punk since I was 11 in 92 and still are navigating the great bands of original street punk. I guess I will direct him to your channel
This is the most collective tale of NOFX ever told! Well done!!!!
Well, nofx has book. You should read it (or listen to it)
Nofx wrote an autobiography that this video is heavily inspired on. You should the book
Funny thing about I Heard They Suck Live back in the 90's: I was about 14 when I discovered NOFX (Thanks to Punk O Rama 1). It was after Punk in Drublic and before Heavy Petting Zoo. Once I got into them, I really got into them. Eventually getting all previous records. But here's the thing: I wasn't really sure what they actually looked like. Mystic, Liberal Animation, Ribbed, Longest Line, Whitetrash, Punk in Drublic: none of these albums had too much to offer as far as photos of the band other then confusing little snips of pictures.
So when I Heard They Suck Live came out I knew every single song (well, basically) and listened to it nonstop. But the whole time I never had a clear image of who these guys were singing and playing these songs. It's kind of a weird concept these days but pre-google and pre-youtube there really was no other way for a kid in a small rural town of Pennsylvania to get info let alone photos of punk bands like NOFX. So for the longest time, my favorite band was shrouded in mystery until the late 90's when I finally got my hands on 10 Years of Fucking Up. It was totally bizarre seeing them actually playing these songs that I knew. Even at that time, Heavy Petting Zoo and So Long would come out and add to the mystery because they didn't have pictures either. Finally in 1998 I'd see them live for the first time in Philly with the Bouncing Souls (another band I loved and had almost no concept of what they looked like) and I saw what they actually looked like and it was mindblowing. Yeah, they basically looked like four dudes in a punk band, but after so many years of mystery it was amazing to see them actually playing the songs I had grown to love.
Great video, my man. Looking forward to the next!
I can relate to this. I first saw what they look like live at a "big day out" Auckland New Zealand around '99 having listened to them for quite a while before this.
A lot of early info I never knew of my fav. band of all time....Love the video!! Keep up the great work!
I heard NOFX for the first time in my first Supercross Season in 2001..still listening in 2024
This rules. Welcome back.
Okay, holy s**t , as much as I love the transformation of the punk scene in the 90's... I was expecting the deep dive into the history NOFX had back then. But, the shout-out to the likes of Samiam and the like blew me away. I didn't think that bands like that were still on anyone's radar. I mean, it makes sense, considering your depth of knowledge, and you playing with Diesel Boy and all... That being the reason I keep coming back... Keep on doing what you're doing brother. You're probably the only one keeping the true history of punk alive. Hats off to you man... ✌️ Looking forward to part two! P.S. thanks for wearing the NUfaN shirt. Tells all you need to know.
Billy, Clumsy, and Astray are 3 amazing punk/emo albums. Samiam is definitely a huge influence on a lot of people’s playing today whether they realize it or not.
Thanks for including us, even if we are dressed as foxes!! 🤣
i saw them first time 1994 on their Monstour in Germany ,Hannover .. and the next and last time In Hannover in May 2024 in Hannover.. Nofx is one of the most seen Band for me.. i thought 8-10 times.. only one was really bad at an Hurricane Festival while Mike is on Coke... i loved them
Also, that No Use for a Name shirt is bittersweet to see. I love Tony and still miss him all the time. His Duo with Joey Cape was a beautiful moment that still makes me cry. Love you Tony Sly, rest easy brother
Epic effort putting this together! From a Nofx fan, thank you.
Man, I had Punk in Drublic, Minor Threat, and Unknown Road on loop in 1994. Good times
Heavy Petting Zoo was the first NOFX album I heard. I fucking loved it. It was fast, tight, and surging. I was an instant fan.
Good god damn! Now this is a video! I’ve followed NoFx pretty consistently since 1994 and this vid is easily the most thorough youtube mini-doc I’ve seen on NoFx.
I genuinely enjoyed watching it and a lot of it was because it’s obvious the host actually knows and enjoys NoFx’s discography. Great job man!
I met Eric Melvin at their last show in Melbourne, Australia. He is a really great guy!
I've listened to the Hepatitis Bathtub audiobook before but I appreciate this short history telling of the greatest awful band in the world.
That was a bit of a project to spend every night trying to remember where I left off before inevitably (NO disrespect at all!) falling asleep.* It was often interestingly trippy to wake up to the middle of the night in the middle of the audiobook, in the dark, and having to piss. It sometimes took me a minute. 😂❤👍
It was a fun listen....though extremely f***d up.
@@danpiazza3803 I remember falling to sleep listening to the audio for a week er so some years ago off YT and waking up in the middle of the story saying "Woah...WTF??"..then remembering just what I was listening to 😂
I love when you do these history videos. You’re amazing at it! I’m still going to beg and ask on every video…. Please do Swingin’ Utters. They are my all time favorite band and I feel like you would do them justice, in which most really don’t.
Happy Hollidays and happy new year brother!
The Longest Line E.P.! Stranded and The Tragedy of John Smith had percussion and bass dialed! Fast and clean sound!
Thank you for your excellent work! Cheers from Brazil ♥
My first introduction to NOFX was the EP the longest line about 94?
It turned out to be my fravorit CD in my boyfriend's collection at the time and i haven't stopped loving their music to this day.
Great video as always. Their book Hepatitis Bathtub is a good read too for those interested in the story. Really enjoyed the book.
I was on tour with nofx in 2000. They were all super chill and kind.
Hell yeah what band were you in?
@@storkksoundmedia7778 I was on the catering crew. I fed all those fools
It was 1995, I'm ten years old and I'm hanging with some of my parents friend's kids that were pretty cool in my parent's party bus while they were off getting drunk in a boat or something. They were three brothers, one younger, one my age and one older. The older brother was this cool skateboarder, and he asked if we could use the tape deck deck on the bus. He had three tapes, Rancid's ...And Out Come the Wolves, Pennywise's Unknown Road, and Nofx's Punk and Drublic. He ended up forgetting those tapes in the bus so copied them all starting a life long love if punk. The first time I was allowed to go to a show alone with my friends was Orlando Warped Tour in 2000 where I saw Nofx for the first time and I was able to catch them one last time at the same venue for the final time.
I live in orlando too all my life, I went to the first warped tour in sanford at the tsunami beach club and I was also at the 2000 one at the fairgrounds
My introduction to NOFX was "I heard they suck live!" and it immediately got me hooked! Up until t'day! Thank you for such awesome video!
Cant wait to see them over 2 days in Montreal in august!!!! Thanks for the great vid! 🤟
Amazing video man! 🙌
Although I'm from Perth, Australia - I'm seeing both nights of their final tour shows in Melbourne in a few weeks!
I'll be listening to Hepatitis Bathtub audio book for the '72nd' time on my flight over to eastern Aus to soak in their history for sure.
Can't wait for Ep two of this bro 🤘
Keep 'em coming!
Damn, that's a fucking hike bro. Well worth it though, I caught them in Orlando last year
Great job, man. So many people Don't spend the time on this band that they deserve. They gloss over the importance of their early days and have a full chronological history is awesome.
I've got "Punk In Drublic" on CD, LP, and cassette because the "more punk than me" schtick at the end was different on all of them. And when I was working in Vienna, Austria, in the summer of '95, I saw a poster for their tour and went with a British friend. Only a couple of years ago did I realize that Weezer also played. I had totally forgotten!
That's too funny! I did the same thing with "Pump up the Valuum", cuz the intro tune is different on all three. Cheers!
Punk in Drublic pulled me in in '95 when I was in junior high after a friend loaned me their cassette tape. I saw them in '97 when they were touring to promote So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes; my friends and I thought it was a farewell tour lol. My favorite albums are: 1. Heavy petting Zoo 2. So Long and Thanks... and 3. War on Errorism
First NOFX was So Long and I probably got it a year or so after it came out? I know I got into NOFX before Pump Up the Valuum came out; not sure if The Decline was out yet or not because this was pre-internet (for me) and it was just what the record store had in stock. Was really introduced to the idea of a band called NOFX through Operation Ivy because there was a photo of Dave Mello's drum kit that had a NOFX sticker on it and at that point, I was finding bands via the liner note thank you's and stickers that bands would rock.
Idk why when i was younger i always favored "punk in drublic" and "white trash two heebs and a bean" some of the older albums. But now my definitive favorite album is "so long and thanks for all the shoes" there are so many songs on that album that are literally masterpieces.. and they are so what id call "real life depressing" i just love them
I love S&M, white trash, drublic etc but I agree with you that So long.. is probably my favourite album. Mad underrated. Some of their best work lyrically and musically and it just doesn't let up.
It’s the best NOFX album. You don’t skip a single song and the band is at their peak musically
Always look forward to anytime you upload. NOFX is a band that I often have to remind myself I like as much as I do. Like as much as I wanna pretend I’m cooler then listening to nofx I’m just not. (Lagwagon is however better imo and rule my heart but oh well lol)
have had the pleasure of having Mark Rooney aka Agression drummer to come to the Mexican restaurant I used to work for as bartender in Naples/FL at least twice a week for some Taco Salad and speak about punk rock! being myself from Brazil and a total punk rock fan to the roots it blew my mind his stories about beibg Mickey Rooney's son and all his going on about the early nardcore scene! fuck I miss those days and luckily I still chat to Matk even though I live in Australia now for the past 12yrs. miss those chats with him about green day opening their gigs and shit! good oldie days!
They did it themselves, stayed authentic, did what they wanted, and took Home, 100% of the cut every single time and every single album. From a creative control perspective, it worked, and from a purely business decision it worked.
I found then on tour with fishbone. Saw them at the palladium never looked back. Been a fan ever since
dude is that a Diesel BOY Cock Rock deck?
if so, and Im pretty sure it is, That's fucking AWESOME.
I saw em on their 97 tour my freshman year, headlining tour with suicide machines! They opened up with Lime Green I went ape shit.
they were one of my favorite bands back in the day.
Honest Dons having them, Mad Caddies and early Gimme Gimmes and a few others, I thought as a sub-label that Honest Dons woulda done better.
it's like they tried Honest Dons and Epitaph tried Hellcat at the same time. Give em the Boot comp introduced me to Choking Victim same year. that was the best times of my punk rock life😢
bro!! this vid is 🔥🔥 a lot of research involved!! thank you for this
hey dude! I'm watching you since the skate punk crass course video and I just wanna say thank you for what you're doing!
I can't exactly remember what the first music I heard by NOFX was anymore, but I do remember hearing a little in high school ('94 - '98) and the first time I really started paying attention to Fat Wreck was with Propagandhi's How To Clean Everything came out. I know that when I started really digging into NOFX was when a radio station in Winnipeg banned "Kill All The White Man" in 2005. I was a cub reporter at the time and so got an interview with Fat Mike for a story in a Canadian alt-news weekly. I had already done a lot of reviews of Fat Wreck albums, but that was when I really started digging in to NOFX. I've since written about the band quite a bit for several mags and had a great time doing it.
Love NOFX & MOTO XXX. Great vid!
this lesson for me was one of the best and most eye-opening. Thank You!
I'd heard a few songs off Ribbed when it came out and thought they were an okay band. Then I heard a super pretentious music snob at my school going on about how Punk In Drublic was the most unlistenable non-musical awful thing ever recorded, and I had to give it a serious listen. I loved the record, but it was I Heard They Suck Live that made me a life long fan. Your point at the end about the intangible personality factor of the band is absolutely spot on. They are not just punk music, they are punk through and through. It always makes me laugh when I read comments from "punks" in online forums saying NOFX aren't punk...cool story, bro. These guys are the real thing.
Remember when So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes came out and everyone thought they broke up? That was hilarious.
I saw NOFX in North Lake Tahoe once, and there was a giant mud pit right in front of the stage, only one person was brave enough to wade in ankle deep mud. She lost both of her shoes. I dont know why that memory stuck with me. Just such a fun band, as long as they don't get to hammered.
Thanks for this one!
i love it , you are incredible thank you !
Great video! Saw you’re gonna be opening for MXPX in Seattle. So awesome! Have fun!
Falling in love with that Much The Same deck!
I don't know about you but I'll be back for part 2. 🤘
1991 I went to the Club "Exil" in Koblenz (Germany). A younerverheardfrom band from US played. We had a discussion at the door, cause IT should cost 10 Mark. ... Since then a fan
Shout out smelly for making the doot dat de de lat beat
Best punkrock band ever, got me into punk for life!! 🤍
Great history - thanks!
Dude! I love the Diesel Boy deck on the wall!
I miss that band. We got four great albums, though.
We’re actually playing again! We just did our first run of shows last summer!
And as of this year we have 5 albums:
open.spotify.com/album/3wz5xVv02LyyoNKicgcl5Y?si=Q25UWp4MTsqa2MQ4hwPlmA
@@thepunkhistorian6397 Wait… you’re in the band? Another album came out this year? Were you in the original lineup that put out the four albums on Honest Don’s?
I will most likely have follow up questions to your response. 🙂
@@johnnydropkicks yes I’m in the band as of may 2023.
I was not in the original lineup though. I’m one of 2 new members in diesel boy now.
The new record came out last summer as well (June 2023)
We dont deserve you dude. Thank you for this!
@the punk historian, this is the first video I've seen on your channel. I couldn't help but think "where do i know this guy from?" Then after subscribing I looked at your other videos and wanted to kick myself when I realized you were playing with Diesel Boy. Greg and I shared an apartment in Oakland in the late 90s and I've helped lug his Amp around a few times. You are a great addition to the band, and I'm enjoying your videos. Hope to catch you fuys at a show soon, work on the guys to come down to the Central Coast CA. See ya.
RIP Oakland. And California in general.
@@newagain9964 hope not.
@@tigg1972 I left Oakland in 2018 after almost 15 yrs there. Been back to cali Cpl times since then. It’s one big sad perplexing scene.
@newagain9964 I can understand that perspective. For now Cali is where I'm at. Nowhere near the city anymore. Helps a bit.
@@tigg1972 tbf. If someone paid me enough, I’d move to socal. SD specifically . lol
My favorite band ❤
Liked and Subscribed.
excellent job.
you should do one on hi standard if you haven't already
Hey man this was really entertaining, thank u for taking the time . We love theses docs, can u do my favorite band alkaline trio??
I love Life Won’t Wait, got the skull from the album cover as my first tattoo.
Was fist introduced to NoFx in '93. My best friend's older brother was in a local punk band PLY. They made a skate video of them traveling all over CA to skate and just generally fucking around and partaking in the devil's lettuce (strictly for medical purposes), part of which was set to Johnny Appleseed. We thought it was the coolest thing on the planet at like 12-13 and it pretty much cemented our own similar path.
People used to give me so much shit for loving NoFx during that weird time in the late 90s early 2000s where there was that outbreak of elitist punks that only listened to "real punk"... Whatever the fuck that is. Would claim NoFx were sellouts or posers and would immediately be shut down with a "How? How have they sold out? What makes them posers? Nice fucking misfits leather jacket."
Weird times lol!
Fuckin awesome video man. NOFX has been my favorite band since about 96' 13 year old me fell in love instantly. You really touched on something when talking about the comedy aspect. That is one of the reasons I love them so much is that they are always fucking hilarious on stage. Great video!
White Trash Two Heebs and a Bean got me into in 90s and they have always been there since. Thanks for breakdown can’t wait for the next!
You need to stop being so awesome !!!! Your videos are freaking phenomenal
Good work dude. 🖖
I never knew that much about the pre hefe days until now.
Well done video dude.. I need to go reread "The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories".. Such a great "memoir" if you can call it that!
been waiting for this one for a while! btw you ever get a hold on the RKL comic book insert from rnr nightmare?
Still looking for a physical copy sadly !
I think one of the keys of NOFX was having non punk guitarits in Steve and El Hefe. It really helped them stnd out.
S & M Airlines is still one of my fave albums.
Ryan Green worked on punk n drublic... the sound on 'drublic is all green
The hell man, Ryan Green started with NOFX on Punk In Drublic ...
The Quass/Dying degree and every NOFX song since.
One of the true OG
I Heard They Suck Live was the first NOFX album I ever had, I was like 14 and I played the fuck out of that record!
NOFX's Punk in Drublic is the reason there was A Global Threat
Love all the Threat records man. Thanks for checking this out 🤙🏻
awesome video!!
I like the diesel boy skate deck
Good video so far ❤️
Great stuff! Really appreciate your work. NOFX is the band of my life. I was born in 1983 and in some way, when I discovered them for good (Leave it Alone was the first song, but I started to be a real fan after The War on Errorism), I felt I was growing up with them. You are totally right, it was never about the music only. There are lots of sh*tty songs they made, but I love them for being themselves all along. In June I am going for their Final Tour concert in Berlin and can't wait for that. This is a good time to say goodbye to fans and get some closure. Although, they are not splitting, right?
All time favorites of mine: Linoleum, The Decline, The Separation of Church and Skate, Decom-Poseur, Generation Z, Doors and Fours.
Waiting for part II
Truly good channel, consider talking about Sonic youth :)
Would be nice to hear some of their songs occasionally through the doc.
Great video!! Heavy perting zoo was my first nofx album, favorite band ever since, dont hate me but i prefer heavy petting zoo over punk in drubelic 🥳
Hey, the Punk Rock Museum in Vegas opened. See if you can contribute somehow!
Are we just going to ignore the Diesel Boy deck hanging on the wall in the background?
Good job!!
Was it a subtle joke flashing on the screen that Counting Crows covered Mr. Jones? Two totally different songs man. I actually started twitching because of that. Damn.
How I discovered Nofx does drummer come over to jam with me back in those days I'd swap back up to guitar most of the time I'm a drummer myself but I'd never heard of them up until this point but the thing about it is. The guy had a cassette tape it was blank cassette on it no writing on it or anything like that. And I'm totally digging it it was heavy petting zoo. Which is hands down the greatest punk rock album of all times nothing even comes remotely close to being as good as heavy petting zoo. But he was telling me that it was his band. Which I thought good Lord this dude is so super sick on this album. Especially since freedom like a shopping cart was the first song he played. So I thought I wonder why he's not playing any super sick ass drum shit like what I'm hearing on this album. So a few days later I played it for my weed dealer and I told him yeah I know the drummer this is a local band. He started laughing and said no it's not it's Nofx. So that's how I got turned on to Nofx.
Love from the Netherlands!
So much useful informations (filling the holez) in this, for the first time looks like skip it /nature is calling... beein a typical NOFx victim (firstly in 14, then my band turned into how THEY sound, and kept it still - let´s live our lives c´mon everybody), is a way to be a little critical about... just for the sake of bein´ ´n´ havin´ an opportunity to have my commentary next to the man´s who´s shoe style influences one of the most influential punkrock album´s tracklist...
guess, there must be a crew of more insiders between bands nearest friends who check great videos like these, and their positive?/negative? effects on NOFX´s "thatness of spreading". Well then, buddy, I enjoyed. Can´t wait to see second part
eh. maybe a little wrong seems that comment from me. I meant when they... when I heard an quite actual punk-o-rama 4 with kids from the k-hole song. then bought so long.. that was a time when they came and I saw em in 2011. They started with Perfect government. shit that was not meant don´t get me wrong. i enjoyed. ok time to shut up.
Love this! Come help us with our stupid expensive documentary....
Woah! Thanks so much for watching!
If you actually are looking to get in touch, shoot me a message me on instagram! @the_punk_historian