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The most recent eyebrow-raising remarks took place at their Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival set in Las Vegas on Sunday (May 27). In a video posted to Twitter by radio station X1075's Dave Farra and Jason Mahoney, Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin partake in some offensive banter over the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in Las Vegas on October 1 that left 59 people dead and hundreds of other injured.
"We played a song about Muslims and we didnt get shot. Hooray," Fat Mike says, to which Melvin responds, I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you are in a country band.
"At least they were country fans and not punk rock fans," Fat Mike announces, much to the disdain of the audience. "You were all thinking it!" he defended himself with.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8458608/nofx-jokes-about-las-vegas-shooting-at-least-they-were-country-fans
Yeah I'm done with NOFX. This crossed a line, and if I was at that show, I would have left.
Cha
(296,853 posts)is NOFX?
That's just stupid.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)signed to it.
On the one hand, it's a pretty 'punk rock' thing to say.
On the other, it's not 1982, and his last name ain't Biaffra, Rotten, Pop, or Ramone.
Despite his relative fame (even though you don't know of him, or the group ... many who are fans of genre do, believe me) ... it's not sufficient in today's environment in particular ... to get away with talking this kind of insensitive shit.
Esp. considering that a surprising number of Punk fans ... are actually totally right-wing by today's standards.
Cha
(296,853 posts)There are many things I don't know of.. not as much in the loop as earlier years.
Struck me as a heartless super insensitive thing to say.. I would be crushed if I had a loved one who died in the Las Vegas massacre.
It happened when I was on a 5 month news black out.. I only found out about it a couple of months ago.
GReedDiamond
(5,310 posts)...l.a. punk was dead by 1984...shortly thereafter the same time that NOFX came into being.
peabody
(445 posts)Some people have sunk so low.
Initech
(100,040 posts)I was a fan for a long time and I have seen them live a few times but after this.... yeah I can't do it anymore. And that thing about separating the art from the artist? This is who Fat Mike is. Same with Eagles Of Death Metal - you can't reason with people who make such horribly insensitive comments like this.
greyl
(22,990 posts)The brewery announced its intentions to donate profits from NOFXs beer to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundationan organization that provides trauma counseling for officers and first responders.
https://pitchfork.com/news/nofx-lose-beer-sponsorship-after-joking-about-tragic-las-vegas-shooting/
yardwork
(61,539 posts)Initech
(100,040 posts)I will be picking up a six pack at the next available opportunity!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)only country musicians get shot.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Sigh, lol
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Hes always been a douchebag.