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

[@Punker43]

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]

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]

@@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]

❤

[@christianobermeier7862]

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

[@andrecampones977]

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

[@rwtphc]

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

[@Paddy.C]

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.

[@scamlmm2319]

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]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpevpo13pbuLnKM karaoke version for the original song of Hi-Standard - I'm a Rat // ENJOY ! //

[@deltapyr]

I knew it sounded familiar lol

[@nicarracdi5428]

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

[@barracuda_acab]

lol

[@lacesoutchris]

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]

@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]

​@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]

@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.

[@tommytahjudin7660]

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

[@dolfanrob262]

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

[@yeahnah7220]

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

[@duenasj]

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...

[@mateosamora]

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]

Yeah you can make out the vocals with the violins

[@averyisland]

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]

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]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpevpo13pbuLnKM karaoke version for the original song of Hi-Standard - I'm a Rat // ENJOY ! //

[@tomoshiosan]

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

[@dominicthomas8726]

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

[@RagsLars]

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]

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

[@swissmochaj]

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!

[@aaronbaertsch9269]

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 🧷

[@yulblanpied636]

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

[@ThePunkCellist]

I second this!!!

[@dismantledbrain5910]

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

[@JuanCamiloRodriguezMartinez]

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

[@markrivera3705]

Love ya Mike!!! NOFX forever!!!

[@rodup88]

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]

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 😂🤣

[@deniselopez]

I freaking love this intro. Thanks FM

[@chrisparnell4590]

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

[@ShinyaKatagiri-kv6lb]

Thanks, Fat Mike. RIP TSUNE-SAN.

[@xDIRECTORSRULEx]

please release the whole set!

[@yukamiya587]

R.I.P Tsune I love you

[@SLURM187]

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

[@samghost13]

The most beautiful thing from Mike

[@christianobermeier7862]

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 !

[@ThePunkCellist]

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

[@MonkDoob]

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

[@boivbam]

Mike and Baz = Absolute perfection

[@PNWAFOL]

I hope you live forever mike

[@justacatwhocantype]

Fat Mike, hero since my childhood ❤

[@MsNaeners]

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

[@josephupchurch7138]

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 👏

[@TheDmanMA]

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

[@Delekhan]

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

[@patmccrotch5373]

Get Fat Mike on the 'Are you garbage?' podcast... that'd be one HELL of an episode.

[@三好政彦]

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

[@hansrudolph8343]

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

[@wackyruss]

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

[@namupunkrock]

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

[@joe5834]

Thanks for everything, my regular sized Michael.

[@DjSuess]

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

[@etchpac]

Thanx for Selling Me Youth!

[@Uncle--Fatty]

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

[@antonionevone7320]

I actually like this A LOT.

[@mastaboog749]

thanks for the sick violin samples

[@nakamachifam]

Thank you so much from🇯🇵

[@TheDmanMA]

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

[@b3naqua]

The hi-standard version slaps so hard too 🤘🏼

[@Popskull_666]

This was a very beautiful arrangement

[@ASM881]

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

[@mateosamora]

Yup!

[@juliandarionanezpaz7712]

Thanks fat mike you are really awesome 🔥

[@philipmartin3075]

Beautiful Mike, Baz, and orchestra. Thank you!

[@cojohnso80]

That beat the heart right out of my chest.

[@howardb.6205]

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

[@ryanjavierortega8513]

Beautiful

[@sherrybomb666]

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

[@morifx1543]

Hi-STANDARD

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

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! 😉

[@tatoguimaraes1]

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

[@dennisvanfreeden6387]

Yokoyama ;)

[@NoShoesPlays]

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

[@joshjordan1313]

my guidance, my light, my idol

[@ASSAULTROCKRECKEADZ]

Go on rotund Michael lad!

[@Sebastiano_il_bello]

Nice tedtalk mike

[@HEREONOUTBAILEY]

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

[@sean78745]

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

[@dundabird3203]

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]

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

[@russelltaysom145]

Percy description of Codefendants

[@RxFandit]

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

[@lildeathbear6233]

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]

@@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.

[@popunkid]

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.

[@patsgarage8593]

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

[@punkportaldan]

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

[@Beeblebrox540]

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

[@jbtallullah7009]

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

[@きちかず-f8u]

なんだろう、自然と涙が流れた😢

[@alexwindley2673]

Love you fat Mike

[@therandomband2007]

Great!

[@shmick4203]

Very nice

[@wattdee666]

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

[@dillonmacpherson3350]

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

[@DenisBencic]

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

[@liammcooper]

beautiful

[@punkamirbj287]

Yeahhhh. Mike 👍👍👍

[@finch3r]

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

[@fuckthatcrapnameshit]

Vienna, to be exact ;)

[@farbenflo]

!!!

[@finch3r]

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

[@stevenschleigh1002]

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

[@K.F.J.]

Mom is Momsplaining 💅🏻😌

[@Host.of.the.nightmare]

Man I love this.

[@luevelvet8910]

Is there a link for this whole show?

[@mdemostra8325]

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

[@jbar260d2]

very cool Mikey

[@5kidmonty]

that is really fucking good !!!

[@MartyMcFly88]

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

[@notchism]

I heard he was sober”

[@marcofenanti2315]

❤

[@jankompos2330]

kind of reminds of tony sly projects ,he did when getting sober ,sadly something took his final piece of happiness of life and locked him inside a darkk room without no light ,its not the age that is getting to mike ,its the maturity ,punkrock is for kids,clasical is for mature

[@christianmores157]

Complimenti

[@deadbeats4894]

Please play- If you're gonna get clean have a backup needle, from fat mic podcast in Columbus. At least record it.

[@jrbass328]

Please do stick in my eye next

[@lucasowen9990]

Mike is correct at 1:50!! the crowd wasn't perfectly tuned in and they should have applauded when he said he went 10 months sober. He gave them a full second to respond, but everybody is too goddamn hypnotized :/ They should have erupted immediately, but they didn't and Mike is too fast. Man is he Fast.

[@chasejefferies-warren9989]

@4:21 the woman was like "oh wait, no personality allowed" :|

[@ImshadyKurtinz]

Fat Mike didnt respond to me saying they weren't posers of them playing their entire discography at the JazzFest last summer. So NOFX are posers, they've been writing poser punk for 40 years. That's why i want to hear the entire discography, because I'm a poser too.

[@d.c.8828]

**Slow claps** 👏 👏 👏