![]() When you base a melody off a six-string chord, the melody gets a little lostĭo you have good finger control, or is it all pick? That’s why the Beatles are so fucking good, because most of the melodies are based around a bass note. Melody works so much better over one note. People think because you hear more attack that that’s what you want, but a bass player’s job is to make everyone else sound good.” “When I can’t find one of my picks I’ll use a thicker one, it makes your thumb really tired it hurts. 60 mm, but did you experiment with a heavier pick over the years? ![]() So, I sold him on it, and he spent $10,000 to make me my own mold.” ![]() Bass players play thick picks because they think they have to hit a guitar like they’re beating a person. Our job, as bass players, is to play the whole notes – not sharp – and play it smooth. You can play bass better with a thin pick, which people don’t realize. “He asked why, and it’s because I have a different style of playing. I want my name, Fat Mike, put on a nylon pick.’ I met him the one time I went to NAMM, and was like, ‘Oh, hey, Jim Dunlop! Can I get a pick?’ But he was like, ‘We haven’t changed our molds since the ‘60s!’ ‘Well, it’s about time you made a new one. The only advice I ever got was ‘play a thin pick,’ from this guy that used to beat me up, Mike Knox. I never had a lesson, and I didn’t watch videos – because there weren’t any. How much of your teenage bass playing can you still hear in your style these days? On top of looking at punk rock history through your work with the museum, we’re also crossing over into 40 years of NOFX. ![]() 500 with his NAMM solicitations, and more. Speaking with Guitar World, Fat Mike further gets into finally completing the band’s Double Album, the new music he’s even more excited for, batting. Mike’s also been working on string concertos, tunes with genre-less collective The Codefendants, an on-screen adaptation of his Home Street Home musical, and more. While the band recently announced they’re ready to retire from the road (“It’s not a Sabbath thing, I’m done”), another three NOFX albums will see release in the near future. Their new Double Album – a sequel that was to have been stitched to Single Album, were it not for the fact that the songs weren’t up to snuff at the time – is melodically a more upbeat affair, but finds quirks in places like Punk Rock Cliché, a deceptively poppy, electronic-production-peppered piece written for but turned down by blink-182.ĭespite Double Album’s delay, Fat Mike confesses it’s been a prolific couple of years. Last year, the quartet delivered Single Album, which paid homage to NOFX’s melodic hardcore slam of bright octave work, sleek bass melodicism, and double-kick speediness while also exploring erratic meter-shifting ( The Big Drag) and devastating lyricism ( I Love You More Than I Hate Me). ![]()
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