DIYRock.Com: D.I.Y. works A-OK for NOFX

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If playing in a punk rock band past the age of 40 is considered strange, don't tell Fat Mike. The 43-year-old lead singer of NOFX still feels like a kid.

"In 25 years, my life hasn't changed at all. Being in a band really is the best job in the world," he says.

His enthusiasm stems, in part, from the success that NOFX has achieved without the help of radio stations or MTV. "That was the best decision we made, never to go to a major or MTV or anything like that," he mentions proudly. "We've always been D.I.Y."
Even without the exposure that most bands seek, NOFX has sold more than 6 million records since forming in 1983, headlined countless Vans Warped Tour stops and toured through places as exotic as the Philippines and Indonesia.

"The Philippines may have been the worst… The show just wasn't that rad," he says, but that doesn't mean the band didn't appreciate the opportunity to play there. "We don't go to crazy countries like that all the time; we just wanted to do it."
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