Fat Mike
Fat Mike (real name Michael Burkett) is the vocalist and bass player of the popular punk rock band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First & the Gimme Gimmes. Before starting NOFX in 1983 with Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin he used to play in False Alarm. The name Fat Mike is a misnomer, as he isn't very obese. This confusion arose when the until-then quite thin Mike went away to college, and returned having gained a few pounds. The nickname stuck, even working its way into the name of his label, the cleverly named Fat Wreck Chords ([1]), one of the largest punk-affiliated record labels in the United States, mainly run by Fat Mike and his wife Erin. Fat Mike was the main organizer of the Rock Against Bush (Vol. 1 (2004) & Vol. 2 (2004)) and Punk Voter (founded in 2003) ([1]) projects. Each project was created to increase voting among liberal punks to vote for John Kerry and to make issues close to the punk community known to politicians.
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