I got out of jail, and we went right to Mike’s house for this meeting and Mike offered to produce. ![]() “Ceschi and I had just made ‘Abscessed’ and we came down to record it. This is when Fat Mike “came through,” he continues. “They were trying to give me two years right off the bat.” “I got into some shit in Hollywood,” he shares of an incident that resulted in three felony assault charges and three charges of intimidation of witnesses. It’s more profound than that-especially for King, who was facing time inside. Not just because of his involvement in this project that they’d started, nor just by offering them both a place to live at his Las Vegas house, the city he now calls home and where he’s recently opened up the Punk Rock Museum. That’s a personal opinion shaped from numerous interactions with him over the years, but one corroborated by Ramos and King, both of whom credit him with essentially saving their lives. “It feels good to fucking have somebody put it into words and be like, ‘OK, I’m not crazy, that is how this feels out here ’-if it stops one person from driving their car off the cliff, then it’s good.” - Sam King So while using that word is very much part of his shtick, the real Mike Burkett is actually deeply empathetic and altruistic. Whether onstage or off, Burkett is known for antagonizing people. But it’s precisely that kind of thing that’s defined his reputation-simultaneously building and (deliberately) tarnishing it-since he formed the seminal and often controversial punk band NOFX way back in 1983. ![]() with his brother David in 2008-to sing on one of his band’s songs, “Abscessed.” A while later, Burkett came on board in a sort of producer role (he plays bass on the album, though he doesn’t play with Codefendants live) and the one-off collaboration became a full-fledged band.īefore anyone gets offended by the proverbial elephant in the automobile, yes, Burkett’s use of the R-word is politically incorrect. The child, to continue the metaphor, was conceived when King, who fronts punk outfit Get Dead, invited Ramos-a rapper/folk-punk songwriter who formed the alternative hip-hop label Fake Four Inc. ![]() “It’s a weird little kid, that’s for sure,” smiles Ramos, who’s also speaking from inside a car (but not a limo). “We’re like three proud dads,” says Burkett from the inside of what looks like some kind of limousine, his Listerine-blue hair and the leopard-print headliner both shrieking “Las Vegas.” “We’re just happy that our kid isn’t retarded.” “It feels pretty good,” says King over Zoom in his distinctive lisp from a room in the mansion, two tears and an upside down cross permanently falling from the tear ducts of his left eye.
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