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I used to be an elitist with punk. I would get soooo mad when people would call Blink, Greenday and others punk. Then i matured and realized they are all punk. Just a different part of punk

Being a 90’s punk kid, there isn’t a more exclusionary genre than punk. Still love it, but let’s not pretend it’s some all inclusive love fest.

That means a lot coming from Mr. "it's my job to keep punk rock elite" himself.

I think afi is another one of those bands who people nowadays might not consider punk but they very much are they just happened to cross over in a major way at one point

I hate when people always said blink-182, green day, Whatever pop punk band, "tHeY ArrrEe nOt PuNK" man, punk has A LOT of subgenres, hardcore punk, skate punk, post hardcore, post punk, melodic hardcore, POP PUNK. Glad Mike put GC in the museum.

I’m here for Fat Mike’s wholesome phase 😂

I had an opinion like a lot of kids that grew up with punk when Good Charlotte came out. I had my opinions of their music and the guys that played in the band. They were the punchline to jokes for me and my friends. I ended up meeting the Benji through friends and went to his house for a party. He was the nicest super humble guy. Extremely normal and super down to earth. Definitely changed me and made me less judgmental of people I haven’t met in real life.

Pop punk, melodic hardcore punk, and skate punk are not all synonymous. And they all have their merits.

One of my favorite photos I have is myself with Fat Mike and Joel from Good Charlotte at 2002s Warped Tour. Punk AF

"Young and the hopeless" still one of my favorite albums brings back so many good memories and just solid songs

“These critics and these trust fund kids / Try to tell me what punk is / But when I see them on the street they got nothing to say.” - Young and Hopeless. Good Charlotte walked the walk.

Finn this is a great interview. You’re the man!

How is racism and homophobia worse than literally murdering someone over heroin

I have always loved the song First Call🎉 Rock on Mike! We love you.❤

Yeah gatekeeping should stop. Like because bands got popular they shouldn’t be added.

MCR and Thursday should be in the museum tbh

Killing someone is forgivable, but don't you dare say bad words.....

Fat Mike interview! Hell yeah!

The only thing you need in a punk rock museum is a shitty couch that smells like beer. And Fred Armisen to manage it. Maybe some feedback on a broken PA. The rest is implied by said shitty couch.

We’re not Punk Rock Police Punk is inclusivity No, we’re not putting in Skrewdriver, because they’re actively, well, not actively racist….

Ik people aren’t gonna like hearing this but I think gg allin needs to be in there

Punk is an attitude not whether or not you have major label contract. Do it yourself, make it yourself, tour on your own skin, write about what is "real" to you, over cliches or what will "sell".

I dont care what you call Geenday or Good Charlotte. American idiot was my first album and Good Morning Revival was a very early one. Very influential in my music taste today

Warped tour in somerset Wisconsin 2002-ish… it got rained out. We all waited for nofx so they came out to play an acoustic set. Good Charlotte came out and tried to play along and I just remember fat mikes face, just a grimace and a complete dead look of “what the fuck happened??”. lol wish we had camera phones then but many of us didn’t. I didn’t get a cell until 2003

I actually found a lot of iconic bands from GC stickers on the guitars and T-shirt like Nofx , Mest , Rancid and others more .

Cant wait to see it. Wish it was somewhere besides Vegas, but it is what it is. The actual rock and roll hall of fame (had or has) a Naked Raygun flyer in it, so thats punk.... but anyway, it looks cool enough to check out

LMAO Fat Mike can't explain himself so "let's move on"

2:25 what does "now, especially" mean? do the Foos have a punk rock drummer?

Of course he’s not putting skrewdriver in. The whole hardcore scene is run by djoos now

Love you Fatius Mikesonsmith. Keep doin whatcha doin.

"That kid wearing the green day shirt could kick the kid wearing the blink 182 shirts ass" Fat Mike at a concert at some point in history

Green Day started punk but ended up being way more influenced by bands like "The Who"

Finn and mike. legendary.

I would have never found Nofx without good charlotte. I was like 12, and no one I knew listened to punk. I was in love with Benji, and I would look up the bands on his shirts.

"You can't cancel bands" ...so here's how we cancelled bands...lol

"it's all inclusive, unless you are a....", that doesn't sound like all inclusive 😂😂😂

The Fat Mike Punk Museum featuring only bands that Fat Mike likes, but all inclusive!

“You can’t cancel bands” Proceeds to list bands that were cancelled 🤣 We’re all hypocrites

"Now especially" about Foo Fighters. Ouch RIP Taylor lol.

If this was the 'punk' that I discovered as a teen in the mid 80's I would've avoided it like the plague.

He drinks Spindrift - I like those too! The lemon flavor is kickass

I saw Fang 26 years back at the Gilmans, wild show.

Their first 3 albums are fucking excellent

I love Good Charlotte ❤

Good Charlotte would’ve been in the museum regardless, but I’m pretty sure the Madden Bros are investors too.

Fat Mike isn't stupid. He knows putting those lame mainstream bands in (Avenged Sevenfold?) is what's going to drive traffic. It has nothing to do with "punk", it's selling those $20 tickets. In the future those bands he's cancelling will be considered the "real punk rock".

one day i will see it all for myself, hopefully... is DEVO in the punk museum anywhere?

Everyone in Parkway Drive was doing Punk Rock before they formed the band. They should probably be included as well.

i agree about punk rock scene is inclusive . in the 1980’s i was jumped in an anthrax concert because i had short hair, you would never in a million years see that happening in a punk rock gig every punk rock gig i ever been to people are welcoming wish i could say the same thing about rock..

It's interesting to me to see exactly how determined old school punks will be to not let modern woke cancel culture dictate their social, mental and cultural reality. I believe the song " Guilty Of Being White" may well be that battleground.

Yeah I'm not the biggest 'mainstream pop punk band' fan, but like it or not that is a part of the tapestry of the history of punk rock. As a great man once said: It belongs in a museum!

I wonder if they have Sublime and Street light manny in the museum.

It's just that lifestyles of the rich and famous is an awesome song and they did that times hundred after it.

Is blink in the museum?

For claiming to be individual and thinking for themselves. Punk has the most rules of any scene I've encountered

Please tell me Hasil Adkins made the cut in the museum.

Good Charlotte got me and probably a ton of other people into rock music. They deserve it

"You can't cancel bands..." "We're not allowing Skrewdriver in." It sounds like you can cancel bands! So Fear, with their homophobic songs (I'm not familiar with the band), that was acceptable because of the times, but not Skrewdriver? Or Sex Pistols (along with many like Motorhead(Lemme was friends with ISD btw)) they can wear swastikas because they're just "being annoying." Right. The hypocrisy is deep. Good call on that Good Charlotte induction, the most mainstream/attention seeking band outside of Avril Livegne in the early to mid 2000s. But, she's probably on the wall next to them.

I fucking love that LeeWay shirt. Underated crossover thrash metal ❤

The point I always bring up when people start to gatekeep punk rock is this: Before the music industry and radio stations wanted to make it more commercially viable and distance themselves from the "punk stigma" by relabeling some of it as "New Wave", bands like Blondie and The Talking Heads were considered punk bands. Punk rock in its infancy didn't have a specific "sound" or a "look", and was much more diverse and inclusive than it became after that initial first wave of bands. Yes, there were bands like The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Dead Boys, etc., but they weren't solely what punk rock was, and when people try to say "x" band isn't punk rock based on some arbitrary criteria that wasn't even present when punk rock was arguably at its commercial peak, I point them back to the history of punk rock itself.

Why does Punk Rock MBA have no coverage of Duane Peters or US Bombs.

I wouldn't frame it so much as "You can't cancel bands for what their views were when it was somewhat acceptable" so much as "If they aren't truly hateful and grew past it" kind of deal. Remember, in their early years a lot of these bands were 14, 15. 16 year old dudes and gals. Idk about you all, but I said and did some pretty shitty things at that age that I've regretted for a very long time.

Funny how punk rock is anti-establishment and all about anarchy, but some ‘punks’ want to enforce these sets of rules on other people.

punk is inclusive as long as you think the way everyone else does. its inclusive for the entire spectrum of left wing ideology.

It’s hard to imagine anything less punk rock than a punk rock museum.

Fat Mike keeps punk rock elite. I am glad he is saying shit like this.

Good Charlotte was my true introduction to forming my own tastes of music. Before that it was whatever pop was drilled into me by the radio. Then one fateful day the music vid for Lifestyles of the rich and the famous came on and I was in awe. Mainly it was Benjis hair that got me 😂 but from then on I would start to find my own tastes and influences in music

When did punk rock become so safe?

“You can’t cancel bands” the best statement I heard today kudos to you new adventures Fat Mike

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous- in Back with a bang-out

To test this fully I wonder if Mike put GG Allins jock strap in there?

I agree with him on skrewdriver, thing is the most public former member is mark radcliffe is a British national treasure quit the band due to their politics later went to work for factory records and radio one. I applaud the guy because he actually became one of the most ardent anti nazi's in the uk punk scene worked with bands like chumbawumba(worked with), Magazine (worked with), cardiacs (worked with) and white town(championed them on his radio show) etc. apparently it was really heavy for him because the boneheads used to send him death threats for years etc.

Man I found about so many good bands from Good Charlotte lyrics or the stickers they had on their guitars. Those first 2 albums are timeless

I'm a "Metal head" as far as looks. But i listen to punk , goth, fucking jazz lol the genres never end. And i rap freestyle for sport with my Juggalo homies. Music is art, art is human, all humans are equal. ❤

Are Atari Teenage Riot in there? They probably won't be very receptive to the invitation, but you should consider them Fat Mike.

You need to have the goo goo dolls in the museum. People do not believe me that they are actually a punk band

Is gg in the museum?

Curious, where would the band Sweaty Nipples stand? They were fuckin amazing but are they punk?

The mental gymnastics I just witnessed was quite impressive.

skrewdriver is awesome lol

I wonder if he put skramz in there or Christian punk bands?

So Good Charlotte is in. How about Busted? That band that didnt bother to have a drummer

Has anyone else ever heard the rumor that Blag from the Dwarves got paid to secretly ghost write a lot of the material on Good Charlotte's "lifestyles" album?

Let's move on i'm about to get incredibly hypocritical

I was thinking about FEAR as he said it. I think they own up to the older stuff and seemed to be pissed at one of the skinheads having a FEAR tattoo in American History X

Simple plan and sum 41 are where I draw the line lol.

Fear can be a tough listen now that I'm grown

The stuff I was listening to at 15, was not Punk Rock enough.

I used to be a gatekeeper of music, and then I realized good music is good music. Nowadays, people are considering bad religion and NOFX "pop punk." People called The Clash punk...in my opinion they were WAY more than punk( if even punk at all aside from their views and "style." From what I've gathered punk, it's a modified version of what Spicoli said "Well Stu I'll tell you, being "punk" is not a sport, it's a way of life, it's no hobby. It's a way of looking at life and saying, "Hey bud, let's party!"

Did the smut peddlers make it?

I blew my fucking knee out in San Diego during the codefendants! Thanks fast Mike. I'm out 9 months now!

HUsker Du has "First of the Last Calls."

Simple plan needs to be in there

I wish fat Mike was this open when I was a kid. Would have saved me a lot of shit

I LOVED the song First Call at a certain time in my life that i can't really speak all that much about, other than I was doing a lot of cocaine and spending weekday mornings at the bar with crusty bastards watching the price is right. One could argue that that was both the lowest or highest time of my life depending on how much you weigh nihilistic hedonism. I haven't done drugs in years and would absolutely not do that now, but there's a part of me that's glad i did it. You only appreciate the boring life of a square if you've lived the alternative.

I don’t wanna sound like a dick but whoever listened to the whole hour of this interview, more power to ya. I almost had a heart attack listening to mike stutter and have a hard time talking the whole time. Did something happen to him or was it the signal of the interview? It’s giving me anxiety trying to watch/listen to this.

I hope the beastie boys are included even though they are everywhere but they were punk

Did he put screeching weasel in?

At the end of the day I think the line should’ve been drawn at it’s a private museum and we can put whoever we want in there. Don’t get me wrong, I understand and actually agree with everything he said lol. But it does feel like cherry picking and trying to justify the decisions to take some bands but deny others makes it worse because it never really cleared anything up, at least to me. I should preface though, I have no idea who screwdriver is or what they did. So with that said, yes but no. Mad respect tho. Love fat Mike.