Fat Mike

Early life and influences

Fat Mike attended college at San Francisco State University and graduated in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in Social Science and a minor in Human Sexuality. According to the book NOFX The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, Burkett received the moniker "Fat Mike" from "one of the guys from [the band] Subculture". He is a Jewish atheist.

Early life and influences

He credits Joe Escalante of the Vandals for introducing him to punk rock when he was 13 at a summer camp.

Musical career

!Fat Mike performing in 2007

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