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Guitarist Eric Melvin sued his longtime NOFX bandmate Fat Mike for “financial malfeasance” the day after the band’s final show in October 2024. News of the lawsuit was revealed by drummer Erik Sandin during a recent Q&A discussion celebrating the opening of a NOFX photo exhibit at Fat Mike’s Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.
NOFX played their final concert on October 6th, 2024, and the next morning Melvin served the frontman with legal papers. In explaining Melvin’s absence from the Q&A, Sandin read the following prepared statement (as transcribed by Louder):
“Eric Melvin is not here today with us because of the following reason: at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, after the final NOFX show ever, Eric Melvin’s lawyers served Fat Mike legal papers accusing him of financial malfeasance. Ten hours earlier we finished playing the final show of our 42-year career. It was the most amazing and emotional send-off ever, nothing but love, family, tears and love. That letter broke my heart, as well as the rest of the band and the crew. It still hurts today, and it hurts right now saying it.
Melvin has made it clear, and perfectly clear, on this matter, that to talk about it with him, or anybody, it must go through his counsel. I’ve known Mike for 43 years — I knew him for a year before NOFX: Mike is a lot of things, we all know that, he’s a complicated person, but he is not a thief. I will go on record saying he is not a thief.
We hope this gets resolved soon, but until then, here we are, and it is what it is. And for the obvious reasons we can not, and will not, discuss any further.”
In other NOFX news, the band just announced a career-spanning documentary titled 40 Years of Fuckin Up, which is set to hit theaters in April.
At the same exhibit at the Punk Rock Museum, Fat Mike said of the movie, “Most people wouldn’t be OK with releasing a film that shows footage of getting whipped in their dungeon, or their drug use for the past 20 years, or dressing up like a rubber cheap whore, or the ambulance ride when they were naked while puking and shitting blood… I’m not like most people.”
A press release further described the documentary as, “Spinal Tap, but real.” An age-restricted trailer, in which the aforementioned legal action is mentioned, can be viewed via YouTube by clicking below.
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