Nofx consists of El Hefe (guitarist), Eric Melvin (guitarist), Erik Sandin (drummer), Fat Mike (bassist / vocalist).
NOFX is a punk band from California. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by high school-aged " Fat Mike" (real name Mike Burkett), Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin. The root of their name is commonly attributed to the Boston punk band Negative FX, and Fat Mike has stated that the name has no relation to the Straight Edge movement.
NOFX's first release was a demo from 1983, produced by Germs drummer Don Bolles, which did not sell any copies. They released their debut EP NOFX on Mystic Records in 1985, which later resurfaced in 1992 on the Maximum Rocknroll CD.
For a year Erik Sandin (also known as Smelly) left the band and was replaced by Scott Sellers, then Scott Aldahl. Dave Allen was with the group for about 4 months until he died in a car accident. In 1986 the band released "So What if We're on Mystic!" Dave Casillas joined the band on second guitar in 1987 and was featured on the EP "The PMRC Can Suck on This!", a title attacking the PMRC's call for censorship of music. The original cover was an edited S&M photo, but when re-released changed to a photo of Eric Melvin
Dave then left the band and was replaced by Steve Kidweller (also known as Steve the Caucasion). They recorded Liberal Animation in 1988 with Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion. The album was re-released in 1991 on Gurewitz's label Epitaph Records. NOFX had signed to Epitaph by 1989, releasing their second album S&M Airlines.
By 1991, there had been a lot of changes to the band however the original three members had reunited and Aaron Abeyta (aka El Hefe) joined to round out the present line-up.
It was not until the Frank Mills 1994 release of Punk in Drublic that the band had a popular breakthrough. The album went half- gold (the only other recording artist to have a half-gold record was Donnie Osmond) in the same year pop-punk entered the mainstream with The Offspring's Smash and Green Day's Dookie. NOFX never matched the popularity of other punk bands due to their refusal to sign with a major, and are among those who achieved popular acclaim in the mid-1990s and still kept their hardcore punk fanbase who reviled other bands that were perceived as sell-outs.
