What do you do after 20 years of confounding mainstream-music expectations — during which, despite your best intentions, you've become bigger than many of the bands that personified the process and culture you so effectively eschewed? If you're NOFX bassist and singer (not to mention Fat Wreck Chords founder) "Fat" Mike Burkett, you begin to drop your alternately provocative and hilarious persona/guard, and show a bit more of your true self to those fans that have stuck around long enough to deserve it.
Just a bit. A little, little bit.
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2009.