APRIL FOOLS

Posted by aubin on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 10:32 AM (EST)

In a surprising bit of news, one of our friends at Fat told us that the infamous Fat Mike will be joining the Foo Fighters on their next tour while bassist Nate Mendel recovers from surgery. Said Fat Mike: "I've always been a fan of the band, and this gives me a chance to promote punkvoter.com to a larger audience, which is really the most important thing to getting Bush out of office"

Here's a link to last year's April Fools post. It was far more absurd but strangely more people believed it. Check it out here.

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Someone (April 1, 2003)

holy shit

Someone (April 1, 2003)

but he's just not hot enough!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Much better April Fools joke. Congrats. -sickboi

Propagheny (April 1, 2003)

seriously, this has to be an april fools joke

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Go Mike!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

The blog is very useful.

punky (April 1, 2003)

why didnt you pick on one of drive-thru bands for april fools.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

cause theyre fooling you by not ripping on them thats my guess anyway

Melvyl (April 1, 2003)

because they actually want to have money and live somewhere.

Someone (December 14, 2004)

NOFX is kool and Foo Fighters is kool so why not, altogether good mix!!!

Someone (April 1, 2003)

if he was the FORMER bassist he wouldn't be recovering to join them again. nice try. ~inagreendase in journalism

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Wow, good eye. I used to be a journalism major and i didn't pick up on that one. -sickboi

RightCliqificus (April 1, 2003)

I guess you weren't very good at jornalism, cuz it was pretty obvious the second I read it.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Aubin (April 1, 2003)

My mistake; I should have proofread it. That why you're the journalist and I'm the, uhm... talking guy.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

actually, nate mendel is the current bassist in the foo fighters.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

You sir, are an idiot. -sickboi

Someone (April 1, 2003)

i wasn't saying that this story was true. i was commenting on the people who were saying that nate mendel wasn't in the band anymore.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your site is realy very interesting.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

it doesn't say former right now. i don't know if it did when it was posted. and i also don't know if nate mendel is still the bassist or not. i do know that he was in sunny day real estate who were superb.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Don't forget Christ on a Crutch, they were even more superb.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

InaGreendase (brian) (April 1, 2003)

yeah it definitely said former on the original posting. prob got changed as soon i said something

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

InaGreendase (brian) (April 1, 2003)

actually i meant i was in journalism class when i read the fake post...either way...

Someone (April 2, 2003)

inagreendase has to be the single gayest person on this site... he listens to shitty music, gives bad reviews, pisses off ppl with his comments, but i hear his cousin is pretty cool

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

Melvyl (April 1, 2003)

you fooled me, it was so well-written that i couldn't doubt it until someone mentioned that it was april 1st today.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

April Fools

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Fat mike cant play nate mendel's basslines anyway.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

you dumbass

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

greyicewater (April 1, 2003)

hahaha. it's true.

Someone (April 4, 2003)

oh, cuz i nearly 4got about those infamously hard Foo Fighters bass lines.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

The blog is very useful.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

I don't like the guy--at all--but this is kinda neat.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

April Fool's...

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (April 1, 2003)

BULL SHIT, I just saw Nate Mendel play w/ The Fire Theft last week in Chicago. He looked fine to me

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Kurt_F (April 1, 2003)

Wow, you guys are really gullable.

pope_schlomo (April 1, 2003)

don't you know any news reported by aubin is a joke. Ramo (i'm just joshing)

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Aubin really gets into this "holiday" like no other. -sickboi

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Dubar (April 1, 2003)

I dont like this one because its believable and I dont care. Its like you go to a restaurant for a ham sandwich and they're like "we're out of tuna... wait no we aren't! april fools!" and then you dont care because you just wanted ham. Last year's got a nice rise out of people though.

RightCliqificus (April 1, 2003)

I didn't believe it, cuz i was already thinking about april fools when i read it, but that could totally happen and it wouldn't surprise me at all. Other people who played for FAT have left and joined the Foo Fighters, so why not? Now, it woulda been funnier if you woulda said Creed or.. oooh METALLICA. didn't their bass player quit? I'm sure they have a new one by now, but metallica is way to dumb nowadays

Someone (April 1, 2003)

he should put that he was filling in with NFG, or Good Charlotte or something. FAT MIKE JOINS THE AVRIL BAND!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

DoItForJohnny (April 1, 2003)

possible comment of the day. i enjoyed that.

Someone (April 2, 2003)

you are a dickhead. 1. that comment wasn't that good 2. you dont give out the comment of the day 3. it wasn't clever at all

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

TheBouncingSoul (April 1, 2003)

D'oh! consider me fooled...for a second

TheOneTrueBill (April 1, 2003)

yeah... i'm ashamed, but i was in full "what the fuck?" mode

CallingLondon (April 1, 2003)

it's really not THAT farfetched. i could be wrong, but isn't the drummer for the foo fighters in Me First, as well as Fat Mike? i know it's a joke, but there could be weirder connections.

Hubitcherkokov (April 1, 2003)

The guitarist of Me First, Chris Shifflet, is in The Foo Fighters. He used to be in No Use For A Name as well.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your site is realy very interesting.

Someone (April 1, 2003)

ha! the drummer in FF believe it or not, used to be Alanis Morrissette's drummer.

RightCliqificus (April 1, 2003)

dude, i think everybody was aware of that a LONG time ago. you can see taylor hawkins in a her live 120 minutes stuff.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (April 1, 2003)

Or have your April fools jokes become progressively worse over the past four years?

CallingLondon (April 1, 2003)

it's definitely you. how would you fool thousands of readers into thinking something on the one day where most people are expecting a joke?

Gundy (April 1, 2004)

bitch

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

sk8punx4evr (April 1, 2003)

did the title used to be something other than "april fools"? cause that was just a little of a tip. i think last year's was the most believable.

Shindo (adam) (April 1, 2003)

I was different before noon. adam

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (April 1, 2003)

what was last year's april fools?

Shindo (adam) (April 1, 2003)

http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=1282

punky (April 1, 2003)

There was one where you said that punknews.org is closing down or something,,,right?That was in 2001

Shindo (adam) (April 1, 2003)

oh yeah, i forgot about that one completely. adam

punky (April 2, 2003)

it makes me feel old,I 'wasted' more than 3 years on this website ;) old school punknews.org pride

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very useful blog. Thank you.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

CallingLondon (April 1, 2003)

why does that say "a link to last years" and then not be last years, but 2 years ago. last years was of the site closing.

Shindo (adam) (April 1, 2003)

umm.... April Fools! adam

Someone (April 1, 2004)

you should see the joke for 2004 ( its abourt tim armstrong writing songs for avril). i m from the future worship me !!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (April 1, 2003)

whoa cool! Fat Mike and Foo Fighters! That rules, I need to get my tickets now! This is so awesome!

aboynoir (April 1, 2003)

Its a joke you tool :)

Someone (April 1, 2003)

no shit. I knew that, I was playing along for humor's sake.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your site is realy very interesting.

eyeball_kid (April 1, 2003)

Hehe nice. Pity I didn't see it til it changed the heading, might well have been fooled - I mean, it's possible with the Jake Jackson thing right?

Dubar (April 2, 2003)

wow nevermind.. I guess I've been reading this site too long. I hadnt realized that epitaph thing was last year. They ARE getting worse and worse. The best was the one (I'm too lazy to figure out how to find the exact article) where punknews was bought by some major label. I was so confused

CallingLondon (April 2, 2003)

it was 2 years ago. look at the date, it says 2001. last one WAS the site being bought.

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Very nice blog!

Someone (February 23, 2006)

Your blog is really very interesting.