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Lars Frederiksen
Background information
Origin	Campbell, California, U.S.
Genre(s)	Punk rock
Years active	1991-Present
Associated acts	Rancid (band) Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards UK Subs The Silencers

Lars Erik Frederiksen (born in Campbell, California on August 30, 1971) is a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, and the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, he is also notable as a producer having worked with the Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, Union 13, The Gadjits,Pressure Point, and The Business. He joined Rancid in 1993 after the band was searching for a second guitar player and was present on their second album Let's Go. Lars' surname was originally Dapello after his father, who abandoned his family at a young age so he took his mother's maiden name, Frederiksen. Lars had an older brother named Robert who died in the early 2000s from an aneurysm, the song "Otherside" by Rancid was written in memory of his older brother. Another memorial about his friend Ben Zanotto can be found in the self-titled song, Ben was also a member of Lars' gang SKUNX.

Frederiksen is half-Danish (his mother, Minna, was a Danish immigrant) and was reared in Campbell, California, a town near San Jose, California. The sixth track on his 2001 album, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, is titled "Campbell, CA." [1] He is a notable drop out of Westmont High School.

His mother came to the US as an immigrant, barely able to speak English and with very little money. Lars father, John Dapello abandoned the family when Lars was just 4 years old. Life was a constant struggle for Minna and she worked two jobs to try to support her two sons, Lars and his older brother, who was four years older than him. However seeing his mother struggle gave birth to his survival instincts for later in life and surely helped to instill that working class punk rock ethic. His first introduction to music was by his brother.

Lars Frederksen has "SKUNX" tattooed on his forehead. Skunx is a crew that Lars belongs to, led by a punk who Lars got his first punk record from. SKUNX stands for skins punx and drunx. Skunx has active chapters in SF, San Jose, London & Las Cruces, NM. He is also a member of U.S. Thugs

Lars' was previously married to long time friend Megan but in 2001 he returned home from a tour with the Bastards to find his wife of 3 years had packed her bags and left him. A lot of reference to Lars' heartbreak can be found in the second Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards record 'The Viking'. After the divorce Lars said in an interview he was so down he slept with various prostitutes, reference to this period of his life can be found in the Viking record also.
He is now happily married to his wife Stephanie, who gave birth to their son, Wolfgang Erik Anders Frederiksen, September 11th 2007.

The following is a list of songs that Frederiksen has appeared on where he was not a member of the band.

• "53rd & 3rd" by The Ramones on their live album We're Outta Here!
• "Gotta Go" off Agnostic Front's Something's Gotta Give
• "Power Of Moonlite" and "Towards Destiny" on Tiger Army's Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite (vocals)
• Steel guitar on Tiger Army's "Power of Moonlite"
• "Vengeance" by Dropkick Murphys
• "We Trusted You" by Transplants
• "Apes On Parade" by Mad Sin
• "We Are All That We Have" off The Unseen's State of Discontent
• The Unseen's rendition of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black"
• "Here to Stay" by Pressure Point
• "Roots Rock N Roll" by Roger Miret and the Disasters
• "Choice Through Struggle" by Static Thought
• "No More Misty Days" off Buju Banton's Unchained Spirit
• "Can't Break Me" by Redemption 87.
• "A Story at Three" off AFI's "The Art of Drowning"

• Lars has an Alpine White Epiphone Les Paul Custom that a group of friends purchased for him for his 21st birthday. It has been embellished with several stickers; including a Danish Flag, The US Bombs, and The Nerve Agents band logos.
• Lars has two 1964 Gibson SG Specials in Heritage Cherry. One has a U.S. Roughnecks sticker behind the bridge section, and "Bastards" stenciled over the bridge section in white; the other is plain.
• Lars has also got a 1965 Gibson SG Special in Polaris White, which is adorned with a Charlie Manson sticker, directly under a large CMLL Sticker.
• Lars plays these guitars through a Marshall JCM 900 100 watt amplifier head, and a Marshall 1960A 4x12 Celestion-speaker-packed cabinet.
• Lars' Marshall head and cabinet amps have the M cut partially and the HALL removed so that they spell LARS.
• He uses no effects pedals or processors of any kind. Just the amp's two stock channels, clean and crunch.

• Davies, Mike. "The Lock Up", BBC. Audio interview with Lars Frederiksen, requires RealPlayer. (February 16, 2005)
• Cummins, Johnson. "Lars Frederiksen takes stock of his hard knocks", The Montreal Mirror. (December 2, 2004)
• Ashare, Matt "Pretty in punk: Rancid's Lars Frederiksen steps forward", The Boston Phoenix. (March 15-22, 2001)

• Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards
• Rancid Official Website
• Lars Frederiksen at the Internet Movie Database