Lars Erik Frederiksen (born Lars Erik Dapello 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.
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