| Lars Frederiksen | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 30, 1971 |
| Origin | Campbell, California, United States |
| Genres | Punk rock, ska punk |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Associated acts | Rancid Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards UK Subs The Silencers The Old Firm Casuals |
Lars Erik Frederiksen (born August 30, 1971) is an American guitarist and vocalist, most notably for the punk rock band Rancid, and as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991.[1] 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. He has produced albums for bands such as Agnositc Front, The Business, Dropkick Murphys, Swingin Utters, and the Anti-Heros. He recently mixed GBH's new album entitled Perfume and Piss, as well as Cock Sparrer's album "Here We Stand" both alongside Michael Rosen.
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Frederiksen is half-Danish, his father was Italian, and his mother, Minna, was a Danish immigrant, and was reared in Campbell, California, a town near San Jose, California.
He married his girlfriend Megan in 1998. They divorced, and he is now married to Stephanie Snyder, who gave birth to their son, Wolfgang Erik Anders Frederiksen, on September 11, 2007. Frederiksen and his wife celebrated the birth of their second child, Soren Erik Adler Frederiksen on October 27, 2011. He is a fan of London football team Millwall.[2]
Frederiksen appears in several episodes of Tim Armstrong's Tim Timebomb's Rock n Roll Theater as Dante. Lars can also be seen in the documentary film, The Other F Word.
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