I saw Rancid in 1995, sober too, n' I got started not even a yr previous. And it was such, SUCH a fun memory. Man we danced. Man, 21. My first car, fresh out USMC.
I have all the respect in the world for Lars my encounter with him was sooo cool. an He made me feel welcome at Warp Tour. Dude is a class act. Nothing but love for Lars from me.
Things were different back in 82. I was 15 and I decided to buy some clippers and buzz all the hair off my head. The cool thing, at the time, was to have long hair, preferably, in a mullet. So I went the other way and got rid of my mullet hair. It made me a pariah, and I was accosted by strangers and got into several fights. I either got called a "faggot" or a "Nazi" before the fight started. When I got home, my parents grounded me for being a skinhead. I told them that there are no skinheads in our little Oklahoma town of 40,000 people, and that I was just a guy without a mullet. The next day my dad apologized and said that if he had come home with hair like that when he was my age, his dad would have probably raised his allowance. It was like everyone hated me as soon as they saw my hair or lack there of. To this day, I have yet to see a barber. All I need are some shears ;) Peace
Times have changed a bit, I'm in my 30s and still shave my head. I get asked almost every night out "Born and raised?" or "Where are you from" and I know the next question or comments going to be some ignorant racist garbage. One of my friends told me to just ignore ignorant people because they're not worth the time. When I explained how they approach and I have to shut it down harshly or I'll end up hearing some racists life story they said "I never thought about it like that, yeah it makes sense" At least where I live people are way less likely to be openly racist now, but if they think you might be then all the freaks come out of the woodwork.
Fishing line is actually a pretty good thing to use for suture material. It's very similar to the actual suture material you'd put in skin (i.e. synthetic monofilament). You don't wanna use something like thread because bacteria can wick into the wound between the fibres. His problem was almost certainly that there was a bunch of shit in the wound and he didn't flush it first. If he'd done that he could have been fine.
Running to my room in the middle of the night to escape the wrath of a Dane is something I'm all too familiar with. My friends thought it was a fucking riot though lmao, especially when my mom started yelling in english. Something about her light accent got really bad when she tried raising her voice. My grandmother was the funniest when she got mad though, even my mom and I would both do impressions of her behind her back lmao
I've been stabbed before, in the ass cheek of all places, and I just thought I'd been punched. I said to my mate "That idiot just punched me in the butt, what the fuck?" My mate started laughing and said "Nah he stabbed you in the butt and it's bleeding a fair bit. Might want to get yourself up to the butt doctor for some butt stitches!" My mate thinks he's a fucking comedian
My friend got stabbed 13 times and didnt know it until we ran up and told him because he was wearing a white tshirt and we saw blood blooming all over. He was still fighting. The stabber was 16 years old, and his 12 year old foster brother watched the whole thing.
@@Millwall77 I agree, but the foundations of the song are still there...after all the drug, alcohol abuse and time since this occurred, I'm not surprised memories are foggy on this.
There was a party house of punks we used to go to in the nineties. Punks from all over the world seemed to come visit. Every month there was exotic people that were into the lifestyle. So these boneheads started harassing a girl and the biggest dude that ran the party stood up for her and when they got physical he tossed the guy out. So one day they showed up with an entire crew and found the big guy that stood up for her and they took a sledgehammer to his skull. I was not there for that but a good friend of mine told me how he took his shirt off and wrapped it around his head and saved his life. Last I heard the big guy was forever mentally altered and the house was condemned by the city to be demolished anyway so it become abandoned. It was such a shame how all of us looking to have a good time goofing off got assaulted by hate looking for a fight. Out come the wolves I guess.
That's awful. I'm in Oklahoma and I've never met a white supremacist. I've been all over the US and it's hard to imagine a sub culture of white supremacists manifesting out there in I'm assuming California? What decade did that happen? Are they like, idk, I dunno how to even ask it. Like, what's their aesthetic? How do they find each other on the streets? In prison, I kinda get it. But like... idk. Those tales of boneheads always confused me. Then again, a lot of stuff confuses me. Lol. It seems to me like when people find out im a Native American with, like, prowess, idk, they kind tighten up their behavior and just drop all the nonsense. But, like, in Oklahoma, being Native isn't really all that unique. Like im in my 30s and I've got some experiences of my own but like in the 80s when punks fought with nazis.... like, that just doesn't make sense to me. I'm like that sounds like organized crime, why didn't anybody bust it up? We don't really take much shit in OK. It's a little different. Lol.
@@lejay7511 I only got caught off guard by them very few times in life. It was rare but those few times were always an awful fight. Way back in high school was my first experience on a bus to school. I was maybe 15 and was already wearing leather denim and studs to protect myself from the street violence that was going on in the area. One of them started poking fun and I was not in the mood so when he shoved me I knocked him over for daring to put a hand on me and half the bus lunged at me. So I used the kid as a shield and his tshirt had a swastika on it so I assume they were young boneheads. My leather and stud jacket made good armor against the kicks and lunges. When I made it to then front of the bus I grabbed a fire extinguisher to unleash on them but it didn't work. They chased me into a nearby resturaunt and threatended to kill my entire family. The dean had to convince me to come back to school and I eventually did but I never rode a bus again. I got up an hour earlier just to walk and I always carried my cheaper guitar as a self defense weapon if needed. I have no idea what happened to them but hopefully some form of karma. The worst one was many years later I was almost 30. I went to a local metal show and we were all drinking and having a great time until this one huge dude covered in muscles and scars like all he knew was a battlefield started elbow smashing everyone in the forehead knocking them down instantly. I was drinking whiskey and when he came at me I lunged down instinctivly into his gut and launched him up over me out of the crowed towards the bouncer. I figured the bouncer would handle it but instead this big dude came over and slapped my nose so hard it broke sideways and got blood all over the floor. He had a big swastika tatood on his neck. The bouncer did nothing. Everyone just hoped he would leave and he did after kicking everyones ass. The owner of the bar asked if I needed an ambulance but I figured I just needed another shot of whiskey so I wouldn't feel myself about to break my nose back into place. All I knew is I had work in the morning and I still made it in on time. The hate is terrible and toxic. I don't want any part of it. It was the Boston area which is full of various culture and that's cool good but sometimes that variety doesn't like all the variety. People man. I can't make sense of it. I just wanted to enjoy music with anyone who just wants to enjoy music.
I too had black girlfriends that were in the scene. I never had any trouble in Berkeley and perhaps it's because Oakland is right there, but in San Fran you'd see Bonehead's pretty frequently. However, with bands like DK playing almost nightly, you had a lot of backing with a shit ton of punks before, during and after gigs. I still use my punk moniker Kid SKAnk and I'm now 58 y/o. Those were the days.
Boneheads (Nazis) in San Francisco in the early 80s? Sounds weird considering the city is associated with hippies, but hey it's still crazy. Seeing Dead Kennedys during their prime must have been a treat.
I love Lars but "working class" is political itself and even OG skinhead reggae artists were involved in politics heavy. "oI bAdMaN wE wOrKiN cLaSs" was far from their only thing 😂
Working class isnt inherently political its just a class of people based on their income. Working class people often dont even pay much attention to politics mainly because theyre to busy working. However politics effects the working class most of all. Punk,ska ect was actually a way to open the working classes eyes to politics to people who otherwise are uniterested.
For the term _working class_ to be anything more than a meaningless label, it has to come with a certain degree og class consciousness. And class consciousness is definitely inherently political.
onlylovecansaveus to be fair the real punks are probably ppl that spend their lives in prison, are ppl who have assaults maybe murders on their record. He probably saw a lot more violence when he was younger, but ya I mean once the band got big and he got a level of success and money, I would think he distanced himself from that life/lifestyle as much he can. That’s what you’d want to do tho, why would he want to be in that life anymore
@@tylerkelly9801 to be fair, what you think and what is true are not the same. You can say "probably" this and "probably" that, all day. But us good guys, know who we are. Not out here making music for the masses. Gtfo with your consumerism.
onlylovecansaveus wtf are u talking about bro. I like some rancid sings, that’s why I listen to them sometimes. And who’s listening to your music. No one. Cmon man. Grow up. No One gives a sht about u or your music. And I doubt very music Lars gives a sht what u think.
Funny thing, he always pays respect to the crew DMS whenever he plays in NY, the “Dock Martin Stomps” the were a skinhead band from NY years ago on the lower east side. (From all over) I saw him a few years ago and he still did it made a big deal about mentioning them after like the third song. So he can’t hate on them too much.
Skinheads and neo-nazis are two different things. Neo-naazis started sporting the same hairstyle as skinheads. So much so that some skinheads felt that they needed to specify that they were S.H.A.R.Ps(skinheads against racial prejudice).
@@kosher8720how is someone who denies the very roots of the subculture, a member of the subculture? They're not. Nazis just take the look because It makes them look tough.
Yes! I did enjoy this when I watched the entire interview! He’s right about the politics and the misnomer of “Skinhead’s” name. They were not really Right-wing, unless you want to designate them far-Right fascists, which might be accurate especially the current Skinheads in Germany now that relish the term “Nazis.” What is great about this story was his reference to his getting stabbed during those drinking-drugging years. I love how he’s telling this story with no grimace at all; about how he his brother’s sewing him up with no anesthesia, the subsequent infection, (he could have died)…well- there’s the pain!!! Hell, the stab wound wouldn’t hurt as much as the sewing it up with a fishing line!!! And, then taking it out!!! lol He tells this so matter-of-factly - just crazy. You gotta love this guy! He so passionate and genuine! I love the way way he talks about his son, too. What a life! Loved the Ramones stories, too. During my 1983 San Francisco one man show, lots of society types were there. Then, a very tall, young guy with long black hair, walked by me and said, “Nice work man.” “Thank you.” John Pence the gallery owner asked me later, “Did you see Johnny Ramone?” I said, “Who?” He said, “Johnny Ramone! ….of the Ramones?” lol “Oh! That’s who that was!” lol It’s a Small world after all.
Get a clue. Lars is fashion. He went from supposed skin to punk to biker back to punk to skin. . I doubt he ever had a real hands on job from what he says. I used to respect him but as i get older i seen though it all. Playing music is far from a job. He knows nuthing of the working class struggle he's a multi millionaire.
@@BeeRumblin13 and what do you think he was doing before he joined Rancid and before Rancid got big? Campbell isn't exactly wealth central (although Los Gatos, which is the next town over, absolutely is). Lars is good people, and he's not full of scheiße.
@@BeeRumblin13 musicians are working class. a tiny minority make money out of it (or did, back when people bought records) but most of us fucking starve to create the music our communities exist around. it’s a fucking hard slog, and punk bands pre-mid 90s struggled hard. not that i’m a lars fan - not really my scene, but the idea that musicians are all fucking rich is a myth, especially these days
❤❤❤Laurel Aitken was Boss SKINHEAD & GODFATHER OF SKA: Nazis always steal other peoples' stuff & try & slap the Nazi name on it. They even stole the swastika, Jamaican Skinhead n NAME, & NORSE/VIKING MYTHOLOGY: none of these items have anything to do with Nazis. Thanks so much for sharing❤❤❤. Love, Hugs, Blessings, Lib❤❤❤
I had a teacher in high school that told me a story about him throwing a cinder block into a group of Neo Nazis at an AFI show sometime in the mid 90s.
Yeah because those guys flock to gay band's shows. I'll bet you ate that all up didn't ya? Didn't question where the cinder block came from in some shitty dive bar.
@@sceneeaston2172 personally seen boneheads get left on train tracks. Never to be seen again. We made sure nazis weren't welcome. Any show, any time. Always make them bleed.
@@tendrosstoodross2976I don't see how songs railing against Thatcher and the Tories could be considered "right wing." Their song "We Rule, OK" features the lyric: "Margaret Thatcher the stupid old bitch/Takes from the poor and gives to the rich" They hated Margaret Thatcher as much as Billy Bragg or Crass.
Especially if he'd already glued the wound. Plastic surgeons use a type of superglue to minimize scarring instead of stitches. You only need one or the other. Also, go to the damn hospital, you don't know how deep the stab wound is and could very well bleed out internally.
I had a similar experience at school, Some dude was chasing me and I ran into the corner of a table, got home and realised my ballsack was ripped open so I went and got superglue and glued it together haha. It has worked ever since!
Brother: What happened? Lars: Got stabbed Brother: How did you fix it? Lars: Seriously man'd it out and used fishing line Brother: You're being punched for your idiocy in fivefourthreetwoone 👊🏻
I ran into Lars at the boardwalk in fair oaks when I was a kid and he used me to pick up on a lady trying to pretend he knew how to read peoples minds. I denied everything but she still thought he was funny.
perguntas feitas no twitter. Eu não fui parte de nenhuma organização. fiz parte de religiosidade. É bem diferente de ser parte de uma organização metallica. megadeth é já ter feito economia política religiosa. fiz.
Interestingly (or not) when I was in London, England wearing a LFB windbreaker, I had someone threaten me saying "Nazi punk f@*k off, I'll bash you." Because the person was wearing headphones, at first I thought they were listening to Dead Kennedys and singing along out loud... That was not the case. Fortunately they didn't act on their aggression...
Just some middle class lefty tosser by the sounds of it. Plenty of them about in the punk scene unfortunately. Although LFATB did cover a Nazi punk song!
It has always felt like Nazis were more of a thing with the punks than the metalheads, at least here in America. I'm not saying the black/death metal scene doesn't have a few, but its not something I have seen around frequently at metal shows growing up, here in Seattle or around the east coast.
I remember fighting with "Unity" In a show at Montebello And they aren't all racist but some fools were screaming shit and yea settled it at the pit regardless Funeral Dress was sick
“You can’t call a Nazi a Skinhead, coz Skinhead starts with Jamaican reggae and Jamaican culture. So basically, we Skinheads are appropriating black culture, and cultural appropriation is modern day colonization, so I guess we’re also in a way perpetuating systemic racism or something… idk wtf I’m talking about. All you need to know is that I’m a really good person because I hate myself, which also makes me love myself because I’m a really good person who acknowledges that I’m a pos white colonizer, but I had a black girlfriend one time and I got stabbed by a Nazi for it, so I have the scar to prove that I’m basically a demigod.”
Cuz he grew up in the bay area 20+ years before it became the techy gentrified stuck up sht hole we know today. Call me crazy but he probably feels like that's his home, but who knows.. To me he represents the 2% of that areas redeeming qualities.
Cut the end off my finger once by accident in the kitchen cooking on drugs. Blood shot out in a geyser like Kill Bill. Girlfriend sewed the flap back on with expired suture from an animal hospital. It was then I knew she was a keeper.
I saw Rancid in 1995, sober too, n' I got started not even a yr previous. And it was such, SUCH a fun memory. Man we danced. Man, 21. My first car, fresh out USMC.
I have all the respect in the world for Lars my encounter with him was sooo cool. an He made me feel welcome at Warp Tour. Dude is a class act. Nothing but love for Lars from me.
think tim is the same? i'd like ot think so anyway
Sold the punks out to Warner brothers
Met him after a Rancid show in 1995. He came out after the majority of the crowd left. Talk to me and a friend. Good guy.
Things were different back in 82. I was 15 and I decided to buy some clippers and buzz all the hair off my head. The cool thing, at the time, was to have long hair, preferably, in a mullet. So I went the other way and got rid of my mullet hair. It made me a pariah, and I was accosted by strangers and got into several fights. I either got called a "faggot" or a "Nazi" before the fight started. When I got home, my parents grounded me for being a skinhead. I told them that there are no skinheads in our little Oklahoma town of 40,000 people, and that I was just a guy without a mullet. The next day my dad apologized and said that if he had come home with hair like that when he was my age, his dad would have probably raised his allowance. It was like everyone hated me as soon as they saw my hair or lack there of. To this day, I have yet to see a barber. All I need are some shears ;)
Peace
In 1980 I buzzed my hair. I was only six and I caught shit! Same people that were bitching about getting hassled 10 years earlier!
@ChickSage
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Gotta love self absorbed geriatrics reliving their 'youth' like you:) Give it a rest and pipe down
Times have changed a bit, I'm in my 30s and still shave my head. I get asked almost every night out "Born and raised?" or "Where are you from" and I know the next question or comments going to be some ignorant racist garbage. One of my friends told me to just ignore ignorant people because they're not worth the time. When I explained how they approach and I have to shut it down harshly or I'll end up hearing some racists life story they said "I never thought about it like that, yeah it makes sense"
At least where I live people are way less likely to be openly racist now, but if they think you might be then all the freaks come out of the woodwork.
Fishing line is actually a pretty good thing to use for suture material. It's very similar to the actual suture material you'd put in skin (i.e. synthetic monofilament). You don't wanna use something like thread because bacteria can wick into the wound between the fibres. His problem was almost certainly that there was a bunch of shit in the wound and he didn't flush it first. If he'd done that he could have been fine.
Good information man
Correct!
Cotton Fever is no joke
thank you doctor, won't need it tho since ealth care is free in my country
@@thomasdupont7186 If it's the UK you're referring to, don't worry, that free healthcare's just a few more tory policies away from gone.
❤️🤙💪Loved the new release...good ish dude.
Did he tell Brad from Squadron this when he visited his tattoo shop in England? What a joke.
@dani cali Brad still tattoos. Not sure if his current shop is the same one that he visited. That was a few years ago.
@@christhomson7669 Lars probably has Squadrons back catalogue to go along with his Skrewdriver collection.
Squadron is brilliant music
Running to my room in the middle of the night to escape the wrath of a Dane is something I'm all too familiar with. My friends thought it was a fucking riot though lmao, especially when my mom started yelling in english. Something about her light accent got really bad when she tried raising her voice. My grandmother was the funniest when she got mad though, even my mom and I would both do impressions of her behind her back lmao
I've been stabbed before, in the ass cheek of all places, and I just thought I'd been punched. I said to my mate "That idiot just punched me in the butt, what the fuck?" My mate started laughing and said "Nah he stabbed you in the butt and it's bleeding a fair bit. Might want to get yourself up to the butt doctor for some butt stitches!"
My mate thinks he's a fucking comedian
Lmao that’s a good one 😂
My friend got stabbed 13 times and didnt know it until we ran up and told him because he was wearing a white tshirt and we saw blood blooming all over. He was still fighting.
The stabber was 16 years old, and his 12 year old foster brother watched the whole thing.
Thats fucked up. Is everything ok with your friend now?
@@martinjohansson203 I think it’s safe to say…probably not.
Can someone tell me what the intro riff/song is please..
On of my favorite lads in the punk world
Fun Fact:
"Faeries Wear Boots" by Black Sabbath is a song about the band having an encounter with skinheads at a football match.
Geezer got one story, Tony has another and Ozzy has one....and the latter has also stated that he doesnt remember.
@@Millwall77
I agree, but the foundations of the song are still there...after all the drug, alcohol abuse and time since this occurred, I'm not surprised memories are foggy on this.
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 Yea, that's a good point.
Fun fact : Ozzy WAS a skinhead before Sabbath
@@tiopepe7018 Yepp, he looked smart as well. So was Phil from Motörhead.
What’s the music at the end?
There was a party house of punks we used to go to in the nineties. Punks from all over the world seemed to come visit. Every month there was exotic people that were into the lifestyle. So these boneheads started harassing a girl and the biggest dude that ran the party stood up for her and when they got physical he tossed the guy out. So one day they showed up with an entire crew and found the big guy that stood up for her and they took a sledgehammer to his skull. I was not there for that but a good friend of mine told me how he took his shirt off and wrapped it around his head and saved his life. Last I heard the big guy was forever mentally altered and the house was condemned by the city to be demolished anyway so it become abandoned. It was such a shame how all of us looking to have a good time goofing off got assaulted by hate looking for a fight. Out come the wolves I guess.
That's awful. I'm in Oklahoma and I've never met a white supremacist. I've been all over the US and it's hard to imagine a sub culture of white supremacists manifesting out there in I'm assuming California? What decade did that happen? Are they like, idk, I dunno how to even ask it. Like, what's their aesthetic? How do they find each other on the streets? In prison, I kinda get it. But like... idk.
Those tales of boneheads always confused me. Then again, a lot of stuff confuses me. Lol.
It seems to me like when people find out im a Native American with, like, prowess, idk, they kind tighten up their behavior and just drop all the nonsense. But, like, in Oklahoma, being Native isn't really all that unique.
Like im in my 30s and I've got some experiences of my own but like in the 80s when punks fought with nazis.... like, that just doesn't make sense to me. I'm like that sounds like organized crime, why didn't anybody bust it up?
We don't really take much shit in OK. It's a little different. Lol.
@@lejay7511 I only got caught off guard by them very few times in life. It was rare but those few times were always an awful fight. Way back in high school was my first experience on a bus to school. I was maybe 15 and was already wearing leather denim and studs to protect myself from the street violence that was going on in the area. One of them started poking fun and I was not in the mood so when he shoved me I knocked him over for daring to put a hand on me and half the bus lunged at me. So I used the kid as a shield and his tshirt had a swastika on it so I assume they were young boneheads. My leather and stud jacket made good armor against the kicks and lunges. When I made it to then front of the bus I grabbed a fire extinguisher to unleash on them but it didn't work. They chased me into a nearby resturaunt and threatended to kill my entire family. The dean had to convince me to come back to school and I eventually did but I never rode a bus again. I got up an hour earlier just to walk and I always carried my cheaper guitar as a self defense weapon if needed. I have no idea what happened to them but hopefully some form of karma.
The worst one was many years later I was almost 30. I went to a local metal show and we were all drinking and having a great time until this one huge dude covered in muscles and scars like all he knew was a battlefield started elbow smashing everyone in the forehead knocking them down instantly. I was drinking whiskey and when he came at me I lunged down instinctivly into his gut and launched him up over me out of the crowed towards the bouncer. I figured the bouncer would handle it but instead this big dude came over and slapped my nose so hard it broke sideways and got blood all over the floor. He had a big swastika tatood on his neck. The bouncer did nothing. Everyone just hoped he would leave and he did after kicking everyones ass. The owner of the bar asked if I needed an ambulance but I figured I just needed another shot of whiskey so I wouldn't feel myself about to break my nose back into place. All I knew is I had work in the morning and I still made it in on time.
The hate is terrible and toxic. I don't want any part of it. It was the Boston area which is full of various culture and that's cool good but sometimes that variety doesn't like all the variety. People man. I can't make sense of it. I just wanted to enjoy music with anyone who just wants to enjoy music.
A SLEDGEHAMMER!? Jesus, Boneheads are fuckin coward pussy wankers.
@@lejay7511I guess you've never heard of the Mid Town Boot Boys. Then again, you're a youngster.
This story is all over the map tf
Lars, and BNO, saved my life once. Thank you.
BNO is on zoom
Would love to hear that story
Lars is such a humble man.
"Ten pound test " he's a fisherman alright.
Grew up listening to rancid. Love their music and message.
sucks being you
Being a punk band with a message makes Rancid posers.
@@leroywatermelon4025 ok love their music and LYRICS.
@@leroywatermelon4025 lol okay guy
@@leroywatermelon4025 you're the poser, pretending you know Punk rock and think it has no message. How about anti-establishment, to start?
Bro----- isn't the best when the only ass whooping that you worry about is the one from Mom? Awesome!!!
Digin' so much that poster of El Santo behind Lars!
Well that's all just crazy. And definitely better listened to than experienced! :} \m/
Good thing Lars is here too tell me what a skinhead is..
😂
For real though. From the mean streets of Campbell
I loved rancid back when they were called
THE CLASH
Why only put part of a video up
This guy is the white josie smolliet
Haha
Soul all night, might be a fight but no politics....right on.
Been listening to Rancid a lot lately! Too bad the video got cut off on the best part, is there a second part of this?
Here is the full podcast - th-cam.com/video/RaokfcDKcqM/w-d-xo.html Conclusion to his story starts around 37 min. in.
@@Sean-gj7vw thanks, that lined up the story spot on 👍
@@jonathansteadman7935 No prob. glad you found it. ✌
I've never seen a Nazi.
He is such a good guy!!!! Youre livimg not far from me, but i still couldnt make it. Hopefully soon
I too had black girlfriends that were in the scene. I never had any trouble in Berkeley and perhaps it's because Oakland is right there, but in San Fran you'd see Bonehead's pretty frequently. However, with bands like DK playing almost nightly, you had a lot of backing with a shit ton of punks before, during and after gigs. I still use my punk moniker Kid SKAnk and I'm now 58 y/o. Those were the days.
Boneheads (Nazis) in San Francisco in the early 80s? Sounds weird considering the city is associated with hippies, but hey it's still crazy. Seeing Dead Kennedys during their prime must have been a treat.
Lars was so scared of his mom that he tried to hide a stab wound so she wouldn't kill him 😂
Thank you for starting with the origin of the name
I love Lars but "working class" is political itself and even OG skinhead reggae artists were involved in politics heavy. "oI bAdMaN wE wOrKiN cLaSs" was far from their only thing 😂
I thought the same thing
I think Lars is a commie
Working class isnt inherently political its just a class of people based on their income. Working class people often dont even pay much attention to politics mainly because theyre to busy working. However politics effects the working class most of all. Punk,ska ect was actually a way to open the working classes eyes to politics to people who otherwise are uniterested.
Fuckin rancid is bubblegum pop punk anyway..
For the term _working class_ to be anything more than a meaningless label, it has to come with a certain degree og class consciousness.
And class consciousness is definitely inherently political.
Oi! Ain't dead, Lars just ate it.
🤨 I call bullshit
Yah dudes a liar.
@@PP-sn7br He couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag
Did NOT expect him to sound like that, lolz.
Lars has never been in a fight. These Campbell wannabes are a crack up though. Dolt
He’s probably had a few I don’t know
@@tylerkelly9801 I do. He hasnt. They are trust fund kids. Fashion punk. He has been beat up though. Him and his friends are pushovers.
onlylovecansaveus to be fair the real punks are probably ppl that spend their lives in prison, are ppl who have assaults maybe murders on their record. He probably saw a lot more violence when he was younger, but ya I mean once the band got big and he got a level of success and money, I would think he distanced himself from that life/lifestyle as much he can. That’s what you’d want to do tho, why would he want to be in that life anymore
@@tylerkelly9801 to be fair, what you think and what is true are not the same. You can say "probably" this and "probably" that, all day. But us good guys, know who we are.
Not out here making music for the masses. Gtfo with your consumerism.
onlylovecansaveus wtf are u talking about bro. I like some rancid sings, that’s why I listen to them sometimes. And who’s listening to your music. No one. Cmon man. Grow up. No One gives a sht about u or your music. And I doubt very music Lars gives a sht what u think.
Funny thing, he always pays respect to the crew DMS whenever he plays in NY, the “Dock Martin Stomps” the were a skinhead band from NY years ago on the lower east side. (From all over) I saw him a few years ago and he still did it made a big deal about mentioning them after like the third song. So he can’t hate on them too much.
Skinheads and neo-nazis are two different things. Neo-naazis started sporting the same hairstyle as skinheads. So much so that some skinheads felt that they needed to specify that they were S.H.A.R.Ps(skinheads against racial prejudice).
If you find this interesting you should hear about my run in with Geo Metros..
Thank you for the Skinhead-Bonehead definition. Totally different things.
You do realise the original 1960's skinheads used to beat up Pakistani immigrants for fun?
But this Johnny come lately Yank knows better apparently.
Nah. They’re all skinheads.
@@kosher8720how is someone who denies the very roots of the subculture, a member of the subculture? They're not. Nazis just take the look because It makes them look tough.
Napoleon was actually 5'6" average height for the time in France. Just saying.
This guy is goofy.
You The Man Lars Stay Bad Ass.
Yes! I did enjoy this when I watched the entire interview! He’s right about the politics and the misnomer of “Skinhead’s” name. They were not really Right-wing, unless you want to designate them far-Right fascists, which might be accurate especially the current Skinheads in Germany now that relish the term “Nazis.”
What is great about this story was his reference to his getting stabbed during those drinking-drugging years. I love how he’s telling this story with no grimace at all; about how he his brother’s sewing him up with no anesthesia, the subsequent infection, (he could have died)…well- there’s the pain!!! Hell, the stab wound wouldn’t hurt as much as the sewing it up with a fishing line!!! And, then taking it out!!! lol
He tells this so matter-of-factly - just crazy. You gotta love this guy! He so passionate and genuine! I love the way way he talks about his son, too. What a life! Loved the Ramones stories, too.
During my 1983 San Francisco one man show, lots of society types were there. Then, a very tall, young guy with long black hair, walked by me and said, “Nice work man.”
“Thank you.”
John Pence the gallery owner asked me later, “Did you see Johnny Ramone?”
I said, “Who?”
He said, “Johnny Ramone! ….of the Ramones?”
lol
“Oh! That’s who that was!” lol
It’s a Small world after all.
Get a clue. Lars is fashion. He went from supposed skin to punk to biker back to punk to skin. . I doubt he ever had a real hands on job from what he says. I used to respect him but as i get older i seen though it all. Playing music is far from a job. He knows nuthing of the working class struggle he's a multi millionaire.
@@BeeRumblin13 truth !
Noone in the world looks like joey ramone, cant believe you didn't instantly recognize him
@@BeeRumblin13 and what do you think he was doing before he joined Rancid and before Rancid got big? Campbell isn't exactly wealth central (although Los Gatos, which is the next town over, absolutely is). Lars is good people, and he's not full of scheiße.
@@BeeRumblin13 musicians are working class. a tiny minority make money out of it (or did, back when people bought records) but most of us fucking starve to create the music our communities exist around. it’s a fucking hard slog, and punk bands pre-mid 90s struggled hard.
not that i’m a lars fan - not really my scene, but the idea that musicians are all fucking rich is a myth, especially these days
im a fan of Rancid and Op Ivy..Lars is a Trend Setter punkskinsmod starter pack...
Wasn't in op ivy
He seems like a mall rat
Why do they wear red suspenders anyway?????
let put this fishing line thats been in lake water into my leg, said no one with a brain ever
I laughed so hard because ive been in the exact same spot.... I wish id lived newxt door.
lol - my brother was concerned for my health so hits me in the face!!!!!!!!!
I mean props to his bro for making him see the infectious light but did he really have to punch the guy to get’m there?
working class equals political.
I really like the poster behind it ( el santo ) that’s what’s up
❤❤❤Laurel Aitken was Boss SKINHEAD & GODFATHER OF SKA: Nazis always steal other peoples' stuff & try & slap the Nazi name on it. They even stole the swastika, Jamaican Skinhead n
NAME, & NORSE/VIKING MYTHOLOGY: none of these items have anything to do with Nazis. Thanks so much for sharing❤❤❤.
Love, Hugs, Blessings,
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Anyone heard the story that Lars used to buy white power/RAC music so young kids wouldnt get hold of them? 🤣
He has Skrewdriver records in his collection. He should, since the Frenchie era and HTND are some of the best skinhead music ever made.
with the money he was given by steins bergs and witz's ...what a puppet
@@driftinaz3158 Zionist conspiracy theory, ya’ll too much.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for 500 Alex
Great story Lars,
Great super glue commercial.
I had a teacher in high school that told me a story about him throwing a cinder block into a group of Neo Nazis at an AFI show sometime in the mid 90s.
Yeah because those guys flock to gay band's shows. I'll bet you ate that all up didn't ya? Didn't question where the cinder block came from in some shitty dive bar.
@@sceneeaston2172 personally seen boneheads get left on train tracks. Never to be seen again. We made sure nazis weren't welcome. Any show, any time. Always make them bleed.
@@cantkillcliffrose I'll bet you did..... right before you woke up.
@@sceneeaston2172 ok little one. We made sure your kind wasn't welcomed. ;)
@@sceneeaston2172 hey, found the Nazi
Glad to hear that Rancid ain’t racist!
The irony of this is Rancid toured with RAC bands and Lars loves using nordic imagery. He really rides the line.
Close your eyes, Lars’ voice is very similar to Ron Desantis
.....GAY
Have you ever seen them in the same place?
His leg turned rancid.
All those Last Resort songs railing against Margaret Thatcher sound political to me.
Most of the early LR stuff is patriotic/right wing.
@@tendrosstoodross2976I don't see how songs railing against Thatcher and the Tories could be considered "right wing." Their song "We Rule, OK" features the lyric:
"Margaret Thatcher the stupid old bitch/Takes from the poor and gives to the rich"
They hated Margaret Thatcher as much as Billy Bragg or Crass.
If my brother used my fishing line id clock him too.
Especially if he'd already glued the wound. Plastic surgeons use a type of superglue to minimize scarring instead of stitches. You only need one or the other. Also, go to the damn hospital, you don't know how deep the stab wound is and could very well bleed out internally.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 fck his leg dont touch my fishing line😂
I had a similar experience at school, Some dude was chasing me and I ran into the corner of a table, got home and realised my ballsack was ripped open so I went and got superglue and glued it together haha. It has worked ever since!
hahah damn
that's why I always carry superglue with me, you never know when your ballsack needs it.
Sewing up a stab wound outside under a street light with fishing line super glue is the most punk rock shit i’ve ever heard lol
Ground black pepper and superglue
Awesome Lars is 100% Punk 🏴🤘✌️🇦🇺
Brother: What happened?
Lars: Got stabbed
Brother: How did you fix it?
Lars: Seriously man'd it out and used fishing line
Brother: You're being punched for your idiocy in fivefourthreetwoone 👊🏻
Imagine thinking being working class has nothing to to with politics.
Exactly.
holy shit smart ppl in a youtube comment section, good on you comrade
Class? Politics? That sounds like Marxism! *grin*
@@MeinGottHatDenLangsten absolutely politics. Marxism and conflict theory. Could not be more political.
It has everything to do with politics, but it's fine. Still doesn't change skins
that's it? let him tell the rest of it!!!
I ran into Lars at the boardwalk in fair oaks when I was a kid and he used me to pick up on a lady trying to pretend he knew how to read peoples minds. I denied everything but she still thought he was funny.
perguntas feitas no twitter. Eu não fui parte de nenhuma organização. fiz parte de religiosidade. É bem diferente de ser parte de uma organização metallica. megadeth é já ter feito economia política religiosa. fiz.
Interestingly (or not) when I was in London, England wearing a LFB windbreaker, I had someone threaten me saying "Nazi punk f@*k off, I'll bash you." Because the person was wearing headphones, at first I thought they were listening to Dead Kennedys and singing along out loud... That was not the case. Fortunately they didn't act on their aggression...
Just some middle class lefty tosser by the sounds of it. Plenty of them about in the punk scene unfortunately.
Although LFATB did cover a Nazi punk song!
It has always felt like Nazis were more of a thing with the punks than the metalheads, at least here in America. I'm not saying the black/death metal scene doesn't have a few, but its not something I have seen around frequently at metal shows growing up, here in Seattle or around the east coast.
Heil Skrewdriver !
That is a badass story.
Another American that is an authority on what a skinhead is...
where was he wrong? skinheads started back in the 60s with jamaicans and white working class.
@petetestube2904 No, Jamaican immigrants to England and white working class is what I meant. The 2 cultures created the skinheads.
And that's the ONLY WAY TO KEEP IT!! A POLITICAL!! POLITICS IS NOTHING BUT DIVISION!! WERE IN BAD ENOUGH SHAPE!
I remember fighting with "Unity"
In a show at Montebello
And they aren't all racist but some fools were screaming shit and yea settled it at the pit regardless
Funeral Dress was sick
Haha His brother punching him in the face for his fishing line suture.
Lars the man. Cool ass guy
Fuckin legend
And then youll come across comments like "rancid soldout" 😂😂😂
rancid sucks...music for hot topic democrats
Wtf did I just hear? And why did the brother hit him? Because it was stupid or it was his line or what?
I wonder why his brother clocked him for getting stabbed? This guy couldn't catch a break.
Lars Fredrickson your story’s are true
imagine posting this about an obviously fake story
Rancid is my FOAT
All kinds of shades of green and stuff!!!
Anecdotal bullshit. Wonder if Lars still has his collection of Skrewdriver records?
Bro, he only has them to study the enemy! And then to write a whole album that sounds like lightweight Ian Stuart songs! Get off his back!
Oi! Aint dead, Lars just ate it!
“You can’t call a Nazi a Skinhead, coz Skinhead starts with Jamaican reggae and Jamaican culture. So basically, we Skinheads are appropriating black culture, and cultural appropriation is modern day colonization, so I guess we’re also in a way perpetuating systemic racism or something… idk wtf I’m talking about. All you need to know is that I’m a really good person because I hate myself, which also makes me love myself because I’m a really good person who acknowledges that I’m a pos white colonizer, but I had a black girlfriend one time and I got stabbed by a Nazi for it, so I have the scar to prove that I’m basically a demigod.”
The most badass dude on the planet right there! 👊🏼
Cuz he grew up in the bay area 20+ years before it became the techy gentrified stuck up sht hole we know today. Call me crazy but he probably feels like that's his home, but who knows.. To me he represents the 2% of that areas redeeming qualities.
Lars has a bit of an English twang to his accent.
Haha my mums Danish too...lovely lady but don't get her mad...
Hes in a skin band so, it's always going to draw that crowd, stuff changed in the 80s
Cut the end off my finger once by accident in the kitchen cooking on drugs. Blood shot out in a geyser like Kill Bill. Girlfriend sewed the flap back on with expired suture from an animal hospital. It was then I knew she was a keeper.
No it doesn't and it never did. He admits its only his opinion.
"doesn't have anything to do with politics".
What to expect from a band that loves the Clash and think they got nothing to do with politics...
Who cares.
@@RetroHabit82 usually people who comment "who cares"