<p>Lars Frederiksen’s fronted some of the most popular punk bands of the last couple of decades – Rancid</a>, most famously, as well as other acts like the Old Firm Casuals</a>. And through it all, he’s also repped as a diehard San Jose Earthquakes fan, a team with whom he fell in love when he moved to the city as a child from his family’s native Denmark.</p><p>But over the years, he decided that his team of choice (besides England’s Millwall, his other love) really needed an official anthem suiting the Quakes’ punk-rock ethos. So who else better than to pen one than Lars, season ticket-holder and a true bard of Bay Area punk rock?</p><p>So he gifted the Quakes with an Old Firm Casuals creation, “Never Say Die,” the team’s official anthem that rocks the stadium before every match.</p><p>MLSsoccer's Arielle Castillo caught up with Lars at his home – and his basement shrine to all things soccer and Rancid – to find out how his love affair with the Quakes started, how the song came about.</p><p>Oh yeah, we also had to ask about how he deals with intra-Rancid MLS banter – their drummer, Branden Steineckert, wrote “Believe,”</a> the anthem of Real Salt Lake. Here’s Lars had to say.</p>
