''Viking'' is the second and final studio album by the American
punk rock band
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards was an American street punk band formed to release the songs that Lars had written. Their songs include subject matter consisting of drinking, fighting, drugs, sex, prostitutes, gangs, and street life. They wer ...
. It was released on July 13, 2004 via
Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an offshoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid ...
.
The album peaked at #17 on the
Independent Albums
The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by '' Billboard'' maga ...
and #18 on the
Heatseekers Albums
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.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Lars Frederiksen
Lars Erik Frederiksen (born Lars Erik Dapello, August 30, 1971) is an American musician and record producer best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, as well as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and ...
- vocals,
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
* Craig Fairbaugh -
rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...
, vocals
* Jason Woods -
bass, vocals
*
Gordy Carbone Gordy Carbone a.k.a. Gordy Forgotten a.k.a. Gordon Carbone is an American entertainer from California. Carbone plays in the punk bands The Forgotten and Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards. He also has an online cooking show named "Eat Me!" and has ap ...
- vocals
* Scott Abels -
drums
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
*
Tim Armstrong
Timothy Ross Armstrong (born November 25, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. Known for his distinctive voice, he is the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants. ...
- vocals (track 11), guitar (track 16), backing vocals,
producer, additional engineer, photography, artwork
*
Robert Aston - vocals (track 5)
* Chris Dugan - backing vocals, assistant engineer
*
Brett Reed - backing vocals
* Dan Hodge - backing vocals
* Lochlan McHale - backing vocals
*
Matt Freeman
Matthew "McCall" Freeman (born Roger Matthew Freeman; April 23, 1966) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his bass work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy, Rancid and as the frontman of Devil's Brigade.
...
-
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
* Carl Wheeler -
Wurlitzer electric piano
The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptua ...
&
Hammond B-3 organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
(track 16)
* Alen C. Agadhzhanyan -
strings
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*String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...
&
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
(track 16)
*
Dave Carlock
David Walter Carlock is an American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
His production style has been described as very hands on and song oriented. He received a Grammy Award for engineering Pink's, "Trouble".
Biography
Ear ...
- Hammond B-3 organ (track 11), additional engineer
* Michael Rosen - engineer
* Alex Reverberi - assistant engineer
* Tim Baker -
mastering
*
Brett Gurewitz
Brett W. Gurewitz (born May 12, 1962), nicknamed Mr. Brett, is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records and a number of sister labels. He has produced albums f ...
-
mixing
* Tom D. Kline - artwork
* Rachel Tejada - artwork
* Tim Lehi - illustration
Charts
Release history
References
External links
{{Authority control
2004 albums
Hellcat Records albums
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards albums