Roots of Rancid

Rancid Fans: Ever wonder about where Rancid is from? In this video we give you a short musical tour of their homes and the places they sing about in their songs, presented in "Where the Hell is Matt" style over the song "Roots Radicals".


Hope you enjoy it!



Explanations for the locations:

(Songs mentioning the places in this video):


"Took the 60 bus out of downtown Campbell"
-Roots Radicals

"The old men from El Cerrito who talk about their picks"
-GGF (Golden Gate Fields, also seen in video)

"On the 43 bus as we climb up the hill"
-Roots Radicals

"For money she's walking down on Larkin"
-Tenderloin

"I always end up back on the hill, looking down at the landfill"
-As Wicked (Referring to Albany Hill)

"At the station, Daly City train"
-Daly City Train

"Down in Oakland, off of West Grand"
-Sidekick

"Come into the Union district, drive down on Sharmon Palms"
-Nihilism

"The center of the universe was a street called Sharmon Palms"
-Ben Zanotto

"Follow the BART tracks to Harmon street ahhh Harmon street"
-Sad But True (Transplants)

"In the dark with the Oakland skyline"
-Another Night (Yes, we purposely got this shot in the dark)

"You go to Ashby down to Adeleine"
-Sad But True (Transplants)


(Other stuff about the video and Rancid):

Campbell California, a suburb of San Jose, is Lars Frederiksen's hometown.
Albany California, a suburb of Oakland, is Tim Armstrong's hometown.
Lars Frederiksen went to Westmont High School.
The Campbell water tower is pictured in the CD insert in the first Lars and the Bastards CD.
BART stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit. This is what the "Daly City Train" is referring to.
The hill (mentioned in a lot of Rancid songs) is referring to Albany Hill.
Taco Bravo is a Mexican fast food restaurant in Campbell. It can be seen on one of the Lars and the Bastards promotional videos.
924 Gilman street in Berkeley, CA is the venue where Rancid started out, and although not mentioned in the song, Spirit of '87 is about 924 Gilman Street.


And there you have it! We hope you enjoyed it.

Dancing: Squeak
Camera and Editing: Tim
Thanks: Joey and Eric G

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rancid
• roots
• radicals
• campbell
• oakland
• albany
• where
• the
• hell
• is
• matt
• freeman
• lars
• frederiksen
• tim
• armstrong
• of

[annexkatherine]

Too much Campbell (1 band member), not enough Albany (2 members). Also, Tim's home street was Pierce Street, in Albany (I lived around the corner from him), not Harmon, and Golden Gate Fields is in Albany, not Berkeley. Just saying. Still, though, hilarious video.

Signed, someone who lived in Albany at the same time that Tim and Matt did.

[Timbo1175]

@annexkatherine

I'm a Campbell kid, so I knew those locations a lot better. Oakland is about an hour away, and we had to do it all in one day, before the sun went down. No disrespect to Tim or Matt at all, sorry for inaccuracies, we were kinda just going by the various lyrics. Rock and roll! RANCID!

[frostybob123]

that was a great video dude! informative and funny

[guywholovesmovies]

awesome fucking video! i love how Rancid always talks about where they grew up in a lot of their songs. the bay's an awesome place, and Rancid's one of the big things that makes it so great.

[assholitis]

Dude, I"ve been looking everywhere for this! I saw it a couple years back and thought it was great. Then recently, I wanted to watch it again to prepare for my trip to San Fran but could not find this! I spent hours and hours and just now found it by Googling some Rancid lyrics. Awesome jobe, man! Love the vid.

[KillerChief97]

Fucking wicked video! As a San Jose kid that goes Campbell, San Fran, and Oakland all the time, I love seeing all these local places. Thanks for the vid!

[bimboc0les]

yee!

[annexkatherine]

@MikeFromCA As someone who is from Tim's old neighborhood, I can tell you it's not. He lived on Pierce Street, in Albany.

[KnownSurvivors]

Cracking post, nice to see all the places that get mentioned in the lyrics.

Cheers,Dai,Swansea,UK

[slapperham1]

You made my day with this - fantastic lol. Cheers for brightening up my morning at work.