frederiksen was present on rancid's second album, "let's go", which was released in 1994 and spawned the radio hit "salvation". that year their label-mates, the offspring, experienced a huge success with their album "smash". the offspring took rancid on tour with them, and helped "let's go" make it to #97 on billboard's heatseekers and billboard 200 charts, respectively. with the success of the album rancid were pursued by several major labels, including madonna's maverick records, but the band eventually turned down the idea of signing to a different label and decided to just stay on epitaph.