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of now’ including ‘a store in Costa Mesa, which was really far. We’d all drive in one car and we’d have to go pick up Lars, who lived in out in [Newport Beach], driving all over the place. Lars was from Europe and knew stuff that we didn’t know and we had stuff that he didn’t have, so the three of us just became really good friends based on our love of that whole NWOBHM scene.’ Lars was sixteen; Brian and John were eighteen. But Lars was the one who appeared to have the edge. ‘He was this crazy little kid with this endless amount of energy. We’d drive up to one of these record stores and he’d be out of the car and in the metal section before I could shut off the engine. When he was into something, he was into it a thousand per cent.’ Lars was so far into the NWOBHM scene ‘that he wanted to be a part of it’.
    Patrick Scott, a year younger than Lars but – because of the Danish schooling system – in the same grade year at high school, had heard of ‘this little Danish kid’ long before he’d met him. ‘We’d all go to this place called Music Market,’ he recalls. Scott and his friend Bob Nalbandian ‘would go, and we’d say “Did you get the new Kerrang! ?” And they’d say, we got one copy but this little Danish kid already came in and bought it. We’d say, who is this guy? ’Cos he beat us to it every time. Or we’d be looking for new [UK import] singles on Neat [Records] and they’d say “The Danish guy was here and he got it.” And we’d get frustrated but we wanted to meet this guy. We were just hungry to meet people that were into this stuff.’ When they eventually met via the small ads of a Los Angeles free sheet music paper named The Recycler , Patrick phoned Lars, who told him: ‘Come on over.’ Says Scott, ‘He had an amazing record collection that I drooled over and we became friends. He would come over to my house and watch the tennis. We were like one of the first families to have cable, so he’d come over to watch it and hang out with my family and things.’ Another member of the clique, Bob Nalbandian, now a writer and DJ, recalls how Lars, not merely satisfied with cruising the indie stores for new records, was also a prolific collector of mail-order imports. Once, when Lars ordered a copy of Holocaust’s ‘Heavy Metal Mania’ twelve-inch, he offered to grab one for Bob, too. A month later, Bob got a call from Lars telling him that the records had finally arrived and to come over and pick his up. ‘I go, “Great, I can’t wait to hear it,”’ Bob recalls, ‘and he says, “Yeah, but there’s a problem – your copy of ‘Heavy Metal Mania’ got taken out of the wrapper and left on the stove.” Note he said your copy! So my copy got warped. So I get in the car and drive seventy miles to his house just to hear it and it’s awesome. I wasn’t going to argue with him about my copy being all screwed up. I’m, like, “Where am I going to get another copy of ‘Heavy Metal Mania’?” There were two copies: Lars had one and I had the other one. So I got my mum’s ironing board out and tried to get it back into shape.’
    Lars would make his friends tapes of highly prized rarities by groups such as Crucifixion, Demolition, Hellenbach, Night Time Flyer – ‘all this NWOBHM stuff,’ recalls Patrick Scott. In return, Scott was able to introduce Lars to bands like Accept from Germany and a next-generation outfit from Denmark named Mercyful Fate. Lars, who had met the band but never heard one of their records, was deeply impressed with their first four-track EP, simply titled The Mercyful Fate EP, also sometimes known as Nuns Have No Fun . He begged Patrick: ‘I’ll trade you anything of my collection for it!’ But Patrick, who was equally anal, wouldn’t trade. The band Lars really fell for, though, was Diamond Head, who contained some of the edginess of classic NWOBHM bands like Iron Maiden, but incorporated it into distinctly old-school rock