Lars Ulrich was fully immersed in New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), he listened to bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Trespass, Diamond Head and others.
In 1979, his father enrolled him in a tennis academy in Florida, USA, which Lars considered a “tennis prison”. The following year, the family moved from Denmark to New Port Beach near Los Angeles. This is where his passion for heavy metal manifested itself. Lars buys a new drum kit, which was also essentially “scrap metal”. James Hetfield later named this kit “Muppet drum kit”, drawing an ironic parallel to the Beast Drummer's kit from the Muppet Show puppet show popular at the time. 1 reply
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