 The beginning
While the BEATLES had their first No.1-hit, Willy Brandt became the leader of the social democratic party, Sepp Herberger retired as the coach of the German national soccer team and Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize, the birth of a guy that would become a guitar god later was only little noticed.
Four years later in 1968 he played his first protest songs on his air guitar lying in his bed, inspired by the movement. At the age of ten years he demonstrated for more freedom of art, when his experimental overstretching of mother's hike guitar was appreciated not as an infantile expression. In 1980 Lars finally achieved the aim of his engagement in family politics. As no comforter helped anymore, he obtained his first own guitar and a suitable teacher. From now on the musical landscape of Hamburg was not the same anymore.
The legend continues
Influenced by his idols Fast Eddie (MOTOERHEAD), Kralle (TRIO), Steve Stevens (BILLY IDOL) and Angus Young (ORIGINAL EGERLAENDER) he entered stage the first time in 1983 and celebrated the unforgettable "Dadada - It´s A Bomber" and "Flesh For Thunderstruck" with his accomplices.
 In 1985 he had his first two successful concerts with his his first punk band, which turned out to be a lot of fun. The following years Larsen had a shadowy existence in various subversive formations, while trying to keep himself under the guise of the bourgeoisie as a student of many branches, typesetter, garbage can counter, bicyle screwer, specialist for heating, air-condition and network engineering and finally as an upper class Call Center Agent - his current alibi. The call of Rudi Dutschke of "marching-through the institutions" of 1969 had found his adressee.
The escalation begins
The subcultural mole existence climaxed preliminary in 1990 playing in the punkrock band BAD TIES in Rendsburg. Interrupted by his activities with the band DIE LETZTEN he rejoined with his old partners of agitation, meanwhile as a project in the city of Hamburg, camouflaged with a new alias : LES RØVEREN.
One beautiful day in the middle of the year 2000, sitting in the lightly expensive canteen of a distinguished Pay-TV service provider in the banana republic of Germany, he fantasized with the designated squaller about a BAD RELIGION-Coverband project. Because the transfer fee from LES RØVEREN would have reached astronomic dimensions, he was willing to compromise and splitted himself in the middle.
Ever since then his second half is with GENERATOR, is twitching the metal strings nastily and roars into the background mike like a wookie...
(by Mario)
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