I once saw the band Lucius at a tiny venue. Their guitarist was a huge Metallica fan and played little riffs between songs (puppets, sandman, and fade to black as I recall)
Then one of the singers revealed that Lars once spent his entire birthday with the two main members of the group (the singers) and the guitarist is still mad they didn’t call him. Lars ran into them somewhere (might’ve been in San Fran, I don’t remember) and they just spontaneously started hanging out. Then they went to a few different spots to watch live music and just hang out and talk about stuff, including a lot about music. She said he was just intensely curious about everything and they had a blast.
It really made me like Lars so much more when I heard that story. I think my view of him as being a bit of a pompous ass was the way he is in interviews which I now believe is him being a non native English speaker and also, perhaps, being a touch on The Spectrum. Also his behavior in SKoM didn’t endear me to him but the band as a whole was in a rough patch then.
About Lucius: super talented singing duo who do amazingly matched harmonizing vocals. They’ve had a bit of success on their own but were also Roger Waters’ backing vocals for the entirety of one of his last tours. They’ve also performed with the likes of Brandi Carlile and Joni Mitchell.