Metallica's 'S&M2' concerts with the San Francisco Symphony will be in cinemas Oct 9 and 13. Read how Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and the classical musicians collaborated
is letting his hair down in a tank top at his favorite restaurant in Sonoma, California. He’s here for a photo shoot for an upcoming issue of, but at the moment he’s reviewing video of last night’s rendition of “Nothing Else Matters,” which features a newly souped-up orchestral intro.
The orchestra also collaborated closely with the band on innovative arrangements of “One” — which featured drummerperforming percussion alongside the Symphony members in place of the recording of gunfire that usually heralds the track — and on an intense tribute to Metallica’s late bassist, Cliff Burton, as the Symphony’s principal bass player, Scott Pingel, playedon an electric, upright bass with guitar stompboxes and Ulrich playing with him.
“Some of the pieces we’re doing in the second half of the show, these are pieces that come from the Soviet period, when there was such interest in ‘primitivism’ and ‘futurism’ and many of these pieces contain a lot of the elements that are involved in what Metallica does,” he continues. “It’s been great fun introducing that material to them, and they’re enjoying it and wanting to play along with it.”The members of Metallica have been enjoying the challenge of playing classical music.
Edwin Outwater, who conducts most of the program, also sees parallels between classical composers and Metallica’s music — even the group’s whiplash-inducing, speed-demon thrashers. “There are moments in music like Bartók or Shostakovich, where the music is lightning-fast and hyper-aggressive — there’s even a visceral and fast energy to some of Beethoven’s music,” he says. He’s seated in the “Food Room” backstage where a steak awaits one of the musicians.
it.’ I could tell because when I was writing an intro for my piece, I kept hearing Bach’s ‘Sarabandes.'”
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