Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony supersize the band's hits at S&M2 gig: Our review from the inaugural Chase Center concert
. Edwin Outwater, the evening’s other conductor, jumped and swayed with the rhythms. The crowd loved it and roared back at the musicians.
“Welcome to this wonderful adventure,” Hetfield later told the crowd, before “The Memory Remains.” By this point, though, the crowd was swept away, and the fans sang Marianne Faithfull’s haunting vocal melody even though the strings had them covered.
The audience was divided on some of the more arcane material. While the majority of the crowd seemed to be megafans — one even held up a banner repping the late classical conductor Michael Kamen, who spearheaded the original S&M concert — the whole audience got behind the band’s biggest hits, all of which became something new with orchestral accompaniment.
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