Metallica surprise with deep cuts and rarities at first 40th anniversary concert. Our review from the San Francisco celebration:
“We caught them on the only show that they played in India,” Parta Das, who lives in San Jose, says while waiting in a merch line with a friend outside the venue. “We feel lucky to be here. Most of the big, international acts don’t go to India.”
Randall Mull, age 46, came to the show from West Virginia on Friday with his 75-year-old mother, Rebecca Beboud. The concert would be his 21st time seeing the band, and mom’s 17th. “I learned to love [Metallica],” Beboud says of the generational divide while standing on the concourse inside the Chase Center, “and it’s kept us together as friends; we’re best friends.”Judging from the audience’s reactions during the concert, Metallica exceeded expectations.
The band opened with “Hit the Lights,” the first song Hetfield and Ulrich wrote and recorded together, before shifting into “Creeping Death,” one of their first collaborations with Hammett. They played a handful of their biggest hits — “One,” “Sad but True,” “Nothing Else Matters” — but largely indulged more obscure songs. They had not played“Trapped Under Ice” since a full play-through of the album in 2012, and they had never playedmoody “Fixxxer” before, period.
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