Intro To Scythian Suite (Live) - Metallica/San Francisco Symphony

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Composed by：Not Applicable

Welcome welcome welcome welcome

Welcome welcome welcome

Welcome welcome welcome

To the second act of the second show

I would like to

But a very very warm welcome to all

The Metallica Club members

Who have descended upon San Francisco

From all over the world

Coming here to share in this

Incredible and unique experience

Thank you Metallica Club members for coming

You can applaud yourself

There you go

How many countries do we count here

Let's see I see our Polish friends over here

Our German friends

Our Mexican friends

Our Swedish friends

Costa Rica Turkey

Denmark you are beautiful

You are beautiful and thank you

Brazil in the house right there

That's right

Yeah I got pretty good grades in Geography back in the day

France Israel

Is that Panama ish no

And I also wanna thank everybody in San Fransisco

For welcoming the Metallica fans

And making them all feel at home

See if you can keep that applause going

As long as you did for memory

I'll be back in 5 minutes

I also wanna thank Edwin Outwater the resident conductor

Of the San Francisco symphony for doing an incredible job

Through the first half

Please give it up Edwin

And now it's my great great honor

To ask you to join me in welcoming the

Musical director of the San Francisco symphony

25 years running

A dear friend of mine a dear friend of Metallica

A dear friend of San Fransisco

The one the only Michael Tilson Thomas give it up

The stage is all yours

I'm going home

Thank you thank you thank you professor Lars

Careful

Before we go any further ladies and gentlemen

I want to give a special recognition and big bow

For one of the world's greatest orchestras

The San Francisco symphony

Because not only did they have the chops

To play this and do this

They have the guts and the spirit to do it

Which is awesome

So also I wanna thank Lars James Kirk Roberto

For having the incredible courage and

Vision to imagine this event

Coming back 20 years later and happening tonight

So we want to play one piece for you

Where you just get to hear the orchestra all by itself

And in many conversations Lars and

I have had about classical music

We talk about all the different spirits there in it

And it goes back 1200 years so

It's accomplished a lot

In the history of civilization

And this piece that we're playing you know

Is one of those moments

In which classical music and heavy metal

Sort of fuse and combine

And it's from this piece called Scythian Suite

So what do you need to know about the Scythians

Well if you were in Central Asia in 700 BC

They were the people to know

What do we know about them

They were masters of horses

They were tribal

They wore elaborate metallic object decorations

And they were very heavily into tattoos

So we thought you would like this dance

Which is the dance of the ecstatic spirits of the night