METALLICA - TO LIVE IS TO DIE (Live Cover!)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- LIVE PERFORMANCE of Metallica’s complete “To Live is to Die!” at the 2017 MWROC Music Festival. Performed by the members of The Mark Wood Experience and world’s best electric string orchestra, this performance faithfully covers - and enhances - this classic
heavy metal instrumental from “And Justice for All.” All electric violins, violas, and cellos are designed and hand-crafted by Wood Violins. Enjoy a rare performance of a song that Metallica has only performed live ONCE!
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CREDITS:
Performed Live at the Bell Cultural Events Center at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas on Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Lead Viper Electric Violin: Chuck Bontrager
Viper Electric Violin & Acoustic Guitar: Haydn Vitera
Viper Electric Viola & Vocals: David Wallace
String Section L to R: Michael Lucarelli, Adam Rafferty, Greg Byers, Valerie Vigoda Brandon Jenkins, Jessica Rafferty, Karen Hooper, Joe Deninzon, Marisa Garnjobst Electric Guitar: Rob Bambach
Keys: Matt Vanacoro
Bass: Paul Ranieri
Drums: Jason Gianni
Live sound: Matthew Hartnett
Lighting and Animations: Heather Cobb Isbell
Videography: Adrian Schiavi
Post-Production Mix: Matt Vanacoro, Vana Studios
Final Mix: Mat Prock, Area 44 Music
Additional Post-Production Recording at Rax Trax Recording in Chicago, IL
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“To Live is to Die” composed by James Hetfield, Lars Urlrich, and Cliff Burton Lyrics by Paul Gerhardt and Cliff Burton
Much love to James Hetfield & Kirk Hammett, who helped inspire our tone!
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Much love and thanks to everyone who makes MWROC what it is; especially Mark Wood, Laura Kaye, Deb Wyant, Heather Cobb Isbell, Jeremy Samuels, and Lisa Russell Batson.
Hard to beleive a few beer drinkin 25 yr olds from Southern California wrote this legendary piece of music.
Who does Well Cliff wrote some of them they just built a song around it.
Rob Spencer musicians come in many shapes or forms
Satan likes chees cliff just wrote the intro and the interlude
actually it's even crazier. Exhumed archive demo tapes reveal that most of the music for To Live Is To Die was written as early as 1986, if not even before that. So they were even younger than that.
I know this masterpiece it's legendary! METALLICA 🤘🏻
4:11 I'm not crying, I'm just sweating through my eyes
Agreed. This is sex on steroids. Brilliant.
Same here, they made me cry at work damn it ;(
Me too!
😭
Me too
Guilty
4:40 makes you think about Cliff ... makes you wanna weep like a little baby ... makes you feel guilty for all the shit you've done in your life, realizing that life is too damn short ... makes you stronger at the same time ... makes you feel as if you had a hole in your soul, as if something is missing .. for way too long ... makes you realize you've been searching something your whole life, which you still havent found ... makes you feel as if you've lost a very close friend and brother ... now imagine was james, lars and kirk must've felt when they actually lost Cliff
Whoa. Thank you, xabun. I'm honored that this would cause you to think and feel so deeply, and that you would share it. Thank you!
How does this comment have only 19 likes?
Pathetic.
what a beautiful comment!
Even though cliff died so long ago, even before my mom went to middle school, I think I need to pay homage to him one day😔❤️
Cliff used to LOVE classical music, I feel like Cliff would have loved to hear this. This is an absolutely amazing piece of art. Cliff would be proud! R.I.P
I did not know.But very fitting they are Modern day Mozarts in there own right.🤘
Cliff was so musically knowledgeable.
@@user-fh9zi2mb3wdeath is more like Mozart then Metallica is
He was graduate in music school. Theory, harmonys, and play Bach on violoncelo.
I can't rate this any higher.
It's perfect.
Thank you, Sean!
Right!
(yeah ,) it's fuckin perfect! 🔥
I was disappointed in the intro because I mean you can find the Mel Bay book with the exact notes they were playing even for a single guitar version on acoustic yet they were just grazing the cords and not ringing through the notes or playing the entire cord listen to the intro it was very very bad and could have been done way better. The notes simply weren't fully played they were just grazed over I can't believe it yeah it sounded similar because it was the same chords but not even close to the exact quality Metallica did and it really isn't that hard all you have to do is play the full bar and let it ring through properly two guitars can do it so easy like I said Mel Bay has the original sheet music and tablets her to follow and recreate the intro to a T I did in high school with my friend. This just grazed over it like a cover band quickly trying to get it over with. @4:40 my personal favorite part he didn't even play it accurately he just played similar sounding notes in the right chords A minor G minor a minor F major it wasn't the exact same James Hetfield actually played with his fingers. Now I get adding all the strings and stuff to make it pretty is totally okay but the guitar specially on a solo moment should literally play the exact same song not just graze over something similar
Cliff would have been proud.
Mr. Snake - thank you. That means everything!
I agree 😍
Yes, as would the main contributors to the song being created, Lars and James.
@@chuckbontrager5747 well done!!! SUPERB!!!
@@7kdguy850 Thank you!
7:20 the way he delivers those lines are so chilling... Fantastic job all around
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
Thank you!!
This sounds so good!
Many thanks!
@@chuckbontrager5747
👍♥️🤟💖🔥💖🔥💖🔥💖🤟♥️👍
el slayer
Drummer very good
Jason Gianni; one of the best! Here's his channel: ua-cam.com/users/jsgdrum
Thank you both of you!
Jason Gianni u
Show me not very good in here;)
All best and more cover, please:D
It's Great🤘🤘🤘
This was an honor to be part of, and SO MUCH FUN to see from the other side!!
I think we all done good
On behalf of all the viewers od this video, thank you.
Val Vigoda! Incredible performances with Steve Vai
You all should be very proud of yourselves I’m a HUGE Metallica fan and this video BLEW ME AWAY!!!! OUTSTANDING!!!! Metallica should be sent this video And I’m gonna start crying but Cliff Burton would be so proud of you all ❤️❤️wooow 🤘🏼🏴☠️⚡️🎼🎶🎸
Have you done orion, by metallica??
5:52 when he cracks that smile I can’t help but mirror it. He knows it’s badass
I definitely felt it as I played it, and I hope I remember that feeling for the rest of my life. Thank you for watching!
This masterpiece has probably touched tens of millions of people over the years...humanity is awesome.
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
Wow. I was expecting something really cheesy. They respected this song, and when the guy did Cliff’s spoken part, it brought me to tears. The interpretation of this song was so perfect. And the kids are so into it. This is exactly how it was back in the day. People felt it and wanted to experience it live. This is really really special.
Rick Kelley - thank you!
@@chuckbontrager5747
👍🔥🤘☄🤘💘🤘💥🤘💘🤘☄🤘🔥👍 ! ! !
Is that cliff on the record?
@@Bzorlan it's james.
@@dellonnelson7280 I thought so but they said cliffs spoken part
This is the most impressive orchestral cover I have EVER seen.... MAJOR RESPECT... AND REST IN PEACE CLIFF BURTON.
Thank you, Chris. LONG LIVE CLIFF!!
To Live Is To Die is definitely the most beautiful metal song ever made.
No doubt about that...
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👍💥🤘💣🤘💘👍 ! ! !
Agree!
For those who died alone
Thank you. Brother I served with OD’d last month. Yes I found him. He loved this song.🤘🏻🤘🏻
Wow, that blew me away. I think Metallica should see this.
Thomas Burkhard they would be proud
the would be crying as babys haha
Your mouth to God's ears, Thomas.
Or your typing fingers to his eyes, or something
@@ignaciobustamante6477 it's not funny...
That main violin guy pulled a kirk and played both solos
Pulled a Kirk LUL
Minus the wah lol 😂
@@brianbess7477 😂😂😂
Kirk i choose you and as your main weapon WAH
@@brianbess7477 🤘😁🤘
A testament to Metallica's music. No one could write music like Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett.
Except Pink Floyd🤣🙏🏼
@@apoloflores3871not really. But this is your opinion
Except this was mostly written by Cliff, but yeah
@@jordanfroger7915except it probably wasn't (nothing fits his style) but that is a wholenother topic. He deserves massive credit on the other albums though, without Cliff Metallica wouldn't make the music they do
@@xihix7619 lol, they are using bits and pieces of his riffs he wrote. all stuff that they never used because he died.
Im gonna be honest here. I went into this thinkin that their is no way they can make this sound halfway like james and the boys does it. I stand corrected! Great job by everyone involved! Sounded amazing!
🤘thank you for watching and listening 🤘
Pleasure is all on this side man. Probably my favorite song from them so i had to listen and u guys did not disappoint. All of u are amazing musicians..keep up the great work!
The drummer is on fire
Jason Gianni; one of the best! He also helped arrange the music. Here's his UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/jsgdrum
David Wallace he is really good
The bass drum is eq'd perfectly
Jack - I sent your compliment to our mixing engineer. Thank you!
They all on fire..
"WHEN A MAN LIES, HE MURDERS SOME PART OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!" -What a thrill this was. Long live Mark Wood! Long live MWROC!!!
Those lyrics are from James Hetfield of Metallica!!
The lyrics are actually by Cliff Burton, Metallica's bassist, and the German theologian Paul Gerhardt, but James co-wrote the music,
so don't Lie
You just murdered some part of this world with your lie!!
King Arthur: What is the greatest quality of knighthood? No poetry, just a simple answer.
Merlin: Alright then. Truth! That's it, truth. When a man lies he murders some part of world. You should know that.
If the people in this performance did nothing else in life but play that piece their life would have been worth it and fulfilled
It certainly was fulfilling to perform!
Friggen amazing. Those harmonies were perfection and that flying V violin.....damn! Everyone kicked ass on this song. Bravo!
tWeeb the Lerker Thank you for watching and listening. Glad you liked it!
It's hard to believe this sound could come from a violin! Amazing cover!
I know right!! Mark Wood is incredible, he made the type of electric violins featured in this video called a 'viper'. Every musician in this is already extremely talented but it gives them new ways to express their music. Crazy amazing and revolutionary.
Music Of Sounds I'm sorry, can you elaborate? I don't know what you mean.
Music Of Sounds your previous commends did not relate to the conversation
No, not really. Sorry man. Just because you have different taste doesn't make you better than everyone else.
I never said I was sir. I'm a very young amateur. However, I decided to take a look at your channel and your jazz tune is very nice.
For Cliff
Electric Heavy Orchestra. Metal. Epic. Superb. Moving.
absolutely amazing. this is how metallica has sounded in my mind since i was a child. AJFA is a complete orchestral piece.
Right there with you. Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
This is kinda insane, but at 4:13 I literally started tearing up! This is my favorite song off the Justice album, and this is one of the most amazing, most beautiful covers I’ve ever heard of any song!! Outstanding performance!!
Thank you! -And long live Cliff.
David Wallace you’re welcome! And yes, may the legend rest in peace!
Thank you, Jeremy. Reactions like your keep us going!
Chuck Bontrager you’re very welcome! Keep up the great work!
Me too man
Please do ORION!
Great suggestion! This year we did "One;" "Orion" is definitely on our bucket list. . .
and the call of cthulthu ... and redemption
Great suggestion!
@@afixxxer kthula...
It's too much to ask. No Cliff, no Orion.
One of the most beautifully arranged and performed pieces of music ever. Just wow.
Thank you, Mike!
@@chuckbontrager5747 thank you for this amazing work!
Man, I’m literally crying hearing this beautiful composition. You guys truly did a great job bringin emotion to this song. It became more related on the pain Metallica had to suffer without Cliff when the wailing part fell in. Also croed because how much Metallica’s music often been taken for granted.
Many thanks, Helman. So glad you enjoyed it!
At 4:10 I broke,...again. Darn,...
Yes... me too! F'ing chills!
Same here. Goosebumps!
Thank you. Glad you liked it!
The best Metallica riff ever in the best Metallica song ever. Always my favourite part. Amazing.
This riff always makes me think of Cliff. I know the whole song was his, but there's something about that interlude that always hits me in the feels.
Incredible, from start to finish. One of the best covers ever of this classic and beautiful song. RIP Cliff 🤘
There’s absolutely no words to describe how phenomenal this is. Absolutely speechless!!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
I love this and I love metallica so it goes hand in hand,♥️😍
Thank you so much!
Yeah this is just f'in awesome.
7:21 the full team drop is special! Easily my fave Metallica song. Thanks for such a unique version!
THe most underrated song and the most underrated cover!
Thats the song to be played in my funeral
Am I the only one crying from this?! Absolutely masterful performance!
Those metal violines! I NEED ONE!
www.woodviolins.com
Beautiful - inspiring, humbling. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
Got the chills while listening to this. Absolutely awesome. I would like to imagine that Cliff is playing along in the cosmos somewhere
Many thanks, my friend.
Damn this was fucking awesome. To Live is To Die is my favorite instrument song
That middle part was incredible. But the part after it when cliff's poem was read and everyone played, that was amazing
This is awesome
🤘 Thank You 🤘
This is the most beautiful and probably the most epic cover to this song! Really, this is great! Good job, guys!
Very glad you like it. Thank you!
Serious epicness at 4:10
I got excited
Amazing👍👍👍
Amazing! RIP Cliff
🤘😢🤘
Already playing it 15 times! Magnificent!
Thank you!!!
4:10 Holy moly, that's emotional.
The guitar player's version of the clean interlude is just so, so very good. I adore this cover.
Many, many, thanks. You may be the first commentor to have openly enjoyed what our guitarist did. Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
This has to be a classic.
I am absolutely in love with the bit that kicks in at the 4:00 minute mark. If only I could write something so beautiful.
Thank you! It was certainly a blast to perform. Glad you enjoyed it!
Металлика-великая!Какое счастье,что я была на ее концерте💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
the drummer is awesome
Masterpiece...
That is an awesome interpretation! Thanks and god bless!
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
PERFECT!
🤘Thank you🤘
I'm not crying. You are crying.
epic
Tear always sheds my eye listening to a song without a single lyric. The power of music. Rip Cliff
The most beautiful thing I've seen on internet lately. GREAT PERFORMANCE!!!!
🤘Thank You🤘
Anyone who miss this masterpiece can regret for the rest of their lives, that including Metallica.This interpretation is so fucking heavenly! This version made me shed my tears. Respect to the people who made this!!!! We can’t ever thank you enough !!!!!!
Many, many thanks for your support!
David Wallace the world’s gonna be less complete without your music! Please keep up the amazing work!!!! I wish I can make it to your concert one day!!!!
Sebastian Xu - Thank you!!!
this is too goddamn cool aw man big respect for these guys!❤️❤️
5:15-literal goosebumps!
Thank you, Dustin!
absolutely nails James and Kirks solos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you for the compliment, and for watching and listening and commenting!
Fantastic! I've literally become a giant goosebump!
IAmKrow that's awesome!
Don't Know Me yes it is!
wow violins flying v
This is one of my favorite Metallica songs. I love the band, love the song and love Cliff. The interlude is the most beautiful piece of music that I know. You covered this song so extraordinarily well that I actually had to cry
Thank you, Arne.
Me too
I wasn't expecting that...I thought maybe a classical style. But I got both.. good job
the best cover so far
I need one of those violins!!!
geeker211 they're called viper violins!! They're incredible.
www.woodviolins.com
Thanks Chuck Bontrager! You are an awesome musician! This performance was amazing
geeker211 - Thank you! We performed One this year, hope to have it mixed and dropped soon.
Remember listening to this during when my parents where going through there divorce. Thought this and Dier’s Eve where one long song, a build up to the anger that was smoldering inside me so that was all I took away from it at the time. Revisited this years later and was astounded by how intimate and mournful this song is, their love for a fallen brother bleeding out with each note. Getting older allows us to appreciate something more that we missed the first time around in our haste. This was the best cover of this I’ve heard by a landslide and great care was taken by all to honor a piece of music far more sophisticated than one would have believed possible from 25 year old headbangers. The guitar interlude was and outro were the only two parts that weren’t spot on. Simply amazing
Very insightful, and beautifully written. Thank you for watching!
that solo was awesome and the 2 guitar harmony is simply EPIC with the crowd cheering brought a tear to my eye being a MetallicA fan
Many thanks. That was a very fun show
That was fantastic! I loved the harmonies played with strings. My only complaint, as a guitarist myself, is guitar dude was a bit sloppy with the intro and didn't really play the mellow interlude well. I mean it's easy as hell to finger pick even on electric. It still sounded okay accompanied by the other instruments though. Other than that bravo everyone!
Thought0Ninja I think it was on purpose, that interlude is my favorite Pierce of music ever. So I was frustrated the first time when I heard it was not even similar to the original version. But now I am hearing it again, and I can definetely tell it fits to the song in a different but beautiful way.
Thought0Ninja and satellite
Please forgive my copying from another thread - I absolutely get it - a part of a performance that I don't expect or don't like or just flat-out isn't played well can spoil it for me, too. But it was on purpose.
As we put this arrangement together, we talked about the guitar stuff, and how closely it should stick to the disc, given everything else we were changing (instrumentation, key, added strings, some drum fills). What we decided was for Rob (guitarist) to play what he felt. We have been surprised by the number of comments (and the emotion behind them) about how un-like the disc it turned out, and I think we'll remember that down the road. But please have no doubts - Rob is a monster who can play with anybody, or he wouldn't be on the faculty at this festival.
Stay tuned - we did One this year, with no guitars, three violins, and female vocals. I am sure that will generate some vigorous discussion as well. THANK YOU for your honesty and your willingness to talk about it!
satellite extra thanks to you for your willingness to come back to the video and give the guitar parts fair consideration!
I'm with satellite now as well. I did listen to it multiple times after commenting previously and now knowing it's intentionally done this way ahead of time and expecting it makes me appreciate how it fits now too. So my bad on jumping the gun on that though it was an honest yet knee jerk reaction in the moment. Also I do wholeheartedly agree that a cover should have it's own personality and as a musician myself/massive Met fan I still sometimes forget this. So bravo all around gentlemen!
Thought0Ninja - many thanks, brother.
I keep on coming back to this amazing performance of this classic ‘tallica track. Please get your guys together and give us Orion. You know you wanna 🤘😁🤘
Thanks so much! You're right; we do wanna. This year we covered "One," so stay tuned for that one to drop some months down the road once the video is edited and the audio is mixed. . .
David Wallace hell yeah! Can't wait!
Thanks David for taking the time to respond. I will certainly keep my eyes and ears peeled for that! 👍
Killer performance on this epic song. RIP Cliff! 🤘🤘
Thank you, Andrew
How could you ever dislike this? Holy shit! 30 years after hearing this for the first time! September 10 of 1988 when I got the álbum!!!!!!
Thank you! It was Spring of 1989 when I first head this, and it changed my life.
And we never get old ever since Chuck Bontrager lol
Exactly! I have been 18 all this time...🤣
I'm the Only who gives a gossebumps when enters all the violins
I crying a lot after listening THIS
Adrian Villanueva I dont want to sound like an asshole, just trying to help:
"Am I the only who gets goosebumps when the violins join in? I am crying a lot after this
I had that to my friend
8:50 they performed the fade out live! pretty cool!
We worked pretty hard on that fade. Thank you for noticing!
Amazing
Thank you!
Wonderful
Thank you!
🤘fukin beautiful🤘wow just wow
The best instrumental song in the whole universe
If I close my eyes, it's too darn good. If I slip for moment and watch the hardcore cheerleader violins in the background I lose a few shoesizes.
🤣 Yeah, sometimes things are best with eyes closed. 🤣 Thank you for listening!!!
They gave it a fuller, deeper, richer sound. Love it!!!!!!!
Thank you!
@@chuckbontrager5747 You are welcome.
My only critique would be to have the bookends and interlude riff on guitar down pat note-for-note faithful to the original as they're such crucial parts of the song. Incredible performance otherwise.
You’re spot on here
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LordDes - Thank you, I appreciate the honesty, I get what you are saying. But know that at the beginning especially, the guitarist (Rob Bambach) was vamping to cover a set change from the previous song on the program, and it's difficult to ask a guitarist of Rob's talents to play the same thing over and over indefinitely.
Also - there are very few examples of Metallica playing this live, and one of them has a longer solo where Kirk plays stuff that's quite different than the studio cut. It was difficult to get a definite feel for how literal we needed to be. But I get you!
Some criticisms are so minor as to be negligible, this is one of those. If you're looking for album accuracy when fade-ins/outs are involved, you're gonna have a bad time. You wanna tell someone to play Metallica songs correctly, start with Metallica...
why am i crying
Every rhythm change lead to goosebumps. This is super amazing.
Thank you, Karthik!
What an amazing time we live in. People are awesome
5:10 wow that brought tears to my eyes. Awesome cover
That middle fucking section still brings tears into my eyes.
Long live Metallica.
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. . .and long live Cliff!!
For sure! Btw you did a great job mr. Wallace. Love the way you say the phrase: Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home!
Holy shit... I'm amazed. Never before have I thought anyone was possibly OVER qualified to rock this song, especially on these particular instruments. I got chills at parts like it was the damn original... wow guys. I'm blown away.
We felt the weight of great responsibility on this one. Thank you!
Agreed
From the legendary Metallica to the Mark woods orchestra. Long live Metallica and Cliff Burton. Absolutely Amazing.😘🤘🙏
Amazing cover. My tears don't stop yet ...
I think the best Metallica cover I've seen or heard yet.
7:44 such an epic sight to see bunch of guys headbanging from the audience!!
Amazing performance !
Thank you!
@@chuckbontrager5747
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CHUCK BONTRAGER ,
YOU ARE
👍🔥🤘💜🤘☄🤘💥🤘☄🤘💘🤘🔥👍 ! ! !