The Mayor of San Francisco London Breed declared a national "Metallica Day" that would be dedicated to the legendary Metal band's members to be on December 16, Metal Hammer reported on Friday.
Breed described that band members as "extraordinary musicians and people who touched people's lives for generations."
She reflected: "When you talk about San Francisco, you talk about cable cars and then you talk about Metallica," adding, "And on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, I want to officially declare today Metallica Day."
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Metallica's Drummer Lars Ulrich responded to the band's favorite San Francisco: "We started in Southern California. And we came up to San Francisco, the first time, in 1982, in September, and played at the Stone and subsequently played at the Old Waldorf a couple of times.
We had done six, nine months in Los Angeles, and we did not belong. The reason we all wanted to be in a band was to fit into something greater than ourselves, and we absolutely did not fit into anything in Los Angeles, Sunset Strip, Hollywood, any of that. We felt like complete outsiders. When we came up here… we were embraced and we were taken in and we felt so welcomed and so loved up here."
Two of the band's most iconic performances were performed with San Francisco Symphony, and both concerts were recorded and distributed as "S&M."
The first edition of "S&M" was released in 1999, while the second came out in 2020 on the occasion of the concert's first part's 20th anniversary.
Moreover, the band will two gigs from San Francisco’s Chase Center live as part of their 40th anniversary on December 17, and 19.
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