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- 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
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!
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.
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😔❤️
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
Drummer very good
Jason Gianni; one of the best! Here's his channel: th-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🤘🤘🤘
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!!
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!
For those who died alone
Thank you. Brother I served with OD’d last month. Yes I found him. He loved this song.🤘🏻🤘🏻
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 🤘😁🤘
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...
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??
This masterpiece has probably touched tens of millions of people over the years...humanity is awesome.
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
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.
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!!
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
The drummer is on fire
Jason Gianni; one of the best! He also helped arrange the music. Here's his TH-cam channel: th-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..
To Live Is To Die is definitely the most beautiful metal song ever made.
No doubt about that...
*🤘❤*
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👍💥🤘💣🤘💘👍 ! ! !
Agree!
Thats the song to be played in my funeral
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.
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.
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.
This sounds so good!
Many thanks!
@@chuckbontrager5747
👍♥️🤟💖🔥💖🔥💖🔥💖🤟♥️👍
el slayer
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!
For Cliff
"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.
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
7:44 such an epic sight to see bunch of guys headbanging from the audience!!
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!
I'm not crying. You are crying.
the drummer is awesome
4:10 Holy moly, that's emotional.
5:15-literal goosebumps!
Thank you, Dustin!
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!
Serious epicness at 4:10
Damn this was fucking awesome. To Live is To Die is my favorite instrument song
Those metal violines! I NEED ONE!
www.woodviolins.com
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!
4:11 get ready for goosebumpcity
Am I the only one crying from this?! Absolutely masterful performance!
7:21 the full team drop is special! Easily my fave Metallica song. Thanks for such a unique version!
Electric Heavy Orchestra. Metal. Epic. Superb. Moving.
omg that emotional wave at 05:10 when all the strings instruments join in.
THe most underrated song and the most underrated cover!
Cliff Aproves This
Jason Aproves This Too
I Love This
Jason approves cause you can hear bass.
/shrug idgaf what jason cares about. He was literally the lowest point of Metallica. not saying that's all his fault, but definitely happened when cliff died, jason came, and now with Robert things are better again. IMO
@@brucemalis1728 finally someone understands me
Jason??? Lol. He played what was already written, and then shown, and then told to play. But I guess he should be proud of James and Cliff.
Incredible, from start to finish. One of the best covers ever of this classic and beautiful song. RIP Cliff 🤘
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!!!
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!
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!
That fucking madman playing that solo holy shit
Thank you, w012thless. Thank you very much!
That middle part was incredible. But the part after it when cliff's poem was read and everyone played, that was amazing
8:50 they performed the fade out live! pretty cool!
We worked pretty hard on that fade. Thank you for noticing!
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!!!
Sideshow Bob killing it on the 6 strings...
🤘Rob Bambach is the best🤘
That middle fucking section still brings tears into my eyes.
Long live Metallica.
\m/
. . .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!
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.
7:26 makes me goosebump so hard as the poem read with full emotion
I wasn't expecting that...I thought maybe a classical style. But I got both.. good job
As for me “To Live is To Die” is one of the most underestimated songs of Metallica.
In my opinion “And Justice for all” is the best album of Metallica of all times, “Blackenned” and “To Live is To Die” are the best in this album.
Thank you for watching and listening and commenting!
Shortest straw for me. Huge riffs
Dyer's Eve is always overlooked tbh. Easily their heaviest song
Земляк🤘
i know this is essentially a white bread opinion but still i cannot get over One
wow violins flying v
why am i crying
Even Metallica should respect u brothers🤘💪
One of the most beautifully arranged and performed pieces of music ever. Just wow.
Thank you, Mike!
@@chuckbontrager5747 thank you for this amazing work!
RIP Cliff Burton!
The best instrumental song in the whole universe
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
5:10 wow that brought tears to my eyes. Awesome cover
04:12 The Epic Started
Hands down
My Respect to You All ..
..Salute
Thank you for watching, and listening, and commenting!
absolutely nails James and Kirks solos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you for the compliment, and for watching and listening and commenting!
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...
wtf holy shit this is beyond awesome. Those piano fills are TIGHT!!!!
Matt Vanacoro is one of the tightest keyboard players in the business! It was great to have him on this. At this year's MWROC Festival, we covered Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home," and the keys never sounded better. Thanks for noticing!
@@docwallacemusic it’s around 5:25 when you’re on screen that I took notice but then I notice EVERYTHING after that!
Bravo again to everyone.
4 years later and this is still a marvelous performance.
@@neoneherefrom5836 , and four years later, the aforementioned "Home Sweet Home" is up on TH-cam! More Vanacoro for you: th-cam.com/video/0XaBJ9q237M/w-d-xo.html
Yeah this is just f'in awesome.
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!
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.
"Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation.... Take me home!!!!
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Witnessing this live was nothing short of incredible. The extended fingerings at 3:33......
Practice yer octaves and 10ths, my friend.
Already playing it 15 times! Magnificent!
Thank you!!!
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...🤣
Rest in Peace, Cliff Burton... God Bless You, Brother...
Clifford Lee Burton (1962 -- 1986)
Rest in Peace, Brother . . .
CANNOT THE KINGDOM OF SALVATION TAKE ME HOME ???????
What. The. Fuck. This was the most intense thing ever. Awesome work
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! 👍
My lighter ( shows how old I am) is up for this orchestra! It was HEAVY!!!
Gounderus. What was heavy, the orchestra or your lighter? Haha
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💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
That dudes bow work is legendary!
Thank you for watching and listening!
I got excited
Omg that's solo 03:34 🙈
Serhatoryum thank you!!!
I think the best Metallica cover I've seen or heard yet.
Kirk's solo is mind blowing. So much feeling.
Wish you were here clifford you will be proud😢💔
LONG LIVE CLIFF!!!!
Man!!! At 3:00 in, I fell on my ass in my kitchen because I was basically moshing by myself. Second time I've watched this, in as many days.
Holy fuck I never heard anything so Epic
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.
This is badass, and goes to show that underneath the loud "noise" that some metal naysayers use as a complaint is some truly outstanding and well written music.
Amen. Thank you for watching and listening!
From the legendary Metallica to the Mark woods orchestra. Long live Metallica and Cliff Burton. Absolutely Amazing.😘🤘🙏
the best cover so far
CHUCK!!!! Dude, I had no idea you were doing this. So proud of you dude, this is awesome to see!
Many thanks, man. I didn't immediately recognize the handle - is this Dave from Inn Cinema?
I mean Inn Cinema, and other REALLY cool things since...
Haha yes sir it is. And thanks!!
You might be proud to know that I recognized you not because I saw you up front, but right as the video started, I saw the Framus and immediately started wondering.... could it be?!
I showed this to my wife and she thought it was awesome too, she loved your work with Vicarious.
Ha! Yeah, There's only one other fiddler I've seen use that amp, and he's since gone to the Cobra profile in the Kemper because the real thing is too finicky. In fact, that amp on stage is an emergency replacement I drove to Wisconsin for, the day before I was supposed to leave for that camp in KC.
All the best to you and the fam, and huge congrats on your endeavors!
@@chuckbontrager5747 Likewise!! And yeah, I moved onto a Kemper myself. Still have that 6505+ that I modded into a whole different animal though :)
Amazing, loved it! Drummer was awsome 🤘
Thank you, Lital. And yes - Jason is the Truth.
Right!
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!
Killer performance on this epic song. RIP Cliff! 🤘🤘
Thank you, Andrew