Kirk & James Perform the National Anthem (2017 Metallica Night w/ the SF Giants)
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2017
- For the fifth year in a row, James Hetfield & Kirk Hammett took to the field to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the Fifth Annual Metallica Night with the San Francisco Giants.
- Hudba
Imagine at the end of the anthem, James played the first chord into Master of Puppets
He would
And if he played it the exact same way as he did in Seattle of 89
Thanks
Absolutely not... But hilarious 😀.
lol!
Wherever he may roam, Kirk must use the wah pedal.
Tim Holmes Wherever he may wahnder, wahnder, wahnder!
@@dimitripapadinikolaus WAH WAH!!!!
In all fairness, everyone plays the anthem with wah.
Lmao it's basically a limb to him
Yeah, it's Wahnderful to see him like that
"now rise for our national anthem"
*_"MASTER, MASTER"_*
DEAD
Mastadapuppitampullinastrangs
WHERES THE DREAMS THAT IVE BEEN AFTER
@@ckeyser3231 MASTER MASTER
@@79camaro_z28 PROMISED ONLY LIES
James is thinking, “Did he HAVE to bring that f***ing wah pedal?”
It works with the song stop bitching
@@ayelmao1224 lmao it was a joke, everyone loves the wah pedal
@@ayelmao1224 nobody cares about you.
@@ayelmao1224 fuck you
@@ayelmao1224 fuck you
Only Kirk would bring a wah pedal onto a baseball field
I’m gonna do it now
Haha he always uses one 🎸
Slash did the same when he played the anthem
Worth it!
This is so true tho
James would sing:
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early lightah
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming yeaAaAah
Sounds like an enter sandman verse
That would be cool, I wouldn't mind💀
Who else read the yeahaha at the top of their lungs?
@@thewhalenorman lol
Shit made me laugh, I can see singin it just like that too.
kirk playing hard riff: *close eyes*
also kirk playing slow song: *watching his guitar like a beginner*
Well you know how embarrassing it would be to miss a note lol
Melody is much harder to get right. When you play super fast it's harder for other people to tell there was a mistake.
He also hasn't played he national anthem literally thousands of times.
@@redrick8900 muscle memory is also easier when fast, compared to a slow and careful
@@Inertia888 thats true asf, I tried showing someone a slowed down version of a fast lick I wrote and I literally could not figure it out 💀
This version makes me tear up when most other ones really are soulless and cold, this one has spirit and a regal, symphonic sound.
Right? Like I almost started tearing up😭
el poder de los armónicos y claro, son kirk y james 😁
Im still waiting for Lars coming in with a whole drum set and Rob crab walking his way behind Kirk and James
Crab walking djfcblolll
Idk why but this comment had me dying
LMFAO
For whom the crab tolls
LMAAAAAAO
wAH WahWHa WhA
wHaWHHAAa
James :
*DOWNPICKING*
All seems normal
I happened to be there that night and what's so cool is that not only did they play the anthem but everything was branded Metallica. The scoreboard was was all decked out, all the cups and the food containers, the programs, they had special sweatshirts you could buy, there was a meet and greet, everything. It was really well done and a total surprise from my wife (which made it even more special). I love these guys and have for almost 40 years.
1:26 Here master of puppets could start perfectly
>baseball
>american national anthem
>electric guitars
>Metallica
all you need now is m16's fireworks a bald eagle and some apple pie and youd have the most american scene ever in history
Really? It seems shitty mumble rap is the most American thing ever now, in the world actually its fuckin everywhere, metal is nowhere to be found
Don’t forget McDonald’s
Lmao
Jimi Hendrix!
You need comas.
Love how here they used the same bass tone from ...And Justice for All❤️
Orlando VR yeah....NONE
Mark s exactly
😂😂
Xd
Orlando VR lol!
That was probably the most beautiful guitar version of this song I've ever seen. Not over the top, great harmony, and tone. Rock on.
This is better than practically every singer nowadays.
They only played guitar though. They didn’t sing.
@@mrxyz985 I know that. I'm not that dumb. I wasn't comparing their singing to other national anthem singers when they weren't singing. I was just explaining my opinion on singers nowadays being trash and warping the national anthem while this just seems like a genuine American way to play it just like the trumpets sometimes.
This looks like an episode from idiocracy
@@nicolausteslaus?
@@ARandomInternetUser08
Guitar army. From the movie.
I liked that they kept to the traditional melody and did not go off in tangents like so many guitarists. Nice chords and harmony also. And yes, the wah was fine and complimented the tone and song.
yea I thought they did an amazing job, personally I really liked the version jimi hendrix did and at 1:27 it reminded me of the version he did
room lisn
Personally I kind of prefer the anti war Hendrix version. I'd prefer a closer to the melody version but the sounds of bombs rockets machine gun fire and death wails are a nice touch about what it truly costs to be free.
Hundo. Kirk lays the normal song, James weaving in and out masterfully.
If Kirk didn’t have the wah then he would have been shot
National Wahnthem lyrics:
Wah wah wah wah wah
Wah wah wah wah wah
Wah wah wah wah wah
Wah wah wah wah wah
Wah x4
wahmet
Renzo Thrash YES
I was dead when I saw the pedal on the floor.... Wah is not bad but no wah is also not bad he should try it sometime
Yeah
Kill x36
Honestly one of the best renditions I've heard, james' harmony and chord choices were extremely tasteful. And must've been hard for kirk to restrain from shredding, but they nailed it
Bro you need to hear this from Cliff Burton.Just Epic.
These guys are top notch. Beautiful blend of harmony and crunch and still respectful to the original song. Two of of my favorite guitar players
best lars perfomance since ajfa
Lmao
bass sounds exactly the same here too!!
true.
Seems Jasons role hasn't changed though.......
Agreed
"Introducing James Hetfield and Kirk Wahmmett"
Noah Dittenber More like James Yeahtfield and Kirk Wahmmet
Noah Dittenber cause he always uses a whammy bar
James & Kirk playing the national Wahnthem
Noah Dittenber wait omg they’re on a field wtf
Zachary Abramis *wah petal
I’m not even American and that anthem give me chills especially on guitar.
Kirk: I feel so honored man.
James: damn right, well, you forgot to take off your cap.
I knew i wasnt the only one that noticed XD
Gotta hide that bald spot lolz
@@SlimSlashie hahahaha
It's interesting that a thrash metal band somehow managed to play this with more stylistic restraint than most singers sing it.
I don't know how but that's impressive.
Its called talent
@@Elitetiger27 Congrats on missing the point.
@@Elitetiger27 Ok, thanks for the semantics lesson :P
Thrash*
Who's kirks favorite Nintendo character?
Wahluigi haha
Wahrio*
Teerkez gay
he even kinda looks like Wahluigi
I'm crying 😂
Are u the joker?
the harmonization…IT’S AMAZING!!
James' part is so good. Love the harmonies he did w the chords, so sick
a metal rock band playing the national anthem on electric guitars at a baseball game may be the most American thing ever
a pickup truck would make the scene even more American
And a bald eagle
and a m16, m4a1 carbine, and a m1911.
And some guy rolling up in a semi full of beer.
And a dodge challenger doing a burnout in the background
WAHt an Performance
GuitarFreak ahhhh I see WAHt u did there 😂👌🏼
James Talaro WAHt are you talking about?
GuitarFreak I love you and hate you at the same time
Lololol
😂😂😂
Got chills like crazy!! Sounded so good
Some great Americans! Love it! I’m a retired veteran of the greatest Navy the world has ever seen. This makes my skin stand at attention!!
Everyone who's complaining about Kirk using a wah pedal for the national anthem should look up this guy called Jimi Hendrix, who did exactly the same. Plus, it sounds good.
but he also did it better
They're not complaining, they're memeing.
Couldn’t have said it better. People hang shit on Kirk for his wah just like people hang shit on Lars’s drumming. 🙄 seriously getting old.
yep and Satriani
Did he do at a fucking baseball game, unironically, though? Or was it to protest the Vietnam war?
Yeah, shut up then. Nowhere near "exactly the same."
ARE YOU ALIVE SAN FRANCISCO?
OH SAY-AHHHH CAN YOU SEEEE-OOOOOH YEAH
BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT-AHHH
HundredJono bro wtf😂🤣🤣🤣
I can hear this
*HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ALIIIIVE?*
Gives me goosebumps everyone I hear this version !
James my son learned how to play because he looked up to you, we all did. Been trying to get a message through for years. Y'all rock.
It’s badass. What Hetfield is doing underneath, with those passing chords and harmonies, I just love that. That’s the Hetfield epicness.
Metallica: "Yeah we could play without bass line. We could play without drum. We could play without pedal boards...But we can't play without Wah."
Kirk*
James and Kirk: Starts playing the national anthem
Kirk half way through: *Master of Puppets solo*
Why would anyone dislike such a masterpiece
Short video, I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 if only they played a few minutes longer. I loved it
First time i saw kirk Hammett look down at his guitar
We all do it. There is no place in this song to get away with a mistake
Exactly not a song you want to goof up on.
Just shows how musicians respect the anthem. Everything must be perfect. 🙏🏽👍🏽♥️🤟🏽
@@runplatypus fast forward most don't give a shit.
☆☆☆we need a super bowl with METALLICA !!☆☆☆
They need to perform this at a NASCAR race
Leo Ortiz yeah right, as if people would stop having shitshows like Bruno Mars
Iron maiden would be cool.
Makes me wonder why they haven't been in a half time show yet
Agreed! 👍
These guys are absolutely classy! Notice how they stayed true to the heart of the composition? WELL DONE GUYS!!!
Beautiful, one of the most tasteful and beautiful versions I've heard on guitar!
1988: no bass
2017: no bass AND drum
2025: no
2030:
.
:
1988: No bass
2017: No bass, Drum and vocal
Most American thing I've seen today
Usually American things that happen are bad, thankfully Metallica isn't one of them.
Harrison Bowman nah bro u just hatin on MERICA "we dah best"!!!
THATS WHAT I SAID
Harrison Bowman Oh, you're thinking of California. That place is a shithole.
Your goddamn it is! AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
Where have I been!! Another BEAUTIFUL performance by some very talented artists!! Wow!!😮,Vic.
Excellent I absolutely loved it thank you guys!!!
I would’ve shit myself if at the end they started playing smoke on the water
Simeon Clark dude your comment made my night
Best comments I've read in years😂😂😂 thank you man
Why
I don’t think they know how to bruh, that’s a difficult song
@@foo4508 I dont think that 55 33 55 is anything hard bruh
1:35 james envy kirk to have a wah so he mimes it 😂😂
keeping time
Tapping foot to keep time
Basno Basno i didnt notice that 😂
It’s actually a common trick for musicians to keep time.
Hahaha
The way they start playing in together perfectly gives me goose bumps!
I play this every day. Everyone should.
I love this song. 🇺🇸 Thank you veterans.
Look at kirk struggling to play a slow song
I get him. Imagine if he played a wrong note. It would be awkward as fuck.
@@vip1691 lol true..playing a wrong note for this kind of performance is way less forgiving than a typical solo
You go up there and do it then mate show us how better you can do it than Kirk
@@Goose21 it wasn't a hate comment. It was a joke indicating that he can play really fast
Ognjen Filipovic my bad cuh
Wow, James harmony leads and chords are spot on! This was a great guitar duet!!
He is one the very best rythm guitar players ever. Hes always had a great sense of harmony. This is also a pretty easy song to do this with.
@@juicycantona350 I definitely agree!
yeah that's called learning the song
@@juicycantona350 lol one of the best...
@@Enchmac you’re an idiot
Proud to be an American, this just gave me cold chills 😢
This is THE BEST version form or composition of this that I've ever heard, I often come back just to listen to it 🇺🇲
_"name a more iconic duo... I'll wait"_
Hetfield and Alcoholism
Bass and And Justice For All. Oh wait, nevermind
Germany and Italy
KK downing and Glenn Tipton
Ozzy and randy Rhoads
Me & Yo Mama
1:43 I love that noise kirk makes with it
I think James plays a power chord and Kirk plays a note for that chord called 5th . That 9th played from Kirk adds and armony sound to the chord that`s James. Really sounds great!!!!
W a h
Wah power babeh
Respectfully done. Great job.
I’d come to the baseball game just to see them do this tbh 😂
This is what the founding father intended
Yup, 2 musicians that wouldn't be born for centuries playing a song that hadn't been written on instruments that hadn't been invented yet. Exactly what they had in mind
@@juicycantona350 essa joke. Ya up tight spaget eatin fuk
ah yes, the singular founding father
Murricaaa
@@malakai.2025
I thought the same thing lol, I’m in AP Gov
1:05 James’
foot imitating Kirk
*joke btw*
Dibe L he’s keeping time doing that
You can tell who's a non-musician by reading these comments 😂😂🤘
HAPPY FORTH OF JULY YALL 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Goosebumps every time!
Hetfield: I was born for this.
Hammett: I'm dying plz halp
This cracked me up. I was thinking the same thing. The look on Kirk's face...
James: Kirk you don't need the wah!
Kirk: Why not?
James we are playing the national anthem for god's sake!!!!
Kirk: i still don't see a reason not to use it
Kirk: No James, it's the national wahnthem!
@@RafaelAmbrosio Underrated comment.
I read it with his voices in my head : )
plus the pedal lol thats wah overload
Kirk: Wah not?
The best National Anthem by guitar I've ever heard.
Metallica in 1989: fuck that justice system bruh
Metallica Now: AL RISE FOR THE UNITED STATES ANTHEM
You can love your country without loving your government
Every American is a patriotic, that explain how The nation is strong until this days
DON’T TREAD ON ME
wah em all
ride the wah
master of wah
... and justice for wah
black wah
wah
re wah
st wah
wah magnetic
hardwah to self wah
Papa Emeritus IV come on people now this is a called a true Kirk joke...needs more like..good job dude..
Papa Emeritus IV hey papa when are you releasing the next album??
actually "black wah" is called WAHtallica
Papa Emeritus IV Wherever I May Wah
Wah is an impression we malaysian do when we are impressed
Imagine if they started playing Don’t Tread on Me after
*Triggered news outlets*
@@Guy.B lol. CNN especially.
@@Guy.B how would they be triggered exactly?
Followed by "One"
Favorite rendition of the national anthem ever.
These guys have mastered harmony
I'm Finnish but still get goose bumps listening to this :)
Love the performance. I feel like half American now :D
Sama fiilis tulee itellekki :D
Ai kato suomalaisia Metallica faneja
Kiva nähdä muitakin suomalaisia vaikka olen iron maiden fani enkä metallica
T O R I L L E
We will accept you to be an honorary American on the terms that you drink 12 Budweiser’s
They look like two 17 year olds at their high school talent show 😂😂😂😂
Minus the grey hair🤣🤣🤣🤣
And they sound like some boys from elementary school competition.
OMG. Stop with the bad attacks!
Lars is missing thats why 😄
@@zockerhdgarantiert but lars is shit
Kirk looks like he's wearing pajama pants
this has gotta be one of the coolest videos out there
In some way this situation is even more scary than a standard live show. Easy notes played slowly, one by one, with nothing that can mask your mistake. If you lose your attention, you will end in a horrible situation
1:19 That sound, omg😎
Inverted fifths \m/
Ikr
It's basically a power chord but with an added octave for the 5th below the root. The fingering is the same as a power chord starting on the A string, just also put your index finger over the low E. It's a neat way to make your power chords nastier.
Stacked fifths are something else
That's seriously one of the best versions I've ever heard live of the National Anthem.
James: we’re going to play the national
Kirk: wah
James: anthem at a
Kirk: wah wah
James: baseball
Kirk: wah
James: game
Kirk: WAH
James: *sighs* fine, you can bring the wah
Kirk: waaaaaaaah ok let’s go
Powerful! Thanks Guys!!!!
You two, are the best!
Hell yeah!!
Awesome thanks Jamez and The Ripper!!!
Oscar Chavez the best? Damn...
Pablo Friedman Well, Thats my opinion
Oscar Chavez U need to listen to Michael Amott n' Christopher Amott or Marty Friedman and Jason Becker
Imagine at the end James just screams a distant "YEAAAHH"
That was so refreshing after hearing all the people who sing it
Best thing I’ve heard in a while
Kirk+wah forever
This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard
@Daniel P i see WAH you did there
I love this country, I love this song, and I love metallica!
That sounded stupendously nice!
Doesn't get more American than Metallica playing the Star Spangled Banner 🇺🇸
+a wee school shooting
Nothing more American than that band started by a Danish guy
All they need is some beer
They ran away from there country like pussies, shame on them. They call themselves Americans and run because they dont like who got elected in our republic
Christian Rosa It does though. I eat, drink, breathe, and live freedom everyday without the need for the national anthem or anything Uncle Sam type stuff. Being gung ho about the national anthem and flying American flags around doesn't make anyone more American than me. I don't even connotate the country with any of that stuff really. I represent the actual physical country we live in, and believe in true freedom to an extent that most Americans couldn't comprehend. I'm American enough to be able to be honest when our government is overstepping it's boundaries and is corrupt. I don't pretend that everything this country does militarily is the right thing either. I'll call a spade out when it's a spade. I don't hate any troops for fighting a war that isn't about freedom, ad I can't hate on anyone who believes they are actually killing people to defend their countries freedom. They're still out there experiencing hell, risking their lives in a war zone, it's just they've been deceived as to the reasons why they are there. Let's be honest here, the country has some serious work it needs to fix in order for us to be able to say this country is as great and as free as people make it out to be. Because I would love for our country to be as free as people claim it to be, I just understand that it isn't the case. Lying to yourself and other about the state of the country doesn't make you more American
James: Lets Go Kirk...
Kirk: ok, will be funny, just let me take my wah-wah...
I would listen to this version so much more.
Just listened to this while watching fire works on the 4th of July and it was amazing
Simple. Clean. Respectful.
Great jobs guys.
Wah
Wah
Yeah
For being a "heavy" version of the National Anthem it's damn tasteful, thumbs up.
It’s about that time of year again. 🇺🇸 💥
Now THAT is how it should be played! Bravo! 👏 👏 👏 👏
I think it's awesome that they play the anthem. They're a favorite band of mine and I am grateful they took the time. Well done!
I love Metallica. Hearing them play the national anthem makes me love them even more.
Very cool rendition without straying away from basics. The way the extended the ending piece was very tasteful. Good job overall
Of all the celeb guitarists playing the Natinal Anthem, Their humble yet very clever two guitars arrangement is my favorite.