"The average T-shirt breakdown at a Metallica concert goes something like this: 94 percent Metallica shirts, 2 percent Iron Maiden, 2 percent Black Sabbath, 1 percent Slayer, 1 percent Slipknot and .00001 percent Britney Spears/Taylor Swift. (You always have that one guy being ironic with his shirt choice.) The fact that there were far more button-ups and polos than concert T's to be seen in the Metallica crowd on Wednesday night"
"No, the hard-hitting quartet featuring vocalist-guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo had arrived to perform a massive corporate gig during Saleforce's Dreamforce conference. This Dreamfest concert, which doubled as a benefit for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, was astronomically priced, with tickets starting (!) at $1,500 a pop and then quickly moving up from there in a manner that resembled a Richter scale."
An estimated T-shirt breakdown suggested overwhelming Metallica fandom, but the crowd at Chase Center included many button-ups and polos, reflecting a corporate audience. Metallica played a massive corporate gig for Salesforce's Dreamforce conference as part of Dreamfest, which doubled as a benefit for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Tickets started at $1,500 and escalated sharply. Dreamfest historically books major acts and this edition featured Metallica and rising pop star Benson Boone performing across the street. Metallica delivered a roughly 90-minute greatest-hits set in-the-round, lined on all four sides, opening forcefully with a ferocious rendition of Creeping Death.
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