Look at it this way: Imagine you have like tiny little bit of stagefright :| could you imagine the amount of poop in your pants seing a never ending sea of humans stretch into the horizon....
If I recall correctly, this was one of the first concerts in Russia after that fall of the Soviet Union. In other words, it was one. Of the first time western bands got to play after the dictatorship fell. Needless to say , there were millions of people in need of some heavy metal
@@brittreacts it sure was there is conflicting reports on the actual number because there was no gate for this people just showed up but like you said it was a big deal at the time i love the fact the crowd knows the music even though it was previously illegal showing you the power of bootleg "western" music in their country witch im sure would have been extremely severe consequences if caught with it
It was just before the Soviet fall, an effort to allow a little Western stuff in for those other than the Party elite and hold power a bit longer. It was a kind of Monsters of Metal, Metallica being 1 of 4 bands to play. The helicopters flying back and forth were trying to stir up the air as there was worry the people in the middle would not get enough oxygen - there were several deaths reported, in fact, but none officially chalked up to asphyxiation.
After they run the tickets out, the rest of people that show-up got in for free, at this rock/metal monster concert not just Metallica played also AC/DC, Black Panther & The Crows among other.. 54 people were reported death (not sure how many injuries), helicopters were trying to cool the heat from so many fans & people side by side, imagine you are in the middle of such crowd and need to go to toilet.. the army soldiers were overwhelmed and eventually as we seen on the clip some of them took of caskets & clothes to flag them above the crowd.. But this is only the 5 or 6 position of biggest live concerts, the biggest was Rod Stewart who was performing to a 4,6 millions of people and 2,3 & 4 positions Jean Michele Jare live concerts..
In September 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 1.6 million rock music fans converged in Moscow to enjoy the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series.
The studio version would make for a better listen to fully get and appreciate the song itself, but this performance needs to be seen for the sheer energy and historical significance.
That concert actually registered on the worldwide Richter scale... highest recording was 1.3 ... picked up by the European and Japanese scientists! Forgot what song it was... you can find it on the internet!
No way! A thunderbirds flyby at low altitude would blank out all the concert noise! That being the case, the Richter scale would be going off all the time. Anyway, the Richter scale measures earthquakes (earthly vibrations) with hundreds of millions of tons of pressure sending vibrations significantly more powerful than a stage full of speakers creating a meager 126 decibels!
I am probably double Britt's age, I love watching her videos when she watches something from the 70's when I was a kid. I just see the world expanding experience she is getting by watch some of these older videos.
This concert was the monsters of rock. The first concert after the fall of the Soviet Union, and it was free. 1.6 million people. 50+ deaths were said to have happened during the concert which I would say is a shame, but there were no reasons said as to what those deaths were from. Either way, to see a crowd that big, just amazes everyone.
@@roverwaters3875 yes it was there was people from the government counting the people in attendance and come up with the numbers of between 1 million and 1.7 million
That black kite shaped guitar the lead singer is using is his trademark guitar. He has it in cream/white and silver I think aswell. Info on this concert. 1.6million people, 53 people died. This was set at the Russian Airfield, they used helicopters overhead to create draft for all the people, as you imagine the heat 1.6million people would create. This was a gift to the people by the government this concert, right after the Iron Curtain came down on USSR /the Soviet union. In reality, western music wasn't allowed to be listened to, if you were caught with any you'd be hung, shot or jailed for it. Very intensely strict regime. Most hadn't seen or heard of western or other music apart from classical before this. The soldiers are the soldiers from the regime, who were there to crowd control, but most were like "no way, were with them and gonna enjoy ourselves."
Written by band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, "Enter Sandman" is about nightmares and things that go "bump" in the night. It has by far the most radio play of all of Metallica's songs. >>
Supposed to be the first open-air rock concert to register on the Richter Scale. Not because they (may) have outdone 'The Who' Guinnes Book of World Records at 126 decibels. Apparently they just stopped counting at 1.6 million said "Nyet" and just opened the gates. So, ~2 million people, all jumping, is 150,000 tons. That's roughly one thousand blue whales. (Cue Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy references "Ground, wonder if it will be friends with me..")
The two largest concerts I've been to...both had 350k at each. Looking at the crowd at this 1991 MOR in Moscow looks to easily be more than 1 million. I saw Metallica in a small club with a capacity of 200 to 300 in SF, in early '83...I bought their first album later that year. Those were good times.
Totally insane concert, hard to imagine 1.6 million people coming to that airfield, no real utilities or structures to receive them, before it stared many slept on the floor and relieved themselves on the grass, but they just didn't care, they wanted the taste of freedom.
The intro (background) music being played at the concert, I'm almost sure, is "The Ecstacy of Gold," by Ennio Morricone, which was featured in the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. BTW, Britt, if you have not see that movie, you should. Anyhow, yeah, this is a bad ass song by Metalica. Welcome to metal / hard rock. PS: supposedly, there were 1.6 million people in attendance!
Yes 1st concert just months of the fall of Soviet Union, Moscow 1991. Yes a massive crowd. One of the largest concert to take place ever. 1.6 million people there. This is one of my favorite Heavy Metal Bands. 80's I saw them. I believe the bassist is the second one. The 1st died I believe 1986.
Officially 1.5 million people was on that concert. But real number was between 1.7 - 2.1 million. And that includes Ambulance, Fire department, Police, Army and volunteers. That was and still is the biggest concert ever.
Metallica live is always Hetfield struggling to be heard over the crowd. It is great for the energy, but studio recordings show their refinement better
Fun fact is there are rules to a mosh pit. Now another fun fact every tower you see in the video is a audio tower filled with speakers. I don't remember the square miles this covered but it was insane
If I remember correctly, this was the monsters of rock concert that happened just after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was the first concert where bands from outside of the country were allowed to play. This concert was in the top 5 largest concerts in the world, coming in at 2.6 million people. The military had to bring their choppers in and hover over the people to stop them from getting heat stroke. There were over 50 people that died at that concert from heat stroke, or being trampled. James Hatfield the lead vocalist for Metallica said that the energy there was like getting struck by a lightning bolt.
This was free and the only place large enough was a military airfield. Those military helicopters flying overhead were armed and were there to protect the stage and would have fired on the crowd if they got out of hand. This was a truly historic event (this video is in the Library of Congress) as this was the end of the Cold War (Berlin Wall had just been torn down 2 years earlier) the end of the Soviet Union and this was the 1st time western bands were allowed to play in the USSR. They say there were 1.6 million people - but they don't mention they stopped counting at 1.6 million. During the next song Creeping Death that entire crowd jumped simultaneously yelling Die! Die! Die! to the USSR (and they meant it!) and set off seismometers miles away!
You'd be surprised how non violent a metal concert can be. Yes the mosh pit is rough and sometimes way over the top but otherwise it's just all us Metal Heads rocking out and having a blast 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This part of the Monsters of Rock shows where many more acts took to that stage. In 1991 it was around the time that the Soviet Union was collapsing so the people of the Soviet Union (now Russia) of course were out in force to greet their music heroes over 1.5 million at a disused airfield. Can you just imagine being there?!!
I’m 52 years old, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that footage that I can remember. That was incredible, watching that many people come together, in another country, to rock out. That was huge energy.
I absolutely LOVE watching you react to some of the best music in it's class spanning so many decades. Everything from Elvis to Cash, - Vedder to Santana, Clapton to GnR and everything in between. In answer to your question, yes - this is considered Heavy Metal (aka Head Banger music :). Some of the best! Thank you for sharing your joy in discovering this music with the rest of the world.
metallica is a rabbit hole to go into ... my favourite song is the version of creeping death done at that concert.. having 1.6 million russians yelling "die die die" is insane... but really .. a lot of their early works pre-90s are great. some stuff later is good, but different. their 80's stuff was on another level.
Supposedly the helicopters flying over were used as giant fans to help keep people from heat stroking. Also did you notice the towers in the distance? They were speaker towers that had to be set up with a delay because the sound would get so distorted at those distances. I went to many general admission concerts in the late 80's through when they went to all reserved seating. General admission concerts were awesome
You might check out Metallica's S&M album. Which actually stands for Symphony & Metal. The band was joined by the San Francisco Symphony - and no, Metallica did not go unplugged. If you like the driving bass drum intro for Enter Sandman, you will love hearing the bass drum kick joined by timpani, kettledrums. When they did this live, orchestra members were scared half to death by the waiting crowd roaring at them - not the reaction their regular audiences give them. The joint collaboration was the idea of the symphony conductor, who wrote the music for how his people would join into Metallica's songs.
For some fun watches, check out the Enter Sandman entrances at Virginia Tech games - or even better, the time the played at the end of the Miami game, and the ESPN guys got to watch the crowd go NUTS.
The "Giants of Rock" tour just after the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. Day long concert, with several bands, and ONE POINT SIX MILLION PEOPLE. Those military people in the crowd were NOT security, they were there to give water bottles. Those helicopters were NOT security, they flew over the crowd to push fresh air down. Still the biggest live concert EVER.
Thisssss well, go down in history as one of the greatest performances AC/DC was there if you've never check them out and check them out live at River plate💜💜
As mentioned before, this was a rare concert, though I have seen them a few times with 150k ppl, this was huge. It may seem dangerous, but us rockers do have a code to help each other. Bring on Download !!
This concert was amazing; they were playing in Moscow, the first time a group of western bands had been allowed to play in the former Soviet Union (this is why you see the soldiers and the helicopters, the authorities still believed that this would taint their population with 'western influence'.) The fact that some of the troops placed there to keep the crowd cowed and under control were also just vibing with the music shows how much western soft power (good music, jeans, freedom in general) had to do with the end of the Cold War going our way. (I know this stuff first hand, while this show was happening I was stationed in Korea facing off the North, who still haven't given up on the Cold War).
The biggest crowd I've been in was like 110,000 in over 100 degree heat at Ozzfest and it was insane. They had firehoses spraying into the crowd and security handing out water bottles. I can't even imagine a crowd that size!
There was a couple in Russia that did an interview last week on the news. They were the last people out of the gates and had just gotten home from the concert and couldn't believe to hear that the bass player quit the band and they had a new bassist.
A quick search provided a bit of info. "Organizers estimated that the festival actually drew an audience of more than 700,000 people. To oversee the event, there were 11,000 soldiers, police officers, hired security guards, and riot police." "According to Moscow City Police records, 51 individuals were hospitalized during the festival, 49 were detained for disturbing the peace, and about 100 were sent to the drunk tank. Exact figures on the total number of injuries at the concert are not available."
1.6 million, saw this tour in America, Black album and saw And Justice For All tour before that and Master of Puppets tour before that, lol, I was an 80s kid and grew up in the best decade for music of all time!
This concert was less then 6 months before the fall of the Soviet Union and it was a free show that the promoters had to hire the Soviet Red Army to put the stage together and do security
I've seen Metallica live 4 times in my life. The first time I was 15 years old I think. It is indeed a very intense experience even if there isn't a million people there (biggest one I was at was about 60.000 from what I have heard).
The tower in the middle is speakers and the helicopter is misting the crowd and I’ve heard around 52 people died from the heat of the crowd,drugs and being trampled.
Yes, I remember that gig, which was a big deal in Moscow. I was a freshman student at the time. A couple of guys from my group in the university were at the gig and told legends. I remembered that some people were throwing empty bear bottles (made of glass) in the crowd, and this was dangerous. And the police (militsia) acted quite toughly.
Can you just imagine if you had to go to the bathroom in that crowd? You wouldn't get far, you'd either hold it or you'd go in your pants right where you stand 😭
Its that level of energy that gets generated from the crowds as a collective that scares the powers that be....this is why they worked to stop these types of concerts from happening. Its a reminder of how powerful ancient people were as societies before the current manipulations we see now. Music caught them off-guard now they have worked overtime to dumb it back down with smaller crowds.
Legend has it, people are still leaving this concert 32 years later.
Rock n roll man. Is it over...
That was humorous about 30 years ago...
Look at it this way: Imagine you have like tiny little bit of stagefright :| could you imagine the amount of poop in your pants seing a never ending sea of humans stretch into the horizon....
Parking is a bitch...
🤘
Some of them are just arrived to this concert
If I recall correctly, this was one of the first concerts in Russia after that fall of the Soviet Union. In other words, it was one. Of the first time western bands got to play after the dictatorship fell. Needless to say , there were millions of people in need of some heavy metal
Oh wow!!!! Thanks for that history lesson. That’s a big deal!
@@brittreacts it sure was there is conflicting reports on the actual number because there was no gate for this people just showed up but like you said it was a big deal at the time i love the fact the crowd knows the music even though it was previously illegal showing you the power of bootleg "western" music in their country witch im sure would have been extremely severe consequences if caught with it
well, technical it was First'n'Last Metallica's concert in the USSR ( Scorpions are the most first western metal band in tne USSR)
firsy concert evere. Was there
It was just before the Soviet fall, an effort to allow a little Western stuff in for those other than the Party elite and hold power a bit longer. It was a kind of Monsters of Metal, Metallica being 1 of 4 bands to play.
The helicopters flying back and forth were trying to stir up the air as there was worry the people in the middle would not get enough oxygen - there were several deaths reported, in fact, but none officially chalked up to asphyxiation.
Just imagine 1.6 million people all singing and cheering at the same time....the power would vibrate your bones!!!
After they run the tickets out, the rest of people that show-up got in for free, at this rock/metal monster concert not just Metallica played also AC/DC, Black Panther & The Crows among other.. 54 people were reported death (not sure how many injuries), helicopters were trying to cool the heat from so many fans & people side by side, imagine you are in the middle of such crowd and need to go to toilet.. the army soldiers were overwhelmed and eventually as we seen on the clip some of them took of caskets & clothes to flag them above the crowd..
But this is only the 5 or 6 position of biggest live concerts, the biggest was Rod Stewart who was performing to a 4,6 millions of people and 2,3 & 4 positions Jean Michele Jare live concerts..
This wasn't just a concert. It was an event that helped reshape the world.
Until Trump screwed us in 2016
The young people of Russia are the same as in the U.S. It's the government's that separate us.
In September 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 1.6 million rock music fans converged in Moscow to enjoy the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series.
The studio version would make for a better listen to fully get and appreciate the song itself, but this performance needs to be seen for the sheer energy and historical significance.
That concert actually registered on the worldwide Richter scale... highest recording was 1.3 ... picked up by the European and Japanese scientists!
Forgot what song it was... you can find it on the internet!
Yeah, no.
No way! A thunderbirds flyby at low altitude would blank out all the concert noise! That being the case, the Richter scale would be going off all the time. Anyway, the Richter scale measures earthquakes (earthly vibrations) with hundreds of millions of tons of pressure sending vibrations significantly more powerful than a stage full of speakers creating a meager 126 decibels!
I think it's more about 1.6 million people jumping up and down at the same time than speakers creating decibels@@lantose
I am probably double Britt's age, I love watching her videos when she watches something from the 70's when I was a kid. I just see the world expanding experience she is getting by watch some of these older videos.
This concert was the monsters of rock. The first concert after the fall of the Soviet Union, and it was free. 1.6 million people. 50+ deaths were said to have happened during the concert which I would say is a shame, but there were no reasons said as to what those deaths were from. Either way, to see a crowd that big, just amazes everyone.
1.6 million is a folktale invented on the internet
there is no evidence there were 1,6 million people when Metallica played
They suck…metal is garbage! Just like rap!
@@roverwaters3875 yes it was there was people from the government counting the people in attendance and come up with the numbers of between 1 million and 1.7 million
@@SIR-DanielHunter no
@@roverwaters3875xcept for the video of the crowd and official count of people entering
So much hope at the time, everything would change... 30 years later back at where we started
That black kite shaped guitar the lead singer is using is his trademark guitar. He has it in cream/white and silver I think aswell. Info on this concert. 1.6million people, 53 people died. This was set at the Russian Airfield, they used helicopters overhead to create draft for all the people, as you imagine the heat 1.6million people would create. This was a gift to the people by the government this concert, right after the Iron Curtain came down on USSR /the Soviet union. In reality, western music wasn't allowed to be listened to, if you were caught with any you'd be hung, shot or jailed for it. Very intensely strict regime. Most hadn't seen or heard of western or other music apart from classical before this. The soldiers are the soldiers from the regime, who were there to crowd control, but most were like "no way, were with them and gonna enjoy ourselves."
What are you talking about? the iron curtain came down in 89, not 91. and youtube is full of soviet rock and pop music from the 80s.
53 people injured, not dead
@Emiliano Sintarias western music meaning not from Russia. Meaning American music.
Written by band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, "Enter Sandman" is about nightmares and things that go "bump" in the night. It has by far the most radio play of all of Metallica's songs. >>
Plagiarism at its finest lol
@@markbailey3225 huh?
@@christopherallen9580 not sure what you mean Chris
@Mark Bailey they never pledgerlized anything. Take your hate elsewhere.
Jason Newsted!!! Hello.. He may have been a mistreated hired gun but was in the band too! He is and was a total Badass!!
All Metallica concerts used to be like this. I went to 3 of them. They were fun and you definitely felt them in your head 3 days after!
The guitar is a custom 1988 ESP MX220, aka “Fuk Em Up” not a flying v but he does own and plays flying v.
They could have literary told that crowd to do anything and they would have done it. That is insane paower!
can you imagine how cool it must feel to play a crowd like that? it was a great time in
those days.
1.6 MILLION people! Biggest concert ever.
Supposed to be the first open-air rock concert to register on the Richter Scale.
Not because they (may) have outdone 'The Who' Guinnes Book of World Records at 126 decibels.
Apparently they just stopped counting at 1.6 million said "Nyet" and just opened the gates. So, ~2 million people, all jumping, is 150,000 tons.
That's roughly one thousand blue whales. (Cue Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy references "Ground, wonder if it will be friends with me..")
The two largest concerts I've been to...both had 350k at each. Looking at the crowd at this 1991 MOR in Moscow looks to easily be more than 1 million. I saw Metallica in a small club with a capacity of 200 to 300 in SF, in early '83...I bought their first album later that year. Those were good times.
Imagine being on stage and having the energy of this crowd hit you when you come out to play.
Do “Creeping Death” from the same concert 🔥🔥…it will blow you away 🔥🔥🤘🤘
That was EPIC
Totally insane concert, hard to imagine 1.6 million people coming to that airfield, no real utilities or structures to receive them, before it stared many slept on the floor and relieved themselves on the grass, but they just didn't care, they wanted the taste of freedom.
Over 1,000,000 at that concert that was right after the Berlin Wall came down those people had just gotten there freedom
The intro (background) music being played at the concert, I'm almost sure, is "The Ecstacy of Gold," by Ennio Morricone, which was featured in the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. BTW, Britt, if you have not see that movie, you should. Anyhow, yeah, this is a bad ass song by Metalica. Welcome to metal / hard rock. PS: supposedly, there were 1.6 million people in attendance!
This is basically the birth of what most people consider metal or rock music now. But they are THE metal band of their area
There were 1.6 Million People At that concert!!
Your eyes upon seeing Jason Newsted the bass player flinging his hair around😂. He was a beast😊
Organized chaos!! Love it!!!! 😃
Yes 1st concert just months of the fall of Soviet Union, Moscow 1991. Yes a massive crowd. One of the largest concert to take place ever. 1.6 million people there. This is one of my favorite Heavy Metal Bands. 80's I saw them. I believe the bassist is the second one. The 1st died I believe 1986.
Officially 1.5 million people was on that concert. But real number was between 1.7 - 2.1 million. And that includes Ambulance, Fire department, Police, Army and volunteers. That was and still is the biggest concert ever.
Jean-Michel Jarre would like a word with you about that!
Yes thats exactly what it is heavy metal hard rock
Brings me back to elementary school, I was in 1st grade at the time
Can you imagine the love at this level
You MUST listen to this masterpiece recorded. I don’t think you can really hear it here. Yes, this is heavy metal.
Metallica live is always Hetfield struggling to be heard over the crowd.
It is great for the energy, but studio recordings show their refinement better
If I remember correctly there were 1.6 million people in attendance!
Estimated 1.6 million people. This was the Monsters of Rock concert, a free concert after the fall of the Soviet Union
Fun fact is there are rules to a mosh pit. Now another fun fact every tower you see in the video is a audio tower filled with speakers. I don't remember the square miles this covered but it was insane
you are correct... there were more than a million people in attendance
Is this a Guinness book record for the biggest crowd at one time? It has to be I'm thinking 😮
Yes
That is heavy Metal 🔥🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼
Music is one thing that breaks barriers. The wall had just fallen, western music was forbidden in the USSR, this was a big fd. 🤘
If I remember correctly, this was the monsters of rock concert that happened just after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was the first concert where bands from outside of the country were allowed to play. This concert was in the top 5 largest concerts in the world, coming in at 2.6 million people. The military had to bring their choppers in and hover over the people to stop them from getting heat stroke. There were over 50 people that died at that concert from heat stroke, or being trampled. James Hatfield the lead vocalist for Metallica said that the energy there was like getting struck by a lightning bolt.
You can't imagine living it but I guarantee if you were there you would NEVER forget it... Thanks for sharing!!!!!
Correction...they said 1.6m but in reality they said it was well over 2m.
😲😲😲😲
Monsters of Rock festival in Moscow. 1991. First western music show after the fall of the Soviet Union. 1.5 million people.
♥ I was in the front row. I got home yesterday.
😂😂😂😂😂
This was free and the only place large enough was a military airfield. Those military helicopters flying overhead were armed and were there to protect the stage and would have fired on the crowd if they got out of hand. This was a truly historic event (this video is in the Library of Congress) as this was the end of the Cold War (Berlin Wall had just been torn down 2 years earlier) the end of the Soviet Union and this was the 1st time western bands were allowed to play in the USSR. They say there were 1.6 million people - but they don't mention they stopped counting at 1.6 million. During the next song Creeping Death that entire crowd jumped simultaneously yelling Die! Die! Die! to the USSR (and they meant it!) and set off seismometers miles away!
You'd be surprised how non violent a metal concert can be. Yes the mosh pit is rough and sometimes way over the top but otherwise it's just all us Metal Heads rocking out and having a blast 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This part of the Monsters of Rock shows where many more acts took to that stage. In 1991 it was around the time that the Soviet Union was collapsing so the people of the Soviet Union (now Russia) of course were out in force to greet their music heroes over 1.5 million at a disused airfield. Can you just imagine being there?!!
I’m 52 years old, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that footage that I can remember. That was incredible, watching that many people come together, in another country, to rock out. That was huge energy.
I absolutely LOVE watching you react to some of the best music in it's class spanning so many decades. Everything from Elvis to Cash, - Vedder to Santana, Clapton to GnR and everything in between. In answer to your question, yes - this is considered Heavy Metal (aka Head Banger music :). Some of the best! Thank you for sharing your joy in discovering this music with the rest of the world.
The bass player for RHCP would whip his hair back in the day.
Gotta check out the band - Jinjer, song - Pisces 🤘
metallica is a rabbit hole to go into ... my favourite song is the version of creeping death done at that concert.. having 1.6 million russians yelling "die die die" is insane... but really .. a lot of their early works pre-90s are great. some stuff later is good, but different. their 80's stuff was on another level.
This was Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, 1991: 1.6 million the second largest concert 1991. The largest is Jean Michel Jarre, Moscow, 1997: 3.5 million
Supposedly the helicopters flying over were used as giant fans to help keep people from heat stroking.
Also did you notice the towers in the distance? They were speaker towers that had to be set up with a delay because the sound would get so distorted at those distances.
I went to many general admission concerts in the late 80's through when they went to all reserved seating. General admission concerts were awesome
"Before we get started..." Yeah, that's an awesome moment to totally kill the build-up of the same.
You might check out Metallica's S&M album. Which actually stands for Symphony & Metal. The band was joined by the San Francisco Symphony - and no, Metallica did not go unplugged. If you like the driving bass drum intro for Enter Sandman, you will love hearing the bass drum kick joined by timpani, kettledrums. When they did this live, orchestra members were scared half to death by the waiting crowd roaring at them - not the reaction their regular audiences give them. The joint collaboration was the idea of the symphony conductor, who wrote the music for how his people would join into Metallica's songs.
It was panned by most metalhead but I loved S&😊M. Forget "unplugged" the orchestra turned the power up not down
For some fun watches, check out the Enter Sandman entrances at Virginia Tech games - or even better, the time the played at the end of the Miami game, and the ESPN guys got to watch the crowd go NUTS.
PANTERA "Domination" from the same show is legendary
The "Giants of Rock" tour just after the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. Day long concert, with several bands, and ONE POINT SIX MILLION PEOPLE.
Those military people in the crowd were NOT security, they were there to give water bottles.
Those helicopters were NOT security, they flew over the crowd to push fresh air down.
Still the biggest live concert EVER.
I went to the concert when this album was released in March 1992 Thompson bowling Arena Knoxville, TN it was a great concert
Thisssss well, go down in history as one of the greatest performances AC/DC was there if you've never check them out and check them out live at River plate💜💜
Legend has it that people are still leaving this concert. ;)
Welcome to the world of metal. This is the real definition of ROCK STARS
As mentioned before, this was a rare concert, though I have seen them a few times with 150k ppl, this was huge. It may seem dangerous, but us rockers do have a code to help each other. Bring on Download !!
Some of the heaviest medal
This concert was amazing; they were playing in Moscow, the first time a group of western bands had been allowed to play in the former Soviet Union (this is why you see the soldiers and the helicopters, the authorities still believed that this would taint their population with 'western influence'.) The fact that some of the troops placed there to keep the crowd cowed and under control were also just vibing with the music shows how much western soft power (good music, jeans, freedom in general) had to do with the end of the Cold War going our way. (I know this stuff first hand, while this show was happening I was stationed in Korea facing off the North, who still haven't given up on the Cold War).
The biggest crowd I've been in was like 110,000 in over 100 degree heat at Ozzfest and it was insane. They had firehoses spraying into the crowd and security handing out water bottles. I can't even imagine a crowd that size!
There was a couple in Russia that did an interview last week on the news. They were the last people out of the gates and had just gotten home from the concert and couldn't believe to hear that the bass player quit the band and they had a new bassist.
Hell yea my favourite band my first band performed this song in 1992.
A quick search provided a bit of info.
"Organizers estimated that the festival actually drew an audience of more than 700,000 people. To oversee the event, there were 11,000 soldiers, police officers, hired security guards, and riot police."
"According to Moscow City Police records, 51 individuals were hospitalized during the festival, 49 were detained for disturbing the peace, and about 100 were sent to the drunk tank. Exact figures on the total number of injuries at the concert are not available."
1.6 million, saw this tour in America, Black album and saw And Justice For All tour before that and Master of Puppets tour before that, lol, I was an 80s kid and grew up in the best decade for music of all time!
This is what a (tru) concert was all about. Nothing else mattered.
There are still people trying to get home from this concert
So the legend says 😂😂
“How many people are there!”….all of them
I believe it was 1.6 Million people at that concert
Check out Va Techs college football team , they come out to this song at home games, it's a awesome scene
The song abruptly ends because they go right into the next song which is creeping death, you gotta check that one out
METAL IN THE HOUSE!!!!!
Love you Girl you got the stuff!
This concert was less then 6 months before the fall of the Soviet Union and it was a free show that the promoters had to hire the Soviet Red Army to put the stage together and do security
Historical fact...... This song was much shorter, but the crowd loved it! So it continued.
A million + if I remember correctly!
100,ooo in the stadium
I've seen Metallica live 4 times in my life. The first time I was 15 years old I think. It is indeed a very intense experience even if there isn't a million people there (biggest one I was at was about 60.000 from what I have heard).
There was 1.6 million people at this concert
That is how Rock Concert were in the 70 and 80"s. Massive.
The tower in the middle is speakers and the helicopter is misting the crowd and I’ve heard around 52 people died from the heat of the crowd,drugs and being trampled.
1.6million in attendance largest concert in history👍👍 and Metallica holdsa couple other Guinness book of records 👍👍
This isn’t even in the top 3 largest crowd
@Mark Bailey dude shut up
Now for Pantera's Domination video from the same concert
YES
Thank you for that. Great job Britt.
Yes, I remember that gig, which was a big deal in Moscow. I was a freshman student at the time. A couple of guys from my group in the university were at the gig and told legends. I remembered that some people were throwing empty bear bottles (made of glass) in the crowd, and this was dangerous. And the police (militsia) acted quite toughly.
“Whoa that guitar is cool!” Lol
Can you just imagine if you had to go to the bathroom in that crowd?
You wouldn't get far, you'd either hold it or you'd go in your pants right where you stand 😭
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American rock is worldwide ROCK ON WORLD
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Its that level of energy that gets generated from the crowds as a collective that scares the powers that be....this is why they worked to stop these types of concerts from happening. Its a reminder of how powerful ancient people were as societies before the current manipulations we see now. Music caught them off-guard now they have worked overtime to dumb it back down with smaller crowds.
Shut up sixx
@@drobichaud1000 Only after you lick it