More than just the sheer number of people there, the historic significance of this concert is next level. The former USSR had literally just undergone a failed military coup as one last hurah to try and restore communist control. After that coup failed, about two weeks later they held this concert. It was if I am not mistaken the first rock concert there (ever) and was the first time fans could legally listen to Western music.
its was the second major rock/metal festival in russia, the first was in 1989 with the moscow peace festival, which included, Skid Row, Cinderella, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi
One guy in the audience with the long curly hair huge face was in the ACDC concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina i think...wow crazy this guy travels a continent 😮😮😮
For me, the fact that there were around 1.6 million people there is belittled by another fact that the concert was free to attend. They didn't make a single penny from this in terms of tickets sold. This, for me, is the single most significant concert to date. However, rumours are abound that people are still looking for their cars and they should be finished clearing the site in another year or two. On a side note, I was at the Monsters of Rock in Italy 2 weeks before this show happened. I want to thank the US Marines who helped make my friend Marks', and my day, a considerably better experience.
Not totally free. That's been mistakenly reported even by the band. There were 50K paid entries(see the people toward the front wIth yellow wristbands) the rest were free.
This was a free concert and it wasn’t just Metallica. It occurred during the fall of the Soviet Union and was pretty much a “welcome to the free world” concert and it was the hard rock and heavy metal bands who welcomed them in.
Look, I'm a 70s guy. ACDC, Areosmith, Stones, Beatles. Never been a super heavy metal guy until I saw and heard this video. This is without a doubt the greatest live rock video I have seen. Enter Sandman is now one of my very favorite rock songs.
Gonna bore you all with my story. I'm 64 and spent most of my years listening to pop, classic rock, old school easy listening, 80's rock. In my 50's I suddenly "discovered" heavy metal and I liked it! Metallica being one of my favs and still is. I have heard this song before but have never seen it live. Wow! I've got chills, tears even from the emotion. The energy of the crowd and the band is contagious! Love yr reactions. I'm slowly making my way through your reactions including the new ones. Thank you Mollyboy. ❤
Unfortunately 53 deaths. Concert held at Tushino Airfield outside Moscow. Metallica is the greatest band ever witnessed on this planet 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥. I have seen them 18 times….last time this June. Next one; Creeping Death from the same concert
Before 1988 Metallica was not played on any radio station. It was word of mouth that you and your friends found out about them. Metal Magazines, record stores, passing bootleg tapes, and seeing them when they came to your town was the only way to see them. They took Moscow by storm.
Rock and roll grandma here seen them in concert about 5 years ago they were killing it I’d seen them in 89 before they killed it then too my grands love all my rock stories at 71 years old I’ve had a beautiful life full of music
i have to say i love your reactions. you remind me of my son reacting to my old music when he was younger. now a lot of my music from the 70s and 80s are on his play list he listens to while he drives.. lol its refreshing to see young people enjoy what i grew up on
This was Monsters of Rock 1991, AC/DC performed later, same night. The Berlin Wall had just fallen, Western Rock had been outlawed in the USSR until a year or so earlier. When announced, they sold 500,000 tickets, ran out of tickets, so the next 1.1million came in for free. It was held at a Russian Airbase just outside of Moscow (thus the heavy military presence), and the helos performed double duty... security, and air conditioning for the packed masses of people. Read somewhere that about a dozen people died (all from heat exposure). If anyone questioned whether the Soviet Union was in fact dead as a political force at that point in time, this concert erased any doubt.
Facts bro. ... You can't replicate that. Hope you get into Iron Maiden as well. This is the ultimate. This is epic. Literally EPIC. ... never again to be duplicated
When you said you were excited during the intro music was spot on because Metallica opened all their concerts with that piece of music. The name of it is "Ecstasy of Gold" and the band felt like it was perfect to build the anticipation and excitement for their performances so much so that they purchased the rights to it so they could use it however and whenever they want. They did the same with "Johnny Got His Gun" which is where the clips came from in their video for the song "One".
Dude, chances are you wont even read this comment, but I only want to say I like your videos... NOT just cuz of the music, but because you watch OTHER CONTENT. You watch science, environmental, Games, glitches, all types of music, and most of all - you give your honest opinion and how it effects you emotionally.... from your head right out of your mouth, unfiltered. Good shit. HONEST REACTION, whether I agree or not, I like that the content MEANS something to you. Appreciation. Not enough people are honest like that, so props to you and your channel. Youre a human among many, many robots. So cheers... also, you see the genius of Metallica. Ive seen them live since "Kill 'em All"
@@MollyBoyTV - I dont know where youre from, but its likely not America. Intelligence is getting hard to come by. Its cool to see someone with something to say. Ill keep watching my friend.
Lovin' your reactions, nice too see a young person discovering old rock, Metallica at their best, Jason Newstead is a bass god, shame the bass is turned down. We used to cover this in our band & it always went down a storm
Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach (1994) (3.5 Million) Metallica, AC/DC, and The Black Crowes in Moscow (1991) (1.6 Million) ... Love Parade in Germany (2008) (1.6 Million) ... The Rolling Stones at Copacabana Beach (2006) (1.5 Million) ...
Out of the million 58 people unfortunately died . The chopper was used to monitor the crowd and 58 people died unfortunately . The down draft from the chopper was also used to circulate the air for the crowd .
This concert was the first rock and roll gig allowed after the Berlin Wall came down. The location of the concert was in the Tushino Airfield (airport) in Moscow. And it was free for everyone. 💯😎
By curious coincidence, this afternoon I was listening (in my car) to the staid national broadcaster and an answer to a sound clip suggested finding and viewing this exact clip. I get it now. The sound clip was a jazz intro, by Metallica, to this very song.
This is one of most incredible live bands Ive seen every tour from Master of Puppets to the Black album in Toronto they rock for sure.Much love from Canada❤🇨🇦
@@MollyBoyTV Not having cellphones or the amazing videos that could have been had? Maybe both. We had pagers and lighters when it got dark. Miss those good days.
Kanye West; "I had a crowd of 350k!" Metallica; "That's sweet well done you. You'll play for big crowds one day." "They even have helicopters flying over!" Those choppers are flying so low so their fans can cycle fresh air into the crowd!!!
That "Moscow Peace Festival" 1991 was a huuuge Event! I saw it live on TV and I was mindblown. That was when I discovered Skid Row (didn't knew them before) and that was the concert Bon Jovi gave their best "Wanted Dead or Alive". Many acts of that concert are to find here on TH-cam, You'll probably regret NONE of them to watch... Events as "Epic" as this one have imo only been existing twice before: Live Aid (also seen live on TV) and Woodstock (I wasn't alive then).
My favorite version of Metallica's songs are live is live from all different shows. For example Master Of Puppets live from Seattle 🔥 gotta check it out 🔥🍻
They sound better live, then on album....every time. Just check Metallica trhou out the years, now days James song is realy realy good and everytime I see them I just get more and more impressed.
And the irony is that Metallica didn't even play the headliner spot, AC/DC did. But by the time they played it was after dusk and you couldn't get the visualization of the massive crowd. Also the sound quality of the Metallica footage is a lot better. Pantara and the Black Crows also played that event, it was called the "Monsters of Rock". There were thousands of Soviet soldiers forming boundary lines all through the crowd. The aerial photos of this concert was just strips of hats. The Soviet Union collapsed a few months later.
To be fair, it should be said that people came not only to see Metallica. It was a festival of several Western bands and one Russian band. AC/DC, Metallica, Pantera, Black Crowes and EST. The original plan was for free admission by the American organizers. They wanted to set a record for the Guinness Book of Records. There was no large enough free space inside the city, so the location was chosen at the airport. The decision was made at the level of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. They brought in 200 workers with experience in building stage areas, and they spent a month building the stage. The sound was so loud that people in the front rows had to turn sideways to avoid internal organ damage. The music could be heard from very far away. There were repeaters on the field. The tall columns in the video are them. Metallica and ACDC each performed a full-fledged big concert.
If you want someone from now who sounds actually better live than on a studio album, try Nightwish. They’re a Finnish symphonic metal band. My favorites are Seven Days to the Wolves and Romanticide, but they have no bad songs.
1.6 millions people relishing freedom from the USSR for the first time ever. They performed for free, but it will be one of their best memories. Part of history
There was like a brief period of cross-cultural sharing called Perestroika I think where the US and the former Soviet Union engaged in one another's antics and this fit the bill to a tee. It would be cool to revisit that spirit and time because it seems like more than a million Russians were down for this, and we may have been down for them. Let's go, music.
More than just the sheer number of people there, the historic significance of this concert is next level. The former USSR had literally just undergone a failed military coup as one last hurah to try and restore communist control. After that coup failed, about two weeks later they held this concert. It was if I am not mistaken the first rock concert there (ever) and was the first time fans could legally listen to Western music.
its was the second major rock/metal festival in russia, the first was in 1989 with the moscow peace festival, which included, Skid Row, Cinderella, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi
One guy in the audience with the long curly hair huge face was in the ACDC concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina i think...wow crazy this guy travels a continent 😮😮😮
Oh sorry ACDC live in Riverplate, Argentina 😂
I remember it when it happened. It was like America slapping their dick on the table and saying "See what you have been missing"
And they answered by getting the WHOLE Moscow o that concert 🤩
For me, the fact that there were around 1.6 million people there is belittled by another fact that the concert was free to attend. They didn't make a single penny from this in terms of tickets sold. This, for me, is the single most significant concert to date.
However, rumours are abound that people are still looking for their cars and they should be finished clearing the site in another year or two.
On a side note, I was at the Monsters of Rock in Italy 2 weeks before this show happened. I want to thank the US Marines who helped make my friend Marks', and my day, a considerably better experience.
Not totally free. That's been mistakenly reported even by the band. There were 50K paid entries(see the people toward the front wIth yellow wristbands) the rest were free.
Even the soldiers were headbanbing 😮😮
I'm not crying. You're crying...!
Great vid.
Cheers!
Chills and tears on so many levels ❤
Such a historical event!!!!
Your reaction is almost as epic as this concert. Monsters of rock. When I listen to Metallica my neighbors listen to them as well.
Same!
This was a free concert and it wasn’t just Metallica. It occurred during the fall of the Soviet Union and was pretty much a “welcome to the free world” concert and it was the hard rock and heavy metal bands who welcomed them in.
Not totally "free"- that's a mistake, repeatedly told, even by the band. There were 50K paid entries (wearing yellow bracelets) The rest were free.
The amount of dick I would suck to witness that concert.. brother, unpause
Yeah my 5 ft something ass woulds probably get trampled in the crowd. But what a way to go..
That's millions of people feeling freedom for the first time.
Think about the millions feeling freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Palestine. So much freedom it hurts.
@@Peace_Guard Sometimes You are your worst enemy.
запах свободы сменившийся вонью разочарования в этой "свободе"
@@АннаГрэйтовна
~Если делаешь то, чего не следует, то и терпеть то, чего не хочешь.~
@@Peace_Guard lol :)
To those of us that lived through the Cold War era this was a historical event!
It truly was! Then there was hope! Faith in the future! Makes me want to cry how it has developed. :(
True! Our governments wanted us to hate each other, but in truth, Russian kids just wanted rock ‘n’ roll blue jeans and cheeseburgers😂 😂
I'm one of those and back then I whitnessed that full concert live on TV.
Look, I'm a 70s guy. ACDC, Areosmith, Stones, Beatles. Never been a super heavy metal guy until I saw and heard this video. This is without a doubt the greatest live rock video I have seen. Enter Sandman is now one of my very favorite rock songs.
Pantera was there that day too.
And they made a video too.
And it's called..... DOMINATIONNNNNNNN!!
React to it!
My friends and I watched this on pay-per-view, Pantera blew everyone away.
Gonna bore you all with my story. I'm 64 and spent most of my years listening to pop, classic rock, old school easy listening, 80's rock. In my 50's I suddenly "discovered" heavy metal and I liked it! Metallica being one of my favs and still is. I have heard this song before but have never seen it live. Wow! I've got chills, tears even from the emotion. The energy of the crowd and the band is contagious! Love yr reactions. I'm slowly making my way through your reactions including the new ones. Thank you Mollyboy. ❤
This album was part of the soundtrack to my senior year in high school. 1991 was epic.
Unfortunately 53 deaths. Concert held at Tushino Airfield outside Moscow. Metallica is the greatest band ever witnessed on this planet 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥. I have seen them 18 times….last time this June. Next one; Creeping Death from the same concert
Upvote this post. It answers a couple specific questions the poster asked in the video.
I heard 92. Not bad for a crowd that size
sorry to hear that😢
Before 1988 Metallica was not played on any radio station. It was word of mouth that you and your friends found out about them. Metal Magazines, record stores, passing bootleg tapes, and seeing them when they came to your town was the only way to see them. They took Moscow by storm.
Very true
Only found your channel recently but the minute I saw you reacting to Metallica I looked for this video, so glad it's here. Just mind blowing.
Rock and roll grandma here seen them in concert about 5 years ago they were killing it I’d seen them in 89 before they killed it then too my grands love all my rock stories at 71 years old I’ve had a beautiful life full of music
The next song in this set is "Creeping Death" and it is incredible. Thanks for sharing!
Kirk's solo made 34 ladies go on labor, and they weren't even pregnant.
🤣 I’m glad I wasn’t a fan back then because how would I go and explain that my dad I was only 15😂
1.6million people...that held in moscow airfield .
i have to say i love your reactions. you remind me of my son reacting to my old music when he was younger. now a lot of my music from the 70s and 80s are on his play list he listens to while he drives.. lol
its refreshing to see young people enjoy what i grew up on
This was Monsters of Rock 1991, AC/DC performed later, same night. The Berlin Wall had just fallen, Western Rock had been outlawed in the USSR until a year or so earlier. When announced, they sold 500,000 tickets, ran out of tickets, so the next 1.1million came in for free. It was held at a Russian Airbase just outside of Moscow (thus the heavy military presence), and the helos performed double duty... security, and air conditioning for the packed masses of people. Read somewhere that about a dozen people died (all from heat exposure). If anyone questioned whether the Soviet Union was in fact dead as a political force at that point in time, this concert erased any doubt.
Facts bro. ... You can't replicate that.
Hope you get into Iron Maiden as well.
This is the ultimate. This is epic.
Literally EPIC. ... never again to be duplicated
When you said you were excited during the intro music was spot on because Metallica opened all their concerts with that piece of music. The name of it is "Ecstasy of Gold" and the band felt like it was perfect to build the anticipation and excitement for their performances so much so that they purchased the rights to it so they could use it however and whenever they want. They did the same with "Johnny Got His Gun" which is where the clips came from in their video for the song "One".
Dude, chances are you wont even read this comment, but I only want to say I like your videos... NOT just cuz of the music, but because you watch OTHER CONTENT. You watch science, environmental, Games, glitches, all types of music, and most of all - you give your honest opinion and how it effects you emotionally.... from your head right out of your mouth, unfiltered. Good shit. HONEST REACTION, whether I agree or not, I like that the content MEANS something to you. Appreciation. Not enough people are honest like that, so props to you and your channel. Youre a human among many, many robots. So cheers... also, you see the genius of Metallica. Ive seen them live since "Kill 'em All"
Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoy my videos!
@@MollyBoyTV - I dont know where youre from, but its likely not America. Intelligence is getting hard to come by. Its cool to see someone with something to say. Ill keep watching my friend.
gives me goosebumps. the historical significance is amazing!!
Lovin' your reactions, nice too see a young person discovering old rock, Metallica at their best, Jason Newstead is a bass god, shame the bass is turned down.
We used to cover this in our band & it always went down a storm
Can you imagine, I was there too...
that’s amazing. you are so lucky!!!
Metallica. Friend of the world
Pantera,, ac/dc, the black crowes, and Metallica performed at this show ( monster’s in Moscow ).
🤘🏼💀🤘🏼. 💥. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach (1994) (3.5 Million)
Metallica, AC/DC, and The Black Crowes in Moscow (1991) (1.6 Million) ...
Love Parade in Germany (2008) (1.6 Million) ...
The Rolling Stones at Copacabana Beach (2006) (1.5 Million) ...
There's a few missing off that list, mainly Jean Michel Jarre with 3.5 & 2.5 mill
I read somewhere that it was 2 million by the time AC/DC and Pantera came on. Kick ass concert!!!🎵🎼🎶🎸🥁🎹🎙🎧🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Listen to the S&M album.... AWESOME!!! Totally appreciate your interest and enthusiasm for this awesome band, cheers from America
Seen them in concert at Wembley Stadium. OMG they are EPIC! 🤘
I saw them twice over the years. Always great.
Out of the million 58 people unfortunately died . The chopper was used to monitor the crowd and 58 people died unfortunately . The down draft from the chopper was also used to circulate the air for the crowd .
Thought that was another concert near the Kreml? Might be wrong though.
They do sound like that live . Excellent show .
This concert was the first rock and roll gig allowed after the Berlin Wall came down.
The location of the concert was in the Tushino Airfield (airport) in Moscow.
And it was free for everyone. 💯😎
2nd there was the Moscow peace festival in 89
By curious coincidence, this afternoon I was listening (in my car) to the staid national broadcaster and an answer to a sound clip suggested finding and viewing this exact clip. I get it now.
The sound clip was a jazz intro, by Metallica, to this very song.
Striking synchronicity, all right!
This is one of most incredible live bands Ive seen every tour from Master of Puppets to the Black album in Toronto they rock for sure.Much love from Canada❤🇨🇦
Once they ran out of printed tickets, it was a free show. You just had to show up. Little did they know, an entire country would show up.
It was a free show so the was no ticket sold
Mighty James Mighty Metallica❤
You weren't born yet I'm sure. I was there. Watching it gives me the chills.....and neck pain 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
You’re right. I was born in 2000 so 9 years too late 🤣
@@MollyBoyTV Not even a twinkle in your daddy's eyes yet! I'm just pissed we didn't have cellphones. Imagine the crowd videos from inside the crowd?
@@zedsdead6969 It’s genuinely hard to imagine
@@MollyBoyTV Not having cellphones or the amazing videos that could have been had? Maybe both. We had pagers and lighters when it got dark. Miss those good days.
@@zedsdead6969 Not having the footage we could’ve had
Haha so glad you told me u did this one..this was great 😁😁😁😁😁💙💙💙
Pantera also played that show. The reason the crowd was so big it was the first time American rock groups were allowed to perform in Russia
Kanye West; "I had a crowd of 350k!"
Metallica; "That's sweet well done you. You'll play for big crowds one day."
"They even have helicopters flying over!"
Those choppers are flying so low so their fans can cycle fresh air into the crowd!!!
Say what you will about our old music, no one else pulls those kind of numbers, refering to crowd size!
That "Moscow Peace Festival" 1991 was a huuuge Event! I saw it live on TV and I was mindblown. That was when I discovered Skid Row (didn't knew them before) and that was the concert Bon Jovi gave their best "Wanted Dead or Alive". Many acts of that concert are to find here on TH-cam, You'll probably regret NONE of them to watch...
Events as "Epic" as this one have imo only been existing twice before:
Live Aid (also seen live on TV) and Woodstock (I wasn't alive then).
My favorite version of Metallica's songs are live is live from all different shows. For example Master Of Puppets live from Seattle 🔥 gotta check it out 🔥🍻
they weren't the only ones to play. Black Crows, Motley Crue and AC/DC also played.
Can you imagine the power of the speakers to reach that whole crowd!!!!!
Can you imagine being on stage in front of 1.6 million people inhaling their first taste of western freedom to your band. Absolute “Rock Stars”!!
One of my favorite Metallica songs. 😊
Listening to you trying to hit 5K is hilarious now!💪
And don't forget they weren't the only band there this was a heavy metal concert I know Pantera was there I believe a Megadeth and Anthrax
THIS is the concert i was talking about, Pantera was here also. You gotta see them do domination at this show
No one sounds as good live these days!!
They sound better live, then on album....every time. Just check Metallica trhou out the years, now days James song is realy realy good and everytime I see them I just get more and more impressed.
It was the first rock concert ever in the former USSR. There were other bands also.
Incorrect look up the Moscow Music Peace Festival
The Red Army acted as security and kept the crowd from rushing the stage.
You gotta do Creeping Death from the same show 🔥
A true reaction is not looking at the back story. I’m glad you’ve watched this though!
I think the u.n. and Geneva "conviction " prohibited this after 😮😅
whenever they come here to fl in tampa, or orlando, or wherever, me and my mom are gonna go and see them.
When you play this , speakers must be on full volume, my car shakes when i play this 😂 and listen to Whiskey in the jar by Metallica ,
I’m just catching up on your content. Amazing concert!😎
I think Ozzy was at this show too as well as Pantera
Next song after this was Creeping Death. Pretty awesome as well
Love your comments take a listen to seether..south African rock band try remedy or the gift you will love it.peace out brother...Patrick south africa
My son wanted to go!!! 1991 he was in high school.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
And the irony is that Metallica didn't even play the headliner spot, AC/DC did. But by the time they played it was after dusk and you couldn't get the visualization of the massive crowd. Also the sound quality of the Metallica footage is a lot better. Pantara and the Black Crows also played that event, it was called the "Monsters of Rock". There were thousands of Soviet soldiers forming boundary lines all through the crowd. The aerial photos of this concert was just strips of hats. The Soviet Union collapsed a few months later.
I can't believe I didn't watch this video when you released it
That intro music is the theme for Mordelo beer!
Makes Woodstock look like a Less Than Jake concert
Queen's pulled in over 1MIL. Rolling Stones in RIO 2MIL.
My favorite ❤❤
To be fair, it should be said that people came not only to see Metallica. It was a festival of several Western bands and one Russian band. AC/DC, Metallica, Pantera, Black Crowes and EST. The original plan was for free admission by the American organizers. They wanted to set a record for the Guinness Book of Records. There was no large enough free space inside the city, so the location was chosen at the airport. The decision was made at the level of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. They brought in 200 workers with experience in building stage areas, and they spent a month building the stage. The sound was so loud that people in the front rows had to turn sideways to avoid internal organ damage. The music could be heard from very far away. There were repeaters on the field. The tall columns in the video are them. Metallica and ACDC each performed a full-fledged big concert.
1:06 that's my favorite part of these reactions 😂😂😂
I think I was ~ your age visiting such concerts.
It is unbelievable that there were 1.6 million people at this concert.
"AUTO TUNE WHO?????!!!!!!"......😂😂😂😂
exactly......nobody and i mean NOBODY does it better than the men in METALLICA 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
They stopped counting at 1.6 million, final estimate was over 2 million.
Who stopped counting and why would they count when it was a free concert
check out the WARNING, 3 girls from mexico playing Enter Sandman live
If you want someone from now who sounds actually better live than on a studio album, try Nightwish. They’re a Finnish symphonic metal band. My favorites are Seven Days to the Wolves and Romanticide, but they have no bad songs.
My friend Cindy has seen Metallica live 47 times. No shyte.
Unfortunately there were just over 50 deaths at this concert!!
1.6 millions people relishing freedom from the USSR for the first time ever. They performed for free, but it will be one of their best memories. Part of history
I was there in ‘91, just got back. What did I miss?
😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Love this one!
That was after the wall came down. Historical.
Give Tesla What You Give, and Love Song live a listen!!
Always a good song. You're going to like Metallica
1.6 million headbangers were created that day
I believe 53 died
The music at the start is from the film the good the bad and the ugly its called the ecstasy of gold and metallica use it before every live show
There were zero deaths at this concert. I googled it to make sure.
Is that Google US or Google Pravda?
Oh yes!
Many people never made it home after the concert. The Concert is on the Runway of an Airport.
First concert in Russia, Metallica was not the head line but still, awesome.
There was like a brief period of cross-cultural sharing called Perestroika I think where the US and the former Soviet Union engaged in one another's antics and this fit the bill to a tee. It would be cool to revisit that spirit and time because it seems like more than a million Russians were down for this, and we may have been down for them. Let's go, music.
I grew up with this music! what good times 🤩