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I was there,terrible

Pantera should have been after metallica

Yeh I was just to the left of the stage set back a bit, just out of danger. Had no idea what had happened until we got back home to Devon at 5am. Madness. It was really windy that day too. Think some of the rig looked ready to tumble. Went back again in 90. I was on the front barrier during Thunder, and they totally rocked. Our families had heard about the accident before us (no mobile phones of course) and were worried sick. I was 17. We felt a great kindred spirit with the lads that died.

Pantera makes me feel violent too! I can just imagine how jacked up the crowd got!

They had the same issues all day and more people could have been killed. It was the same for Dave Lee Roth when we were at the front.He stopped the show a couple of times.Nobody there on the day seemed to know about the deaths until we got back and were told by our worried parents.

I went to Iron Maiden's concert the other day for the first time in 36 years... The previous time was Monsters of Rock 1988. I was there with my friend. I was 20, university student, traveling in the UK during my summer vacation. The front area was so crowded that we decided to stay in the back, sitting on the top of the small hill. I never knew about the tragedy until we went back to my country... Sorry for the 2 boys. It was very hard to take the coach to Derby after the show. I sometimes remember the day. I am 56 now, with husband and 2 kids... Time flies !

I remember seeing the crowd surge I was at the back looking down, I knew nothing about it till I got home because my dad was up all night phoning Leicestershire police and the hospitals but did it stop did it hell as like.

Dime tho!!!!!

The USSR was not a great empire. It was one of the most deadly and oppressive. Communism is antithetical to human flourishing and to our nature. We are not ants.

IT WAS NOT FREE! They sold 50K entrances , those are up front with yellow wrist bands. 54 people died.

Pantera - The Kings of Metal

And that's why we now have massive surge barriers halfway down a crowd and front barriers that security can stand on a raised area to help them pull people over the barriers to safety.

Such things happen all the time in England. Those brainless idiots over there will never learn to keep themselves under control. I was at the 1996 European Football Championships in London. After the game, there was a collective freak-out between the fans, “normal” people and the police. Not because Germany won against England. No! Just out of tradition, to reduce aggression. It was just beating and destroying everything possible. I've never seen anything so uncivilized in my life. Neither before, nor after. Btw, I am Austrian not German.

... and then Putin came and ruined everything!

I'll never forget it coming on the news knowing my bro was there, the panic when I told my mum what had happened and not being able to contact my brother, well before mobile phones! I've been I a few crowd surges before and it is real scary when you can't steady your feet. Must have been beyond scary for the two guys, RIP

Fucking Pantera was brutal. So wicked.

I was there. I was lifted off my feet as the crowd surged, i had absolutely no control over my direction. But I went home in one piece the following day. RIP to those that didn't.

There will never be a more powerful Band. Pantera 1991 Saint Louis Missouri.... Blew my mind!!!

I was there on my own 15 years old and i seen somebody fight his way out of the crowd with his face covered in blood. He looked at me and said don't go in there man their a bunch of f**king animals. I stayed further back and was ok

Fortunately in that moment my friend and I were at the bottom of the crowd

Blackcrows was in the bill too

The crush was unbelievable. I didn’t find out fans had died until I got home.

Best £27.50 I ever spent and that was with the coach there and back from donny.

I don’t know whether I dreamt this, but didn’t part of the scaffolding, to the side of the stage, blow down around the same time as the crush. I definitely remember it being very wet and windy that day.

Pantera crush it that afternoon. And 1.6 million is internet folklore. According to Metallica, its unknown how many people attended the show but it was hardly over 600,000.

*stories*

51 went to the hospital out of 1.6 million and this guy is trying to paint this and the Russian people as violent. My guess it if this was in Africa and there was large scale violence they would paint that as calm and orderly. I'm sick of these woke racist F.

I was there that day, we missed GnR due to staying in the pub too long, when we did get in a group of us were situated just in front of the sound tower, having been to previous monsters of rock festivals I did think at the time there is more people here than usual, we had no idea of what had gone on before, when Kiss came on the squeeze even a 100 years from the stage was getting uncomfy, when Maiden came on it was dangerous, very dangerous, myself and a friend were carried 10 yards in a surge, no gaps just hundreds of bodies being pushed and shoved, after that we moved back another 50 yards, not a good experience.

Glad I was alive and remember this in my life

What a way to bury communism and all its horrors

I was there. I remember the police opening the fences in order to get people to the ambulances that were lined up around the corner. It was fucking crazy.

I was there...16 years old at the time and as the commentator correctly reports, I was covered in piss, flung into the air in plastic bottles. Despite everything, my opinion of Axl Rose will never change. He was amazing! He did everything he could to get the people to calm down and move back, stopping the show several times. From my perspective it was an amazing show...only as we exited after Iron Maiden had finished were we notified by the tanoi system that 2 men had died. What a cloud on an amazing day. But never should anyone hold Axl Rose responsible. He was a genuine hero that day, doing everything he could.

А я там был=)) горжусь

I was there , sad day

Damn that’s sad. Rest in peace brothers.

Waw

Great video

I’ve been there. It was first show in my life. The loudest sound as land trembled, a lot of military and violence and huge joy at the same time. I know l’ll never have the same feelings

Still safer than a Travis Scott concert

Jesus, that intro is straight out of 1991, and not deliberately I fear.

how white people act compared to b l m

My first Monsters of Rock was Maiden in 92, with the barrier down the middle to stop sideways crowd surges. Never stopped the crush from the back. As soon as Maiden came on, the crush was that tight, my feet were lifted off the ground, very similar to '88. With the T barriers it does seem a little better, not so many surges. Look out for each other in the pit. ✌️

It brings tears to my eyes to see and hear about all this something my kids will never know anything about. Just amazing at what music can do

I was there. It was my first time in England and my first time in Donington. During the Guns and roses concert, I was carried by the crowd without my feet touching the ground. It was very dangerous. I had lost my friend during the show and when I found him later. I hugged him. Never I will forget this gig and this tragedy.

Это был величайший фестиваль с величайшими группами Такого уже не повторить ни когдаааа

“Once great empire” 😂

I was stood directly infront of axel rose with my arm around the barrier at the very front of the stage, what I remember is a security guard telling axel to ask the crowd to move back, but he wouldn't, the guard was enraged and tried to get at rose but was held back by another security guard, in my opinion rose could have done alot more to calm the situation/crush in the crowd, ive hated him ever since.

This is really underrated video, good job

I went to monsters of rock in Los Angeles and the US FESTIVAL….PRIEST…MOTLEY ETC. I WAS IN A CROWD AND YOU COULD FEEL THE CRUSH. PEOPLE AR3 SCREAMING AND PANICING…..but as an 18 year old male 6 feet tall, I could get air and I used my elbows to push out as much as possible….still, I could feel my rib cage compacting and it was difficult next to me. A girl…about 5’ 2” next to me….a stranger…..I could feel her becoming more and more desperate. At one point she grabbed my arm….a pure stranger….as she was going lower and lower….I yanked her back to her feet and told her to hold on to my arm. Whenever we had a chance….we moved backwards…fans behind us happy to move forward and we traded spots…..eventually we were able to,get out and she hugged me like I had saved her life. I had not. I did what any normal decent person would do….I told her to have a happy life and we parted. I never went back in one of those crowds…..once it starts…there is no way to stop it.

Who was the organiser and were they insured for punter injuries/death run run run round the world like blue arsed flies!!!😂😂😂