It was a very historic time! The walls came down it was the fall of communism. They we're starving to death for a good music and great entertainment. 🎶
I was a 16yo boy in the soviet bloc at that time, it was a historic moment. There's no other drug like freedom. I love watching reactions to this, and how most of the people reacting don't even understand the significance of what they're watching at the moment. :D
@@sergey_1312 It murdered millions for one thing and now the deep state want to impose a Communist world government via destruction of the west to pave the way. Vaccine passports are just the beginning.
That concert was Monsters of Rock in Moscow, Tushino airport. 1,6 million people saw Metallica, AC/DC, Black Crowes and Pantera. That was a legendary MoR. 😎🤘🤘🤘
True, it was actually a 2 day venue and as you can see a majority of the 1.6M were there for Metallica. The helicopters were brought in to try and more air around the crowd with the downward prop wash of air. The coolest thing about Metallica is that they are the only band to ever perform on all 7 contents. Yes including Antarctica. And they accomplished this within a one year time period and are this in The Guinness Book of World Records for it.
@@chupasaurus You're correct it was one day in '91. But You're wrong about the number that attended...it was 1.6 million. Not the largest concert crowd y any means but still huge.
This video is very emotional. The first time these beautiful people were “allowed” to go to a Concert! The are so happy even with Soldiers everywhere, helicopters flying, they are just excited and happy to hear the music. Americans don’t know how good we’ve got it.
No, Moscow Music Peace 89 Festival with Bon Jovi Brigada S Cinderella russian Rockband Gorky Park (rus. Парк Горького) Mötley Crüe Nuance Ozzy Osbourne Scorpions Skid Row Before was Billy Joel, Elton John and many more played before in the USSR.
No we don't...you had to see it up close to get it ... yet everyday Americans support this sort of repression ... every time you buy something made in China ... and you do it to a trillion dollars a year
Hi ! I was at this concert! I was 16. I bought three bottles of cognac and went to watch the best gig in my life! By the way, some people went to Tushino the day before the concert to take good seats. An interesting fact is that empty alcohol bottles were driven into the ground with their necks . It turned out a small platform to stand a little higher. To get a better view. After the concert, the whole field was covered with empty bottles .
i was there and I am 50 now. I injured my leg because of too much jumping during the pantera performance. just ocean of people, and I can literally feel the ground shaking all the time. literal earthquake I AM NOT KIDDING
Так был уже один концерт - в 89, в Лужниках, там Бон Джови ещё выступали, не говоря ещё про многочисленные концерты любимых у нас западных попсовиков, типа Дитера или Сандры) Так что чушь про "a fresh breeze" оставь для безграмотных американцев))
@@gabebell6372 Те американцы (и не только американцы), которые в комментариях здесь пишут про то, что "люди празднуют падение коммунизма" , "в СССР не было никакой западной музыки" и тому подобный бред, именно безграмотны. Безусловно, не все американцы такие, но таковых много, к сожалению.
I was born in Moscow in 82 and can't watch this without chocking up. Russia had ways to go to catch up on real Democracy after centuries of tsarist oppression and then years of communist oppression. But this was the beginning. I remember there started kiosks popping up with American music tapes and other Western stuff.
Sadly, that was the day every one of those 90s Russians lost their future. Sure they got Metallica. They also got 3 decades of economic decline, the takeover of their economy by oligarchs, reductions in life expectancy, and they still live in a police state.
@@CL-uf9xw We're not here to discuss politics. This is for a reaction to Metallica. Guess what. It looked to me like everyone was leaving any political issues at home and focused on enjoying some great music, for the first time. Let's do the same here. Even if it was short lived, for those couple (or few) of hours they got to have the time of their lives. It's something they'll be telling their kids and grandkids about for years to come. Just like those who were at Woodstock remember what it was like, the people there will always remember what this concert was like.
😂You must've taken a wrong turn sometime in the early '00s!! Do you have a compass?! Or did you make it home already? I bet your wife is PIIIIISSSED....!!!!!
I get tears from this... i was very young back then, lived kinda far from Moscow. but i would invent a time machine just to go back and see this gig)) and it was a FREE show!!
7:27 At that time, in the 80s and in the 90s we couldn't imagine that something like RUclips could exist. And all we could do is keep the ticket to the concert as historic proof that we had been there and go crazy looking for bootleg videotapes, vynils or cassettes.
Way back when I showed my children this video. Lydia, my youngest daughter said hey Dad. And she was spinning her hair like the bass player. This video was SO long ago Lars has long hair.... Even the soldiers were rocking!!!! Even if you only got a few pennies per ticket. You would have had a good payday....
You know it's good shit when there are soldiers going crazy too. Also, if you've been to enough of these, you can get good at working your way to the front. It's a matter of sliding through gaps and moving forward at all times til you get to where you wanna be. My ears are f'd for life because I HAD TO be right in front of the main speakers at every concert I went to.
I was at the UK leg of this tour in '91, still got my ticket lol. In Moscow they actually STOPPED counting at 1.7 million and let everyone through, Estimates up to and over 3,5 million.
I was in high school when this was being billed as the largest concert ever..I remember because Pantera was also on the roster and several other huge bands...it was amazing
Not if the technocrats succeed in using C-19 to usher in the “Chinese model” of governance. Even if there is some big celebratory event, it would be artificial and generic with music made by algorithms.
Thanks a lot guys !!! I was born in the USSR. In 1991, communism and the Iron Curtain collapsed. It was the first metal fest Monsters of Rock in our country. Before that, we could only listen to records and no one even saw live what the musicians looked like. I watched this concert on tv.
Best band in metal history in my opinion!! I have been a fan from the beginning. I had the shirts, the tapes, and posters covered the walls!! Rock on Gen X!!!!! Thanks!
I saw Metallica in Philadelphia Spectrum 92 or 93 you are correct no cell phones took like 3 hours to find the car very inebriated me and my friends sobered up eating cheesesteaks LOL so much fun like watching you guys react you seem genuine.
Metallica is hands down the best band of all time for intros! I still get chills listening to their music sometimes and this video in particular get me all kinds of pumped up. My face actually goes slightly tingly and numb with this intro. That’s weird I know but it’s so awesome!!
I saw Metallica live in '08 in Chicago, Death Magnetic. It was my first concert. I got a contact high walking through the parking garage at 14. I had my ear drums blown out for 2 days. They had chrome everything and lasers bouncing off their gear and the stage. It was the greatest moment of my life as far as music is concerned.
find it funny i was kinda there my mum n dad where at this gig when mum was pegnant with me, love watching this but got the entire show on my pc now which parents occasionly wanna watch again, its awesome that followed on from em and love most metal, rock n some other types music since, im now 32 on jan 22 so its awesome to see this being reacted to!!
'83 US Festival is as close to this that I ever came...some half million people at that one....being in a crowd like that is awe inspiring...been in crowds of all sizes having gone to more than a hundred and fifty concerts over the years and I have to say, after around 50,000, it just doesn't matter anymore. You can't see them beyond that point from the middle of the crowd.
This is soon after the fall of the Soviet Union too. It's very possible that most of those people had never seen anything like this before. That's special!
Great job with your reaction to Enter Sandman From Metallica live in Moscow 1991 This concert was free and Pantera was also there . the cover video of this song you reacted to was from The Warning.
On September 28, 1991, the Monsters of Rock concert took place at the Tushino Airfield in Moscow Russia. Just one month after the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt, videos show an electric concert with a crowd going absolutely bonkers despite reportedly 1,000 militiamen standing guard around the stage. The one day mega concert was sponsored by Time Warner Inc. and featured AC/DC, Metallica, Motley Crue, Queensrÿche, and the Black Crowes.
This was the first time most of these people had seen a live music show of western music, absolutely the first time any of them had seen Metallica. First major concert (barring David Hasselhoff) that took place beyond the Iron Curtain. Iconic
The way she described how shows were back in the day is exactly how it was. You would go by your ticket. You would show it off at school. You would hook up with your friends before the shows. Everyone got all dressed up. Dudes in the leather and women dressed to the 9s. When a big-time came to town it was an absolute event. Concerts are still cool. But back in the day it's was bigger than life.
the official "count" for the concert was set at 1.6 million people. however it was estimated to be more than 2.76million in total. the ACTUAL crowd went 2.5 miles back. which was MUCH more than the 1.6 million Supposed to be attendening. Quite literally the biggest concert EVER held or will be held.
A Metallica show in the early 90's was a sell out, you queued up all night, waited for tickets to go on sale in the morn months before the gig, and alll your friends would queue with you and make a bit of a session of it. Start getting fucked up around lunchtime on the day of the show but not too messed up or you miss the concert!
in a crowd that size "hey babe, I have to go to the bathroom.. I'll be back".... me - "um... in what like 5 hrs? if you can even find your way back?" lol
Imagine being in your early twenties and walking out on stage like a boss to a crowd like this. There comes a point where visually it's not even people anymore but just dots.
@@cParman9 Because Black Crowes was the hot new popular American rock radio band of 1990-1991. Was as much about the idea of western-ism as it was the music.
1.6 Million people....and this is 3rd on the all time list of crowds at an open air concert. #1 is Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a crowd of 3.5 Million in 1994. #2 was Jean Michel Jarre in 1997 also in Russia, like that Metallica show, with 3.5 Million.
RAPPERS TODAY ALWAYS SAY THEY SELL OUT STADIUMS 🏟, METALLICA SAYS THATS NICE 👍 WE SOLD OUT A COUNTRY. LMAO 😂. AND NO CGI BACK THEN . I WAS IN MY TWENTIES BACK THEN. GOD IM GETTING OLD LOL
It was held at an old decommisioned military airforce base. And it was free to attend. PS. It's the same concert that the Pantera - Domination video is from. The line up was a russian metal band, the Black Crows, Pantera, Metallica and AC/DC.
True, it was actually a 2 day venue and as you can see a majority of the 1.6M were there for Metallica. The helicopters were brought in to try and more air around the crowd with the downward prop wash of air. The coolest thing about Metallica is that they are the only band to ever perform on all 7 contents. Yes including Antarctica. And they accomplished this within a one year time period and are this in The Guinness Book of World Records for it. And don't remember the exact number but either 51 or 53 people di3d in the crowd.
The 90s were awesome! Seeing Metallica live is life changing!🤘🤘 I've seen them 3x and can't wait to see them again! The crowd goes FN nutz every time Seek and Destroy is played.
This honestly makes me wish I was maybe 10 years older :D Being German and born in 1985, I really did not realize how massively the world was changing when I was about entering elementary school. I was born roughly 20 km from the German - German Border. I only remember the fall of the Berlin Wall because all of a sudden there was this massive number of funny but smelly Trabant cars driving through our town. My parents would take me to cities I hadn't seen before (because it was impossible to get there), but they only registered in my mind as dirty and stinking of burning lignite everywhere. I would still recognize that smell immediately. I hated being there... If only I understood what a momentous time in world history that was... And that this stinky, dirty, run-down town my parents showed me was where my father had been born in 1945, before the family escaped the SBZ (soviet occupied zone).
Your friend at this concert: don't move, I go buying beers, be back soon.
Last time you ever seen him.
1.6 Million people.
LOL
Have just seen your comment Fabrizio. My bad.
this is in Russia so probably not a beer ;)
@@ParagonPariah213 True :)
folk story, it was not 1.6 mill
1.6 million people, 53 people died, the “security” was the army. The crowd was the horizon.
In other words. Epic!
It was the fall of the wall!!! It was just Raw Emotion!!!
@@jleos0095 not for the people who died or I've heard others say lots we're beaten and raped
@@IDxzzyXBL How could you even rape someone in that packed crowd? You can't bend them over.
it's fake, no one died then
the people in the front row got there before Metallica formed as a band
😂
That’s true!
Nice comment 👍👍
Paleeeeezzzz
I laughed out loud at that one. Excellent.
Legendary in every aspect. This show was metal history.
Not simply just "Metal" history...it WAS "history."
1.6 Million were at that concert!!! tag is the exact number!!! according to all accurate estimates!!!! Dobra!!!
It was a very historic time! The walls came down it was the fall of communism. They we're starving to death for a good music and great entertainment. 🎶
Jah todo porque es recontra trillado, ni un brillo
Well said!
I was a 16yo boy in the soviet bloc at that time, it was a historic moment. There's no other drug like freedom.
I love watching reactions to this, and how most of the people reacting don't even understand the significance of what they're watching at the moment. :D
yep freedom was hard lived and fought for by many at that time
I watched it live from my living room in the States. Everyone I know gathered to watch this.
Yep, a concert like that is an outlet for people suffering under the yolk of Communism.
@@aaronbarlow4376 what did wrong communism do to you?
@@sergey_1312 It murdered millions for one thing and now the deep state want to impose a Communist world government via destruction of the west to pave the way. Vaccine passports are just the beginning.
That concert was Monsters of Rock in Moscow, Tushino airport. 1,6 million people saw Metallica, AC/DC, Black Crowes and Pantera. That was a legendary MoR. 😎🤘🤘🤘
3 days = 1.6mil
Airfield not airport, haaaaaaa! Damn spell check!
True, it was actually a 2 day venue and as you can see a majority of the 1.6M were there for Metallica. The helicopters were brought in to try and more air around the crowd with the downward prop wash of air. The coolest thing about Metallica is that they are the only band to ever perform on all 7 contents. Yes including Antarctica. And they accomplished this within a one year time period and are this in The Guinness Book of World Records for it.
@@Prozak63 It was a single day, 28.09.1991. The highest amount in the crowd was 500K at Metallica's part, which is not a majority.
@@chupasaurus You're correct it was one day in '91. But You're wrong about the number that attended...it was 1.6 million. Not the largest concert crowd y any means but still huge.
This video is very emotional. The first time these beautiful people were “allowed” to go to a Concert! The are so happy even with Soldiers everywhere, helicopters flying, they are just excited and happy to hear the music.
Americans don’t know how good we’ve got it.
No, Moscow Music Peace 89 Festival with
Bon Jovi
Brigada S
Cinderella
russian Rockband Gorky Park (rus. Парк Горького)
Mötley Crüe
Nuance
Ozzy Osbourne
Scorpions
Skid Row
Before was Billy Joel, Elton John and many more played before in the USSR.
No we don't...you had to see it up close to get it ... yet everyday Americans support this sort of repression ... every time you buy something made in China ... and you do it to a trillion dollars a year
Legend has it that there are still people headed home from that concert.
Hi ! I was at this concert! I was 16. I bought three bottles of cognac and went to watch the best gig in my life! By the way, some people went to Tushino the day before the concert to take good seats. An interesting fact is that empty alcohol bottles were driven into the ground with their necks . It turned out a small platform to stand a little higher. To get a better view. After the concert, the whole field was covered with empty bottles .
Amazing, im so jealous
I really appreciate this account. The part about the bottles is an awesome detail.
i was there and I am 50 now. I injured my leg because of too much jumping during the pantera performance. just ocean of people, and I can literally feel the ground shaking all the time. literal earthquake I AM NOT KIDDING
That is how it looks when people taste freedom for the first time in their lives.
Yeah that worked out for them when the average expected life span immediately dropped by 10 years and still hasn't recovered
@@CaTaffy Your like that guy where everyone is stoked its sunny outside and your the one saying yeah but its raining somewhere...jeez
глупость написали
@@CaTaffy I guess you think bread lines are great
@@CaTaffy well it didn’t....
such a large crowd was because this concert was like a fresh breeze after Soviet times.
1991 was the last year of the USSR
Так был уже один концерт - в 89, в Лужниках, там Бон Джови ещё выступали, не говоря ещё про многочисленные концерты любимых у нас западных попсовиков, типа Дитера или Сандры) Так что чушь про "a fresh breeze" оставь для безграмотных американцев))
@@forzabarca4898 English.
@@forzabarca4898 Эй, перестань говорить дерьмо, мы не безграмотные
@@gabebell6372 Те американцы (и не только американцы), которые в комментариях здесь пишут про то, что "люди празднуют падение коммунизма" , "в СССР не было никакой западной музыки" и тому подобный бред, именно безграмотны. Безусловно, не все американцы такие, но таковых много, к сожалению.
I was born in Moscow in 82 and can't watch this without chocking up. Russia had ways to go to catch up on real Democracy after centuries of tsarist oppression and then years of communist oppression. But this was the beginning. I remember there started kiosks popping up with American music tapes and other Western stuff.
He said “is this CGI?” Lol bro this is pure VHS tapes no CGI or videos edits exist at that time. This is a sea of mortals enjoying a historical music.
IMAGINE 90s in RUSSIA and this MIRACLE happened TO MOSCOW.
Military folks enjoying every moment.
BEAUTIFUL
Those military folks were beating these kids up.
@@andrewzab83able I was talking about 3:45, not those pigs you thought.
I have enjoyed this band for over 30 years and they have never left me disappointed. Metallica rocks!!!
Sadly, that was the day every one of those 90s Russians lost their future. Sure they got Metallica. They also got 3 decades of economic decline, the takeover of their economy by oligarchs, reductions in life expectancy, and they still live in a police state.
@@CL-uf9xw We're not here to discuss politics. This is for a reaction to Metallica. Guess what. It looked to me like everyone was leaving any political issues at home and focused on enjoying some great music, for the first time. Let's do the same here.
Even if it was short lived, for those couple (or few) of hours they got to have the time of their lives. It's something they'll be telling their kids and grandkids about for years to come. Just like those who were at Woodstock remember what it was like, the people there will always remember what this concert was like.
I saw them live in 91 and YES they were this awesome in LA
We'll never see another moment like this. Name one band today that can pull this off.
I'm still heading home to New Zealand from this concert.
😂You must've taken a wrong turn sometime in the early '00s!! Do you have a compass?! Or did you make it home already? I bet your wife is PIIIIISSSED....!!!!!
Funny thing is that this was a FREE concert provided by Metallica’s record label and they stopped counting at 1.6 million attendees!
No, they said in the Metallica podcast that the Russian government paid for it to reward the youngsters for not starting riots.
no official statement was released about 1.6 million people at the Metallica concert.
Good old times! I've been 17yo that time. *bringing back so much memories*
The whole backstory about this concert/song makes it even more epic
I get tears from this... i was very young back then, lived kinda far from Moscow. but i would invent a time machine just to go back and see this gig)) and it was a FREE show!!
7:27 At that time, in the 80s and in the 90s we couldn't imagine that something like RUclips could exist. And all we could do is keep the ticket to the concert as historic proof that we had been there and go crazy looking for bootleg videotapes, vynils or cassettes.
Way back when I showed my children this video. Lydia, my youngest daughter said hey Dad. And she was spinning her hair like the bass player. This video was SO long ago Lars has long hair.... Even the soldiers were rocking!!!! Even if you only got a few pennies per ticket. You would have had a good payday....
Hi, my uncle was at that concert. There was actually around 1.6 million at that x
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@@RoverWaters what....her uncle being there...why?...cant her uncle just go to see the show....and as for crowd...it was 1.6m
@@Ares-mg2nj 1.6 million is folk story
@@RoverWaters No its not... James himself said it was 1.6m when we went on the Joe Rogan Podcast.
@@Ranganation no, he didn't
Yeah, these are Gods of Rock 🤘Checkout James’s head banging after the pyrotechnics absolutely perfect 🤘🤩🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love you guys - you’re of my generation and 100% understand the feeling of being there live cause that was the only way to truly experience a show!
You know it's good shit when there are soldiers going crazy too. Also, if you've been to enough of these, you can get good at working your way to the front. It's a matter of sliding through gaps and moving forward at all times til you get to where you wanna be. My ears are f'd for life because I HAD TO be right in front of the main speakers at every concert I went to.
This was a symbol of freedom.
I will never be able to get enough of enter sandman in this lifetime.
NO NO NO !!! They stopped counting at 1.6 million, but there were about 2 million people there. DAMN !!
You could see how amazed Hetfield was as he looked out over the crowd while playing his guitar.
That intro... give me goosebumps everytime. That feeling when you know it's time for the concert to begin, Ennio Morricone RIP!
can't believe that the audience count of this concert was around 1.6 million !!! 😨😨😨😳😳😳
Всем привет! Какой миллион?! >1.600.000!!! Спасибо за реакцию. 🤘
I was at the UK leg of this tour in '91, still got my ticket lol. In Moscow they actually STOPPED counting at 1.7 million and let everyone through, Estimates up to and over 3,5 million.
I was in high school when this was being billed as the largest concert ever..I remember because Pantera was also on the roster and several other huge bands...it was amazing
The first concert after Covid-19: 1.6 million people? Hold my beer....
😂😂 I'll drink to that. 🍻🍻👌
Not if the technocrats succeed in using C-19 to usher in the “Chinese model” of governance. Even if there is some big celebratory event, it would be artificial and generic with music made by algorithms.
no official statement was released about 1.6 million people at the Metallica concert.
Thanks a lot guys !!! I was born in the USSR. In 1991, communism and the Iron Curtain collapsed. It was the first metal fest Monsters of Rock in our country. Before that, we could only listen to records and no one even saw live what the musicians looked like. I watched this concert on tv.
You probably missed the Moscow Peace Festival in 1989 with Ozzy, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Skid Row, Scorpions and etc....
Ennio Morricone "Ecstasy of Gold" is played at the beginning of each concert, check out S&M2 and intro plus Call of Ktulu, just pure epicness ^^
Best band in metal history in my opinion!! I have been a fan from the beginning. I had the shirts, the tapes, and posters covered the walls!! Rock on Gen X!!!!! Thanks!
I saw Metallica in Philadelphia Spectrum 92 or 93 you are correct no cell phones took like 3 hours to find the car very inebriated me and my friends sobered up eating cheesesteaks LOL so much fun like watching you guys react you seem genuine.
U wouldn't believe crowds in 60s and 70s and 80s at concerts. Amazing. Now Woodstock was another story. Man can't believe I'm still here.
Metallica is hands down the best band of all time for intros! I still get chills listening to their music sometimes and this video in particular get me all kinds of pumped up. My face actually goes slightly tingly and numb with this intro. That’s weird I know but it’s so awesome!!
I saw Metallica live in '08 in Chicago, Death Magnetic. It was my first concert. I got a contact high walking through the parking garage at 14. I had my ear drums blown out for 2 days. They had chrome everything and lasers bouncing off their gear and the stage. It was the greatest moment of my life as far as music is concerned.
find it funny i was kinda there my mum n dad where at this gig when mum was pegnant with me, love watching this but got the entire show on my pc now which parents occasionly wanna watch again, its awesome that followed on from em and love most metal, rock n some other types music since, im now 32 on jan 22 so its awesome to see this being reacted to!!
The constant beaming true smiles on your faces made my day! Much love and keep rockin 🤘🤘🤘
I was there. Fortunately not in the first row, but close enough to see the stage and the band on it )))
I never get tired of watching this , awesome performance .
I went to an acdc concert that had 90 000 people and that seemed almost overwhelming. Couldn't imagine over a million. Crazy! And totally awesome!
'83 US Festival is as close to this that I ever came...some half million people at that one....being in a crowd like that is awe inspiring...been in crowds of all sizes having gone to more than a hundred and fifty concerts over the years and I have to say, after around 50,000, it just doesn't matter anymore. You can't see them beyond that point from the middle of the crowd.
I was at the '82 US festival.. not quite as many folks.. 250k.. best time ever! quarter of a million folks.. no fights.. it was beautiful
the smoothness, transitions, rhythm - this was art.
it was the first Metal Concert after the fall of the Soviet Union and was about 1.6 million in Attendance
The special effects of the children in the background really make this special.
This is soon after the fall of the Soviet Union too. It's very possible that most of those people had never seen anything like this before. That's special!
You both look great 👍🇫🇮. i just started watching your videos and was immediately hooked 🤙
They are still AWESOME live! My husband has seen them 49 times. I am only on 3. Lol.
Whaw il was another world !! Will we ever see that again?
THANKS for your react ! You are great,And Suzie your smile is awesome!
Kisses from france !😘
Creeping death from the same concert
Creeping Death performance on this concert is on a different energy level compared to this one.
Oh yeah! It’s outstanding! 😎
or Harvester of Sorrow, that is legendary. ...and of course Pantera's Domination.
@@tubelious Harvester is one of the best from this show (other than Creeping Death)....and better than the studio version.
@@VadersRage yea, I have the Nothing Else Matters single CD with the HoS Live on it. Pure Gold, with that pause-whistle-spit-ALL!
There were no freaking CGI at that time, 1.6 million people enjoying
Hey, if you guys want energy you have to check out Metallica "Battery" live in Seattle 1989. One of the greatest performances captured on film!
I love watching the crowd and the soldiers getting into it
Great job with your reaction to Enter Sandman From Metallica live in Moscow 1991 This concert was free and Pantera was also there . the cover video of this song you reacted to was from The Warning.
On September 28, 1991, the Monsters of Rock concert took place at the Tushino Airfield in Moscow Russia. Just one month after the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt, videos show an electric concert with a crowd going absolutely bonkers despite reportedly 1,000 militiamen standing guard around the stage.
The one day mega concert was sponsored by Time Warner Inc. and featured AC/DC, Metallica, Motley Crue, Queensrÿche, and the Black Crowes.
This was the first time most of these people had seen a live music show of western music, absolutely the first time any of them had seen Metallica. First major concert (barring David Hasselhoff) that took place beyond the Iron Curtain. Iconic
Iron Maiden played Poland in 1984
Not only were they energized because of Metallica, they were still reved up from Pantera who played before them.
This was at an airfield in Moscow. I forget the name of it, Tushino or something like that.
The way she described how shows were back in the day is exactly how it was. You would go by your ticket. You would show it off at school. You would hook up with your friends before the shows. Everyone got all dressed up. Dudes in the leather and women dressed to the 9s. When a big-time came to town it was an absolute event. Concerts are still cool. But back in the day it's was bigger than life.
the official "count" for the concert was set at 1.6 million people. however it was estimated to be more than 2.76million in total. the ACTUAL crowd went 2.5 miles back. which was MUCH more than the 1.6 million Supposed to be attendening. Quite literally the biggest concert EVER held or will be held.
Y'all got the personalities,you guys are gonna blow up with these reactions and music!
A Metallica show in the early 90's was a sell out, you queued up all night, waited for tickets to go on sale in the morn months before the gig, and alll your friends would queue with you and make a bit of a session of it. Start getting fucked up around lunchtime on the day of the show but not too messed up or you miss the concert!
Yep, exactly! I think we all had the same ritual! ..ahh good times!!
I saw Metallica in 1996 with my older brother in Mansfield Massachusetts. I was 15, he was 20. Best concert I've ever been to.
in a crowd that size "hey babe, I have to go to the bathroom.. I'll be back".... me - "um... in what like 5 hrs? if you can even find your way back?" lol
Imagine being in your early twenties and walking out on stage like a boss to a crowd like this. There comes a point where visually it's not even people anymore but just dots.
An estimated 1.6 million people attended Monsters of Rock at Tushino Airfield.
Maybe 300k. James even said so in a interview
@@bryanhylok9961 1.2M-1.6M was the total for the 3 days.
over 3 days.... not at once
The good old days for us that were around to witness it
They played this show with AC/DC, Motley Crue, Pantera Black Crowes
It still boggles my mind why the hell were the Black Crowes at this concert? I get everyone else but they just don''t make sense on that Ticket.
@@cParman9 Because Black Crowes was the hot new popular American rock radio band of 1990-1991. Was as much about the idea of western-ism as it was the music.
Motley Crue was actually replaced by the Black Crowes.
1.6 Million people....and this is 3rd on the all time list of crowds at an open air concert. #1 is Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a crowd of 3.5 Million in 1994. #2 was Jean Michel Jarre in 1997 also in Russia, like that Metallica show, with 3.5 Million.
RAPPERS TODAY ALWAYS SAY THEY SELL OUT STADIUMS 🏟, METALLICA SAYS THATS NICE 👍 WE SOLD OUT A COUNTRY. LMAO 😂. AND NO CGI BACK THEN . I WAS IN MY TWENTIES BACK THEN. GOD IM GETTING OLD LOL
We don't have music now days bring back the 80s music
@@tommymcgregor1721 YESSSS 👏
Imagine how loud this must've been so 1.6 million people could hear it 😂😂 ears are probably still ringing
best comment in the history of.....EVER
@@blaisemackenzie8280 THANKS 🙏
In 1991, around 1.6 million people gathered for Metallica's "Monsters of Rock"
A moment of praise must be given to the sound engineers for handling such a huge show. Bet it was fuckin loud 😂
I was there and it was the most intense concert was Metallica, AC/DC, PANTERA, and The Black Crowes
This happened when the Berlin Wall came down so this way the first time they got to experience anything like this. Pantera also played at this show.
Berlin Wall.. ? No ... this happened when cccp fell in russia.
First time I heard this song was live. Epic.
It was held at an old decommisioned military airforce base. And it was free to attend.
PS. It's the same concert that the Pantera - Domination video is from. The line up was a russian metal band, the Black Crows, Pantera, Metallica and AC/DC.
In Moscow. It was Cinderella. Skid Row , Metallica, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne. Motley Crue and Bon Jovi
Please o please do Creeping Death from the same concert... that 200% pure energy!
They already did
Been with them since the 80s greatest band of all time never disappoint live!!!!
Metallica live Enter Sandman was history in the making.
1.6 million people had no idea that THEY were, in fact, their own concert for the bands and 1B+ audience decades later.
True, it was actually a 2 day venue and as you can see a majority of the 1.6M were there for Metallica. The helicopters were brought in to try and more air around the crowd with the downward prop wash of air. The coolest thing about Metallica is that they are the only band to ever perform on all 7 contents. Yes including Antarctica. And they accomplished this within a one year time period and are this in The Guinness Book of World Records for it. And don't remember the exact number but either 51 or 53 people di3d in the crowd.
And the Revolution was Metallica! And just imagine how pumped up you'd be as a performer before that sea of humanity!
of course metallica has lots of fun on stage, I mean they get to play metallica songs all the time
The 90s were awesome! Seeing Metallica live is life changing!🤘🤘
I've seen them 3x and can't wait to see them again! The crowd goes FN nutz every time Seek and Destroy is played.
This honestly makes me wish I was maybe 10 years older :D
Being German and born in 1985, I really did not realize how massively the world was changing when I was about entering elementary school. I was born roughly 20 km from the German - German Border. I only remember the fall of the Berlin Wall because all of a sudden there was this massive number of funny but smelly Trabant cars driving through our town. My parents would take me to cities I hadn't seen before (because it was impossible to get there), but they only registered in my mind as dirty and stinking of burning lignite everywhere. I would still recognize that smell immediately. I hated being there... If only I understood what a momentous time in world history that was... And that this stinky, dirty, run-down town my parents showed me was where my father had been born in 1945, before the family escaped the SBZ (soviet occupied zone).
That looks like a crowd, where you have to remind yourself, that it IS a crowd...
The band must have had such a huge adrenaline rush during this.
7:32 - "What is so sweet about this time...you couldn't just watch it later on RUclips..." She said, while watching it later on RUclips...LOL
you guys should react to their creeping death, also from russia.. that song is plain scary at one point, and you know it when you see it!
hahaha cellphones , i saw them in '92 at the end of their black album tour in Belgium. No cellphones there. Amazing energy!