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"If you start crowd surfing in Russia On Moscow concert 1991, you would end up in Ukraine"
- ancient legend
edit - Wow this comment aged against my expectations
HAHAHAHHHAHHAHA
Man, you just nailed it :D
😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
No, but you would probably end up in 1992.
Too funny
God I miss when heavy metal literally ruled the world
Rock in general
It still does in europe. The north at least
it still does to me but I know what you mean!
Yeah wtf happened? Why no more heavy metal/hard rock bands anymore? I mean I still listen to them but why are there not 2020's versions of the greats in either heavy metal or rock? Is music dead? Pop and rap, is that it?
People weren’t such pussies
This was the 1st EVER concert after the Fall of the Soviet Union. Some of those people could only hear them on Bootleg tracks. This literallyu was a world changing moment.
The organizer of the festival spoke about its insane scale, estimating the number of listeners at 600,000 people. “People came from all over the country. We spent the night in the Tushino field in the rain. I arrive at Tushino at ten in the morning, and I feel unwell. Because I see just a human sea. Sea! I think: "Mom dear." And the police don’t know what to do,” he said.
“I stood on the stage and could not understand how many people. The police said 400 thousand. There was a feeling that there were 600 thousand, ”Zosimov added.
Good comment!
the concert took place before the official collapse! And yes it was free of charge...
diiiie communism! it's so awful :( it handicaps a whole country's ability to advance and make quality anything and kills sooo many people :/
@@roverwaters3875 happened before the fall but during the terminal breaths of the USSR. What's interesting is the army tried to stop it happening but realised they were powerful because of so many people. Happened little over a month after the failed 'August Coup' which was also defeated pretty much by people power.
This concert was a celebration of freedom!!! I'm from America and was 28 when the Iron Curtain fell and I cried for days. My dad used to guard the Brendenburg Gate(West German side) in the 1950s and hated his job with a passion.He died from cancer in September of 1988,so he never got to know about those liberating times. RIP Dad and to Everyone,everywhere who had to deal with the dark times and didn't get a chance to see better days.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️😭😭😭💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕With Love from America.
I saw a comment once ill have to steal... "the Germans sent armies to bring peace to Russia, America sent 4 dudes with long hair"
Yea but it was Metallica🤓
underrated comment.
They sent a whole festival. Pantera played, and many more that day.
@@christophergomez8830 and AC DC was the main event, Think black crows only played one or two songs
Lol
Drake, " 40 000 attended my concert, .. Metallica, " Our support and security crew in Russia was bigger than that"
LOVE this comment!!! :-)
🤣🤣 It was 1.6 million people and it was the monsters of rock tour. The Russian Military tried to keep order at first but they couldn't. Even the helicopters gave up. By the end the soldiers were jamming.
James Hetfield: “Drake, hold my beer”
2000000,peoples..jp..
AND NONE OF DAT UNNECESSARY BLING
This was one of the greatest moments in history. the whole thing was about freedom
i remember after the fall of the USSR I got my first audio tape recorder. My grandma gave me some money as a gift and I went and bought an audio cassette with Metallica. It had "...and justice for all" on the one side and "Master of Puppets" on the other side. That night was sleepless night! Oh boy, this 14 years old Soviet kid was listening over and over again under the blanket his first Metallica music! It was mesmerizing! It was new! It used to be forbidden and now you can listen to it! On the other hand my friends, I think it's not ever, yet! I think Putin (KGB) want's to regain control not only over former republics and take away their freedom, but take more, it it's possible. Now, I've been American for a while now. Once thing that always stick in my mind is a car sticker which I first saw in America that touched my heart, "FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!" Let's cherish our freedom and remind our government - You are not our Daddy!!!
I don't know you bud, but I love you.
Bruh please don’t compare Putin to Old Communism that will never work
Amen brother
True, some paid the ultimate price.
James: "How many tickets did we manage to sell?"
Lars: "Russia"
It was a free concert
@@stephenjeffrey7491 you're not that guy, pal.
@@leepartyboy666 hahah
@@leepartyboy666 It was for free.
@@peet4921 after 500k tickets were sold instantly , you can even see some kind of premium section in the front :D that had to be expensive and sold out with a speed of light
"MFs can't even get 1.6 million in album sales" That shit did hit different
@David * MFs can't even get YT subs like that. :D
Also the music industry has been heavily saturated.
Underline, cap, and bold the word "DID"
I think that is the greatest quote we can use against todays music.
@David * To be fair it was also the first Monsters Of Rock festival in the Soviet Union after the iron curtain fell. Demand was HIGH! Only the second time the old communist regime was exposed to western music. The line-up was the best of the best of what russians could only buy on the black market for decades: AC/DC, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. Crüe already paved the way during Moskou Peace Fest a couple of years before with Scorpions and Bon Jovi. That show had an attendance of roughly 850K. Even crazier if you know the wall was still up back then.
Even in crowds this big there were rules you followed to keep everyone safe. If someone was in trouble you helped. When we went to concerts you watched everyone around you not just the people you came with. If something got started we stopped it. We all kept each other safe. Which is why we don't understand people getting killed at one of today's mini concerts. Music today is nothing compared to music then and no nobody was killed during this concert.
Amen sister.
There are people still stuck in traffic coming home
😆
🤣
We were piss poor back then. No cars = no traffic )))
You joke but I bet there was still people stuck In traffic trying to get there
Facts
Fun Fact: 1.6M is when they stopped counting ;)
it propably reached 2M
the number is overinflated
@@roverwaters3875 not even a little !!!
@@roverwaters3875 I would say probably not. It was a free concert on an airfield. Crowd probably stretched for literal miles
@@jacobburnett1175 I am not debating...
It is a fact that the 1.6 mil number is overinflated
500-600k is the real figure.
It was approximately 1.6 mil in a 3 day event they could not control the crowd so they jest opened the gates .. 27 died
I’m a Metallica fan since the 80s but seeing this crowd is always nuts
One of my first concerts was Metallica. It wasife changing. Back when music bound people to each other.
That helicopter flying about 75 ft over the crowd is just as metal as Sandman.
Hell yeah
Soviet/Russian A/C.
Fun fact : Helicopters was there to cool down the crowd because they were all pacted.
If only that coulda got artillery to play the base lines like Chaikovsky overture.
That was some Apocalypse Now territory
Modern day performers: “I SOLD OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN! WHAT YALL KNOW ABOUT THAT?!!”
Metallica: “..........cool story bro.”
Metallica sold out Madison Square garden without turning up literary
Metallica: "We sold out Russia bro, what do YOU ALL know boutTHAT?" 🤣🤣
Modern day performers: 😯😲😳
And just think, these guys can say “We sold out Moscow”. Yeah, hold my beer.
“Cause were Metallica”
It's not worth of their word if you can still see the white from the eyes from the stage, if you can't they'll talk business
In 1994 Rod Stewart had a New Year's Eve concert at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro where 4.2 million people attended and the concert was free.
They were hugely popular not just for their extraordinary music but their anti-establishment and awakening messages. You seriously got to listen to the lyrics.
There were more people attending this concert than Iceland's population
😂
Yeah bro, it's crazy. More than 4x the population of Iceland even.
To be fair ACDC was the headliner Metallica was the 2nd.
@@phillips91682ify Yeah, but then there was Pantera (absolute favourite band of mine) and a russian hardrock band - just forgot the name. But the reason there were 1.6 people (or even more) was: the concert was for free and it was the first metal/ rock concert available for the public. I have to ask my uncle as he attended this concert, he might give some more information on this.
@@weirdkidfromspace yeah I think this was the first after the fall of the Soviet Union
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
historical bro they have NO IDEA who significant this truly was for the WORLD.
😍😍😍
heroins a lot better drug than freedom, plus its actually real. freedoms just an idea, one that doesnt meaningfully exist unless youre grotesquely wealthy. i mean i guess freedom from not going to arena rock concerts is cool though.
@@mediumvillain Try North Korea for 30-40- years and come back to me.
goose bumps reading your words love, we cheered you on from here!!
I know this is an older reaction but I couldn't imagine the feeling Metallica had seeing so many fans and from a whole other country had to be one the most proud best feeling for them and they definitely should have their legends
Not a single cell phone or camera in the audience! LIVING IN THE MOMENT
Just imagine the feeling of 1,600,000 people surrounding you, stomping around, and screaming your name while being held back by the Russian military. What a fucking feeling that must have been.
Wasn't the Russian military kind of in chaos at that time? Those dudes just put on military uniforms to get front row seats. 🤣
@@seanthomasson5236 fall of communism that's why
1.6 over 3 days, not at once
@@roverwaters3875 no.
@@rimisark you dim
This was actually called "The Monsters Of Rock" Concert, that had a whole host of different Metal Bands. The most EPIC Concert in History!
The helicopters were there to help with crowd control. This was held in a large air field. I believe the concert was free and was given to celebrate the fall of "The Iron Curtain".
you are correct
Also the day a KGB officer shit his pants and formed a plan to control the country, not long after this Putin started consolidating power.
500,000 paid entrances...you can see the ones up front have wristbands
@@CjJohns1776 it was free. James Hetfield has confirmed that
@@23hunter152 after the 500,000 people they gave up and let people in for free
1.6 million people showed up... No social media, no Internet you can just go on to have known about this... Love of ROCK brought them there... This wasn't a concert, it was an experience and a display of exelence, this is the kind of stiff the term GOAT was made for
What an amazing crowd! The port-a-potty lines must have been 10,000 deep each 😀 Seriously, awesome song, awesome band, awesome moment in music history. Thanks for posting, Stevie!
There's a reason rappers want to be rock stars.
@@cloudsquirrel nah rap is sick🙌
@@cloudsquirrel Don‘t be a hater, music is music whether you like the genre or not.
@@Nanaa yeah but the skill required to make metal music is just a bar higher compared to rap, pop and other commercials.
@@cloudsquirrel You do realise that you are commenting on a channel that literally posts Rap reactions right?? So what you are saying that guys like Pac, Big, Em, Rakim, Nas are all talentless??
@xyz abc DUDE JUST SHUT UP
RAPPERS TODAY ALWAYS SAY THEY SELL OUT STADIUMS 🏟, METALLICA SAYS THATS NICE 👍, WE SOLD OUT A COUNTRY 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤣🤣🤣😂😂
👍
You are mistaken...THAT would be Joe Biden
what happens if you have to go to washroom? LMAO
@@ELGF_CKJ POTTER PODY ALL OVER THE PLACE
Can’t see out a country if the concert was free 😂😂
One of very few concert videos that I like far better than the scripted official videos for a song. The band actually sounds better...like the crowd has inspired them to better than even usual.
Just now got back to my car. What a show! Can't wait for next album.
Only 6 likes? This comment deserves 1.6 mil
🤣🤣🤣
I wish my edible was hittin' when I read this comment.
This is the most meta comment on CZcams 😂🤘🏻
That's it...I'm done 😂😂 I just snorted my coffee everywhere. This comment is GOLD
Rappers today: I SOLD OUT STAPLES CENTER🥶
Metallica: yea that’s cute
that fking emoji gets me everytime now
On their last tour, they were selling out stadiums and setting new records. They still got it.
They sold out Russia
I mean that wasnt completly metallicas concert
😂
This concert was just after the fall of the Iron curtain, when the USSR was dissolved. They had their freedom.
And less than a month after the August Military Coup failed. This is the wake for the Soviet Union. Nice that Pantara, Metallica, The Black Crowes, and AC/DC showed up for the show.
Just before* it fell
It was before
@@eq1373 no. It was after. The Berlin wall fell in 1990 & this was 1991 I thinl
*The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989
Rock/metal concerts are something different, if something happens and you fall down there's 10 hands reaching out to pull you back to your feet and make sure you're OK, it's an amazing experience
Unless, it’s limp bizdick
Gotta agree. Even in my local shows, packed out and when one falls, people immediately ensure they get on their feet safe
Facts
I've seen the lead singer of Lamb of God stop the show because somebody got hurt in the pit. So yeah it's a crazy fun experience. I also say compared to some other genres that I've been to you don't see very many fights.
@@Kdog4660 Let's say they maybe learned the lesson after kicking an asshole back in the crowd and going to jail for it? (full disclosure, I feel Randy was totally in right in kicking my compatriot down)
1991 was the year that the USSR broke up so this was a huge time for the ppl of Russia, in 91’ the population of the city of Moscow alone was 9 million ppl, Metallica are epically legendary. I wish we had more artists that good today.
The buzz must have been universal, awesome comments, great vid music appreciation from all angles, us Heavy Metal fans should appreciate all music just as much. Well done for this video, round of applause!
This concert was basically Metallica,Ac/Dc, and Pantera playing at Soviet Russia’s funeral lol this was right after the whole Berlin Wall deal
....and Megadeath
Imagine that your country just opened up to the rest of the world and you are finally able to partake in what the free world has always had and these bands come over and play you a free concert!
@@bthomas518 No one is BANNING BOOKS. Can you just stop talking in hyperbole for like one day.
I know the number of people was INSANE(still blows my mind), but I wish you'd have paid attention to how awesome the guys sounded. They sounded amazing. They always sound great live. I've seen them 3 times(wish it was more but health problems) since I was 14 and they don't disappoint.
The collective energy in that place would have been insane to feel, gives me chills just watching. 😍
In an interview James Hetfield was asked what he has to say about people saying they "sold out", his response was "we did, every stadium we played in"
I remember when people started saying that shit and giving em crap for cutting their hair and all that nonsense. Idea of selling out pisses me off 90% of the time. If you're making music you want you haven't sold out.
It was Jason who said that 😎
@@MetaITurtle I stand corrected
@@shawnminnich7273 😮
The hair wasn’t the point. It was the fact they were buying songs. More catchy, pop appeal. Starting with this album. And it’s why they blew up in 91. I love their albums, but facts are facts.
That was a free concert with AC/DC, Pantera etc. Crazy still. When music was real
WAS WAITING for someone else to know lmao
Free or not it as a band that would have been wtf moments.
i knew it had to be free, it not possible to sell that many tickets
I got the pleasure of seeing them in 1989. I am 59 now and would go again today if I had the chance. Master musicians!
1988 I won concert tickets on the radio inside their octagon stage. 50 people inside the stage
Ottawa Canada 1988!!! Kick ass show!!
Could you imagine 1.6 million people singing your song back at you? That would be an insane feeling
Enough adrenaline for the rest of your life
I would feel appreciated for a hundred people singing back at me. I'm, not a very accomplished songwriter, I focus more on the music, but still like doing lyrics , kind of like Neil Peart for Rush, not to compare myself, I am a minor subset of that gene pool of musical talent. I'm a fair lyricist, and an above-average drummer, I would say, but the competition out there is intense, and diverse. For every one of ME, there are probably a thousand drummers better, but I have given 40 years of my life to learning and perfecting new drumming skills, including a couple of Mike Portnoy's drum videos. I use Portnoy's "toolbox" every chance I get when drumming.
1.6 million people who don’t even speak your language
1.6 million were over 3days
at this show audience was ~150k
got it?
@@tantrus99 I am rooting for you.
You can tell the people in the crowd had some serious pent up emotions from all their years suffocating behind the Iron Curtain. When you said "they must have been high on something" my brain immediately went to "yeah - freedom." The visceral reaction of the crowd was a collective catharsis like no other in history.
wonderful fall of communism
the people in the west are suffocating more. And now Russia has put the usa and west under its boot. Keep crying haha
This video proves the REALITY of the boundaries that music can overcome and bring people together. It's a shame what's currently (10/2022) going on right now in Ukraine.
I wonder if anything like this would happen after pootin 💩 is gone and is no longer in control. If Metallica (definitely), and any other bands would be willing do something like this after the war in Ukraine is over???
SECURITY would be a significant subject of concern. Bring many Russian citizens and Ukrainian citizens TOGETHER for something like this and begin to HEAL from much of the destruction and distrust that has occurred that will prob take decades to overcome.
The ILLUSION of freedom.
@@seanpatton7406 the problem is Ukrainian president is a cruel dictator as well putin sees his o ly port that doesn't freeze over in the water being taken over by people who signed documents and swore they would never take it over I don't sympathize with putin but learn what the fuck is actually going on before you start lecturing
Dude,is that the most beautiful sight!!! I can't handle crowds like even a tenth that size without freakin....that's crazy unreal.!!
biggest concert ive been to was 250 000 people and it was crazy 1.6 is insane man
That audience can't even speak English.. that's how much influence metallica has on the planet
I'm so happy you did this
It’s over one million people .. I just wonder how u pee .. u know people are drinking so they will have to pee .. not so bad for boys but girls that’s another story .. now I’m fm the country I can squat behind a tree or car or something but damn with this many people there’s now way you can squat !! Wth??
I am happy he did this too !! I think 🤔 I replied on yours earlier .. sorry I was just trying to tell him how many people are there .. lol 😂
@@randipearson4930 I hope he reacts to pantare - domination next
As a review, great. The fact that dude went and grabbed info on the crowd size, (that btw shocked even me) he deserves a follow....
It was an insane day in Moscow that day. Just great stuff
Creeping Death from this same concert is just as insane. 1.6 million ppl chanting "Die! Die! Die!" Badass moment from that song
@Gerard Smith, shit yes, that footage is amazing. They put on such a kick ass show for those ppl.
The only thing I enjoyed about my teen years was any change I got to go to a concert. Slamming in the pit, the endless rush of adrenaline, such good times🤘
Gotta react to that too!! Great song
This the reason why we say rock gods not rockstars anymore
You will never see anything like this again, the days of major shows are in the pass, the experience attending one was mind blowing, exciting, and just so much fun.
Gives new meaning to the million man march. Imagine if he gave just one command, “Attack!”
Stevie, you GOT to check out "Metallica - One" from the same concert in Moscow. You will NOT regret it. Like if you agree,people that know!
People that know? LOL.
Pretty common knowledge that the audio/visual absolutely sucks in that version.
@@RDB93 There's good ones out there also.
@@Cid_1 You clearly just said it’s from the SAME concert.
Can you elaborate?
@@RDB93 ONE is a song name by metallica
@@Cid_1 Pretty evident you don’t know shit about Metallica.
I can't believe my favorite breakdown reactor is watching Metallica, my absolute favorite band of all time! Thank you for this, bro!
Why though he talked the whole time about the crowd and not even the music. Couldn’t even bob his head. It’s obvious this dude don’t fuck with any other rock/metal shit. Jus stick to hip hop
@@arizona_rockabilly9288 to be fair the audio sucks on this video
Arizona_Rockabilly 928,
Bad read on Stevie Knight.
It's called "Shock and Awe"!
I've never seen a crowd like that.
No american has ever seen a crowd like that unless they watched the videos.
Stevie's not a "Rap Snob", or he wouldn't have even made the video.
You gotta be open to notice,
When someone's experiences an awe inspiring moment, "Human Nature" is to stare in wonder.
The moment was too much, and he was distracted from the music by the Awe of that many people in one location.
You sound like a Snowflake!
@@TheConservativeLiberal2Watch you sir sound like someone who is about 40 and not like some of these millennials who can’t see beyond. You hit it right on the head!
@@Ppareja1976
Thank You CP.
Jean Michel Jarre, Moscow, 1997: 3.5 million. Rod Stewart played in Rio De Janeiro on New Year's Eve 1994, reportedly to 4.2 million people, but a proportion of those only turned up for the fireworks at midnight+.
I just came across this.
I think this is my favorite reaction on CZcams lol thanks man
Metallica was so big they even did a show on Antarctica 😂
fr
Yes, they are the only band in history to perform on all 7 continents !
This is true. Insane how well known they are
3.2 million penguins attended!!! 🤣
They unintentionally set a world record to perform on all continents within a year with this. Metallica is just amazing 🤘
Love your reaction and the fact that you're too young to understand the times these people were living in. The iron grip of the Soviet Union had collapsed. For the first time in their lives they were free to go and do something without fear of being jailed for acting "free". Most of the military there were in the audience rocking out and loosing their shit right along with the rest. The whole thing was a massive release of a lifetime of pent up emotion and longing to let themselves go completely.
Yeah the soldiers realized that you cannot control an airfield full of people and just went “fuck it” and joined in 😁
that's beautiful
forgot about this one did u? czcams.com/video/eePDXSsDF-k/video.html
I didn't know that.. that makes it even more amazing that it already is..
True words.
Back in the day that’s the way it was I was 17 drove 6 hrs to the first Texas jam where there were 85k people in a stadium that seats 35k and the outside temperature was 104
It is so crazy!! But it is so beautiful! I think 1.million people!!
I've seen metallica 9 times and they never fail to satisfy best concerts I've ever been to
When you born into the freedom you won’t know what it feels like to get freedom.
Was born and raised in Russia and EARNED the privilege to be an American 🇺🇸
Welcome, Alex. We love you.
Same!
Exactly
So happy to have you here. Remember to vote Republican for the rest of your life.
If someone Falls you pick them up that's the rule in a mob
I've seen this 100 times and I'm still covered in Goose bumps!!
So interestingly enough I always heard that there were 51 deaths at the show. However sometime last year I read a report that had info from the Russia organizers themselves and the American promoters and crew, that said 51 was the amount of people hospitalized from injuries, but there were actually ZERO fatalities somehow
Metallica is Different fr. Been around since the 80s and still can sell out anywhere in the world.
Metallica and ACDC both.
@@dreamzerg and Maiden too
Dude. People have been saying Metallica sold out way back in the Ride The Lightning days. But hell yeah!!! They absolutely sell out everywhere in the world. 🤘🤘😃
@@dreamzerg nobody has ever stated AC/DC has ever sold out
@@johnrogan9729 nobody has ever stated Maiden are sellouts either.
Saw them in 90 live Toronto Ontario, Canada. 70,000 was amazing to see. I’ve never forgotten the experience. One of the best concerts ever
As a Metallica fan I had to click on this shit
As a STEVIE KNIGHT FAN... I had to click this.
I didn't see this comin lol hell yeah tho, it's been a while since I listened to some Metallica. What better place ha
And as a Metallica fan, this was disappointing as hell. But I expected it. He don’t fuck with Pink Floyd or skynyrd or anything else other than hip hop really.
You all have valid points. But understand, therefore these are natural reactions which is what I want to see and what I would hope y'all would want to see 👍
Me too dawg! Best rock band ever
You could not be miserable in that sh*t. The positive vibe was overwhelming. Everyone had freedom in their sights. The military became part of the crowd.
1991 was definitely apart of my good ol’days I just graduated high school. I remember this concert and the impact it had. 🤩 Metallica is awesome so talented and creative…
And not one cell phone. Just living in the moment. I miss the old days with no cell phone tbh.
You are right. This is a amazing moment of past life)
Maybe because they didn't exist
@@luisledesma7425 thank you Captain Obvious
@@luisledesma7425 NO S***
go to Asia, they don't allow cellphones in a lot of their concerts (not festival tho).
My father was there ! He told me it was 2 millions people! One of the best moments in his life !!!
That’s awesome!!!
I was there as a cameraman. Still have a lot of the old photos that they permitted us to leave with.
They stopped counting at 1.6 million.
He was there, with me :)
🧢
Ive seen them in 3 tours in Toronto and they kick your ass all night.Epic😂Much love from Canada❤🇨🇦
They had speaker towers in the crowd, and the stage was 3 stories high of speakers!
They're also the first band to play on all seven continents.
Antarctica?
@@stuart1001 yep they played for some scientists
@@stuart1001 yes they did. Hosted by Coca Cola lmao
Freeze Em All
No it was actually for the Metlub. They got to give a couple of hundred people and experience that they will remember for the rest of their lives and they are lucky to have gotten to go.
The first Western concert behind the iron curtain was the 3rd largest concert audience in history
5th actually. But still a major event
What are 1st and 2nd?
@@foiabun1 Rod Stewart - Rio de Janeiro 1994 - 3.5 million, JEAN MICHEL JARRE, 1997 - 3.5 million
And they also had the Moscow Peace Festival in 1989 with Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Ozzy, Motley Crue, etc. don’t know crowd size but it was 2 years before this one
the power of music is a beautiful thing man
Most attended at a free concert: Rod Stewart
On New Year's Eve 1994, over 4.2 million people flocked to Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to Guinness World Records, this is the current world record.
Hell it's 2023 and I just got to the bar at the concert!!
This was a MONUMENTAL event in the context of Soviet history, and is often seen as a marker of just how much of an effect western culture had in the final years of the Union. They had to clear out a MILITARY AIRFIELD to fit the crowd, which is part of why you see so many soldiers in the crowd
About 300 thousand spectators came and came from other cities to the concert with the participation of PANTHERA, BLACK CROSE, METALLIKA, AS / DS and our EST. This concert was guarded by 11 thousand people: police, riot police, internal troops, rifle divisions of the Soviet Army. When the first bottles fell on their heads and two soldiers were taken away by an ambulance, angry law enforcement officers began to rush at anyone they did not like, beating people with their hands, feet and clubs. The space in front of the stage literally turned into a bloody battle that did not stop from the very beginning of the concert until midnight.
According to the ambulance station, 56 people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, of which 16 were military personnel.Oleg PSHENICHNY
Photo by L. LAZAREV
"Horizon №12'1991
PA systems for this type of event have delay towers. They are spread out in rows throughout the audience space. Its those scaffold towers you see spread around. Each tower has a huge stack of PA speakers on it. Each tower is also electronically delay timed to the original line of the speakers on the stage, to prevent it sounding like an echo. On shows of this scale, it can take weeks to load-in all the gear. It takes a lot of smart people, and a lot of hard work to make it all happen.
Thanks, man. I was wondering what the other huge tower was.
That's pretty wild that they delay the sound so it all syncs up.
that is SOOOOO COOOOL. tHANKS DUDE!!
I remember when this happened. There were several bands there. Free concert for a free people. No deaths. Amazing moment in time.
That's the sound of freedom
No mf genre can compete against rock. Fight me i dont care 🤟🏼
There is nothing to fight about you just stated a fact
Yessss girl! 🔥🤘
I had that very same thought.
Absolutely mf true! 🤟🏼
Thats not even e debate girl.
My big brother was was one of the sound engineers for this show. Said it was an absolute nightmare
😂 😂 that’s dope
There's different delay times for each speaker so the audience all hears it at the same time no matter the section they're sitting... they probably had to calculate it out for each speaker and there were probably hundreds LOL
Tell us more man! Thats a story I like to hear!
@@Danne82 yeah man me too!
Biggest concert I went to had 107,000 people - that was crazy enough!
There are a few documentaries out there or used to be about this particular show. Interviews with the band and what was going through their mind and all the unfortunate things that happened it in the crowd itself during all of this.
This was the final moments before the Soviet Union collapsed. These young people, who were forbidden from listening to banned music from the West, made a lot of effort and took a lot of risk to covertly listen to poor quality "bootleg tapes" of Western music. This moment is filled with the spirit of change and the lifting of oppression that was soon to be. That is the "drug" these people are on, sir. The drug of freedom. With this in mind, I suggest you re-watch this event and understand what it is you are looking at.
And then we let Nato piss all over them while they were down and here we are. We lost the chance to make real peace. Sad.
Actually it was NOT. It was AFTER the wall fell. Read this long comment I wrote to another some time ago to REALLY learn more.
I am pretty sure that the Danish foreign office in Denmark and former USSR were involved. Lars Ulrich was already a famous Dane at that time and Metallica have recorded albums in Denmark etc etc. He has many friends here and Denmark has been used to dealing with USSR on more informal and/or sensitive matters where none of the parties (USSR/USA) wanted a high level dialogue. Look at Danish geo position in relation to USSR and maybe you can understand we had quite a bit of hands on experience during the cold war. Gorbachow promoted Glasnost and Perestrojka and thus we here liked to take the hand reached out and used it to test if there were a true dialogue wish internally and externally. Therefore it made sense that Denmark gave a helping hand in facilitating dialogue around a "first" western concert. Look into it. It is more than a rumor. Look hard though, it is before YT was invented. Gorbachow KNEW USSR´s fiances was unsustainable so they needed either to live of potatoes or start trading with others to survive. The Berlin wall collapsed in 1989, so this concert less than two years after the collapse. One of the causes for the timing of the collapse actually was the maintenance of the Berlin wall and the other borders along the iron curtain. Honecker had, like some other nations (like Hungary) had issues with old technology and maintenance costs and had told Moscow they needed funding to upgrade/maintain border security. Problem was that Gorbachow, as the first ever, declined the request (he simply did not have the money) and told them to find the money themselves. NOW, if you know anything about these communist satellite states at the time, they also were de facto broke. This concert was thus, at the time, a test, both internally and externally. Gorbachow also wanted the Russian people to understand that new times were coming and by allowing this, he symbolically and in reality showed a change. You have never in 200 years seen so many civilians gathered in Russia without it being connected to revolutions or dissatisfaction. It was a win for Gorbachow as well. So big a public win that it later was part of the reason the "old garde in Kremlin" abducted Gorbachow for several days and caused an internal and external crisis. GUESS who was watching this as a GRU agent stationed in East Germany....PUTIN! The old garde in kremlin eventually made a fake democracy and got Putin as leader. Sad story in the end. And Putin eventually ended up being part of the coup that brought Trump in the WH. Crazy world. Only political interested that dont recognize this are the hard core right wing republicans in USA. Man, it is a strange way to watch a political win, end of the cold war, be wasted like that. Putin and Xi are laughing their asses of when looking at USA today. Anyway, hope you enjoyed I drizzled some knowledge upon this.
Here are 6 "quality of life" minutes from some other Danes making music related to US:
czcams.com/video/enuOArEfqGo/video.html
Dudeeeeeee, your comment gave me goosebumps ❤
@@Mike-ox8sq Yeah, pretty sure that the whole Russian collusion thing backfired horribly for Clinton. Probably best not to bring it up. Only radical leftist give it any credit despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I'd say the main reason that Trump won the election was the simple fact that an enormous amount of people despise Hilary Clinton for a variety of well deserved reasons. "The coup that brought Trump to the WH." Ha ha! Funny you should say that considering the current knowledge of the 2020 election. Been following the AZ audit at all? 57,000 ballots that are incongruent and 23,000 missing all together along with thousands of shredded ballots found in a dumpster in a state that had only a 10,000 vote difference between candidates. Coup indeed.
Absolutly right! The Drug is Freedom
They were high on newfound freedom. Military was there to 'control' the crowd but became caught in the moment as well.
Different times, back in the day, music was to connect people and you could literally feel the drums and guitars in your chest those where the days😂😂😂
Its awesome to be there these in real-life. The closer you get to the front the harder moshpit is headbangin going crazy. Further towards back it mellows out. Dont knock it if you've never been to one.
imagine being Metallica and hearing that many people singing your music back to you?? your purpose has been fulfilled
Omg
The musicians feed off the crowd's energy, right? How did they not explode or short out?
1.6 million was when they stopped counting. It’s said it was over 2.5 million + . Absolutely incredible. Metallica is the God of all groups, bands, artists. Legends! GOATS!!!
We just got back to the car. Concert was great! 🔥🤘🏻
Had to see your reaction again!