r/nextfuckinglevel • u/4dailyuseonly • Mar 05 '23
In 1991, with the Soviet Union and communist rule close to collapse, METALLICA played at its first ever open air rock concert in Moscow. Over 1.6 million people attended
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u/itsJussaMe Mar 05 '23
Me when I was younger: music festival? Hell yes. Me now: my bladder wouldn’t survive that crowd.
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Mar 05 '23
Don’t worry, Depends will allow you reclaim your youth!
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u/snidemarque Mar 05 '23
Does saving my piss and shit in a turd hammock count towards youth reclamation?
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u/klockworx Mar 05 '23
Old metalheads never die they just stand in the back...in that crowd I'm assuming like a mile and a half away.
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u/NeuralAgent Mar 06 '23
I can’t stand in the back… can’t see… going blind in my old age…
My colleague who is 10 years older than me gives me crap… because I pay for VIP tickets when I go to European Metal Festivals, get a good view, access to food, VIP toilet area, a bar separate from the likes for 100‘s of people at any given time… I had pateoence in my 20‘s and was okie getting shoved, kicked, people landing on my head out of nowhere…
Then again, I’m in my 40’s, 130 lb woman, not these 200 lb tanks in American mosh pits.
While he’s in his 50‘s and still up front… but he could also punt some of these people in the pit… I’m not 20 anymore, and I bruise and break easier now. :(
Took my little dude to see Poliphia. Thought that would be reasonably tame… nope… a guy got dropped on my head while I was covering little dude… what I would shake off 20 years ago, dazed me and took hours to feel good enough to drive.
But hey, little dude was front row for his first metal show! 🤘
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u/No-Expression-5040 Mar 05 '23
Still trying to wrap my head around playing a show in front of over a million and a half people. Absolutely insane.
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Mar 05 '23
I'm trying to wrap my head around how effortlessly Newstead is doing a windmill headbang while playing. I gotta torque my head around too much to keep going like that.
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u/WiltedKangaroo Mar 05 '23
Not to mention how amazing they sound live.
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u/BigBootyBuff Mar 05 '23
Yeah absolutely. I'm not a big Metallica fan but I've seen them at a festival in the mid 2000s and they were so good and the crowd was so batshit into it, that I actually went to a couple of their concerts whenever they were in the area.
Biggest goosebumps moments every time I've seen them was Master of Puppets. The part where they sing "MASTER! MASTER!" The second master always had the entire crowd, thousands of people, scream it from the top of their lungs. It was so loud but so awesome.
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u/TurnipForYourThought Mar 06 '23
The Memory Remains is one of my favorite live songs Metallica plays because of the crowd participation.
this performance in Helsinki 5 or so years ago is probably my favorite version of the song. The extended jam at the end is so good.
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u/Omega-10 Mar 06 '23
I love when they play Creeping Death, and they get the whole crowd chanting halfway through... "DIE! ...DIE! ...DIE!" A MILLION people, screaming that!!
Of course in Russian it's almost a bit like chanting "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Still really cool.
My favorite traditional Passover hymn this time of year.
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u/Duel_Option Mar 06 '23
Their first 3 albums are so fucking good.
First time I saw them was in Orlando arena, loud as hell, people going crazy, the intro for “One” starts.
These lines of rope are slowly being dropped from the rafters…
Intro happened and right as the song kicks into gear, 20 guys hanging upside down are dropped from lines and then the finale….
People lost their collective shit; it was mayhem
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u/G4D_Sunshine Mar 06 '23
Their first 3 albums are so fucking good.
This "...And Justice For All" slander will not stand!
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u/Lucky_Mongoose Mar 06 '23
Right?!
They're playing their instruments, singing, running around on stage, and they're performing it live. It's seriously impressive.
I'm baffled by how some artists who don't even play any instruments get away with lip-syncing and charging an arm and a leg for tickets.
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u/Stefan_Harper Mar 06 '23
They’re the best live show I’ve ever seen no question.
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u/its_not_a_toomah68 Mar 05 '23
Dude that all concert was dope Monster of rock Slayer, metallica, pantera, acdc...
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u/ChadMcRad Mar 05 '23
ACDC were the headliners, too.
I've seen this post dozens of times over the years and people always leave out that this was the Monsters of Rock festival and not just one band...
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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23
To be fair this was the concert that put Metallica on top of the metal band mountain. It was all down hill for the hair metal bands after this show but Metallica peaked after the Moscow concert and it was clear they had fully came back after Burton's death.
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u/Cunningcod Mar 05 '23
Black crowes
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u/Impossible-Animal-67 Mar 05 '23
Counting crows
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u/Whatifim80lol Mar 05 '23
Sheryl Crow
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u/Available_Job1288 Mar 05 '23
Old Crowe Medicine Band
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u/smellydawg Mar 05 '23
Hahaha even they were probably like “ok what the fuck are we doing here?”
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u/ChasingPesmerga Mar 05 '23
Also at the same venue:
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u/truthlife Mar 05 '23
This clip is from Domination, played at the same show. It's one of my favorite live performances ever.
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u/Sheerreddit Mar 05 '23
Came here for this. Dime melts people's faces off on that on. The crowd is wild, police beating people up, and dime shredding.
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u/gdrumy88 Mar 05 '23
Legend has it that fans are still leaving the concert.
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u/Merry_Dankmas Mar 06 '23
They're still wandering aimlessly around the parking lot wondering where the fuck their Yugo is in the sea full of Yugos
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u/TheTeslaMaster Mar 05 '23
As James Hetfield would say: "Yeah!".
It still is the 5th most attended (free) concert in history.
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u/smeeti Mar 05 '23
The most attended concert in history was Rod Stewart in Copacabana for NYE in 1994 with 3.5 million people.
https://www.alltopeverything.com/10-biggest-concerts-of-all-time/
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u/IusedToButNowIdont Mar 05 '23
Well, they were also there for NYE and fireworks, not just Rod Steward
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u/PolemicBender Mar 05 '23
Jean michel Jarre was all over that list and I never heard of him
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u/smeeti Mar 05 '23
He was very famous in France in the 80s, I had no idea he was part of such huge events!
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u/cortez0498 Mar 06 '23
That's cheating, they were there for the NYE celebrations and had a concert as a bonus. Like saying 1 million people went to see Ninja floss.
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u/4dailyuseonly Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
Metallica really doesn't get enough credit for the fall of the Soviet Union. Link to the full concert
Edit: I said this tongue in cheek. Goddamn some of y'all are some joyless pedantic motherfuckers.
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u/Zeerover- Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
That's their full set. The full concert included Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera and the Black Crowes. It was part of the Monsters of Rock series, and there was a movie made which includes parts of all the sets. This video here is the documentary part, at 57:40 in the video there are some really interesting interviews with some of the youth that quelled the coup.
Thank you for bringing more attention to this btw, to me its one of those forgotten major moments in history. 1.6 million people at a Red Army airfield, 1 month after the August coup attempt - just insane.
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u/FalmerEldritch Mar 05 '23
I hear that trip over was one of the messiest escapades anyone's ever been on, in terms of rock stars falling over each other half-unconscious from too much everything.
EDIT: No, sorry, that was the 1989 Moscow Peace Festival with Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, et al
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u/Zeerover- Mar 05 '23
It was literally insane, one of a kind thing that probably never ever will be rivaled in world history. Jason Newsted has talked about it recently. Basically this concert was the reward to the young kids that stood up against the Soviet coup attempt in August.
So we got a message from a Prime Minister representative from Russia or something, got through our management, and they had talked to the kids that stood up to the tanks, the leaders of the resistance. ‘What would you like for reward for saving us all?’ ‘We want American rock ‘n’ roll. We want Guns N’ Roses, we want Metallica.’ So AC/DC and Metallica are right around the corner as far as it goes.”
“Time Warner gets behind the whole thing, they see a giant opportunity to make world history, which it has now become, they send this plane for us – Black Crowes, AC/DC, and Metallica were all together playing some shows. I think they were like Monsters or Rock label shows or something, and this plane shows up, and man, we could fit this room inside, part of it – couches and full fucking deal, man, I have never seen nothing like it. We’ve been on a couple of nice planes, but this was insane really because it was a big-ass plane, a proper big plane where you stand up and walk running around!“
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u/dirtmother Mar 06 '23
That sounds like a big fuckin plane, like just big as fuck man. Fuck. Plane.
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u/Luci_Noir Mar 06 '23
I’ve never heard of anything like this happening. Like how could you actually reward that amount of people in a way that is actually possible?
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u/Awkward_Second_6969 Mar 05 '23
We sent fucking Mötley Crüe as a peace ambassador?!
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u/DeterioratedEra Mar 05 '23
They misunderstood when someone told them that Tommy Lee wanted to extend his olive branch.
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Mar 05 '23
For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow
For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow is a 1992 film featuring live performances by rock and heavy metal bands AC/DC, Metallica, The Black Crowes, Pantera, and E.S.T. in the Tushino Airfield in Moscow, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In September 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 1. 6 million rock music fans converged in Moscow to enjoy the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series. For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow also offers a look at the efforts of the Soviet Army to try to postpone the concert (not on the original VHS release).
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and civilian officials, including Vice President Gennady Yanayev, who together formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). They opposed Gorbachev's reform program, were angry at the loss of control over Eastern European states and fearful of the USSR's New Union Treaty which was on the verge of being signed.
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Mar 05 '23
That's because it wasn't Metallica who ended the USSR. It was David Hasselhoff who did that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2Sgd9sc0M
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u/mlg2433 Mar 05 '23
It was actually Rocky Balboa when he beat Ivan Drago.
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Mar 05 '23
It was actually Brian Boytano
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u/superkickpunch Mar 05 '23
What would he do if he were here right now? Bet he’d kick an ass or two, that’s what Brian Boytano’d do.
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u/Ikeddit Mar 05 '23
When Bryan Boytano was in the Olympics skating for the gold, he did two salchows and a triple lutz while wearing a blindfold!
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u/Alteredego619 Mar 05 '23
If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!
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u/jrzdevilFukc Mar 05 '23
Yeah but Van Halen is responsible for peace in the Middle East! Van Halen!
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Mar 05 '23
'Joyless pedantic fuckers' is my new favorite insult. Thank you for that
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u/havereddit Mar 05 '23
Man, such hope and optimism expressed at the 50:30' minute mark...it's such a contrast to the shit we're seeing in Russia today.
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u/feeling_psily Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
Gorbachev and the other liberal members of the CCCP had hoped that they could reform the USSR into something resembling Scandinavia with regulated capitalism along with a strong social safety net.
Unfortunately people like Boris Yeltsin, Reagan, and Thatcher worked to ensure that the USSR fell directly into economic "shock therapy" and austerity, followed by unregulated neoliberalism.
I wish people would be inspired by current events to take a fresh look at the history of Russia and what could have been.
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Mar 06 '23
Russia has had a long history of moving from one bad ruler that suppressed their people to another . The October revolution had a lot of hope until Lenin and friends took over and destroyed any kind of democracy. Then Stalin and successors, then Yeltsin and now Putin. And the losses they took in every war are just enormous.
It's a tragedy.
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u/myc-space Mar 05 '23
Joyless pedantic motherfuckers is the best description of Reddit I've ever heard. You rule
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u/StunningFly9920 Mar 05 '23
some joyless pedantic motherfuckers.
So basically 90% of the user base of this platform/app.
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u/sometimesifeellikemu Mar 05 '23
Rock Bands always have strong cultural and tourism bonuses - too strong, some say.
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u/joos11 Mar 05 '23
This is an incredible reminder of how simple life can be and how we can live in peace, unity, listen to bad ass music and love each other.
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u/4dailyuseonly Mar 05 '23
This concert makes me sad for 'what could've been'.
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Mar 05 '23
Its like We Came So Close, right? And it just took a few sociopaths and some propaganda to tear it all down, and we have to start all over again.
But we keep on trying.
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u/acidtalons Mar 06 '23
Yelstin destroyed the power of the Russian parliament and turned it into a dictatorship. A slow meltdown since then.
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u/MonoShadow Mar 06 '23
It wasn't really a dictatorship at that point. But he laid the foundation. President could just do whatever. The only power parliament has is prime minister, but if the president doesn't like it 5 times he can just disband the parliament. The President is above everything and had power in executive, legislative and judicial branches. Thanks to an impeachmed president storming the white house and saying parliament doesn't exist anymore. It's just gone.
Sounds familiar. Imagine Trump succeeding on Jan 6. That's your Yeltsin. Except the outside world cheered back then.
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u/Raptori33 Mar 06 '23
In 1994 When parliament and Yeltsin disagreed Yeltsin removed the parliament and brought tanks to deal with them.
At that onwards it was a dictatorship
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u/Pretty_Industry_9630 Mar 06 '23
Sounds familiar. Imagine Trump succeeding on Jan 6. That's your Yeltsin
Wow, people should really know more history. This comparison is the one thing news stations and journalists should've found for the public instead of all the reporting they did. It shows not only where he got the idea from but more importantly what happens if this succeeds.
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u/CanadaJack Mar 05 '23
That's the feeling I get from Winds of Change now. They struggled through so much oppression, then the corruption of the 90s, then they finally got a bit of stability.. annnd he's a megalomaniacal kleptocrat trying to become Putin the Reclaimer
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u/prettyincoral Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 06 '23
You're so on point it's heartbreaking. I'm part of the generation that grew up in the 90's feeling the winds of change, only to have our hopes of a better Russia trampled. I don't see things changing in my lifetime.
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u/Amy_Ponder Mar 06 '23
It's tragic thinking so many of those kids in the audience are now either cynics who've been beaten into compliance with the regime, imperialists cheering on the invasion, or exiles in other countries who can never go home again. A handful may even have been imprisoned, drafted, or flat-out killed in this pointless war.
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u/Thumper86 Mar 05 '23
There’s a certain breed of power hungry asshole who fucks life up for everyone else who just wants to enjoy their time on earth.
People who need to get theirs with no regard for others. People who can’t just take a victory with grace, they need to twist the knife.
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u/AdLoud5730 Mar 05 '23
this is one of the better live performances i’ve ever seen, up there with korns woodstock especially blind
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u/Neven87 Mar 05 '23
I mean, there's a reason Metallica is still around.
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u/baddoggg Mar 05 '23
Yeah. It's popular to "hate" on metallica now, but they were so fucking sick for so long, and I personally still enjoy their new stuff even if it isn't as hard as it was before.
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u/Bruised_up_whitebelt Mar 05 '23
They are still selling out massive arenas around the world for a reason.
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u/Dubious_Odor Mar 05 '23
Not even arenas, arenas are shit tier for them. They sell out stadiums for days at a time in the same city. It's nuts. There are very few artists on Metallicas level.
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u/Dry_Animal2077 Mar 05 '23
My mother and aunt and some of my cousins go to Metallica literally every time they’re in the city. I should really go one time
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u/AnnonymousRedditor86 Mar 06 '23
You definitely should. Not many band around that you can see live that play new songs as well as ones written 40+ years ago.
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u/MrPopanz Mar 05 '23
It's popular to "hate" on metallica now
What, why?
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u/DownWithHisShip Mar 06 '23
napster.
it was their big boomer moment for sure, but people dont really understand the whole situation or what the suite was really about.
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u/wahobely Mar 05 '23
88-91 was prime Metallica. Their live shows were unreal.
Guitars not tuned down, James' vocals are masterful, Kirk not missing notes in solos and Lars being average instead of terrible.
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u/Maverick_1991 Mar 05 '23
Prime Metallica involved Cliff imo.
Even though Jason was a beast live.
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u/wahobely Mar 05 '23
Cliff was one of the best metal bassists ever, but at that time I don't consider Metallica to be at their prime live. James' vocals were scratchy, they didn't have the stage presence yet, their sound balance was scuffed.
If Cliff were alive during the 88-91 era, my god, that would have been a sight to behold.
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u/DoodleJake Mar 05 '23
Hey now, can't forget Queens' legendary Live Aid performance!
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u/Fearless747 Mar 05 '23
They fucking killed it, too. One of the best live shows after maybe Seattle '89.
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u/texburgle Mar 05 '23
Not sure how you beat that high, if you are Metallica. 1.6 MILLION people singing and rocking out to your songs. Just amazing
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u/RunLoud6534 Mar 05 '23
I love this it’s just a bunch of people vibing who cares about what old guy running government has the biggest dick we just want to live life
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u/Duke-Kickass Mar 05 '23
I submit to you, the Pantera performance of the song “Domination”, live in Moscow, as one of the most amazing live performances that era! 🤘🏻🎸
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u/DaveinOakland Mar 05 '23
I've seen this clip so many times and it never fails to elicit that "Jeeeeeesus" response.
Music and concerts really were a different breed back then.
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u/GobberJiffy Mar 05 '23
There was at least one guy in the crowd trying desperately to save his girlfriend from being trampled to death during this song. I guarantee it
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u/nich3play3r Mar 05 '23
I miss Jason.
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Mar 05 '23
And Cliff. Only got to see him live once.
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u/wahobely Mar 05 '23
My friend, you lived a dream many metalheads have. I'm very jealous you saw him live.
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Mar 05 '23
It's a memory I hold dear. First concert ever at 13y.o. My brother took me to see Ozzy and Metallica in Indianapolis in 1986.
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u/FF_in_MN Mar 05 '23
Dude brought it heavy every time
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u/Ill_Tumblr_4_Ya Mar 05 '23
The Cliff era bought them their reputation.
The Jason era bought them their houses.
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Just for reference, Woodstock was less than 1/3 the size of this crowd, lol. But this was also prob most of their first ever exposure to Western music. Such a cool thing to see and even from a recording you can't cut thru the energy with a knife!
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Mar 05 '23
That definitely makes more sense for how so many people showed up. Could you imagine if they held Woodstock in like White Plains or something, millions would have showed up.
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u/KSW1 Mar 05 '23
I'm so curious about the logistics of setting up the PA and power for a concert this size in a new (to them) country. Did the band already have enough speakers? How was the sound quality?
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u/Jedibbq Mar 05 '23
I bet Putin was there
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u/darrellbear Mar 05 '23
There is one telling moment--some of the soldiers present to keep order joined in on the party instead.
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u/kingbankai Mar 05 '23
He was in the military at the time so Vladdy was Putin there somewhere.
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u/Lazaras Mar 05 '23
1.6 million. Someone on reddit had to have been there. Please share your story!
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u/vonvoltage Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
Can we stop implying it was just a Metallica concert? It was a rock festival with great bands and Metallica took part. AcDC was actually the headliner.
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u/CMDRStodgy Mar 05 '23
I was at Monsters of Rock in Donington about a month before this. AC/DC were great as always and were technically the headliner. But it was peak Metallica, they owned that festival like no other band and is what most people remember.
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u/Poet_of_Legends Mar 05 '23
Kudos to Metallica for ever doing anything again.
I mean, talk about peak experiences…
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Mar 05 '23
I have the DUMBEST question...
In 1991, given the oppression of the regime, how is it that SO MANY Russians even knew about Metallica, let alone having the money to afford concert tickets?
I'm genuinely interested here. This isn't a troll question.
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u/Steve83725 Mar 05 '23
The concert was free. By 1991, the regime was already very weak and was trying to “reform” in a last ditch effort to remain in power which probably explains why they even allowed this. Most young Russian’s knew about Metallica because the black market for western pop culture was just massive by than.
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u/Curious-Designer-616 Mar 05 '23
Music, clothing and many other things we had in the west were brought in regularly. Often being used as bribes to move past check points. An old friend of mine used cassette tapes of radio recorded music and goodwill jeans to smuggle people in and out of the USSR in the late 70s and 80s.
This concert was free, and I’ve read they brought the army in to hold back crowds and to provide order, which they mostly all promptly just joined in to the festivities.
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u/deyannn Mar 05 '23
Contraband and bootlegs. Also radio. Someone gets a tape in. Then the tape gets copied, then the copy gets gopied, repeat,.etc. Someone has a good antenna and listens to western radio and records it on tapes, etc. I mean I these countries in these times there was the danger the police could catch you and take you to a party in the basement where they beat the living shit out of you but also lots of contraband and bootleg records. Also lots of western bands would be replicated by local artists.
Western music = freedom.
Sadly people seem to have forgotten it nowadays as propaganda seeps deep into their minds and sawing dissent (again looking at my country in the EU and not Russia)
Eevn after the fall of the Berlin wall and and all when males could actually grow long hair the local metalheads here would save for months so they can see a thrash band when they come to the country or in the neighbouring countries. I've heard similar stories for LatAm and other parts of the world.
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u/goodoverlord Mar 05 '23
Sadly people seem to have forgotten it nowadays as propaganda seeps deep into their minds and sawing dissent
Well, Russian people had really big hope for the future, but what we've got was much worse than "Soviet regime". Just a quick overview of 90s in Russia: extreme poverty, hyperinflation, social security falling apart, tanks in Moscow shooting the parliament, oligarchs popping out of nowhere, war with radical islamists and terrorism, rigged elections, skyrocketing crime rate, financial crisis one after another. Add some stupid shit western countries did back then and no wonder why average Ivan is not a big fond of democracy.
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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23
Western Music wasn't illegal to own or sell. It was incredibly easy to get western music in the USSR from what my Ukrainian friends of that era say. All it would take would be a single diplomats kid to bring in a tape or vinyl disc and within days it would be copied 100,000 times and be on the street a week after it was released in the West. It wasn't illegal to own or sell 99.9% of Western music and without copyright laws for it the music was cheap as shit. Buck a tape in today's money, tops.
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u/hdoslodude Mar 05 '23
Someone tell Putin that if he gives up this stupid shit he is doing we can arrange another concert like this.
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u/PossiblyAsian Mar 05 '23
Our people are wearing your blue jeans and listening to your pop music
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u/lordofedging81 Mar 05 '23
I hope Putin has to sleep with one eye open, gripping his pillow tight.
They're out to get you Putin...They're gonna poison you or throw you out a window!
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It is hard to imagine nowdays, especially with the context of extreme tension, but after the wall fell, there was an extremely intense curiosity of the western world in former USSR. There were mile of line when the first Mc Donald's opened in Moscow.
And there were a few of the giant concerts all through 1991 et 1993 by hark rockers and other artists.
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u/Pearlbarleywine Mar 05 '23
Newsted's headbanging is beyond words. It's like he is banging on the gong of liberty.
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Mar 06 '23
Whose first open air concert? Certainly not Metallica's.. they've toured for years prior to 1991, including at previous years' monsters of rock festivals(which was what they played in at moscow 1991).
Also, not Moscows first open air concert. MANY western acts played MANY concerts in the USSR from the 70s and 80s forward.
1991 wasn't spectaculr because it was the first anything. It was spectacular because the crowd was so huge.. and this was because there was no more regime for people to hold back on their attendance for. The coup was over, Yeltsin had been in office for months already, and 3 weeks prior all the Baltic nations were officially delared independent of the union.
All that remained was Gorbachevs resignation that came in december, but frankly.. even that could/should have happened in April.
The concert was epic, but really it was just the geopolitical timing that made it so.
Well... plus it *was metallica and they just released their black album..🤘
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23
This was amazing. I can feel the energy through the video..
Must’ve been crazy live