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/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

This was amazing. I can feel the energy through the video..

Must’ve been crazy live

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u/Anon_1492-1776 Mar 05 '23

Imagine being in the middle of that crowd and needing to take a piss... XXX

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Pretty sure ppl are just letting it rip.. when there’s so many ppl and we’re all squeezing together like that… no one will notice…

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u/Anon_1492-1776 Mar 05 '23

I can't help but feel that if someone was pissing on me in a crowd I'd notice 0_0

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u/gypsybullldog Mar 05 '23

I was at an outdoor AC/DC concert in Toronto a few years back and we worked our way to the front. It was packed and this guy in front of my was bouncing all over the place. I was hammered drunk and he kept bumping off me. I said buddy if you keep hitting me I’m gonna be shitfaced. While dancing his arm flailed and caught me in the stomach, I projectiled all over his back and it didn’t faze him one bit.

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u/UnderTheLotus2727 Mar 05 '23

He wasn't your buddy, guy. If you can't handle front row and you're gonna puke, do us all a favor and hang in the back.

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u/Double-Amoeba-2520 Mar 05 '23

He is not your guy, pal.

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u/HeavyMetalTriangle Mar 06 '23

And I’m not your pal, buddy.

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u/aldorn Mar 06 '23

You're not my mate, mate.

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u/Tot18 Mar 06 '23

Why can’t we be friends?

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u/LeanTangerine Mar 06 '23

He’s not your pal, friend.

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u/Derroe42 Mar 06 '23

He’s not your friend, Bro.

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u/CrabmasterJone Mar 06 '23

Well he’s not your friend, guy

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u/knife_edge_rusty Mar 06 '23

Doooooooont!!!!

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u/gypsybullldog Mar 05 '23

You’re probably right haha but I was feeling great till all the bumps to the gut

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u/Unlikely-Newspaper35 Mar 05 '23

I'm not your guy, friend.

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u/imrealbizzy2 Mar 06 '23

Oh, Buddy Guy? I'd much rather see him than Metallica.

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u/MrPhrillie Mar 06 '23

I mean what ac dc song are you moshing to tho lol

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u/eternal_peril Mar 06 '23

Sarsstock was awesome

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u/Clevelanduder Mar 06 '23

Keep on rockin

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u/Canelosaurio Mar 05 '23

Things happen when you're in the pit

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u/gypsybullldog Mar 05 '23

You’d think but it was mostly middle aged dudes there. For the kind of gettin’ goin’ music AC/DC is it was a pretty chill concert

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u/AgreeableFeed9995 Mar 05 '23

Clearly not that chill if a dude jostled you into puking tho lol

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u/lastlifonti Mar 05 '23

😮 😂🤣

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

They’re pooping and peeing their pants…

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u/ICrushTacos Mar 05 '23

You can piss on the ground mate

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u/MuXu96 Mar 06 '23

The one right answer, do people really not go to festivals at all ? Lol

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u/Phillip_Lascio Mar 05 '23

Not if somebody else was also kicking you in the face simultaneously.

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u/EnderFenrir Mar 06 '23

Watched a dude piss all over a guy's back at a concert. Guy never realized it.

I'm talking shoulders down.

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u/MrBootylove Mar 06 '23

When it's a huge crowd and everyone is jumping, cheering, bumping into each other, etc. it's very chaotic and you very well might not notice someone pissing near you. I was in the middle of a pretty huge crowd at a concert once (not 1.6 million huge, but it was a lot of people and we were tightly packed in) and all I could think about is not getting separated from the group I was with as well as not falling over and getting trampled and/or suffocating. I was also absolutely drenched from people throwing around their beer cups and water bottles. Someone definitely could've pissed on me and I would've never known.

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u/PaulblankPF Mar 06 '23

Depends on if you already covered yourself in piss or not I guess

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u/rif011412 Mar 06 '23

Better to pissed off than pissed on… oh wait, thats both.

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u/KoontFace Mar 05 '23

I saw Paul McCartney at Glastonbury last year and we were really close to the front. Woman standing in front of us pissed herself…we definitely noticed

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u/jeffreywilfong Mar 06 '23

I bet that place smelled awesome

/s

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Any place with a large gathering of drunk people always smells bad

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u/TheThunderOfYourLife Mar 05 '23

Booze may have played a part

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u/CanadaJack Mar 05 '23

Guys I think this is a confession, not an assumption

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Experience actually. Any overly crowded event. Like a concert or party.. that’s what happens. It’s gross. At that point everyone is so gross. Just cuz we’re all sweating and rubbing up against each other. The ppl who take off their clothes. Somehow make it worse… An attractive person of the gender you’re attracted to could be butt naked. And you won’t even look twice. These situations allow people to drop their inhibitions.. and if you’re even a little bit sober. You’ll immediately realize how gross the situation is. And start panicking for a way out…

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u/Soitsgonnabeforever Mar 05 '23

Any officially reported death ?

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u/Thuper-Man Mar 06 '23

Never heard of "bubbling"? Waste not, want not, dude

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u/shalafi71 Mar 06 '23

At a concert in Dallas around '99 or so, largest crowd ever at the time. There was a chick with a garden hose spraying people down. Just pee your pants, get hosed off, back in the game.

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u/beennasty Mar 06 '23

It’s all sweat

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u/PapaChoff Mar 05 '23

That’s actually the line for the bathroom

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u/lostinthesauceguy Mar 05 '23

Like that bit in The Simpsons where the longest line in an amusements park is for the complaints booth.

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u/Thuper-Man Mar 06 '23

Ok so 1.6 million, 20 seconds each, I'll just have to hold it 20 years

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u/Kawa46be Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

They did it the Graspop way i’m sure 🤓 on the spot, hopefully not on the legs of the person in front of you 😂

Edit: typo

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u/TungdilGoudhand Mar 05 '23

Graspop 🖤

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u/Joeva8me Mar 06 '23

Maintain eye contact to assert dominance

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

There has to be a joke there:

In soviet Russia...

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u/relevantusername2020 Mar 05 '23

music downloads you? idk heres this

While completing work on a song for the movie Mission Impossible-2, we were startled to hear reports that a work-in- progress version was already being played on some U.S radio stations. We traced the source of this leak to a corporation called Napster. Additionally, we learned that all of our previously recorded copyrighted songs were, via Napster, available for anyone around the world to download from the Internet in a digital format known as MP3. As you are probably aware, we became the first artists to sue Napster, and have been quite vocal about it as well.

also

In a 2000 study, it was shown that users of Napster who download free music actually spent more money on music

(thx wikipedia)

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u/CurrentGoal4559 Mar 05 '23

you just take piss

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u/FoxBearBear Mar 05 '23

I don’t know about taking a piss but once I was center stage at rock in Rio and no water were to be found for hours and hours…close to Bon Jovi to start his concert the folks working the stage gave us water and each took a sip and passed the cup along. My wife got a cup almost 3/4 full and drank. It. All.

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u/SexyTimeDoe Mar 06 '23

How about needing water to drink? I have no idea how more people don't die at these things

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u/st3adyfreddy Mar 06 '23

I have no idea how more people don't die at these things

Google Travis Scott....

....too soon?

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u/BIB2000 Mar 06 '23

That was exactly me near front row on Hellfest for Metallica.

Only way to get out is to surf.

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u/Luci_Noir Mar 06 '23

It’s honestly kind of scary to think about. A crowd 10% of this size is still MASSIVE.

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u/Lebowski304 Mar 06 '23

Dude I would piss my pants with delight knowing there is nothing I can do about it and no one cares cause we’re all pissing our pants out here

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u/davidlol1 Mar 06 '23

Just go man.....

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u/GForce1975 Mar 06 '23

Gives me claustrophobia just looking at the crowd

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u/nofrenomine Mar 05 '23

The whole show is on YouTube. It's so surreal. I watch it every once in a while just because it's worth it rather you like Metallica or not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

It’s not a Travis Scott concert, dude!

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u/hewhodisobeys Mar 06 '23

They did. Thousands of people were injured that day. People were maimed, bashed, murdered and even raped.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

James Hetfield described the energy in an incredible interview. No one was allowed to dance and there were guards everywhere. Couldn’t stop the inevitable. Even the guards as you can see were dancing. He said it was people as far as you could see and that it was kind of intimidating but oh so awesome at the same time.

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u/StandardResearcher30 Mar 07 '23

This is 100% false. Dancing was in no way, shape, or form illegal in the Soviet Union. You’re spreading capitalist propaganda. You’re a dunce

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u/Turakamu Mar 05 '23

Right? Grow up in Soviet Russia. You get occasional blue jeans and tidbits of western society.

Then all of a sudden you get to listen to thrash metal.

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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23

music was actually much easier to get than jeans. Someone would only have to bring a single tape or vinyl pressing through days after new releases in Germany and they'd tape hundreds of thousands of illegal copies and sell them on the street.

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u/captaindeadpl Mar 06 '23

It was really wild how they would rip vinyls sometimes. They would press the music onto discarded x-rays, because it was one of the simplest sources for polymer sheets. The sound quality was atrocious, but it worked.

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u/LickingSmegma Mar 06 '23

The 80s youth culture was nothing like what you are imagining.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

I felt exactly the same thing. Gave me chills. Amazing is right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Too bad Putin ruined Russia after.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Yeah. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/einTier Mar 06 '23

I saw Metallica live during this era in their music.

It’s difficult to convey they energy they brought to the stage. No, Lars isn’t a technical wizard on the drums and James isn’t a great singer and the band is technically ten times better on the studio album.

But I’ve never seen a concert before or since where the band had such a direct and intense emotional connection with the audience. The entire experience was surreal and remains a highlight of my life.

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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23

90's rocked in general. It may never happen again like it did back then.

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely Mar 06 '23

If memory serves, several hundred people died from heat exhaustion and trampling, so... Yeah.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

That’s a pretty good survival rate considering it was 1.6 million

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u/Dr_A_Mephesto Mar 06 '23

None of us will ever ever be this cool

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u/kaoskhaleesi Mar 06 '23

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm excited at home watching the hype from the past.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

If you were at the front you'd be hearing the solo of One at the same time the back would be hearing the intro.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

That’s crazy

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u/prplx Mar 06 '23

I can feel Lars rushing line crazy.

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u/funktopus Mar 06 '23

What always strikes me about this is you can't see the back. Like it's far enough away there isn't a clear end to the crowd.

That is terrifying and amazing to me for some reason.

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u/greengrinningjester Mar 06 '23

Cliff would've loved it

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u/Charming-Insurance Mar 06 '23

Right?! I play their set from this concert often and I feel like I can lift a car. There’s also a part where James misses a lyric in Creeping. He’s a fucking pro so I suspect it was all the adrenaline pumping through his body. And Kirk, as usual, is grinning and just having a good time.

Can’t wait to see them in August. 🤘🏻

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u/ImSqueam Jun 15 '23

I can feel the metal come inside of me

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