Metallica - Monsters Of Rock, Moscow 1991

Music crosses boundaries , a truth shown to full effect in the Early 90's as Russia started to come in from the Cold and music fans were allowed to see their favourite bands live , Metallica were then as they are now Monsters Of Rock and the effect on the crowd on seeing this storming performance shows the power of music and the greatness of Metallica.
It's sad to see how far we've regressed in the time since.

Metallica had a three song set but what songs.
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
Fade To Black

Harvester Of Sorrow , different show same year and country.


That's what 1.6 million people looks like.

common people gathering for great music. see any diff. between them and us? .....me neither

a reply to: gortex

I have been a Metal fan my entire life,Metallica has been one of my fav bands.
Eye of the beholder got me hooked.
www.youtube.com...

Amazing, one of the greatest bands Infront of one of the greatest crowds!

a reply to: gortex

This is the Metallica I listened to and loved.
Thank-you for this trip down memory lane.

a reply to: gortex

Goose bumps.

The good old days

Seen Metallica a half dozen times, never a bad show..some interesting ones though. One had John Marshal from Metal Church playing guitar for James(broken arm)..did a good job..love Metal Church too. Another show, a cable going from the stage to the booth(middle of the floor) caught fire/stated arcing pretty bad..boy did people scatter! It took 40 mins to get back on.

a reply to: gortex

Nah, I'll take this as my lasting memory of the last time Metallica was great even though I did see the ...AJFA tour in Phoenix and Vegas with the trilogy started with this Monster's Of Rock show in L.A.

Everything after ...AJFA is a waste of my time.

Here's the Cliff's Notes version of what happened in July 1988. This is where they decided to turn the power off, which helped the situation not at all as everyone just got more wild.

Seems it doesn't want to embed. Here's the Link

Here's the full show. You can see the audience clearing out in the sections shown, like a colony of ants they are so small. I got there just a few minutes before all this bedlam really got into full swing but mob mentality is a funny thing. It looked like that scene in Dances With Wolves where they are hunting buffalo and they can barely see what they are doing due to the ground being trampled.

I could barely see the people just a few yards away from me. Yet, I went in, like a fool. I barely survived. There were times where my feet never touched the ground and I moved fifty or a hundred feet.

They were the second band of five and stole the show as evidenced in this video. My 100,000 or so friends tore up that arena - I was just trying to stay alive. I've seen some memorable shows but this one is unlike any other. So many people, so freaking hot, so drunk, rioting and tearing up the joint, Metallica showcasing their new bass player Newstead after Cliff's tragic demise and so many people didn't see the show they put on which was marvelous.

a reply to: vonclod

Funny how a electrical short can delay a show for forty minutes yet a riot only get's about five. They never should have pulled the plug that day anyway as everyone was getting along in their riotous ways. They just made it worse by doing that.

I once saw Overkill have numerous electrical problems in a small club, that was fun. Also Aerosmith when the Hard Rock Cafe opened here in Vegas. They were playing in a tent and didn't come on until around midnight and we had bolted way before that. id hear Dream On from a few miles away, that was kinda cool.