It was Russia's first-ever open-air rock and metal concert. There were 1.6 million people in attendance at this concert, and the show was free.

@elilachappa3330

10 ай бұрын

And they still had less problems than blue ridge rock fest

@twistedrockafella

10 ай бұрын

@elilachappa3330 My grandma went, and she was in her mid-70s at the time

Metallica never was the same when Corey left

@Im_Old_Gregg

11 ай бұрын

Lol I couldn't agree more.

@TheEricJBotelho84

11 ай бұрын

Corey Taylor never played for Metallica, the fuck are you talking about?

@DMXo0

11 ай бұрын

He really talking like he was in the band fr 😂

@SlamDeath-cm8es

11 ай бұрын

Imagine Lars Ulrich as new Drummer in Slipknot Yeah

@Daniel_B79

11 ай бұрын

Kirk James and Lars are what matters

I was there at the '91 Moscow show. I walked around and counted 1,514,849 people in attendance. It was nuts.

@shizzledink

9 ай бұрын

Nice

@toohak2782

6 ай бұрын

You can count?

@robnhood1416

2 ай бұрын

Jason Newsted mentioned in woodstock 99 interview, its 400k+ people, off course they claimed number keeps getting higher to 1 million then 1.5 million. Wouldnt be surprise if its 5 million in articles from 2030 written by AI.

@t-mac1236

28 күн бұрын

That a joke? You counted…

@alelectric2767

22 күн бұрын

Did you count the people in the porta poties?

Still, Corey's knowledge of music overall is mind-blowing. Legend

@justinkassinger8238

11 ай бұрын

Your not too bright then 😎

@The_Last_Ninja

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s mind blowing for sure…he failed to mention that AC/DC, Pantera and others also played that show too!

@aroundtheworld5555

10 ай бұрын

Corey knows nothing about REAL Metal because Slipknot isn't Metal. What Metalhead doesn't know anything about the super popular bands he was mentioning? Amateur at best.

@ThrillHouse666

10 ай бұрын

That's what happens when you remain a fan into your success.

@MattHadder

10 ай бұрын

​@@justinkassinger8238you're*. Maybe learn your grammar/spelling, before trying to put someone else down.

It wasn't a Metallica concert. It was a heavy metal festival. It had other bands as well. Pantera, AC/DC. Update: I fixed it.😆

@sportsentertained

11 ай бұрын

AD/BC

@zoomped

11 ай бұрын

AC/CD

@HolyShnikeez_1975

11 ай бұрын

BA/CD

@dro9075

11 ай бұрын

DC/AD

@ebaareda1200

11 ай бұрын

AB/CD

I would watch every video from Corey talking about the metal/rock history

Cory is a national treasure and Metallica historian.

@Plaza_and_Mote

18 күн бұрын

It's basic historical Metallica knowledge

Pantera killed it at that concert. Never forget fuckers

@AsylumSaint

10 ай бұрын

Toasty!

I love how no one ever mentions they weren't the headliner.

@Plaza_and_Mote

18 күн бұрын

Why do you love that?

There was actually 6 bands playing but footage for Metallica is the easiest to find. Entrance was free but they stopped counting at 500,000 or something. 1.5 million is an estimate but I don't know what it's based off. Maybe the amount of area the crowd covered. It was on an airfield in Moscow. There's also military everywhere and helicopters flying over the crowd. Hetfield talked about it when he was on Joe Rogan which is worth listening to.

@robnhood1416

2 ай бұрын

Jason Newsted literally mentioned in woodstock 99 interview, its 400k+ people, off course the claimed number keeps getting higher to 1 million then 1.5 million. Wouldnt be surprise if its 5 million in articles from 2030 written by AI.

Another fun fact (thanks to Rex Brown's autobiography): There was no 'customs' in the USSR when that show happened. The August 1991 coup attempt happened a little over a month before the concert, & the country was pretty much locked down. Per Rex, the mayor of Moscow at the time (Gavriil Popov) had written a letter & sent it to Pantera, essentially functioning as their visa to enter the country. The USSR dissolved 3 months later on Christmas Day 1991.

AC/DC were the headliners

I love Metal history classes. I could hear Corey talk about this stuff all day.

I got Binge and Purge Box Set as a Christmas present back in the 90's. It had all the "tabs" (mostly wrong) and hours and hours of video tapes. I learned every song from the first 5 albums. My mom still makes me play Nothing Else Matters on guitar to this day.

Monsters in Moscow was wild. Pantera played that show too.

@Im_Old_Gregg

17 күн бұрын

@@Plaza_and_Mote are you asking a question?

listening to one of fave singers talking about one of my all time fave bands...awesome!!

Love that Corey is such a Fan as well … so cool 😎

I swear every time I come back Corey’s hair gets crazier and crazier 😂

Black Crowes, Pantera, and AC/DC as well... I've seen the VHS... pretty cool thing to happen.

Stevo's laugh is infectious. Makes me wanna laugh at whatever he's laughing at. Motley claiming to be sober. LOL.

God i miss having these kind of conversations from highschool lol. 🤘

I saw Metallica last night in Arlington TX! Great concert.

There was Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera and a couple other lesser known bands that played, those 3 alone would sell anything out, now add the Soviet Union collapsing to it, Rock & Metal + Freedom = Moscow 91

@GTMSGAMES

11 ай бұрын

No shit the jack played on acdcs live album was sung in Moscow at this then that's sick

@linhlopbaya

11 күн бұрын

what a year to live.

Billy Joel played Moscow in 87 at Olimpiyskiy Stadium during his 6-show tour. He was the first Western artist to penetrate the curtain.

I saw them at the Capital Center in DC in March of 92,I went to the 1st night (they played 2) they still had long hair….man….what a great show 🖤🤤

When Steve-O speaks I want to clear my throat, hehe

The headliner was AC/DC. It was only Metallica that has run around for 20 years making it seem like the crowd was there for them. Primarily because it was daylight during their set and you could see the crowd (unlike during AC/DC's set).

@mcsquizzy77

11 ай бұрын

On be silent

@WaakikiTheGoat

11 ай бұрын

When I’ve heard them talk about it they would mention that other bands and AC/DC was there so idk what you are talking about

@cheezy8492

11 ай бұрын

Thats like trying to hold queen accountabke for being the most remembered performance at live aid, its not like the bands are making sure nobody else gets credit

Bro talks more with his hands than a sign language interpreter 😂😂

@SlamDeath-cm8es

11 ай бұрын

For The Deaf Metalheads

The way Steve O’s mic is set up makes it look like he’s wearing Charlie Brown’s shirt lol

AC/DC and Pantera were there too! Insane lineup 🤘

Corey sure knows his metal...🤘

People in that concert are still on their way home til now.

To me the bigger thing of that monsters of rock festival has to be the pantera show. I mean they didn't have the same crowd yet, but the energy and power they must have brought to that stage. I always wondered if they actually filmed the entire thing because to my knowledge you can only find the clips they used for music videos.

@chriskeyes713

11 ай бұрын

You can find their whole set on here dude. It’s like 24 mins long, and they went on at 10 am. Talk about WAKE THE FUCK UP!!

@mikehunt4797

10 ай бұрын

Yep Pantera killed it!

@petergriffin4629

Ай бұрын

@@Jasonmcglovon I am talking about the performance, not the notoriety of the band

Its amazing that not only is he the lead singer in slipknot but he knows his history. Respect.

was just after the soviet union fell it was the moscow piece concert wasn't just mettalica crue, skid row, etc

Metallica is still the biggest band in the world 🌎

@americanmariachi97

5 ай бұрын

Biggest heavy metal band yes

Wish I hadn't lost all my albums, concert ticket stubs, autographs,concert drum sticks picks,etc... when storage locker got robbed. I seen on ebay the white import creeping death album in good shape is worth a couple hundred.

Everyone seems to forget that Pantera, AC/DC, Black Crows played that show, too. Look up Pantera Domination Live. That's the show!!!

Before all those bands went to played in Russia. It was one solo recording artist his name Yngwie J malmsteen in 1989. Live in Lenigrand. St Petersburg Russia.

@johncenashi5117

11 ай бұрын

Was kinda hard to play in Russia a while before -91. Since Soviet was a dictatorship that didnt really allow heavier metal concerts. Specially not US based ones.

If I am not mistaken, that concerts lineup consisted of Metallica, Ac/DC and Pantera. It seems possible that there was that many people, knowing it was those bands at the first rock concert in Moscow post Berlin wall at an air base. The space would be big enough and this is Metallica and Pantera at peak powers in a location starving for live rock music.

@paulflores9137

9 ай бұрын

Guys please, Metallica headlined it .

@robnhood1416

2 ай бұрын

Pantera never even sold out stadium on their own lol

They still are the "biggest band" in the world today. No one else.

Corny Taylor is a rockstar! Maggots unite! 🤘🏻 🔥💀🐍

I think the 1.6 mil is just what the ticket sales showed. They estimate a LOT more actually there.

@alecgolas8396

13 күн бұрын

It was a free concert, there weren't any tickets sold.

Sometimes I think it would be really fun to invite someone who isn’t famous and have them tell their story. I know it brings clicks to have someone famous, but part of why we watch your clips is because we relate to them, the clips humanize celebrities. Let me know if you’d like me to tell my story 😅

The logistics to handle that many people must have been mind-boggling. What did they feed them?

@dyerseve45

10 ай бұрын

Metal.

> Invites Corey Taylor from Slipknot > Talks about Metallica

Check out Domination by PanterA live in Russia. It's better than their studio version imo 🤘🤘

@daleb19931

11 ай бұрын

The perfect performance of that song and everyone I've ever got into Pantera or just metal in general has been made to sit through that video

I love how over time the number of people at that show keeps magically increasing, it was 900,000. Then it was a million now it’s 1.5 million 🙄

@84jdgregory

11 ай бұрын

I've heard 1.5 mil for the last 20 years or so.

@KingNiros

11 ай бұрын

Same.@@84jdgregory

@kennyobrienaiti

10 ай бұрын

It is 1,684,754 right now

@johnbarker3308

9 ай бұрын

Well you heard wrong it was 1.6 million

@jeblan666

2 ай бұрын

Some people are still there so the audience keeps reproducing =)

My father and uncle went to that festival

Metallica always gets all the glory for this massive show in Moscow but everyones seems to forget that metallica were supporting AC/DC at this show

@ImDembe

11 ай бұрын

It has nothing to do where you're at in the line up, it's about what you deliver, Pantera did for sure and Metallica more than that at the time.

@twistedrockafella

11 ай бұрын

@@ImDembe your right there fella there was a good couple of SUPPORT bands on the bill at the AC-DC show

@ImDembe

11 ай бұрын

@@twistedrockafella Not many bands come out with confidence AFTER Pantera and Metallica in the early 90s :) Never saw the ACDC preformance before and it's a different vibe becuase the audience was warm and the sky dark.

@twistedrockafella

Ай бұрын

@Jasonmcglovon that's like, saying they were bigger than ozzy on the puppets tour

Rod Stewart says hello from Copacabana

Corey looks like little kid wearing a big Corey Taylor mask

He forgot to mention Ozzy fucking Osborne was at that Peace Fest show in 89!

Pantera played that show too!

Ticket sales??? It was a free concert😂😂

It was also Pantera and AC/DC

Imagine if Slayer played that gig!

"Arguably the biggest band in the universe" Yeah that's why ACDC was the headliner lol.

@noxyag3732

5 ай бұрын

Just cause acdc was the headliner doesn’t mean shit Metallica were the superior band period

@astro2691

Ай бұрын

Doubt it. But close.

Your history lesson today was presented by Corey Taylor

Imagine 1,000,000.5 people and soldiers, helicoptors patrolling the crowd directly overhead in Russia… yeah all those people singing along knowing the words and they didn’t have record store sales in their country. It was all bootleg. This is how popular metallica is no ticket sales… it was free “1991” what an epic time!🤘

WHEN METALLICA WAS METALLICA because of this era, I began to realize that jason Newsted was the actual, driving force, behind MetallicA’s rage….. Long Live Newsted, rest in peace

@timothyhall7153

11 ай бұрын

Whadda ya mean, r.i.p. Jason newsted.? He didn't die??

@rudyescalante5126

11 ай бұрын

@@timothyhall7153 Brotha Man…… Look at that Specific Newsted……. That man is gone… never to return….. Walked away from the biggest band in the world…. To create his own band & Paint….. no knock on Newsted…. My sons middle name is Newsted, I have the black album of Jason, on my calve….. Reread it,, then it’ll make more sense…. It’s all good 👍 Nothin but love n respect to that era OF, Jason Fuckn NEWSTED 🤘😡🤘

@mikeynoclass8240

11 ай бұрын

Why didn't you name him Jason?

@rudyescalante5126

11 ай бұрын

@@mikeynoclass8240 Hella Jason’s already

2:04 Wall came down in 1990, not 1989.

Not sure how many people were there...but it was an ocean of humans as far as the eye could see.

Steve-Yo, check out the movie Free to Rock that talks about other previous events, like Metallica and Scorpions in Germany, that led to electric guitars being made legal in Russia! Before this, they only had homemade fender body fakes with stolen payphone handsets to make pickups and they imported bootleg American records etched on surplus x ray pictures called "bone records"!

It wasn't just Metallica though AC/DC and Pantera was there and a few other bands.

Went to the concert after James got burnt in the kingdome. Someone else played rhythm. Axel stunk

I thought Steve O was wearing a Charlie Brown shirt.

This is was bigger free show ever!!!

If AC/DC and GNRs played there would be crazy 😂

AC/DC was there too but the band that stole the show that day was Pantera without a doubt. Their rendition of "Domination" is the heaviest stuff ever witnessed by human ears.

People tend to forget that pantera was also there and did their best version of domination

ACDC and Metallica were the biggest bands in 1991 Razors Edge and Black Album were BIG albums

Pantera dropped the greatest breakdown of all time at that show, and they’re talking about Metallica lol

"Every boahdy & their moahhm came out, like, it was, like, so deeude bro, whuuuut?! At the time, neau-body, was doin that, like, deeude!!" -C. Taylor

Pantera and others played the same show with metallica

Why does Corey's head not match his shoulders? Is this real?

Monsters of Rock in 1991 was a free show

it was a free show thats why it was so big

Steve o is the 💩 I watched every thing that is on the Internet 🤟🤟☠️

He's right about 1.5 mil being a relatively small number compared to the total USSR's population at that time.

@roverwaters3875

11 ай бұрын

there is no official record of 1.6 mil at the Metallica show it is just internet folktale

Corey, I hope you'll change your mind about Russia one day. Until then, thanks for the music.

This was a reward to the pwople of russia for stopping a mikitay coup! AC/DC were the headliners.

I thought there were mo than one band playing at that time. On diff times ofcouse

Weird to not mention pantera was the first band to play that day and put on a devastating performance

that concert was the closest the world ever came to peace

If you never watched the moscow peace fest ozzy . Motley crew, scorpions.. was just as huge.. i thought metallica played this one as well.. i guess not.

Corey knows more about Metallica than Metallica. He should host a Metallica podcast.

Its too bad when a people are reduced to currency exchange. Unless its a Euro of course. 1.5 might be a 3rd of that in the West. Reason why we have sweatshops in the Far East.

Pantera lit em up though

The next craziest crowd probably is the Woodstock 99 crowd that KoRn played for

@viking_nor

11 ай бұрын

No there are many that had more people than that

@DS-182

11 ай бұрын

Limp bizket, DMX, and the red hot Chilli peppers all contributed to the madness... the peppers gave out candles and then played Hendrix "fire" on the last night and after a few days of extreme heat, dehydration, people literally covered in human feces... that's when they just burnt the place

@HolyShnikeez_1975

11 ай бұрын

​@@hyeboi1 for sure that had more than Woodstock '99 was the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in '73

@greenmatrix30seven

11 ай бұрын

Yeah Woodstock 99 was just… a sea of ppl. It was only 500k but…still. As soon as korn played blind? “ are you ready?!?” The whole crowd was just… a human tidal wave. They were setting off rockets in the crowd as the intro was building up. It was insane.

I dont understand why steve o left metallica

It was a reward for the Russian soldiers, which bands they wanted to see. No tickets as was free concert hense why massive crowd on airfield. They came from all neighbouring countries also.

And while 1.5 mil for the Mighty Met may sound like the largest audience of all time....nope. Rod Stewart and someone named Jean Michel Jarre both played to 3.5 million!!

1.6

It was a free concert.

Those tickets were actually free

1.499.999 dude, were there for Pantera..

AC/DC was bigger than Metallica in 1991, 1991 was the beginning of Metallica getting huge. It was Pantera, The Black Crowes, Metallica, and then AC/DC headlining. And it was a free show, there were no tickets (to my knowledge)...so nobody knows for sure how many showed up.

@SDMFdeeger

Ай бұрын

@@Jasonmcglovon the black album was barely out an entire month when this concert took place.

Shiiit Metallica Pantera AC/DC!!! A free metal show with those bands!! You best believe I’ll swim across the ocean just to be there!

In the world? Yes. In the universe? That's a stretch.