dreams of dragon's fire
Feb. 1st, 2007 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xaaraThe other day, I was talking to my brother over IM and he sent me a link to a live video of Metallica playing "Enter Sandman" at the Monsters of Rock concert outside Moscow in 1991.
So I clicked on the link, and the first thing I IMd back to him was goddamn.
Official estimates put concert attendance at 500,000; other people claim it was as high as 1 million plus. What struck me about it, though, was not the music (I'm not that into live music, especially not at such low quality, unless I'm actually at the concert), but the feel of it.
It's like watching an apocalypse.
The shots that pan out show hundreds of thousands of people, speakers jutting from the crowd like ships, helicopters crossing overhead. Seriously, if you said apocalypse, I would pull out that picture, and hand it to you, and you would nod and say, yeah, yeah that's about it.
So I clicked on the link, and the first thing I IMd back to him was goddamn.
Official estimates put concert attendance at 500,000; other people claim it was as high as 1 million plus. What struck me about it, though, was not the music (I'm not that into live music, especially not at such low quality, unless I'm actually at the concert), but the feel of it.
It's like watching an apocalypse.
The shots that pan out show hundreds of thousands of people, speakers jutting from the crowd like ships, helicopters crossing overhead. Seriously, if you said apocalypse, I would pull out that picture, and hand it to you, and you would nod and say, yeah, yeah that's about it.
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