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Not to take away from that awesome concert, but Lars has stated several times it was closer to 500k, but somehow the number keeps growing... > However, Lars ex
by cronix 4y ago
Not to take away from that awesome concert, but Lars has stated several times it was closer to 500k, but somehow the number keeps growing...
> However, Lars explained in the conversation that he doesn’t know the exact number how many people were in the concert, but he heard at the time that there were half a million people attended the show.
> “Listen, it may go up by 100,000 people each year! I heard at the time it was around half a million. Whatever it was, it was a f*ck-load of people.
https://metalheadzone.com/lars-ulrich-clarifies-the-myth-that-1-6-million-people-attended-metallicas-moscow-concert-in-1991/ https://metalheadzone.com/lars-ulrich-clarifies-the-myth-tha...
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoI just went with the wikipedia article which has two sources, both just newspaper articles, so who knows. It's not implausible though. There've been a handful of concerts as large as 3 million apparently. That just boggles my mind. Can you imagine standing on a stage like that?
- coffee_beqn 4y agoCan you imagine having to go to the bathroom in the middle of that horde
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure it was just a mess. See also the reason you should never go to that stupid times square new years party.