Name: James Hetfield on Playing to 500,000 People
Uploaded: 2016-12-23T19:47:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'James Hetfield on Playing to 500,000 People' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'James Hetfield on Playing to 500,000 People' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-23. Transcript available.

Hello, freak bitches
It's just so weird. It's so weird. We're we played in front of half a million
people and
Half a million people. Yeah, and where was that? This was in Russia. This was
in the airfield. Oh my god
So we've done that. What the fuck was that like?
It was a sea of sea of Russian people. I mean, that's what it was. That's
insane
This was in 1991 1991 when the you know the curtain came down and all of that
and
time Warner
had a
They wanted to basically get their foot in the door. And so they were created a
free concert
it was it was AC DC us
Pantera and I think maybe a local band or some other bands. I'm sorry if I can't
remember but
They flew us in there. We landed in this airfield. Oh motley crew was on it
Landed in this airfield and as far as the I could see it was a free concert and
it was just people and
We get on stage and do what we do
But there were it was military, you know military in the front this Christ.
Look at that photo. Holy shit
Holy shit, Jamie go full-screen with that
Just go with that one. What in the fuck? Oh my god, that's insane. Is that it?
Is that the one?
That might be something else, but it looks a little newer, but it says here is
from 91 Moscow, so wow
That's yeah, pretty remarkable and there were dude imagine the sea of people
like that and see there's a helicopter
Helicopter flying over people. Oh my god. What if that thing goes down, man? Oh
You could be chopping up all
We either go right up there that one on stage facing those people. Oh my god.
That is fucking insane
That helicopter would come down close and they were yelling at people like stop
You know people were moshing or going crazy. They didn't know what that was
Like oh wow, you thought it was like a fight a freaking communist country, man
Like waiting people are getting out of order. This is chaos. They didn't have
the internet then either. No way
They didn't know what to expect of that
So they're there people throwing, you know hitting people from the from the
helicopter and down on the front there
There were guys in uniforms, you know, there was you know police military same
thing, you know
So they're standing there in their uniforms and after like three or four songs.
They're like fuck this and they took off their stuff
And they're at their head banging and having a good time. So we saw the
transformation of
You know a closed down society to freedom right before us
Individually in in people it was awesome. Wow. Yeah, what does it feel like to
stand in front of
500,000 people what is the sound like what is the sound of their roars like
Pretty massive. I'm obviously, you know, I lost count at I don't know three
hundred and something thousand but I tell you and they don't speak your
language
That's just such a
That's the power of music man. That's a language in its own. It's connects
people. It is so cool
So yeah, we went to a place that no one spoke English or people were telling us
You know, I learned English from your lyrics. Oh shit, man. I
Failed English just so you know, I didn't do so well in school, but
Wow, it's pretty bizarre. Yeah, that's intense
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