10 Greatest Rock Music Gigs Of The 1990s

There comes a point in every musicians' life where the sheer number of people you're playing to stops being relevant. As much as the statistics might reach into the thousands, everything starts to blend after a while into just a big number of people standing in front of you. Even in a decade as big as the '90s though, hard rock had the distinction of playing to one of the biggest audiences possible in Moscow.

Being one of the first major gigs that these musicians had played in Russia, the Soviets were in for a good thrashing when Pantera stepped up and delivered songs from their album Cowboys From Hell. If you asked anyone about the real draw of this show though, it was Metallica, who managed to control that entire crowd in the palm of their hand for the entire length of their set, even causing some fights to break out when things went a little too haywire.

Capping things off with AC/DC at night, you couldn't ask for a more cathartic release of rock and roll energy, especially when they brought out the canons for songs like For Those About to Rock. Even though the Soviet Union would collapse under far different circumstances in the coming years, it was gigs like these that showed that change was definitely in the air.