I was there. I almost died during the push back in GnR. It was terrifying. The whole sway of the crowd and being trapped and pinned by the bodies, you couldn't move. I started slipping down in the mud and went down with at least 5 people on top of me and face down in the mud. I guy called Nigel, a photographer from Nottingham pulled me out. Saved my life. I've never been so scared in my life. I had no way of saving myself. I was 17. I am on that cover, but it's hard to see me, a tiny head, with ginger hair. RIP both the poor Scottish lads. I'll never forget that day.
I don’t think anyone was slam dancing to Guns.Remember Axl told everyone to step back a couple of steps during their set. It was just the amount of people,the mud and there was absolutely no crowd barriers anywhere.
What a tragedy that was! I went to the Dutch MOR in Tilburg. That was an awesome day: we didn’t have GNR and Megadeth, but got Great White instead. It was my first big metal concert and what a great one to start with! Even though you said Crazy Nights was a big album in the UK; their concert in the Wembley Arena only drew 4.000 people I just read in an old Metal Hammer
This is interesting to see what the aftermath of the Donington disaster was like. My dad and his mates were there, but they were lucky enough to not be involved. I remember my dad saying they were late getting home and my nan was worried sick, as it was even on national news and there was no phones back then. It sounded like Kerrang were papering over the cracks, of course people only started "slam dancing" at that one festival, not since the birth of Rock music! How blinkered they were back then. Anyway, cool to see through this magazine, and the part about Doningto, RIP to those who died 🤘🤘
Yeah it came on News at Ten and my cousin was there. I was worried I wouldn't get my Megadeth T shirt 😂. No in all seriousness though it was scary and my parents thought they were doing the right thing stopping me going. I didn't get there til 92 and 94.
@@metalmickey Oh damn, yeah it must have been very scary. The very least you expect going to a gig is you come home safe, very sad for those that didn't. Yeah, they rightly so had to be cautious, but least you were able to go eventually. My dad went to quite a few Donnington Monsters of Rock back in the day, but I've never had the chance to go yet. Least you were able to get your Megadeth t-shirt! 😁🤘🏻
This is cool to watch these. I didn't buy many Kerrang! Magazines but I sure do like see this. A time before the internet. This is timeless in my eyes. Love seeing that Anthrax Don't Make Me Laugh, never seen that artwork before. Looks awesome.
@@metalmickey Cheers! Well, this video inspired me to listen to that Anthrax album and record a video. Uploading now but, it is basically thrash metal albums that I feel needs more love.
So there was no moshing going on in 1987 when Anthrax we're whipping up the crowd with their hit single Caught In a Slam Dance?! A free filofax for students from Barclays, gotta love the 1980s!! Always enjoy a good 80s mag flick through.
I don't remember hearing anything about that concert at the time here in the US. The first time I ever saw a concert with a 'pit' was a Pantera show in Orlando in the mid 90s. I was about 5 feet from the stage in roughly the center and when they started playing, people just went nuts. I had no idea what was going on, but I got picked up and carried about 20 feet. McRocklin did put out one album with a band that Steve Vai helped him put together.
That was my first concert at 17 years old, I recall GNR being a huge deal at the time & there was great excitement when they took to the stage, my friends and I got caught in the surge near the front of the stage, somehow with the help of others we were lucky enough to get out of there & get to a safe place, a really frightening experience, a screen at the side of the stage also came loose in the wind which added to the chaos & the band stopped a couple of times, at the time we just carried on and had a fun day, all the bands were great, even Kiss, it wasn't until the next day we found out the tragic news, frantic calls were made home to Ireland to let our familes know we were all ok, hard to be believe it's been that long ago...those years in the late 80s & early 90s were a great time for metal. RIP to the young metal fans who passed that day.
That's a great start to concert going that. Apparently buy the time it finished the ticket sales were down.They ruined the formula I think. 1 day is all that was needed. 6 or 7 bands.
Nice reminder of a copy I once had. I don't think that guy on the cover would have been that pleased given the headline. There's another channel here that goes into great detail about what happened and having been there, share their experiences of that day. Btw Thomas McRoclyn is alive and well and has his own You Tube channel. Still quite a talent but his playing is more disciplined and his guitar of choice isn't an Ibanez.
Monsters of Rock always happened in August.... I tend to view Monsters of Rock and Download as two entirely separate things. They are not the same in my mind.
Love the Donington commentary. Nice statement from those f#%k heads, let’s cover our ass & word it so no one will ever know 😂 I bought Anthrax State Of Euphoria on release day & loved it ever since. Good one MM 🤘
I just missed out on a huge Kerrang and Metal Hammer mag sale. I say missed out. It was offered to me but I couldn't justify the price on that type of stuff. £400
I was at Donington that year. Wasn't even aware people had died until I got home! I was in the beer tent when Guns n Roses came on as I thought they were shit! 😂
Interesting to see you flick through this issue from the immediate aftermath of what is a well-known tragedy in British Rock & Metal circles. I was much too young to have attended any of the classic Monsters of Rock festivals, but went to 7 of the first 8 Downloads and Donington was hallowed ground to me and my friends, but always with an awareness of those 2 lives lost in '88. That statement from the organisers is both disingenuous and disrespectful as fuck. A genuinely shocking response to a tragic event that essentially passes the blame onto the victims. I guess that was the culture at the time though, as the same approach was taken by the authorities after Hillsborough a year later. Despicable. Cheers! 🤘
Yeah good point about Hillsborough. Likely a tactic of the time but I don't suppose it's much different these days. 7 or 8 Downloads eh. We must've been at some the same. I went in 2004 and 2005 and before that I can't remember if it was 1 or 2 Ozzfests. 2 oldie worlde Donningtons in 92 and 94
@@metalmickey it's a great time too see and hear maiden now but it was pretty special back then plus compare donnington to download now no competition as regards bands playing there
Pretty sure that Donington accident made our news over here and it just compounded my Dads opinion on me liking heavy metal even more. That as well as the Satanic panic ultimately led my dad to barging into my room one day and ripping most of my posters from my wall. Ahh good times back then 🤣
Hi Mike!!! i always like to see this old and classic 80's european magazines.... i think you're right Metal Hammer might be cooler than Kerrang. Back in the day i don't recall learning about this tragic event.... Slam dancin?? Lame statement too. cheers
Cheers Christian. Yes these magazines video when I look back are very popular. They don't get a thousand views in the first week but they do eventually and some a few thousand so I'm going to be bringing them back once a month again. They will be whatever I can get hold of. That Donnington statement is sad isn't it. 🤘
I always enjoy seeing these kerrang videos reminds me of the good old days mate. I was laughing out loud seeing that Filofax advert. Ahh donnington. Can’t bring myself to utter that other complete shit show that takes place there now! 😉🤘🏻 good video mate
Yeah ,Kerrang! was nowhere near as good as Metal Hammer in the 1980s but I still enjoy seeing those kind of videos. The 1988 Monsters Festival tour had some bad karma, here in Germany at the Monsters in Schweinfurt a guy was stabbed to death with a knife. From there on they never used the name Monsters Of Rock ever again, they called it Superrock. Megadeth cancelled and Testament stepped in. Anthrax played as well...
Superrock I heard of but it was a show on MTV after Headbangers Ball finished. I wonder why Megadeth cancelled. The next one was 1990 and it was the worst line up ever. Every single band was a glam band. You have to have a mix.
The final figure I heard was there were 120,000 there. The entire slam dancing claim is bullshit. Nobody could move let alone slam or mosh. It's a total fucking lie.
I was there. I almost died during the push back in GnR. It was terrifying. The whole sway of the crowd and being trapped and pinned by the bodies, you couldn't move. I started slipping down in the mud and went down with at least 5 people on top of me and face down in the mud. I guy called Nigel, a photographer from Nottingham pulled me out. Saved my life. I've never been so scared in my life. I had no way of saving myself. I was 17. I am on that cover, but it's hard to see me, a tiny head, with ginger hair. RIP both the poor Scottish lads. I'll never forget that day.
Is that you under the word AND? Sounds like a terrible time. Did you go to any other ones or did that finish you off?
Ade Edmondson played Vim Fuego aka Alan Metcalfe, painter and decorator in Bad News.
What are you doing up watching this 😂
I don’t think anyone was slam dancing to Guns.Remember Axl told everyone to step back a couple of steps during their set.
It was just the amount of people,the mud and there was absolutely no crowd barriers anywhere.
Look if you were slam dancing nows the time to own up 😂
What a tragedy that was! I went to the Dutch MOR in Tilburg. That was an awesome day: we didn’t have GNR and Megadeth, but got Great White instead. It was my first big metal concert and what a great one to start with!
Even though you said Crazy Nights was a big album in the UK; their concert in the Wembley Arena only drew 4.000 people I just read in an old Metal Hammer
Oh wow 4000. That is unbelievably low. I bet that felt horrible to play. Great white by 88 I would have been hating 😂
@@metalmickey didn’t like them either ;)
This is interesting to see what the aftermath of the Donington disaster was like. My dad and his mates were there, but they were lucky enough to not be involved. I remember my dad saying they were late getting home and my nan was worried sick, as it was even on national news and there was no phones back then. It sounded like Kerrang were papering over the cracks, of course people only started "slam dancing" at that one festival, not since the birth of Rock music! How blinkered they were back then.
Anyway, cool to see through this magazine, and the part about Doningto, RIP to those who died 🤘🤘
Yeah it came on News at Ten and my cousin was there. I was worried I wouldn't get my Megadeth T shirt 😂. No in all seriousness though it was scary and my parents thought they were doing the right thing stopping me going. I didn't get there til 92 and 94.
@@metalmickey Oh damn, yeah it must have been very scary. The very least you expect going to a gig is you come home safe, very sad for those that didn't.
Yeah, they rightly so had to be cautious, but least you were able to go eventually. My dad went to quite a few Donnington Monsters of Rock back in the day, but I've never had the chance to go yet. Least you were able to get your Megadeth t-shirt! 😁🤘🏻
This is cool to watch these. I didn't buy many Kerrang! Magazines but I sure do like see this. A time before the internet. This is timeless in my eyes. Love seeing that Anthrax Don't Make Me Laugh, never seen that artwork before. Looks awesome.
Cheers Steve. I must admit I do love to do the magazine videos and they get a good amount of views. More than my usual videos most times.
@@metalmickey Cheers! Well, this video inspired me to listen to that Anthrax album and record a video. Uploading now but, it is basically thrash metal albums that I feel needs more love.
So there was no moshing going on in 1987 when Anthrax we're whipping up the crowd with their hit single Caught In a Slam Dance?! A free filofax for students from Barclays, gotta love the 1980s!! Always enjoy a good 80s mag flick through.
Caught in a Slam Dance 😂😂😂.
I don't remember hearing anything about that concert at the time here in the US. The first time I ever saw a concert with a 'pit' was a Pantera show in Orlando in the mid 90s. I was about 5 feet from the stage in roughly the center and when they started playing, people just went nuts. I had no idea what was going on, but I got picked up and carried about 20 feet. McRocklin did put out one album with a band that Steve Vai helped him put together.
Oh right fair enough. I think I'd handed in my moshing licence by then 😂.
That was my first concert at 17 years old, I recall GNR being a huge deal at the time & there was great excitement when they took to the stage, my friends and I got caught in the surge near the front of the stage, somehow with the help of others we were lucky enough to get out of there & get to a safe place, a really frightening experience, a screen at the side of the stage also came loose in the wind which added to the chaos & the band stopped a couple of times, at the time we just carried on and had a fun day, all the bands were great, even Kiss, it wasn't until the next day we found out the tragic news, frantic calls were made home to Ireland to let our familes know we were all ok, hard to be believe it's been that long ago...those years in the late 80s & early 90s were a great time for metal. RIP to the young metal fans who passed that day.
That's a great start to concert going that. Apparently buy the time it finished the ticket sales were down.They ruined the formula I think. 1 day is all that was needed. 6 or 7 bands.
Nice reminder of a copy I once had. I don't think that guy on the cover would have been that pleased given the headline. There's another channel here that goes into great detail about what happened and having been there, share their experiences of that day.
Btw Thomas McRoclyn is alive and well and has his own You Tube channel. Still quite a talent but his playing is more disciplined and his guitar of choice isn't an Ibanez.
Ah good at least he's doing something. He was very talented. Cheers mate 🤘
Monsters of Rock always happened in August.... I tend to view Monsters of Rock and Download as two entirely separate things. They are not the same in my mind.
Nor mine lol. I haven't a clue about those bands these days
Love the Donington commentary. Nice statement from those f#%k heads, let’s cover our ass & word it so no one will ever know 😂 I bought Anthrax State Of Euphoria on release day & loved it ever since. Good one MM 🤘
I just missed out on a huge Kerrang and Metal Hammer mag sale. I say missed out. It was offered to me but I couldn't justify the price on that type of stuff. £400
I was at Donington that year. Wasn't even aware people had died until I got home! I was in the beer tent when Guns n Roses came on as I thought they were shit! 😂
Lol I thought that first album was great but I seen them in 92 and they weren't good and neither were Soundgarden
Interesting to see you flick through this issue from the immediate aftermath of what is a well-known tragedy in British Rock & Metal circles.
I was much too young to have attended any of the classic Monsters of Rock festivals, but went to 7 of the first 8 Downloads and Donington was hallowed ground to me and my friends, but always with an awareness of those 2 lives lost in '88.
That statement from the organisers is both disingenuous and disrespectful as fuck. A genuinely shocking response to a tragic event that essentially passes the blame onto the victims. I guess that was the culture at the time though, as the same approach was taken by the authorities after Hillsborough a year later. Despicable.
Cheers! 🤘
Yeah good point about Hillsborough. Likely a tactic of the time but I don't suppose it's much different these days. 7 or 8 Downloads eh. We must've been at some the same. I went in 2004 and 2005 and before that I can't remember if it was 1 or 2 Ozzfests. 2 oldie worlde Donningtons in 92 and 94
I was there gnr where crap couldn't see what the fuss was about. maiden on the other hand where superb
Yeah great time to see Maiden. That album is my favourite I love that era
@@metalmickey it's a great time too see and hear maiden now but it was pretty special back then plus compare donnington to download now no competition as regards bands playing there
Pretty sure that Donington accident made our news over here and it just compounded my Dads opinion on me liking heavy metal even more. That as well as the Satanic panic ultimately led my dad to barging into my room one day and ripping most of my posters from my wall. Ahh good times back then 🤣
My mother did that with my WASP posters 😂 I suppose it's going to be strange for them though
Hi Mike!!! i always like to see this old and classic 80's european magazines.... i think you're right Metal Hammer might be cooler than Kerrang. Back in the day i don't recall learning about this tragic event.... Slam dancin?? Lame statement too. cheers
Cheers Christian. Yes these magazines video when I look back are very popular. They don't get a thousand views in the first week but they do eventually and some a few thousand so I'm going to be bringing them back once a month again. They will be whatever I can get hold of. That Donnington statement is sad isn't it. 🤘
I always enjoy seeing these kerrang videos reminds me of the good old days mate. I was laughing out loud seeing that Filofax advert. Ahh donnington. Can’t bring myself to utter that other complete shit show that takes place there now! 😉🤘🏻 good video mate
Yeah it's embarrassing. I have a friend who goes. She's the least metal person in the world but once a year it's a photo with the horns up etc
Yeah ,Kerrang! was nowhere near as good as Metal Hammer in the 1980s but I still enjoy seeing those kind of videos.
The 1988 Monsters Festival tour had some bad karma, here in Germany at the Monsters in Schweinfurt a guy was stabbed to death with a knife. From there on they never used the name Monsters Of Rock ever again, they called it Superrock. Megadeth cancelled and Testament stepped in. Anthrax played as well...
Superrock I heard of but it was a show on MTV after Headbangers Ball finished. I wonder why Megadeth cancelled. The next one was 1990 and it was the worst line up ever. Every single band was a glam band. You have to have a mix.
The final figure I heard was there were 120,000 there. The entire slam dancing claim is bullshit. Nobody could move let alone slam or mosh. It's a total fucking lie.
Yeah that's why I brought it up.
Went to the 87,88 and 91 MOR.
Can never be beaten the old Doningtons,.
Download is absolute shite,can’t even stand the name.
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