![]() ![]() "Out of that whole bill, the only bands that were even heard of were the Scorpions and Ozzy," he says. As far as the rest of the lineup? Not so much. They were really familiar with Ozzy and the Scorpions. As Bolan is quick to point out, fans had to buy their favorite music on the black market in that time period, so they didn't have the same kind of easy access or familiarity with music and bands that was so readily available in the United States. There were a lot of people, many of whom were attending their first-ever hard rock show. But yeah, obviously there were no cell phones or anything, so it's not like you could call home and tell somebody about it, you just had to take a lot of pictures with film and hope that it got across and back home without them confiscating it." Moscow's a completely different place now and it's a beautiful city. It was very drab and very gray and people looked angry. "Just getting there and flying on the plane with all of these people like Ozzy and the Scorpions and Bon Jovi and all of the MTV crew back in the day, here I am 23 years old going, 'Wow, a year ago I was working and punching a clock to build cabinets inside a van.' It was really a crazy experience because it was exactly how you saw Russia in all of the history books, back then anyway. "It was still pretty much Communist when we went and anywhere we went, if we went in groups, there were KGB or militia not far behind us," he says. ![]()
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