#moscow music and peace festival

[rottingbite]

From the Moscow Music and Peace Festival.

[madamsixx]

Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde at The Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989.

[lost-highwayy]

MMPF 1989

[adriheavymetal]

Cinderella Shake MeI love Tom's performances❤💀🎤🎤💘💘💞🎵 (Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989)

[ephyjeva]

good morning now feast your eyes

[ablogofcourage]

Watched it on pay per view..

[sunsetsixx]

Speaking of the Moscow peace festival can we talk about the other gorgeous men there and I’m talking about Bon Jovi, Cinderella, and skid row and scorpions

GOD IK. a lineup like that will never exist again

[rottingbite]

[greensparty]

This Month In History - August

This is quite a month for landmark anniversaries, here's a few:

August 7, 2009: (500) Days of Summer opens

In August 2009, one of the great screen romances of the 00s was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 15 (500)DOS!

August 12-13, 1989: Moscow Music Peace Festival took place in Moscow

On the anniversary of Woodstock, a hard rock concert to benefit an addiction foundation took place in the Soviet Union in Aug. 1989. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 35th Moscow Music Peace Festival!

August 13, 1999: Bowfinger opens

In August 1999, one of Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy's best movies was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 25th Bowfinger!

August 15, 1979: Apocalypse Now opens

In August 1979, one of the greatest war movies of all time opened. I don't know what was more epic and daring: the movie itself or Francis Ford Coppola making it as seen in the documentary Hearts of Darkness? It has been spoofed in other movies countless times, but you can't hold a candle to the original. Happy 45th AN!

August 16, 1989: Mother's Milk released

In August 1989, the 4th album from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was released. I was aware of the group prior to this album, but this is where I noticed and liked them. They also got some radio play with their cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground". It was also a transitional record in that it was the first album with Chad Smith and John Fusciante, the classic lineup! The next album Blood Sugar Sex Magik is where they really blew the roof off, but this is one of my favorite RHCP albums. Happy 35th MM!

August 18, 1969: Take the Money and Run opens

In August 1969, one of the funniest comedies ever was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 55 TTMAR!

August 18, 1989: Sex, Lives and Videotape and Casualties of War both open

In August 1989, two of my favorite movies from that year were released on the same day. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 35th SLAV and COW!

August 19, 1994: Killing Zoe opens

In Aug. 1994, Roger Avery's best movie was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 30th KZ!

August 21, 2009: Inglorious Basterds opens

In August 2009, Quentin Tarantino's best movie of the 00s (and that's saying something) was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 15 IB!

August 23, 1994: Grace released

In August 1994, Jeff Buckley's only studio album was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 30th Grace!

August 24, 1979: Rock 'n' Roll High School opens / Facts of Life premieres

In August 1979 both The Ramones' movie opened and one of the longest-running TV sitcoms premiered on the same day! Allan Arkush (a Roger Corman alum) directed the musical comedy movie that was reminiscent of 1950s rock-spoitation movies. In 2015, when I spoke with the film's star P.J. Soles at Rock and Shock, I asked what it was like making this movies and she said she said it was a blast working with The Ramones. I bet! Even though they were a punk band and the idea of movie about them seemed like a commercial move, this movie was nothing but fun! Here is the piece I wrote about Facts of Life in 2019. Happy 45 RNRHS and FOL!

August 25, 1994: My So-Called Life premieres

In August 1994, one of the greatest TV shows about being a teenager was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 30th MSCL!

August 30, 1994: Definitely, Maybe released

In August 1994 the debut album from Oasis was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Expect my album review of the upcoming anniversary release later this week. Happy 30th DM!

[sunsetsixx]

We don’t talk about our boys at the Moscow peace festival enough

TRUE. i did a project on this lovely event for a graphic design class last year in college & it slayed. like its still doing us favors 30 years later

[sovietpostcards]

Poster for the Moscow Music Peace Festival that happened in August 1989.

Watch the full concert here.

[deeloveskiss]

motley crue at the moscow music peace festival

[evilsoup]

an older comrade once said in response to me saying some edgelord shit takes from here that "well, we're the decent people, you know". And at the end of the day that's right. I look around at the centre of my city when there's some food festival or some music at the waterfront or whatever, just people milling around having a normal good time, and really that's the core of my politics: a world where everyone gets that, where there aren't farm labourers giving birth to infants with no limbs due to the pesticides sprayed over the fields where they work, where there aren't children in gaza writing their names in permanent marker on their arms and legs so their scattered remains can be identified and buried when the bomb hits them, where there aren't refugees getting raped by smugglers on every continent and refugees drowning in dinghies while those few people in the rich countries who try to save them from the ocean face criminal prosecution, where there are no children working in sweatshops or mines. I'm not talking heaven on earth here, but we have the collective capacity to ensure a pretty good life for everyone.

The slogan of the 1917 russian revolution was "bread, land, peace", you know? And the imperial governments of the world countered this revolution with invasion and the sponsorship of pogromists in civil war. And Salvadore Allende's peaceful reformist path met the same kind of brutal resistance in 1973. The enemies of decency, the destroyers of families, make a peaceful path to a decent society impossible. In 1917 there was a rebellion of army offcer cadets in russia; they were quickly surrounded and surrendered; the workers of moscow allowed them to go free with the promise that they would not take up arms against the revolution; these cadets went on to form the officer corp of the counter-revolutionary white army in the civil war. It would have been better, but also less decent, for the workers to have shot these cadets; the creation of an decent society will require indecent acts. This is what we call "dialectics".

[lost-highwayy]

Moscow Music Peace Festival, 12-13 Aug 1989

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Mötley Crüe at the Moscow Music Peace Festival (August 12th, 1989)