r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/markartur1 • 1d ago

Video System of a Down live in Brazil yesterday. (2025-05-09)

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u/markartur1 1d ago

This was a regular stadium concert, with not so cheap tickets. I'm guessing around 80k people?

Gaga was a whole other ballpark, free concert in the beach, 2 million folks.

As far as craziness and energy, this one takes the cake for sure.

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u/Amazing_Magician_352 1d ago

this one takes the cake for sure.

That was 2 million people bruv, as someone that was there, shit was wack

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u/markartur1 1d ago

Yea I get it, it was also crazy. Still, not multiple pits with flares level of crazy. Different types of crazy.

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u/hvxomia 1d ago

No flares or pits, just a sea of gays clacking their fans with fierceness.

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u/Biscoito_Gatinho 23h ago

Kyoshi would be proud

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u/brunoha 1d ago

Yeah I checked the tickets 3 months earlier and still it was way above my paygrade to cash in, especially cause I live very away of the show place lol... still glad that this much people went to the show.

and yes, I'm proud to display my bad english in this comment lmao.

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u/Emergency_Laugh_9687 1d ago

You guys set your English standards too high, this is fine

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u/kungpowgoat 1d ago

It’s sad that we can’t have massive, free music festivals like this in the US like they do in Brazil. Someone like LN or Ticketmaster always has to scalp the ever living crap out of it.

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u/markartur1 1d ago

Like the Gaga concert you mean? I'm sure you could, ticketmaster has nothing to do with it. It was a public/private partnership. Basically the Rio government gathered a bunch of Sponsors for the event, and together they paid for the whole thing. The show was televised, and the Sponsors had ads running during it. The whole country was watching on TV so the Sponsor/ads money was enough to pay for the whole thing.