X-Japan at Lollapalooza - crowd-cam

I wanted to get an idea of how big the crowd was. Wish I was taller so I could have gotten a better view.

Smile everyone!

I found a news clip from ABC that has a pretty good view of the crowd toward the 2:20 mark.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/japan-rocks-11370403

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[toshinya]

from another video uploaded by another user i hardly see any audience .The film was taken from the backstage and i can see there are still a lot of spaces .this will not happen in Japan or any other asian countries. Hope Xjapan will take it easy...

[emrys8888]

@toshinya Before they started I looked around and could still see the grass 30 feet behind me - I assume it was like that for their first song or two. I took this video toward the middle/end of their performance so I can only assume people heard the music from across the park and came to check it out. And here I can't see ANY grass even with the camera up at 8'.

[toshinya]

how many people are there?

[emrys8888]

@toshinya I really wish I knew! An hour before the show there were maybe 200-300 people around the stage (just guessing). I have no idea when everyone else showed up!

[bernard6278]

Thanks emrys8888!..this was the video i had been looking for since i wanted to know how was the reaction of the crowd. Did the majority of the crowd sing along with them?

[emrys8888]

@bernard6278 Yes, actually! AT LEAST half the time the crowd was singing along (especially for the ballads), and even for songs like I.V. when Toshi was doing the whole repeat after me thing the crowd didn't need much encouragement, haha.

[hsflik]

Oh hey.  Hello, me.

[echo037]

@hsflik and me too :)

[Ryso20]

Yeah finally crowd footage! Because the other views of videos don't do much justice. By the middle of their performance the turnout was WAYYY bigger than I expected! Amazing! I was pretty close to Sugizo!

[NeoNebula0Katana]

Cool!