Slayer - Felt Forum N.Y 1988 [Full Concert] 

I was there. The permanent hearing damage was soooo worth it.

I was here. Thanks for posting. The only black guy in the crowd. Loved it.

I was there...one of the sickest Slayer shows of all time!💀🗡️

In their prime, Slayer was untouchable. The bluest flame of metal.

Tom Araya speech to calm the NY misfits he'd just whipped into a frenzy before the encore is hysterical

I love how Lombardo is banging his head just as much as the guys not behind the kit. Damn, Slayer tore it up back then like no other!

This needs to be preserved for future generations

This was my first Slayer concert. A few yrs back I was browsing a record store and saw a Slayer DVD called "SEAT CUSHION INCIDENT" and was like HOLY FUCK< MY FIRST SLAYER SHOW!!! I bought it immediately and when I watched it just brought me back to that scary but exhilarating night in an instant. (At the show AS SOON as Slayer started I lost ALL of my friends (it was like 10 of us at least) I was thrown around like a rag doll and then I had to move away from the crowd as I was being smushed , i couldnt breathe. . I stood on a gate thingy behind the sound stage so i could see and got hit every few mins with seat cushions. It was fucking scary but probably one of the best shows I have ever been to. Obviously, since I STILL remember it.

Wow, that is just crazy. I knew Slayer fans were nuts in the 80's, but Ive never seen that kind of chaos. Incredible.

I was there. Still the SICKEST show I've ever been to!! RIP JEFF!!!!

Because it was 1988. Establishments were still learning the new rules set forth by SLAYER!!!

I'm so happy to see this online! My video was lost! Thank you! One of the craziest/best concerts ever! I was literally off my feet in the pit! (middle of stage beginning) I'm only 5'4" and everyone was like over 6 foot around me..was fucking nuts! I ended up on the right side of the stage and proceeded to go a little deaf in my right ear in front of those STACKS of speakers with guitar solos...I saved a piece of foam rubber from this show that fell, or thrown at my head., along with the ticket stub :)

Thank You Jeff Hanneman!!!!

It really is amazing Dave Lombardo could play so intensely for all that time

Judging by the comments on this video there had to be at least 1 million people in that pit!

security look like there scared to death hahaha I love it

Poor security guys, they never had to work so hard before!

Sickest pit ever. Absolute mayhem!

I was there and like others said.. What a show! It was insane...

I was at this show...absolute and utter chaos.

I was there, it was my 22nd birthday. Up in front tossing people around in my blood vest

EASILY one of the greatest shows I've ever seen in my life. It was an awesome time for Thrash and to be young and a part of that whole thing blowing up. I'd never been in a pit that fucking big and I'm glad I was there. Unreal, man. I feel bad for all the people who don't get it. On second though...fuck them.

At the beginning with the commercial for the show....I haven't heard that guy for 30 years!

R.I.P. Jeff.

I'm envious of all you who were at this show. INCREDIBLE!!!

I"m from Aust and had this on a VHS boot for years. Awesome show 🤘

raining seats, die by the seat, seats warfare etc

A friend of mine tried to digitize my old VHS of this, which was a dub of a dub of a... and was stored in a wet basement for decades. No go. Psyched it's online. I was 14 in '88 and would have been scared to death to be here. A couple years later, I started going to L'Amour & I thought THAT was crazy.

First Slayer show I ever saw and it started it all for me. Just saw them play for the last time tonight in Denver. Fucking amazing ride....thanks for all the memories. Still have the shirt from this show 30 years later....FUCKING SLAYER!!!!

WOW WHAT FOR YEAR AND RELEASES❤

I was there - ears rang for over a week. One of the sickest shows ever.

Thank you, old concert, for reminding me of how much I love At Dawn They Sleep. Such a great moshing song!

This is sic - read between the lines - how amazing to hear this live - saw them many times in the 90's but so loved to have seen them live on this tour. South of heaven is my fav, cuz its heavy as f**k in parts but far more creepier than reign.

What a fantastic setlist. The opening sequence alone, is an absolutely neckbreaker. Unbelievable!

I was at this show. It was pure mayhem and words don’t do it justice.

Espetacular! Killer setlist! 🔥🔥🔥

The most brutal show I was ever at. Blood and chairs flying everywhere.

This is the tour I saw Thanks to the uploader. Eternally Who else liked to sit lower balcony and observe this mayhem? we had the best shows ever as teens. Slayer was scary energy

I was there! ... somewhere where this was filmed from. Unforgettable show ...

Was at this show sore as Hell could not move for 2weeks deaf to.

I love these metal show commercials they're so cool!!!

The intensity of the band and crowd was astounding. I saw them first time in early '91 at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. As soon as Dave came out and started the Raining Blood intro the crowd started pulling the metal chairs apart to create a pit. The sound of metal clanging was as loud as the music. As a skinny teenage kid I was scared to death but also so excited to be seeing Slayer.

1989 at the Fillmore in Denver. That was my first Slayer concert.

rise chairs of war

Seen them on this tour a few months later at the Cameo Theater on Miami Beach. Brutal Show!!!

Lombardo is a fuckin beast!!! There's no one even close.

The best part of this show was Danzig; not because of Danzig as a band but because they played mostly Misfits and Sam Hain songs. It was a complete surprise to all of us that Dazing was there at all since it wasn't announced until a few days before the show and it wasn't like it is today where there's an information flood about every fu%$ing thing. When my friend and I heard Where Eagles Dare playing we assumed it was on the P.A. but we walked in and freaked out. There was hardly anyone in the entire Felt Forum and even most of our friends missed Danzig as we were just so psyched that we didn't even think to go out and tell them. Wish there was a bootleg of the Danzig portion of the show. I've had this on VHS for years!

Thanks ✌️

Snuck out with friends to see this show. 16 years old. Bus and train from Queens. The whole area around Madison Square garden was buzzing with metal heads smoking up and drinking forties. The anticipation for this show was through the roof. I’d seen AC/DC and Judas Priest . But Slayer were a monster at this point. Danzig was cool and I bought their first record right after this show. As far as the NYC crowd at that time it was much more violent and that venue was not designed for a wild slamming drunk Slayer crowd. It was mayhem. I think a few kids were hurt badly or killed up front. I sat upstairs and the cushions were flying all night. If the show had been stopped there would have been a riot. Unforgettable experience. This shit opened my young eyes to other more extreme metal. RIP Jeff.

Brings back memories, I was at this show.

I was at this show!! It was fucking hilarious that there tour promoters booked them a gig at the Felt Forum. They actually thought that we would remain seated in there plush felt seats during Slayer? WRONG WRONG!! LMFAO BAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! No moshpit at a Slayer show due to pretty little plush seats= total fucking destruction of plush seats. Lmfao

Holy hell did you see the seat fly at Lombardo at 1:13:15?

brutal!!! i was not there :(

This is a great set list they played

hell yeah

I saw Slayer w/ Danzig on this tour at The Hollywood Playdium. The police had their usual riot.

I was there as well. Still have the ticket stub. What an incredible night!!! Major violence. Probably the most violent show I've ever been to. Long live the cushion snow storm!

I was there. What a sick show it was! 🤙🏻

what a gift

I was there , Danzig opened . I tore my seat out with my keys and threw it then everyone else did . Tom wasn’t happy . Great times

Now THAT is a Slayer show!

Slayer was so brutal and unmatched then. Every venue they played practically got destroyed cause the music was so fresh and evil and people back then with little to no rules and the aftermath of the 70's especially in cities like NY its a surprise there were no murders or real crime. Just mostly vandalism and drunken fights. Saw Slayer numerous times in small urinal clubs like Lupo's and the old living room in Providence RI. No band can stir up a crowd like Slayer and every honest Metal fan and musician that's seen Slayer live know it especially in their prime.

You guys can't imagine how jealous I am of the guys that were there.

It was hot as Hell out outside inside was 1000degrees. FF wasn't never the same

De chile saludos mis dioses slayer 🤟🤟🤟

Saw them a month after this in Providence, RI. Place went crazy and ripped half the seats out of the floor, it was a real theatre. Overkill opened, I was 14 years old

Slayer playing on stage: 20% Fans jumping on stage and diving into the moshpit: 30% Security guards protecting slayer and throwing guys into the moshpit: 150% (I'm sure they were signing autographs when show was over) 😁

I wasn't into trash or any hardcore in general but did see them here. Stood on the left side of the stage I couldn't hear for 2 days

I saw them on November 5th. 1988 at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston with Motorhead a nd Overkill. The loudest concert I have ever been to!!!

I like how Tom had the Sex Murder Art shirt 6 years before he wrote the song about it

Saw them 2 months later in Providence I had front row Same deal with seats ripped out to pit Overkill opened

I bought 2 shirts from this tour..they were like $10 each...alot cheaper back than..👍👍👍👍

Rumour is , cushions are still flyin'....

Silent Scream goes heavy in this

I remember watching this on bootleg VHS tweekin lol

И вновь продолжается бой И сердце трепещет в груди И Ханеман такой молодой И юный октябрь впереди! Вечная память Джеф..

I saw these guys a few weeks earlier at The Stone in San Francisco CA, a club which is no longer there. I am glad for these guys and the career that they have had and I hate to say it but after Seasons In The Abyss it wasn't the same, not bad but just not the same and the crowd is my mane point. These guys use to play in San Francisco it seemed like once every 4 months before Hell Awaits came out and even when they came around in 85 opening up for Venom the amount of kids at school the next day wearing Slayer shirts was amazing to see. The shows were always amazing and even when Reign In Blood came out the amount of skinhead punks that were at the show was something I had never seen a metal band do like they did, loved my youth.

Tremendooo😊

i saw this tour first ever BIG D Tx State fair Coliseum with Motorhead and overkill

this is sick

No mamby pamby Rock and Roll....😂😂😂 You gotta love the old Radio Ads!!!!!!

insane

"Fat bouncer in a little shirt, Fat bouncer in a little shirt".

This show was bananas. I remember some kid ripped out a portion of the metal bannisters in the seating area and tossed it into a sea of people in the standing room only section. This giant hunk of metal disappeared into strobe lights and must've took out more than a few people hahahaha Today's generation would never have survived the 80s, or early 90s.

13:30 fuckin' ACE Lombardo bangin' his fuckin' head and rippin' the shit outta his fuckin' drums 🤘

I saw this tour with Judas Priest in San Francisco CA

My memory is not making stuff up . We were way crazier back in the day. Not just this video but most from the 83-92 period. Today's crowds can be so tame if you're not front & center with the good group. But at the end here they are simply costing Slayer tons of cash ha ha. Amazing that they still played on. So many bands would have quit.

saw them in copenhagen denmark during this tour , murderous !

Tom fucks up the last verse of Kill Again He repeats verse 1 ahha FYI This was the last tour this song was played on

haha I have this on dvd before I even saw this on youtube lol

I had my piece of seat cover till like 5 years back . It was orange . First and last time they played here

Ppl don't know how gd those days where. NYC was the best for shows. Metallica was there 1year half before this shows. Torn seat cushions when Battery kick in it was just intense back then to

Slaaaaaaaaaaayer!!!!!!!

Did anyone else see the dude with cast on his forearm fuck his arm up again while the music was playing on the house speakers? BEFORE Slayer even took the stage?

Great show! The band was at their peak. Tom's voice is perfect, Jeff and Kerry play tight as fuck and Lombardo is a beast. As much as i enjoy a fun mosh pit, I don't understand people here who finds hilarious that the place was ripped apart and that the people got so violent (cutting people with razorblades WTF)

Me too. I think it was for two nights. But all I remember is it was sick but everyone was ripping the cushions off of the seats and throwing them and Araya was getting pissed. Actually it must have been the last night - Araya yelled that because of us they cannot play the felt forum again and told everyonecto go F themselves....in the end as they walked odd stage.

My dad still talks about when he saw slayer at the Aragon ballroom in chicago in 1986. He said the cats ripped the chairs up and were throwing them everywhere!! He told me it was the most brutal show he ever saw!! The crowd even spit on the start up band, Running wild and booed them off the stage.

Remember the cops on stage at the beginning of the show?

FUCKIN' SLAYER!!!!

well why the hell are there seats at a slayer show? nobody sits at a slayer show!