ANTHRAX Guitarist Uploads Footage From 'Big Four' Indio Concert

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has posted video footage — shot from the side of the stage — of the first two minutes of the band's performance at this past Saturday's (April 23) "Big Four" concert in Indio, California. Check out the clip below.

The all-day festival featured the so-called "Big Four" bands of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, SLAYER, ANTHRAX and MEGADETH — sharing the stage in the U.S. for the first time ever, drawing an estimated 50,000 people.

ANTHRAX's setlist was as follows:

01. Caught In A Mosh
02. Got the Time
03. Madhouse
04. Among the Living
05. Antisocial
06. Indians
07. Fight 'Em Till You Can't
08. A.I.R.
09. I Am The Law

Speaking to the Artisan News Service the day before the "Big Four" show in Indio, Ian, "It recently dawned on me, just this past week, that this will be the biggest show ANTHRAX has ever played in the United States. So I think that added a little extra pressure onto the whole weekend. But yeah, I'm super-excited — the first time in the United States the four of us playing together. I feel even more energy and vibe about this one than I did last summer when we were gonna do it for the first time, because this is the first time at home, and it just makes it that much better."

The "Big Four" tour first played selected dates in Eastern Europe last summer to an fantastic response, which led to the scheduling of shows this year in the U.S. and other parts of Europe. More "Big Four" events are reportedly in the works, including dates on the U.S. East Coast and the Midwest.

In an October 2010 interview, Ian said about the significance of the "Big Four" tour, "Under the umbrella of hard rock and heavy metal, you've had so many different branches come off that tree. We're just another branch, we created something new in the early '80s. We were all influenced by the same thing, we all came from the same school, so to speak, and, you know, we created thrash metal. We started something new. And I think that's the best thing you could say about any band, or any musician or any artist... is if you create something that wasn't there before. It's just an amazing thing to be able to say that all these years later — we started this band in 1981, METALLICA formed in '81 — 29 years later, we're still doing this, because there's so many people on this planet that still love what we do and that are interested in what we do and that wanna be a part of this scene and a part of this music. It's just amazing to me that all these years later... We're on almost a second generation of fans now — 13-year-olds coming to the gigs still just love what we do so much. And that's just such a privilege that we get to go out and do this."