&
Ahmet Zappa performing live at Dynamo Open Air in 1993Dynamo Open Air was originally held in 1986 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in
Eindhoven. It began with 5,000 people in the Dynamo parking lot. From 1988 to 1992, it was held at a local ice rink with 22,000 capacity. In 1993, the festival was moved to the Eindhoven military airport (Vliegbasis Welschap). In 1994, it became a three-day festival. In 1995, Dynamo Open Air reported 118,000 attendees. This caused too much pressure on the Dutch infrastructure, leading to some of the longest recorded traffic jams in the history of the Netherlands. As a result, the municipality forced the festival to limit its capacity to 60,000 in 1996. In 1998, the festival site and the airport had to be moved in order to build 6,000 new houses. The Dynamo Metal Fest was again held in August 2022.
Live recordings Testament recorded their
Live at Eindhoven EP in 1987 at the last Dynamo Open Air held at its original location (the parking lot) before the festival moved to The IJsbaan. In 1995,
Nailbomb had their performance recorded at the festival and it was released as
Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide the same year it was recorded. It was released by
Roadrunner Records In 2005, live footage of the performance was released on DVD and it was called Live at Dynamo. It was also released by Roadrunner Records. In May 1998, guest band
Death recorded stock footage of their performance. Three years later, in an effort to raise money to pay for
Chuck Schuldiner's cancer treatment, the footage was limitedly released in October 2001 by
Nuclear Blast on
CD and
DVD formats under the name
Live In Eindhoven, two months before Schuldiner's ultimate demise. == Line-ups and dates ==