OZZFEST 2004
Just got back from Mansfield. Such a brilliant show. My review won't be as detailed but here it is:
We were tailgaiting til about 12:30 and went in to catch Lacuna Coil. I don't care what anyone says, I really enjoy these guys and they put on a good show.
Lamb of God kicked some ass altho I spent some time at the "double kick" competition at the Tama tent during their set.
Hatebreed impressed the hell outta me. I was never really a fan but I think I might buy a CD.
Slipknot was insane. At this time we were about 15-20 feet away from the stage and we were getting crushed. People were chanting for water before they came on, we didn't get any. When they hit the stage it felt like all the air in my lungs was expelled because of the crushing of the croud. I've been to alot of concerts over the years but I have never witnessed anything like this in my life. My hat is off to the 12 year old that was beside me, he spent the first 2 songs with his head in my armpit. After 2 songs I had to slowly back away from the stage, I hate to admit that I'm old but i just couldn't take it, I was exhausted. We backed up a bit and watched the rest from there.
Black Label Society were tight and sounded great. Wish their time slot was a little longer since we missed the first 2 songs fetching water to replenish the system.
Superjoint Ritual were interesting. I have both their albums and I love the band but it seems that Phil was spending to much time trying to sell his new band to the audience. "Ain't this the best band you ever heard in the fuckin' world" he said at 1 point and their seemed to be some digs towards damageplan a few times as well. Oh well, they were great anyway.
Dimmu Borgir were very cool to see. I'm a new fan of these guys, I only own "death cult armageddon" so there was some stuff I didn't know and they were "wicked hard" as they would say in Boston.
Judas Priest ruled the roost for me. Rob still wails. Tipton and Downing still shred and Scott Travis just plain rulez! The set was a little slow paced at first (physically), Halford wasn't moving around much, but after they got rolling it just freakin' ruled!
Black Sabbath: for me, these guys shouln't have been on after Priest. I realize it's ozzfest but it just seemed like a step back. Alot of the adrenaline was sucked outta the crowd. They put on a great show tho. Ozzy seemed like he was in better shape, physically, than he was when I saw him last year but his vocals were not very good. I think maybe the sabbath stuff is too high for him to sing anymore. he sang Black Sabbath quite brilliantly tho. Something else that bothered me was that I could hear a guitar continuing the riffs behind a couple of the guitar solos. Now maybe it was just my ears playing tricks with Geezer's bass sound but it definitely sounded like a guitar, I was wearing earplugs so it's easier to pick stuff like that up....did anyone else hear anything like that????
That's about it for me. This was my first Ozzfest and hopefully not my last.
Items Purchased:
DVD - May (horror flick)
CD - Judas Priest - Metalogy Box Set
CD - Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi
SHIRT - Ozzfest 2004
SHIRT - Judas Priest
TOY - Pinhead Bobblehead
TOY - Alien Bobblehead
TOY - Timmay!!! talking stuffed toy (complete with operational wheelchair)
We were tailgaiting til about 12:30 and went in to catch Lacuna Coil. I don't care what anyone says, I really enjoy these guys and they put on a good show.
Lamb of God kicked some ass altho I spent some time at the "double kick" competition at the Tama tent during their set.
Hatebreed impressed the hell outta me. I was never really a fan but I think I might buy a CD.
Slipknot was insane. At this time we were about 15-20 feet away from the stage and we were getting crushed. People were chanting for water before they came on, we didn't get any. When they hit the stage it felt like all the air in my lungs was expelled because of the crushing of the croud. I've been to alot of concerts over the years but I have never witnessed anything like this in my life. My hat is off to the 12 year old that was beside me, he spent the first 2 songs with his head in my armpit. After 2 songs I had to slowly back away from the stage, I hate to admit that I'm old but i just couldn't take it, I was exhausted. We backed up a bit and watched the rest from there.
Black Label Society were tight and sounded great. Wish their time slot was a little longer since we missed the first 2 songs fetching water to replenish the system.
Superjoint Ritual were interesting. I have both their albums and I love the band but it seems that Phil was spending to much time trying to sell his new band to the audience. "Ain't this the best band you ever heard in the fuckin' world" he said at 1 point and their seemed to be some digs towards damageplan a few times as well. Oh well, they were great anyway.
Dimmu Borgir were very cool to see. I'm a new fan of these guys, I only own "death cult armageddon" so there was some stuff I didn't know and they were "wicked hard" as they would say in Boston.
Judas Priest ruled the roost for me. Rob still wails. Tipton and Downing still shred and Scott Travis just plain rulez! The set was a little slow paced at first (physically), Halford wasn't moving around much, but after they got rolling it just freakin' ruled!
Black Sabbath: for me, these guys shouln't have been on after Priest. I realize it's ozzfest but it just seemed like a step back. Alot of the adrenaline was sucked outta the crowd. They put on a great show tho. Ozzy seemed like he was in better shape, physically, than he was when I saw him last year but his vocals were not very good. I think maybe the sabbath stuff is too high for him to sing anymore. he sang Black Sabbath quite brilliantly tho. Something else that bothered me was that I could hear a guitar continuing the riffs behind a couple of the guitar solos. Now maybe it was just my ears playing tricks with Geezer's bass sound but it definitely sounded like a guitar, I was wearing earplugs so it's easier to pick stuff like that up....did anyone else hear anything like that????
That's about it for me. This was my first Ozzfest and hopefully not my last.
Items Purchased:
DVD - May (horror flick)
CD - Judas Priest - Metalogy Box Set
CD - Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi
SHIRT - Ozzfest 2004
SHIRT - Judas Priest
TOY - Pinhead Bobblehead
TOY - Alien Bobblehead
TOY - Timmay!!! talking stuffed toy (complete with operational wheelchair)
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