OK, SERIOUSLY THIS TIME: OZZFEST WILL BE A ONE DAY EVENT
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 2:54pm by Axl Rosenberg
So while it was rumored for awhile that this year’s edition of Ozzfest would be a two day event – but it has now been announced that it’ll be just one single day, on Saturday, August 9, at at Pizza Hut Park* in Dallas, Texas. The line-up will be as follows:
Main Stage
OZZY OSBOURNE
METALLICA
SERJ TANKIAN
HELLYEAH
JONATHAN DAVIS
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
SHADOWS FALL
APOCALYPTICA
IN THIS MOMENT
All-Star Tribute To “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott
Second Stage
SEVENDUST
DEVILDRIVER
KINGDOM OF SORROW
SOILENT GREEN
WITCHCRAFT
GOATWHORE
Texas (Third) Stage
THE SWORD
DROWNING POOL
RIGOR MORTIS
Actually, that is, by no means, a terrible line-up; if the stages are staggered at all (and I imagine they will be), it would be plenty easy to keep oneself occupied during sets from In This Moment, Jonathan Davis, and HellNo. And I guess it’s honorable of Metallica to let Ozzy play last, even though, at this point, a) they’re much bigger than Ozzy and b) Ozzy has to be in bed by 8 pm. I mean, if I was Ozzy, and I’d spent recent Ozzfests getting blown off the stage by the likes of Maiden and Priest, I certainly wouldn’t wanna follow Metallica. But, y’know, nice of Ulrich and Hetfield to step aside for one night and let the Ozzman cometh.
Still, there’s something about the statement from Sharon Osbourne that reeks of, well, total bullshit:
“Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour so I think he deserves a summer off… We’re going to be a stadium destination festival for now–we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We’ve given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving OZZFEST. This is just the beginning; AEG Live and I have a lot of new ideas for OZZFEST.”
So, um, since when did Sharon care about Ozzy getting a summer off? Her own brother said she’ll make him play and play and play until he dies. And “we have gone past doing the sheds” seems very high and mighty, considering this tour was basically run out of town on a rail by the trillions of other package tours (which she kinda admits, albeit in a condescending way, when she says “We’ve given everyone else the blueprint.”).
Some other quick, random thoughts:
- Poor Drowning Pool. Weren’t they playing the main stage just a few years back?
- Aren’t Hatebreed contractually obligated to play every Ozzfest from now until Ozzy dies? Why aren’t they on the bill?
- Are Apocalyptica really that big?
- Poor Ben Falgoust is gonna be tired.
So will this Ozzfest be a success? Does anyone even care anymore? I guess we’ll find out come August 9.
-AR
*Our justice system isn’t the only thing at the whim of dollar signs.
i say fuck yeah! a day full of heavy metal royalty for the most part…plus soilent green and goatwhore NEVER play on the same bill so it should be fucking awesome to see ben rip it up twice in one day
I personally think it’s killer…. SOILENT GREEN, APOCALYTICA , SHADOWS FALL, METALLICA AND OZZY in one day…… and i’m guessing vinnie paul, zakk wylde, bobzilla, and I can’t guess who for the vocals will do a badass PANTERA MEDLEY for the dime tribute… HEY MAN I’M FUCKIN THERE….. plus I’m only about 45 min. north of DALLAS. SO a fuckin bonus for me….
wait… now that I think of it… if PHIL says DEVILDRIVER is the “NEW PANTERA” i think he’ll probly do the VOX for the PANTERA MEDLEY… WHATATHINK
“Aren’t Hatebreed contractually obligated to play every Ozzfest from now until Ozzy dies? Why aren’t they on the bill?”
Kingdom Of Sorrow’s on the bill. I suppose that’s close enough.
Madonna will be the vocalist for the Dimebag all star tribute
HE as in DEZ… just so I don’t get any shit later on from anyone for calling DEVILDRIVER a him…. so a big fuck you in advance
Didn’t Metallica blow Ozzy offstage in the 80s? I mean, imagine what they’ll do to him now.
Granted, Metallica’s not as good as they used to be, and Ozzy’s not as good as he used to be. Maybe they’ll all cut their losses and just play equally mediocre sets.
Hatebreed has been doing plenty of touring in support of their last record which has been released ages ago,so it’s rather logical that Jasta is taking his new band out on tour for the Ozzfest this time (KINGDOM OF SORROW).
I’m truly not an Ozzy fan.I respect his legacy because of the Black Sabbath days and also because of the records of the Randy Rhoads era.After Randy died the guy started working with people who get much more credit than they deserve (i.e. Zakk Wylde doing the same fucking solos all the time,producers who’ve worked with Britney fucking Spears (WTF) before he hired them to produce his own records..)The only way I would still care about his music would be if he could get a producer that’s never worked for pop artists,if he could get a new guitarist who’s not too busy being drunk and going to gay brodels to actually spend some time working on diverse riffs,and hell,he should let Geezer Butler handle the lyrics part,I mean they probably still talk to each other and all.Geezer Butler wrote lyrics that give a dark and interesting feel to a lot of songs that aren’t even dark in the first place which is definitely brilliant to me.
The guy is not dead.He just needs to wake the fuck up and change his environment so his music improves.Not that I believe it’s gonna happen since he’s obviously sold to radio and TV now,but eh,that was my two cents on how it could happen.Sharon might be his manager but she never was part of a band,and she doesn’t know as much about music as an actual musician or frontman does.
Ozzy should get up from his ass and speak his mind once in a while instead of letting her hire some gay poppy producers making all his records sound so over-polished it’s actually hard for a an oldschool fan to listen to them.
And hell,the money question.Sharon is throwing all the Ozzfest bands on the fucking streets.Make some research and see how much she asks from them for a slot on each year’s tour.No wonder a lot of killer bands aren’t part of the line-up.They got sick of being dragged in the mud.Because of the way she behaves,Ozzy is being discredited.
I say Ozzy,dude,fucking do something.Saving your career,at this point,has nothing to do with touring yourself to death.It’s about ACTING UPON THE SITUATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND YOU.
I had to let this out.Thanks for reading xD
I so fucking hope that when Ozzy does die they just give his body to a taxidermist and plop him on stage anyway. Have his corpse rise from below the stage on a throne.
to add to Sammy’s idea: they can have 2 guys, one on each side, to prop him up for his trademark bunnyhops and hand clapping during the show, “Weekend at Bernie’s” style
Axl, are you feeling well today? Not one snarky remark aimed Jonathan Davis?
This is definitely Ozzfest’s last stand. Don’t get me wrong, I love frying in the sun, drunk as fuck, rocking out to some of my favorite bands which usually take up about 70% of the lineup. But all that is not worth flying my happy ass to Texas for. They’ve got something coming to em if they think they’re going to pull a crowd any bigger than one day of last year’s Ozzfest. I would have gone to last year’s no matter who was there so long as it was free.
One more thing. Why didn’t he take his summer break during the fucking spring so Ozzfest could actually happen? I know that’s not the only reason, but shit find a better excuse.
All I can say is I hope Mayhem kicks ass.
i’ll be going just to see devildriver, witchcraft and the sword.
ALL WILL FALL
Man, this sounds pretty fucking awesome! Goatwhore owns!
Ozzy’s gone dudes, let’s all make peace with it, life is oblivious to him at this point, the man doesn’t even know who the fuck he is when he wakes up in the morning, now don’t get me wrong, much respect for what he’s done but seriously, Sharon, stop killing the man’s legacy already.
Oh yeah, and… what the fuck is Davis doin’ in there?
Seriously.
Well I’ll be damned if it isn’t Cinemetal, whom I remember well from my days spent over on AOL’s chat rooms of many moons ago. You’ve done well for yourself here, assuming you’re the same dude (and how many of those can there be?).
In regards to the new-old Ozzfest, well, it started as a single event festival back, what, 13 years ago? That was back when metal was at its commercial nadir, and while it was, you know, pretty much a joke for decades, they basically did what the internet had been asking in 1998-1999 in the middle of this decade. That the internet wanted something else by then was no big surprise given the boom for the genre, but that’s a point that really doesn’t matter in this equation. What does matter is the symbolism of metal as “valid” commercial entity in the present and future, and for MTV to have hipchecked what metal programming it had almost off the schedule and for Ozzfest to revert to being a non-occurance is pretty telling.
From a purely capitalistic perspective though, Sharon got every last dollar out of Ozzy and his legacy, and I’m sure that’s exactly what she, and, to a similar or even equal degree, her husband wanted. Maybe they can start running a single stage with a curtain down the middle like Jack Koschick was in NJ, Cali, and Milwaukee back at the end of the 90s and just run it till people stop buying tickets.
Anyone find it hilarious that DevilDriver and Sevendust are playing back to back? Maybe they’ll play “Enemy”…
“Step up to me, step up to me, PEZ!!!”
do we really need the dime tribute? I mean i miss the guy as much as anybody else, but some bands have kinda beaten the dime’s death thing to death. Well maybe his girlfirend/wife will come out and bitch some more about phil before they start playing
You guys didn’t mention how many Gold Bars tickets will cost?
Will Apocalyptica have Nina Hagen doing vocals? That would be sooo Metal.
Jonathon Davis can suck my dick.