Went to Ozzfest on Tuesday in lovely Auburn, WA (just outside of Seattle). We got there in time for this:
<ul type="square">[*]Slipknot to close out the second stage - these guys were way better than I thought they'd be. They musta been hotter than hell in those black clothes and dorky masks. They were tight, the singer chatted the crowd up well, they got the crowd going - fun band. I'll probably go pick up one of their CDs now. You have to love a band that has a lead baseball bat player [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img][*]Black Label Society opened the main stage - I was really looking forward to this. BLS was about as monotonous as you could imagine. No dynamics other than Zakk's harmonic squeals. Boooring... Two or three songs into their set my buddy and I decided it was a good time to get some food.[*]Superjoint Ritual - these guys were pretty cool. I hadn't heard any of Phil's new stuff so this was fun. Phil is a pretty good front man. One of the guitar players had a kick ass Rhoads that was black with neon green bevels. Good band. Another CD to go buy.[*]Dimmu Borgir (how the **** do you pronounce that?) - I was curious about these guys - I'd only heard a couple web clips of them so I wasn't sure how they'd be. Well they delivered the goods. Really freakin' tight.[*]Slayer - damn, I had high hopes for these guys but they sounded like ****. The guitar tones were PATHETIC. The vocals were monotonic shouting gibberish. The guitar solos kinda sucked particularly from the guy playing the ESP - Kerry Kelly's stuff was fair but his tone just blew (but not as bad as the ESP dude's tone blew). They were tight though. [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img][*]Judas Priest - these guys delivered the goods in a HUGE way. Halford kicked ass. Glenn and KK had awesome tones and they nailed their parts. Glenn really did some great guitar work. These guys **** ruled![*]Black Sabbath - these guys **** rocked! Tony, Geezer, and Bill were just great. They sounded huge. Ozzy missed a note or two but the **** cares - he's Ozzy **** Osbourne. Ozzy put on a great show and clearly put his heart into it.[/list]
So the Reader's Digest review:
Priest, Sabbath, Slipknot, Superjoint Ritual, and Dimmu Borgir = [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/band.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]
Black Label Society and Slayer = [img]/images/graemlins/fart.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/bs.gif[/img]
<ul type="square">[*]Slipknot to close out the second stage - these guys were way better than I thought they'd be. They musta been hotter than hell in those black clothes and dorky masks. They were tight, the singer chatted the crowd up well, they got the crowd going - fun band. I'll probably go pick up one of their CDs now. You have to love a band that has a lead baseball bat player [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img][*]Black Label Society opened the main stage - I was really looking forward to this. BLS was about as monotonous as you could imagine. No dynamics other than Zakk's harmonic squeals. Boooring... Two or three songs into their set my buddy and I decided it was a good time to get some food.[*]Superjoint Ritual - these guys were pretty cool. I hadn't heard any of Phil's new stuff so this was fun. Phil is a pretty good front man. One of the guitar players had a kick ass Rhoads that was black with neon green bevels. Good band. Another CD to go buy.[*]Dimmu Borgir (how the **** do you pronounce that?) - I was curious about these guys - I'd only heard a couple web clips of them so I wasn't sure how they'd be. Well they delivered the goods. Really freakin' tight.[*]Slayer - damn, I had high hopes for these guys but they sounded like ****. The guitar tones were PATHETIC. The vocals were monotonic shouting gibberish. The guitar solos kinda sucked particularly from the guy playing the ESP - Kerry Kelly's stuff was fair but his tone just blew (but not as bad as the ESP dude's tone blew). They were tight though. [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img][*]Judas Priest - these guys delivered the goods in a HUGE way. Halford kicked ass. Glenn and KK had awesome tones and they nailed their parts. Glenn really did some great guitar work. These guys **** ruled![*]Black Sabbath - these guys **** rocked! Tony, Geezer, and Bill were just great. They sounded huge. Ozzy missed a note or two but the **** cares - he's Ozzy **** Osbourne. Ozzy put on a great show and clearly put his heart into it.[/list]
So the Reader's Digest review:
Priest, Sabbath, Slipknot, Superjoint Ritual, and Dimmu Borgir = [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/band.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]
Black Label Society and Slayer = [img]/images/graemlins/fart.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/bs.gif[/img]
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