place: Sound Advice

year: 2005

type of show: official

bands:

Black Sabbath

IRON MAIDEN

VELVET REVOLVER

MUDVAYNE

SHADOWS FALL

Black Label Society

IN FLAMES

ROB ZOMBIE

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

AS I LAY DYING

MASTADON

A DOZEN FURIES

THE HAUNTED

ARCH ENEMY

TheBlacK DahLiaMurdeR

BURY YOUR DEAD

IT DIES TODAY

SOILWORK

TRIVIUM

GIZMACHI

WICKED WISDOM

went with: Danny Simmons

show was: an epic if any

entry:

Looks like we were able to get Ozzfest this year without any hurricanes interrupting, thank God. It was actually the 10th year anniversery of Ozzfest, and the last time that one of Ozzy Osbourne's bands will be headlining the tour. Cool thing is....West Palm Beach is always the last stop, so we get to see Black Sabbath headline Ozzfest for the last time EVER. No one gets to see it after us. Once again, I got a ticket for my birthday. It was during the first semester of twelfth grade. It was on September 4, the same date as what Ozzfest 2004 would have been on, but it was cancelled by a bitch ass hurricane named Francis. It would have been a good show too. Just look at this: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, SLAYER, DIMMU BORGIR, Superjoint Ritual, Black Label Society, SlipKnoT, hatebreed, lamb of god, ATREYU, BLEEDING THROUGH, LACUNA COIL, EVERY TIME I DIE, UNEARTH, GOD FORBID, OTEP, Devil Driver, MAGNI-FY, Throwdown,  & darkest hour. Wouldn't that have been fucking awesome? Oh, well. I guess this makes up for it. So, yah. Oh, also, for my birthday, Sean Wasik gave me a V.I.P. parking pass for Sound Advice. So, me and Danny got there in at like 10:00 in the morning. With our special pass, we got to park all the way, right next to the gate by the second stage. On my way in, I saw Ernesto and he was upset about he had just been kicked out already for bringing in a water bottle with alcohol in it. That fucking sucks. We went over to the second stage. We missed GIZMACHI, but that's ok. SOILWORK was playing, and they were fucking awesome. IT DIES TODAY played next. Me and Danny sat down on one of the benches. During one of IT DIES TODAY's breakdowns, I was like playing the air guitar or whatnot, and all of a sudden, I felt someone's hand shaking my head, so I looked up and it was Corey Beaulieu from TRIVIUM, and he said "Get ready cause we're on next!" I guess he must of remembered me from the local scene before they were big. It was really cool, no matter what the reason was. Funny thing is, TRIVIUM wasn't on next. ARCH ENEMY was. Strangely, Angela looked prettier than ever that day. When they got on, I went up to the front. I found Franky and TIm, so I hung out with them. I saw Bobby DeCastro in the mosh pit. When the pit got even heavier I noticed Chris Anchors in there, I was hoping that he was going to die, cause that would have been funny as hell, but we can't all get what we want, right? Next TRIVIUM got on. It was kind of weird seeing them on the second stage of Ozzfest and remembering when they were a local band in Orlando that would play local shows with bands like 5 BILLION DEAD, PAIN PRINCIPLE, & 3rd Limb. They did a really good job. I was very proud of them. Franky had never heard them until then, and he loved them and ended up buying their CD. At the end of their set, Matt Heffy was like "We love Black Sabbath.........but we also love IRON MAIDEN and Bruce Dickenson." In case you didn't know, this is what he was referring to: IRON MAIDEN only played the first half of the tour (DAMNIT! I WANTED TO SEE THEM!). On their last date (in Claifornia) on the tour, when they got on, Sharon Osbourne started chanting "Ozzy" through the P.A. Bruce Dickenson tried to counteract by chanting "Maiden." Throughout their set, members of the audience were throwing stuff at them, including bottles and frozen eggs. Their power went out during one of their songs. At one point Bruce Dickesnon was waving around a British flag and said "This is a British flag, and these colors don't fucking run," as that happened some guy ran across stage with an American flag painted on his back. After their set was finished, Sharon Osbourne came out on stage and said that she IRON MAIDEN is awesome but Bruce is a prick. Later it was revealed that the chanting, the people throwing stuff, the power going out, and flag boy running across stage were planned incidents by her because she claims that he was just basically being a dick throughout the tour. So, after TRIVIUM played, I talked to Bobby. He told me happy birthday. I found Brian Hession & Phil. TheBlacK DahLiaMurdeR got on. The fucking rocked. Then it started poring rain. THE HAUNTED layed, and their whole set was through the poring rain. It was so fucking bad ass. While, every other band had a banner hanging above them, they just had a t-shirt. It was quite funny if you had seen it. During their last song, the singer got butt naked and threw all his clothes into the audience. Of course, girls started showing him their boobies. It made me sad because unerected penis (which was undergoing shrinkage) was twice as long and thick as mine is erected. :(. Once again, we can't all be winners, eh? After them BURY YOUR DEAD got on, and that was the best part of the second stage in my opinion. Now for some odd reason, Dustin Stills was on the side of the stage watching. Why? Oh well. BURY YOUR DEAD turned that whole place into a fuckin warzone, I swear. THe pits were just brutal as hell. Before their next to last song, the singer was like "Now, I've been asked to try and pull this off." Then he successfully pulled a Mark Hunter/chimaira/Metal Moses/whatever the fuck you wanna cal it, meaning that he split the crowd, and then caused it to merge and beat the shit out of each other. For their last song, a bunch of people from the other bands and Dustin Stills came out on stage to sing Bury Your Fucking Dead. Two guys lit torches and blew them right when the song started. Dustin Stills put his arm around the singer's neck. THen he jumped into the audience and people were holding him up by the knees and he was all singing in people's faces like he was a rock star or something. What the fuck? Since when was Dustin Stills so cool. One of them caught their something on fire but the other people got it out pretty quick. Next WICKED WISDOM played. They weren't as bad as everyone on the internet made them out to be. In case you didn't know, the singer of the band is Will Smith's wife. Oh, by the way, their was some random black guy standing on the side of the stage all day just totally enjoying himself. He wasn't from any band, but he kept making these goofy smiles. He must have been Will Smith's cousin.....or Jadda Pinkette Smith's bitch. A DOZEN FURIES played and they did good. MASTADON played and they were boring as hell, though I like them. AS I LAY DYING kicked ass. Everyone sang the words to Forever, obviously. I still don't like KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and they did not do well. The singer sounded like his mike was up his ass by accident. They set the stage for ROB ZOMBIE. It was covered with pictures of naked chicks. Rob Zombie came out with blonde undreded hair that only went to his shoulders, a black undreded beard which only extended a few inches, no body paint, and no strippers. John 5 was on guitar and he was still doing the messed up make up with lip stick covering half his face thing like he did in Marilyn Manson. He had the bassist from Alice Cooper. I don't think the drummer was from anyone special. Rob Zombie actually had really cool stage presence and a cool personality. I thought he have a bunch weird technical stuff going on stage, but he didn't. They opened with Super Beast. Then they played Devil Man. Then they played Living Dead Girl, and lots of boobies showed during that song. They played some other song followed by More Human Than Human. Then they played Never Gonna Stop, followed by some song from THE DEVIL'S REJECTS soundtrack. Rob said that he would put us on the upcoming live album if we could be louder than Jacksonville. Then they played Dragula. Then Rob Zombie explained that John 5 paid him 100$ to let him play the solo form Eruption by VAN HALEN. So, John played it. Then Rob was all like "If you guys want, he'll have to pay me 200$ and play the National Anthem with his teeth," and everyone cheered, and of course he did it. Then Rob Zombie was like "and.....I think we're done. We're done right? Yah. We're done and left the stage. The crowd called for an encore and then they came back out and Rob Zombie was like "Hey, we're out of time right? Yah we're out of time. Sorry guys.......I'm just kidding" and then they played that one other really popular song, I forget what it's called right now. So, I went over to the mainstage only to find that I missed IN FLAMES unfortunately. I saw Black Label Society. I like them but they were kinda boring. SHADOWS FALL played. Once again, I have now seen them more times than any signed band I've ever seen. It was actually the worst of the four times I have seen them, probably because I was so far away. I was in the lawn by the way. I head banged through their whole set, and some guy like the way I was head banging so he gave me a CD of his band from Tampa called AREA 51. Then these two guys wanted to take a picture of me head banging, so I let them. I was actually very disappointed with MUDVAYNE. They played all their songs slower and choppier. Even though, it wasn't raining anymore, people started ripping out the saud and throwing it. It wasn't as cool or as brutal or as much as when it happened at Ozzfest 2003 during DISTURBED and KoRn. Then darkness fell. VELVET REVOLVER was so fucking gay, and I wanted IRON MAIDEN instead.....ass holes. So, me, Franky, & TIm decided to go talk to Eric Carmodey, where he was on duty taking tickets for the rich bastards who get to sit in the front. Black Sabbath, was so fucking awesome. Somehow I managed to be in seats for their whole set. Bill Ward, Geezer Buttler, Toni Iommi, and even Ozzy Osbourne all played perfect shape and health. Ozzy was doing the whole dumping buckets of water on people routine. It was a truly bad ss way to end the whole thing.