place: Coral Sky Ampa Theatre

year: 2003

shirt worn: KoRn

type of show: official

bands:

Ozzy

KoRn

Marilyn Manson

DISTURBED

CHEVELLE

THE DATSUNS

CRADLE OF FILTH

VOIVOD

TWISTED METHOD

unloco

memento

MOTOGRATER

chimaira

E.TOWN CONCRETE

sworn enemy

HOT WIRE

SHADOWS FALL

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

NOTHING FACE

depswa

THE REVOLUTION SMILE

endo

grade8

show was: the best day of my life

went with: Alex Adler & Joe

entry:

Alright, let's make this as short as possible. It took a long time of talking, thinking, and convincing to get my parents to allow me to go to this event. They were extremely nervous since this was my first official, not-Christian, not local concert. Somehow, a miracle happened and they got me and Alex tickets for my birthday. It took place on August twenty-eighth, 2003, which is twenty days after my birthday and three days after Alicia's who was also going for her birthday. Let's see. It was on a Thursday so we had to go to school. I went to my first class only. Alex walked with me to school, and then on his way back to my house he ran into a kid wearing a wife-beater shirt and a PANTERA hat. Alex was like "Hey, what's your name," and the kid said, "Joe." Alex then said "Hey Joe, I'm goin to Ozzfest. Wanna come?" Joe was like, "Sure, I got fifty bucks." So they went back to my house. After my first class was over my mom brought them and picked me up from school. Score! I got to miss the rest of the day. We arrived at like nine in the morning. Due to the fact that there was not enough time for all twenty-two bands to play, six bands had to cancel at each showing. At ours (which was the last) THE DATSUNS, NOTHING FACE, depswa, THE REVOLUTION SMILE, endo, and grade8 cancelled. The show started off with a performance from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE. I know everyone's gonna get pissed when I say this, but I'm not a big fan of them in the first place, so to me they were not that great. Next was SHADOWS FALL (one of my personal favorites). They kicked ass. There was like karate pits, it was funny as hell. Then we ran into Eric Carmodey, Frankie, Chong, Kyle King, Sean Waski, and Britney. HOT WIRE came on and we didn't stick around for them. We went out to the retarded concession area and Alex had to get his nipples signed by the bus driver of Ozzy. Why? I still have no fucking clue. We went back to the second stage and I'm not really big fan of sworn enemy so instead we went into the Jonathin Davis museum. I got to stand ten inches away from all his props and stuff it was awesome as hell. E.TOWN CONCRETE was up next. I love them but everyone hated them. They did really good performance though. During their last song, the singer's like, "For this last song, I want to see as much trash thrown up on the stage as possible. We're called E.TOWN CONCRETE and we like to rap." During the whole song all you see is trash of all kind being thrown up on stage. It was awesome, it was weird. I looked to my left and all of a sudden I saw these mysterious eyes staring back at me and I thought, hmmm I know those eyes..... Dagon. So we hung out with him and Andrew and Jake and Dan for a little bit. They left us and, oh God, chimaira came on next. They fucking tore it up. Mark Hunter totally controlled that audience. He put his hands together and moved them apart to split the crowd right in half all the way to the back. Then he put his hands back together and both halves ran into each other and everyone beat the shit out of each other. During Pure Hatred, the entire audience sang the chorus. That was awesome. The next band tore it up even more.... MOTOGRATER. The pits went insane. They sent really big guys dressed up in paint resembling that of the band's in order to push everyone around and start pits and shit. The singer was all like " Right now I wanna see every middle finger all the way to the back," and of course everyone followed his commands and he responded "I love Florida." Another cool line was "Now all I see is people talking bull shit. I came here to play and you guys are just sitting in the back talking bullshit. All the people in the front are having fun you idiots. Did you honestly pay seveny dollars just to sit in the back talk bullshit. I came to see you fuckers move. Look around. If someone's not moving, MOVE EM'." memento hit the stage next and really sucked but it was humorous seeing them wear dippers and speedos. unloco got on next and tore that shit up. They kicked ass and the singer was crowd walking. The fans were holding him by the feet as he sang into their faces. Now, finally, what was my favorite part of the second stage occurred. TWISTED METHOD hit the stage. I could point out the Inmates everywhere. Their set was as follows:

1. The End

2. reach out

3. mannequin

4. Panic

5. Rot

6. fleed

7. 125

Everything that Tripp asked the fans to do, they did it right on the spot. Jesus Christ, I still can not get over how great their performance was. Next was the two second stage headliners. At the time, I didn't like VOIVOD that much (I love em now) so I watched like two seconds of them and then me, Alex, and Joe went and laid down in the lawn. We went walking around and I ran into my good friends Chelsea and Caitlin and I was very happy to see them. I hate CRADLE OF FILTH with a passion but they wanted to see them so I just had to go and watch. Their performance was ridiculous. They were all wearing retarded make-up. Their keyboardist was dressed up as a bondage bunny. They had demons on stilts having sex on stage and some trapeze artist with her stupid curtain piece. In between every song the singer would be like "This next song........................ is called.................." and it would take him like five minutes just to say the title, it was so fucking funny. By the way he sounds like a demonic chipmunk and he's shorter than Danny Ryan. They ended their performance with people running armsaws down metal plates on their chests. COME PEOPLE, THIS IS A FUCKING CONCERT, NOT SOME CHEESY PLAY YOU'D GO SEE AT THE KRAVIS CENTER. The worst part was the fact that when they played everyone was swallowed by their cult of fans all wearing retarded ass make-up. Chelsea and Caitlin saved me like four times from falling into the moshpit of death, thanks guys. So we went over to the mainstage and CHEVELLE was on. Wow, they really sucked live. Everyone was laying down in the lawn and sleeping. Marilyn Manson came one act earlier then he supposed, but this was actually a good thing and you will later see why. Marilyn Manson was great. He used props from like every music video I can recall making and it was awesome and fun to dance to. It started slightly poring during their act. After that we found our area for the rest of the concert. Me, Alex, Joe, Alicia, Dana, Heather, Scot, Michel, and Britney all hung in the same are for the rest of the show. The next two acts were definitely the highlight of this entire concert experience. DISTURBED hit the stage. It started poring rain. Of course the rain made the saud soft, week, and muddy. So, I looked to might right to see two big guys start tearing out the saud and throwing. Me and Alex joined in. About five seconds later I turned to left and saw nothing but mud and saud flying everywher like fuckin machine guns. Everyone got drenched with mud and no one cared because everyone was having so much fun. Me and Sean tangoed our asses off. By the time DISTURBED had finished, ther was no saud or grass left. The entire hill that makes up Sound Advice Music Ampa Theatre was just one giant mud pit. Some guy came out on stage after they were done and was like "Guys, I know you're having fun but can you please stop throwing the mud." Of course everyone started simultaneously chanting "Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you," and he got the point. Darkness then fell and suddenly the moment I had been waiting for the past five years finally took place. I heard the symbols and immediately recognized as the famous song, blind, by my personal favorite band, KoRn. Suddenly we became kids. I don't know how to explain it, but we all played together. KoRn's set was as follows:

1. blind

2. Twist

3. A. D. I. D. A. S.

4. GoT tHe LiFe

5. FAlling away from me

6. HERE TO STAY

7. DID MY TIME

8. shoots and latters

9. FrEaK oN a LeAsH

10. ONE

11. faget

12. SOmbody someone

I loved dancing with Dana and playing with Britny, even though Dana doesn't remember a fucking thing because she was so fucked up on alcohol and bars. After that, all our friends left except Scot, Michel, her little brother, and Daniel. During Ozzy I had to go over and find Alicia and got my first kiss (don't make fun of me) and then I went back to my people. Ozzy played for like fucking ever. When the concert was over, me and Alex went home to my place covered in mud at like midnight... get the piture?