place: Sound Advice Music Amphitheater
year: 2006
shirt worn: Ozzy
type of show: official
bands:
Ozzy
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
DISTURBED
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
hatebreed
LACUNA COIL
Dragonforce
Black Label Society
ATREYU
UNEARTH
BLEEDING THROUGH
Norma Jean
WALLS OF JERICHO
theRedChord
A LIFE ONCE LOST
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD
ALL THAT REMAINS
FULL BLOWN CHAOS
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
BAD ACID TRIP
went with: Chris Golding, Alena Rodrigrez, & Brian Hession
show was: the most unorganized Ozzfest I've ever been to, but still cool as shit
entry:
Alright, so, uh, it was during the first semester after twelfth grade on. It was on 8/13/2006. It was an intersting Ozzfest. THe first one that Ozzy only played half the dates, SYSTEM OF A DOWN's last show for a while. Everything was all mixed up. Ozzy didn't play our date, AVENGED SEVENFOLD cancelled, hatebreed cancelled, ATREYU came on way earlier then they should have, the show didn't start till like 11 in the morning. So, Chris Golding was home again. He picked me up in the morning. We stopped by WENDY'S, ate that shit in the parking lot. I had never been parked in this area before. It was by those ugly shitty wooden cabins they use in the fair. Anyways. On our way over to the second stage Alena catches me. So we hang out with her for a while. Then we run into Eric and Franky. Eric got in for free by wearing his expired uniform shirt. He almost got caught so he took it off, shoved it in his pocket, ran away, and just walked around for free for the rest of the day with no shirt. So, then Alena had to go elsewhere, so me, CHris, Eric, and Franky headed over to Tim. It was so hot I had swamp ass before the first band even got on. First on was STRAPPING YOUNG LAD. Once again, in betweem songs, Devin Townsend would just say the most random things like "Buy our shitrs!....or....Not only do we suck, but Ozzfest sucks, and you suck too!....or....See that blown up condom floatin around? That's big mine is when it's in one!" Next A LIFE ONCE LOST got on. They tried to pull off the wall of death, splitting the crowd thing, but it didn't quite work. We lost Eric, Franky, & Tim. ALL THAT REMAINS was fucking on next. A pit formed and that's where I found Mark 561, Bobby DeCastro, Alex Adler, Tyler, Tommy, Alena, Dan Grant, Cassie, Chudi, and whoever else. It was so funny, like just hug after hug after hug in the middle of the pit. So, they were really bad ass, as usual. It was a bad ass pit too. Next was theRedChord. They were bad ass. Candice from WALLS OF JERICHO sang one song with them. The best thing about their set was, during the last song, they decided to play this game, where our side of the crowd was team G. Dubbs, and the other side of the crowd was team Johnny Fayhey. Bassically, the bassist, G. Dubbs and guitarist, Johnny Fayhey jumped into the audience while playing their instruments (cordless for all you dumb fucks) and the goal was to see which side can crowd surf their guy to the sound tent as quickly as possible. Who won? We did BITCHES. So, after they were done, I believe I lost everyone except Chris. BAD ACID TRIP got on. I was very disappointed with them. After all the things I read about how great they are live, they fucking suck live. The only good part was when the singer put his foot up on an amp and said "This next song is a very very serious subject. It's so serious, I have to put one leg up. It's called Black Metal Kitchen Appliances." BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME got on next and they fucking kicked major ass, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T PLAY ANY OF THEIR OLD SHIT WHICH MEANS I DIDN'T GET TO HEAR FAVORITE LITTLE LOVE SONG, MORDECAI. Anyway. I had lost Chris by the end of their set and had ended up with Brian. WALLS OF JERICHO was really really good. After them, Brian really need a break, so during FULL BLOWN CHAOS we went over to the place where they had the water spraying all over everyone to cool off. We rediscovered Alena, Dan, & Cassie. We went into the bar and stood under the air conditioning for a while. On our way back over to the second stage Dana caught me. So, then Dan carried me and his back and i pretended to be passed out. He was like "MEDIC! MEDIC!" About five minutes after that medics actually, came and we were like "oh, fuck, I hope that's not cause of us." So, me, Brian, and Cassie went over to the fye tent while Alena and Dan were getting water, and the manager at fye in the Gardens Mall was working in there and she grabbed me before I could walk away and convinced me to come work there. So, I think I'm putting in my two weeks for Abercrombie today. So, then me, Dan, Casie, and Alena are all just standing around panicking, trying to figure out when and where ATREYU is playing because the whole day was so off schedule and shit, and then as we're walking in the opposite direction Alena was like "Look there's their banner!" and I was like "and those are their guitars!" and thne all of a sudden it was like "OMG! RUSH TO THE STAGE!" So, as BLEEDING MASCARA is playing, we're singing and we're like running through this mass of people as fast as we can dodging bodies everywhere until we get to a good spot and then then the first chorus kicks in. It was so pimp. Of course I was singing the words to every song. Usually people are looking at me really annoyed like "retard, stop screaming" but that day people were like "dude......cool, man. rock on" whatever. So their set went like this:
1. BLEEDING MASCARA
2. THE CRIMSON
3. CREATURE
4. RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED
5. EX'S AND OH'S
6. Deanne the Arsonist
7. HER PORTRAIT IN BLACK
8. Lip Gloss and Black
I wasn't expecting them to play two songs from the first album and I was so happy they did. It was so fun though. All four of us were just rocking the fuck out. It was the shit. It was probably my favorite part of the day. Once again, nothing compares to hearing the whole audience scream "Live, Love, Burn, Die" during Lip Gloss and Black. When they finished, we found Brian again. We all went over to cool off in the water thing again. It felt really good. So, Cassie's dad wanted her home by four, and so Dan had to take her home, and there's no reentry, so they left then. On me and Alena's way back over to the second stage, Alicia found me. I wanted to meet her new kid, but she didn't bring him. I only talked to her for like two seconds. So, by now, I had seen every girl I had a crush on in high school, and I saw them in reverse order. Very strange. So, we were heading over when Norma Jean was done, and then Alena found an old friend, so I just went over and found Chris and Brian just in time for BLEEDING THROUGH. They were so fucking awesome. We ran into Taylor Wertz. Seeing BLEEDING THROUGH with him kind of reminded me of working in the back of Abercrombie with him listening to them. The only thing I didn't like was when they played On Wings Of Lead, there was more people crowd surfing then I've ever seen before, and constantly people were falling on me and I was just getting crushed beneath everyone. I couldn't even enjoy the song because of that. Next, UNEARTH just ripped that place to shreds. It was the first time I had heard them play a different set. The pits were fierce. So, we were all exhausted and couldn't really stay any longer for Black Label Society. So, we went up to the lawn for the main stage. We found Eric, Tim, & Franky and sat by them. I went and got an expensive ass pizza and raspberry tea from Drew Sessler's mom. I came back. Alena and her friends were there. Dragonforce came on after like a million years. I love those guys, but they're not much to watch live. All you can really do is just stand there and appreciate it and be like "I will never be able to play any of those instruments like that." LACUNA COIL was really good. Strangely a big pit opened up right behind us. It's not really mosh-worthy music. They played their new cover of depeche mode. They were the shit. It was pretty. hatebreed and AVENGED SEVENFOLD had cancelled, so, darkness Fell, and DISTURBED got on. Now, after seeing them at Ozzfest 2003, seeing them at Ozzfest 2006 was disappointing. They really had the PA down kinda low during their set. I just wasn't feeling the energy this time. I was so disappointed this time. It was really cheesy whenever between songs, David Dairman would start talking like a preacher. "My brothers and sisters.....Heavy metal and hard rock saved my life ever day of my life. blah blah blah. Hard Rock has been hurt, by not by us, brothers and sisters. It's been hurt by those make up- wearing fagets that call themselves emo, screamo, retro. They skateboard home crying about their fourteen-year-old girlfriend. blah blah blah. Everyone say FUCK THE TASTE MAKERS" and of course everyone was like "FUCK THE TASTE MAKERS," and I'm thinking, well it's not like the taste makers weren't ever like DISTURBED, GET IT IN YOUR SYSTEM, but anyways. Then he was all like "Let's give it up for all the bands on the second stage that don't get appreciated up here. I have been down there every morning of this tour and those guys work much harder than I remember working. blah blah blah. And of course, let's give it up for the man who started all this, the god father of metal, Ozzy." So, it was all really cheesy and repetitive. At one point they brought out their manager and announced that this was their last show with him, and that he was leaving to manage Josh Grogan. So, David wa like "Everyone say FUCK JOSH GROGAN" and so they did, but then he was like "Actually, Josh Grogan's a very nice guy and he's a fan of the band. So, I have nothing against him." So, then it was time for SYSTEM OF A DOWN's last performance for at least the next four years. It's so awesome, that we, West Palm, got it. Now, I thought that SYSTEM OF A DOWN was going to suck ass live, but man was I wrong. That was fun as shit. The whole time, me and Alena were just getting our really goofy ass dances on. We were having a blast. SYSTEM was so fun. On the way home we stopped by the godly TACO BELL. So, yah. It was a bad ass day.