place: Sound Advice Music Amphitheater

year: 2007

shirt worn: Ozzy

type of show: official

bands:

Ozzy

lamb of god

static-x

LoRDi

hatebreed

behemoth

Devil Driver

MONDO GENERATOR

NILE

ANKLA

CIRCUS DIABLO

THE SHOWDOWN

3 Inches of Blood

DAATH

In This Moment

ChthoniC

BLACK TIDE

went with: Kevin, Tommy, Bleak, & Collin

show was: bad ass

enrty:

Everyone thought they had Ozzfest predicted and figured out this year like every year, until they announced it was free. WTF! In my opinion a free Ozzfest is one step closer to a better society to live in (as well as the fact that all the vehicles on the FAMILY VALUES tour this year used environmental friendly fuels). I remember when the tickets went up online, I was at work, so I had to have Chris Golding download them for me. Then I found out I had to work at Ozzfest, so I had to give my tickets to Taylor Wertz & Hunter Bottoms. Then they released a whole batch of tickets to my store and I told all my friends what the secret password you're supposed to say to my manger to get one was. So, anyways, I woke up super fuckin early on 8/30/2007 to finish my project for my ceramics class that was due the next day. Then my step dad took me to BURGER KING and then dropped me off at Sound Advice. Once the rest of fye got there, they let me into the second stage area . We set up three fye tents. Two were for buying cds and the other was for the meet and greet. I had to take off my Ozzy shirt and put it in my manager, Jen's truck, to be replaced with a LIVE NATION/fye shirt. From my store in Gardens, there was me, Jen, and Tonya. There was Felice, Lance, Megan, and Steve from the West Palm store. Kristin came back down from the Orlando store. There was also Sharon and this other guy from the district. The guy that was in charge from the district was like, we need to move super fast because we need to be ready as soon as those gates open!" and I was like "So, do you mean super fast like Sonic or like the Flash?"  Luckily my job was not in one of the tents. All I had to do was walk around and display a sign that said "MEET THE BANDS AT THE FYE TENT". Megan had the same job. So, we walked around with our stupid ass signs. With this job, I got to see all the bands I wanted to see. They also gave us a megaphone, which I used to inform people that "I AM AWESOME!"  and when Alena would walk by with her boyfriend that has cheated on her so many times "ALENA IS AN IDIOT AND ICP SUCKS!"  but she didn't hear me. HOW DO YOU NOT HEAR A MEGAPHONE! My favorite band on the bill, behemoth, was supposed to co-headline the second stage but was forced to go on first because they had to catch a plain back to Poland because their visas expired that day. I watched them. They were, how do you say, bad ass. It would have been way better if they weren't on first though. Then ChthoniC played. I didn't stick around to watch them. I saw two seconds and then I went to do my job elsewhere, like in front of the gate where people were coming in and they could all see my sign. I came back to the second stage so I could catch In This Moment. I ran into Robbie. He was in the pit for In This Moment but I couldn't go cause I had a sign to take care of. In This Moment was fucking fun though. They were fun as hell. Then Dan, Sean, Christina, Bleak, Tess, and Britie found me. Yay. I got in trouble apparently because I talked to them while I stood in place displaying my sign to everyone during all of DAATH. The singer took the no crowd surfing sign and ripped it up, which is cool. I told all my friends the story about how the band and their merch guy got beat up by the hardcore kids when they played at RAY'S with JOBFORACOWBOY. They were laughing. 3 Inches of Blood played, and I love them and all, but since I had gotten in trouble I went to advertise elsewhere. I was goin around in the area behind the crowd with my sign during THE SHOWDOWN. I thought they sucked. My shift ended just in time for me to catch NILE. I put my shirt inside out cause I wasn't working anymore. I love NILE to death, and I've been waiting a long time to see them. All their songs are heavy, but they only played the slow heavy ones, so it was actually boring as hell. Imagine that? NILE? Boring? Wow. Interesting. So. Anyways. ANKLA was bad ass. I hung out with Josh Strode and Dustin Strode during them. Britie found me. When they were done, Dan found us. So, MONDO GENERATOR had to drop the bill (Thank God) and were replaced with Devil Driver (thank God). Devil Driver was sick as fuck. They were like gods. Dez was like "I want all the big guys to go to the center, and push every one out, and make a whirlwind of flesh," and they did it. It was nuts. These are guys are nuts. It was so cool. I just took off my shirt after that, and Dan rapped it around his fist. I actually said to Dan "I'm actually kinda nervous. This is the first time I've ever seen hatebreed. The epitome of hardcore. Anything could happen." As soon as they hit the stage.........now I know I've said in a lot of entries that the whole floor opened up, or everyone in the audience went crazy......but literally....fucking literally chaos unleashed over the entire fucking crowd. Any direction you looked, PIT as far as the eye could see. Everyone in there was swinging. EVERYone was in the pit too, because the whole crowd had become a pit. You were in it even if you didn't want to be, and there was no time for rest. There was no mercy. I was hardcore dancing in the midst of it all. It felt like a fucking war zone. I could see Dan across and between the violent cluster of people swinging legs and fists. I got goose bumps during the chants. Jamie Jasta was like "We've seen all the bands and trends come and go, but we have always kept our style and our message." At another point he continued with "Metal and Hardcore will never die in South Florida. That is fucking true," and another point he was like "I saw this one little guy over here, where's that little guy? Get him over here," so the crowd past this little kid up to the stage. Jamie Jasta kneeled down and said 'what's your name" and the kid told him his name, and he said "How old are you?" and he said "Six." Jamie was like "Good. Start em young. He's gonna be the badest kid when he goes back to school. He's gonna be like I hung out with hatebreed. This kid's gonna be so metal when he grows up. After our set, come visit us at the tent we'll give you a whole bunch of free stuff." It was coolest thing. The crowd was the most intense during "Doomsayer," "Destroy Everything," and "Live For This." Someone actually hit me in the mouth and totally fucked up my jaw. I still can't get over how ridiculously bad ass hatebreed was. It was literally the biggest pit I've ever seen. Dan and I stumbled our way back to the lawn to recover on a blanket with Sean, Britie, Kevin, and Bleak. When CIRCUS DIABLO dropped the second stage because one of their members' wife had a kid, they were replaced by Miami's BLACK TIDE, consisting of fourteen and fifteen your old clasic metal buffs. Since the seconds stage is run by Jägermaester, they wouldn't allow BLACK TIDE to play for being under-age. So, they had to be moved to the main stage. So we got over when they were playing. We didn't like them. After that, LoRDi played. Quite possibly the worst band I've ever seen step foot on the Sound Advice stage. They look like GWAR, they sound like KISS, the worst of two worlds. Every song was like Arockalypes, Rock and Roller Coster Tycoon, Suck My Rock and Lick My Rolls, Go Rock Your Self, Rock and Rollie Pollie, etc. All they had going for them were there lame ass WARCRAFT costumes, and their fireworks that would shoot out of the singer's staff...in other words, nothing. I walked off for a bit during them. I ran into Ernesto, Nikkie, and James. I talked to them fro a while. Then I went back to the lawn. static-x was so bad. I'm sure they'd be awesome in a club or something. The first two cds rocked, everything since then has been so bad in my opinion. lamb of god was good, but it was my fifth time seeing them, so ehhhh, they were still good though. It'd been five years since I've really seen Ozzy's solo project. I really wanted to stay but none of my friends did. So, I left with Bleak, Kevin, and Kevin's friends: Tommy Collin.