I remember when I heard Lordi. I thought it was a mix between Motley Crue and KISS when it comes to sound. They ripped off GWAR's looks and so I just walked around the whole time because I didn't want to throw up. I think Ozzfest 07 was my 10 concert maybe? Might be closer to 15th though.
i heard the way they pay the bands is something like the headliner gets paid like 100,000 per show or maybe the whole tour and the side stages have to PAY like 10,000 to even be on it after they have been chosen by ozzy
When asked if the band's stint in Ozzfest in 2006 was torturous, given it came so close to the band's end, Townsend laughs. "Oh my god, dude ... it was brutal. Brutal." Townsend says that when the band -- rounded out by guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and kitman Gene Hoglan -- first arrived at Ozzfest, "the powers that be were like, 'You're too old, you're lucky to be here ... shut up and know you're place,' and we're playing at 9:30 in the morning ... brutal."
There was one point, early on, when the band was walking to the catering area to get food, and Simon walked down the wrong ramp, sending an Ozzfest stage manager on a tear. "He went f---ing ballistic on Jed, so Jed was like, 'F--- you.' The guy went nuts, and pulled this rank thing on us, like we were a bunch of upstarts and we spent the next three weeks at war with Ozzfest. They wanted to kick us off, we wanted to leave ... the guy who put the lineup together didn't want us to leave.
"Finally, I went up to the Ozzfest guys and said, 'We're old, for sure, but you gotta know we've been doing this for 15 years, and we have no delusions fo becoming the next big thing. We do this because this is what we do, and the label paid $80,000 for us to be on this tour. So either we'll spend the rest of the tour hating each other or we'll pull it together.' And they were like, 'We're old, too ... let's just get along,' so I just went up on stage every day after that and gave the show s---."
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LORDI!!!!!!!!
When asked if the band's stint in Ozzfest in 2006 was torturous, given it came so close to the band's end, Townsend laughs. "Oh my god, dude ... it was brutal. Brutal." Townsend says that when the band -- rounded out by guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and kitman Gene Hoglan -- first arrived at Ozzfest, "the powers that be were like, 'You're too old, you're lucky to be here ... shut up and know you're place,' and we're playing at 9:30 in the morning ... brutal."
There was one point, early on, when the band was walking to the catering area to get food, and Simon walked down the wrong ramp, sending an Ozzfest stage manager on a tear. "He went f---ing ballistic on Jed, so Jed was like, 'F--- you.' The guy went nuts, and pulled this rank thing on us, like we were a bunch of upstarts and we spent the next three weeks at war with Ozzfest. They wanted to kick us off, we wanted to leave ... the guy who put the lineup together didn't want us to leave.
"Finally, I went up to the Ozzfest guys and said, 'We're old, for sure, but you gotta know we've been doing this for 15 years, and we have no delusions fo becoming the next big thing. We do this because this is what we do, and the label paid $80,000 for us to be on this tour. So either we'll spend the rest of the tour hating each other or we'll pull it together.' And they were like, 'We're old, too ... let's just get along,' so I just went up on stage every day after that and gave the show s---."