I'm slowly getting my friends into metal. Only one is making noticeable difference, mainly because he never really listened to music beforehand.
I've only been to a couple shows solo, but never an all day thing. But it's kind of cool not worrying about anyone else, and you can talk to random people. But then there's the awkward moments when you're surrounded by groups of people that are there with someone else.
i have a hard time getting people to go with me to shows. my wife can go to some shows, but we have a hard time getting babysitters. my friends are going thru the too old thing, and like stay home and knit instead of going out. My brother in law is psycho and will go to anything, but i have to babysit him. he went with me to mayhem and is going with me to ozzfest. can't get a 12 hour babysitter
Roger Marsh of UFO Examiner reports that "a triangle UFO flying higher than any conventional aircraft" was spotted during Ozzy Osbourne's performance at the Ozzfest 2010 kick-off concert on Saturday, August 14 in Devore, California. "The shape was triangular with rounded tips," one concert-goer was quoted as saying, according testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness-reporting database. "The color of the craft was a pale gray. The middle looking on edgewise was slightly rounded and thicker in the middle, which held three round lights in a line strobe-like. Colors were green, yellow and pinkish purple. The lights were like a strobe that blinked and flashed 3-5 times before it disappeared behind a tree that it fit behind."
I didnt like Ozzfest this year. The whole second stage I wasnt really into but went early in hopes it would be exactly like 07 and 06 but it so was not. It honestly looked like they set it up 30 minutes before the gates opened. No seperate bands tents was a huge annoyance, fucking 40 bucks for a main stage bands t-shirt fuckng annoyed me. 07 i picked up a fucking Lamb Of God shirt at their tent for 15 bucks. Cut this whole 'Second Stage' tent and 'Main Stage' booth shit out. Only 6 dates and it looked that bad? If Ozzfest is like that next year, fuck that. And maybe thats always the crowd for Chicago festivals, but wow, it was fucking empty from 12 to 4, I found that terrible. But the whole Main Stage was awesome, Nonpoint sounded kick ass, Devildriver I enjoyed live, Halford still has one of the most amazing voices in Metal, Motley I thought sounded badass, but Ozzy was the best of the night, he was fucking incredible. All in all, I think Im going to stick to West Palm festivals. By the way, if that was Erik in that clip, I stood next to him about 4 times.
The crowd just sucked this year. I guess they were having problems selling tickets or whatever. I really don't care, I had fun. I laughed at Vince Neil saying someone told him that this was the best Ozzfest ever.
TUPAC IS DEAD/THE LEGEND IS GONE/THEY SAYIN TUPAC'S BACK?/DEM NIGGAS WRONG
The crowd just sucked this year. I guess they were having problems selling tickets or whatever. I really don't care, I had fun. I laughed at Vince Neil saying someone told him that this was the best Ozzfest ever.
Yeah, that was definitely not true. I mean cmon, 2004, Priest, Slayer, Sabbath
I have only one friend that listens to metal more than anything else.
None of my friends listen to metal. I only have one friend that will consider going to some shows with me, but he doesn't really like metal.
Just my former radio co-host....and he's one of those extremely weird, awkward guys that it just feels odd to hang out with him. In the radio station it was alright, but at shows, it's just sometimes creepy.
Even in high school, I didn't really have many metalhead friends that went to shows. All my friends were older than me and broke because they got stoned too much.
The crowd just sucked this year. I guess they were having problems selling tickets or whatever. I really don't care, I had fun. I laughed at Vince Neil saying someone told him that this was the best Ozzfest ever.
This all goes back to what we as a group have been saying most of the summer. Without the mainstream acts headlining nobody is going to sell many tickets. Even at 10.00 each Ozzfest still had a hell of a time selling tickets. The crowds will get even sparser if there aren't the mainstream acts to pull in the casual concert goer.
My friends are just broke. That or they don't care enough about the bands playing.
My mindset is just go and see any band I like (no matter how 'much' I like them) that comes to town because I never know if they will break up afterwards or before they come back to your town. So you might as well see if you can.
The crowd just sucked this year. I guess they were having problems selling tickets or whatever. I really don't care, I had fun. I laughed at Vince Neil saying someone told him that this was the best Ozzfest ever.
This all goes back to what we as a group have been saying most of the summer. Without the mainstream acts headlining nobody is going to sell many tickets. Even at 10.00 each Ozzfest still had a hell of a time selling tickets. The crowds will get even sparser if there aren't the mainstream acts to pull in the casual concert goer.
Tbh I liked it this way. It was nice to go to a show without an overabundance of scenefags.
TUPAC IS DEAD/THE LEGEND IS GONE/THEY SAYIN TUPAC'S BACK?/DEM NIGGAS WRONG
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I've only been to a couple shows solo, but never an all day thing. But it's kind of cool not worrying about anyone else, and you can talk to random people. But then there's the awkward moments when you're surrounded by groups of people that are there with someone else.
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This all goes back to what we as a group have been saying most of the summer. Without the mainstream acts headlining nobody is going to sell many tickets. Even at 10.00 each Ozzfest still had a hell of a time selling tickets. The crowds will get even sparser if there aren't the mainstream acts to pull in the casual concert goer.
My mindset is just go and see any band I like (no matter how 'much' I like them) that comes to town because I never know if they will break up afterwards or before they come back to your town. So you might as well see if you can.