Why is Ozzfest Free this year? Cause it's CRAPFEST!

Lordi is about the only band I'd be interested in seeing, and I assume they will only play for about 30 min. GAK!

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Billboard.com reports that LAMB OF GOD, HATEBREED and LORDI are among
the first acts to be revealed for the 2007 Ozzfest tour. LAMB OF GOD
and LORDI will perform on the main stage with headliner OZZY OSBOURNE,
while HATEBREED will headline the second stage, supported by MONDO
GENERATOR, ANKLA, CIRCUS DIABLO, NILE and THE SHOWDOWN. The 24-city
tour begins July 12 in Seattle. The dates are as follows:



Jul. 12 - White River Amphitheatre, Seattle, WA

Jul. 14 - Gorge, George, WA

Jul. 17 - Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA

Jul. 19 - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA

Jul. 21 - Hyundai Pavilion, Devore, CA

Jul. 24 - Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ

Jul. 26 - Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, NM

Jul. 28 - Coors Amphitheatre, Denver, CO

Jul. 30 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Kansas City, MO

Aug. 02 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, San Antonio, TX

Aug. 04 - Smirnoff Music Center, Dallas, TX

Aug. 06 - UMB Bank Pavilion, St. Louis, MO

Aug. 08 - Germain Amphitheatre, Columbus, OH

Aug. 10 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL

Aug. 12 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI

Aug. 14 - Verizon Wireless Music Theatre, Indianapolis, IN

Aug. 16 - PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ

Aug. 18 - New England Dodge Music Theatre, Hartford, CT

Aug. 20 - Tweeter Center, Boston, MA

Aug. 22 - Tweeter Center, Philadelphia, PA

Aug. 24 - Post Gazette Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA

Aug. 26 - DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, MI

Aug. 28 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC

Aug. 30 - Sound Advice Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL



Ozzy and his wife Sharon created a stir back in February when they
revealed Ozzfest would be a sponsor-driven, free event, and acts would
be asked to play without being paid.



Ozzfest co-founder Sharon Osbourne said during a press conference last
month that doing the tour like this was unprecedented: "We're doing 25
shows across America, and it's the first time that actually a summer
festival tour has gone out free. There's been millions of free one-off
shows, but this is gonna be a 25-city tour. And we're having our second
stage, as usual, and everything goes as normal, except it's free."



Ozzfest will utilize sponsors to offset the costs of producing and
running the festival. To gain entry into the event, fans will go to
Ozzfest.com or LiveNation.com to find links that will direct them to
special sponsor sites where tickets can be secured. More details
regarding the process are forthcoming.



Sharon said that rising artist fees would have forced Ozzfest
organizers to raise ticket prices this year. While smaller acts have
traditionally not received a fee, Sharon insisted that no one is
getting paid this time: "We are giving people a stage, and we're giving
them a chance to play in front of thousands of people. And we're giving
them the chance on days off, they can go work wherever they wanna work,
gig wherever they wanna gig. They can even play Ozzfest and then go off
that night and do another gig, 'cause we start music from noon. But
they can come, they can sell their merchandise, they can sell their
music. But it's free. We're not paying anyone."



Sharon said that the tour already had "bands committed," adding, "We
know there aren't any major headlining acts that would tour all summer
for nothing, but we're confident we can turn some of the genre's
biggest bands on to what we're doing and have them come out to play a
date or two."



In a prepared statement, Sharon also said that the reason for doing the
tour this way was simple: "We're reaching the same point we did years
ago when kids no longer wanted to pay for overpriced CDs. As a result,
they found alternative ways of getting music. That's what's happening
with summer touring in this country, it's out-pricing itself. We
started this and we want to keep it and we want to make it bigger and
bigger each year by getting bigger sponsors to be involved with the
festival and underwriting the festival."



Video footage of the news conference held February 6 by Ozzy Osbourne
and his wife/manager Sharon to announce that Ozzy will stage this
year's Ozzfest, his annual U.S. summer hard-rock extravaganza, as a
first-of-its kind free event.

I'd go and see Nile, but the rest (except for Ozzy) SUCK

Hatebreed are decent if ya like Hardcore,but most of that is crap!

2 good bands: Lamb of God and Nile... that's bout it
.... i think Ozzy has lost it now anyways....

Yeesh... even for FREE, they'd have to do better than that to get me in to that show...

if it doesn't interest you, then don't go. it's pretty simple.

Egads that is terrible! There is not ONE band on that bill I would want to hear live.

I'd rather sh** in a bucket and wear it on my head than see any of those bands....even for free.

Shiney wrote:

I'd rather sh** in a bucket and wear it on my head than see any of those bands....even for free.

That doesn't sound like much fun.

Nile are the only good on the whole tour. But honestly, why would anyone expect anything better from Ozzfest? The tour has always been a joke.

ultmetal wrote:

Shiney wrote:

I'd rather sh** in a bucket and wear it on my head than see any of those bands....even for free.

That doesn't sound like much fun.

what else needs to be said !!!! screw ozzy after the way they handled Iron Maiden in San Bernadino..... he's just embarassing now anyway.

Lamb of God and the Showdown are the bands that interest me. For free I'd go see those bands then leave... maybe I will...

TheHellion wrote:

Nile are the only good on the whole tour. But honestly, why would anyone expect anything better from Ozzfest? The tour has always been a joke.

I went the year they had Black Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest, Black Label Society, etc. That was a good year for Ozzfest.

I never was big fan of festival type things....always too many bands I care nothing about seeing in comparison to the few I really want to see....

I read that 3 Inches of Blood was added to the 2nd stage, but that's still a pretty weak line-up. Even for free.

I went to the same one as Ult, mostly to see Priest with Halford back behind the mic. That was also the show where Ozzy couldn't sing, so "The Metal God" stepped up to the plate and did that night's Sabbath set. Made the whole show so much more memorable.

ultmetal wrote:

TheHellion wrote:

Nile are the only good on the whole tour. But honestly, why would anyone expect anything better from Ozzfest? The tour has always been a joke.

I went the year they had Black Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest, Black Label Society, etc. That was a good year for Ozzfest.

Sabbath, Slayer and Priest were the only bands I enjoy on there as I recall.

Guess I'm in the minority here but I love hatebreed and Lamb Of God

ultmetal wrote:

TheHellion wrote:

Nile are the only good on the
whole tour. But honestly, why would anyone expect anything better from
Ozzfest? The tour has always been a joke.

I went the
year they had Black Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest, Black Label Society,
etc. That was a good year for Ozzfest.

Lucky you

Ours was camcelled due to a hurricane

this is going to suck bigtime, probably won't go and I knew it was going to be like this. I've never been to ozzfest but this isn't even worth it for me

nile, log, ozzy thats about as far as my interest goes there