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OZZ FEST 2005
Ozzfest 2006 Reviews
OZZFEST 2006
THE MAIN STAGE:
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| Day of Week | Date | City | Click Venue for Ozzfest 2006 Reviews |
| +Thu | 29-Jun | Seattle, WA | White River Amphitheatre |
| ++Sat | 1-Jul | San Francisco, CA | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
| Sun | 2-Jul | Sacramento, CA | Sleep Train Amphitheatre |
| ++Tue | 4-Jul | Albuquerque, NM | Journal Pavilion |
| Fri | 7-Jul | Phoenix, AZ | Cricket Pavilion |
| ++Sat | 8-Jul | Los Angeles, CA | Hyundai Pavilion of Glen Helen |
| Sun | 9-Jul | San Diego, CA | Coors Amphitheater |
| ++Tu | 11-Jul | San Antonio, TX | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre |
| *Fri | 14-Jul | Kansas City, KS | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre |
| Sat | 15-Jul | St. Louis, MO | UMB Bank Pavilion |
| +Sun | 16-Jul | Chicago, IL | First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre |
| ++Tu | 18-Jul | Pittsburgh, PA | Post Gazette Pavilion |
| Wed | 19-Jul | Detroit, MI | DTE Energy Music Theatre |
| Fri | 21-Jul | Columbus, OH | Germain Amphitheatre |
| ++Sat | 22-Jul | East Troy, WI | Alpine Valley Music Theatre |
| Sun | 23-Jul | Indianapolis, IN | Verizon Wireless Music Center |
| Tue | 25-Jul | Toronto, CAN | Amphitheatre Molson |
| Wed | 26-Jul | Scranton, PA | Toyota Pavilion @ Montage Mountain |
| ++Th | 27-Jul | 7 Buffalo, NY | Darien Lake Six Flags PAC |
| +Sat | 29-Jul | New York, NY | Randall's Island |
| Sun | 30-Jul | Hartford, CT | New England Dodge Music Center |
| +Tue | 1-Aug | Boston, MA | Tweeter Center |
| +Fri | 4-Aug | Camden, NJ | Tweeter Center @ the Waterfront |
| Sat | 5-Aug | Virginia Beach, VA | Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater |
| +Sun | 6-Aug | Bristow, VA | Nissan Pavilion |
| Wed | 9-Aug | Raleigh, NC | Alltell Pavilion @ Walnut Creek |
| Sun | 13-Aug | West Palm Beach, FL | Sound Advice Amphitheatre |
ozzy also recently announced his only headlining solo concert of 2006, and it’s set for July 14 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Kansas City, KS with Black Label Society and two ozzfest supporting acts soon to be named.
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OZZ FEST 2005 - BAND LINEUP
OZ FEST 2005 - BAND LINEUP
Main Stage:
NEW YORK POST REVIEW - POSTED WITHOUT PERMISSION
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OZZFEST |
By DAN AQUILANTE
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HE time has come for the great and powerful Ozz to come out from behind the curtain and take his final bows after a life forging metal music. At this year's Ozzfest, which invaded distant PNC Bank Arts Center Tuesday and Wednesday, as in the past editions of the show, Ozzy Os-bourne was the big draw. He was also the big drawback.
The annual heavy metal migration — led, organized and powered by this Black Sabbath founder turned TV star — was
an excellent day of music, which made Osbourne's awkward, often embarrassing onstage sleepwalk all the more evident.
Ask any of the 17,500 head-bangers who attended this first of two shows at PNC. Ozzy howled like a wounded dog, he was out of tune with his band, and he could hardly keep time with the music. When he tried to incite the
house to clap along, his tempo was so off that he looked like a disabled athlete failing at jumping jacks.
Despite the variety of nu-metal and the more than 20
bands and artists that pum-meled the fans during the course of the 10-hour metal marathon, this show was about two acts — Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath — that faced off in an end-of-day concert showdown.
In this scissors race down the stairway to hell, it was Bruce Dickinson's Iron Maiden who put on the better show.
Where Ozzy created horror with his cringe-inducing vocals, Dickinson delivered clean, powerful operatic bombast that would peel paint off walls.
But in the guitar department, Sabbath slew Maiden.
Where the Iron boys were often overpowering with their
three-guitar crunch, Sabbath is extremely lean — totally depending on Tony lommi's concise, yet powerful fretwork, lommi's rhythm-based style was also nicely supported by fat, old Bill Ward's tremendous drumming.
The two were best early on when they roasted "War Pigs," later hitting the same kind of high for both "Iron Man" and "Black Sabbath."
During their hour-plus set, Maiden had many high points, including the songs "Revelations," "The Trooper," "Number of the Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera."
Whispers among the fans were rampant that this would be the last edition of Ozzfest. Hopefully, the rumor just applies to Ozzy.
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