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OZZFEST 2007...FOR FREE
GROUNDBREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT PULLS PLUG ON TICKET PRICES
"This will change everybody?s impression of the way touring in the summer in America should be."--Sharon Osbourne
Imagine a day of wall-to-wall hard rock.
Imagine the world's greatest headliner sharing a bill with cutting edge new artists.
Imagine if this brass-knuckled beast was hellbent on coming to your town.
Imagine this earth-pounding event...FOR FREE.
2007 will forever mark the year OZZFEST spiked the concert industry's punch and gave every head-banging American kid a reason to strap on an air guitar with the historic announcement that tickets to the summer?s premiere touring concert festival won't cost fans a dime.
Testing one, two, three...
That's right, OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE and tour producer LIVE NATION broke the news today at the Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles that their 12th annual hard rock spectacular--a 25-date extravaganza launching July 7 in Los Angeles--is pulling the plug on ticket prices and giving the power back to the fans calling this summer?s OZZFEST "FreeFest." The other OZZFEST cities as of now are San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Nashville. Note: a final confirmed list of cities and dates is forthcoming.
"For the last few years," says SHARON, "ticket prices have steadily climbed as artists demand more and more money for summer tours. We certainly want everybody to make money, however we also want the kids to be able to afford to come out and have an incredible experience. If we continued with the traditional touring festival model, we would have no choice but to raise ticket prices again this year."
Cited as ?one of rock?s biggest juggernauts? in the cover feature of Sunday's New York Times' ?Arts and Leisure? section (6/25/06), OZZFEST and Live Nation will turn to sponsors to provide added support for the festival's new incarnation. This summer?s OZZFEST will provide select sponsors with a unique opportunity to engage fans one-on-one utilizing one of music?s best known brands.
"We're reaching the same point we did years ago when kids no longer wanted to pay for overpriced CDs," compares Sharon. "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. That?s what it?s about."
?For the past 11 years, music fans have made OZZFEST the most successful and enduring rock music festival in the United States,? said Jason Garner, Live Nation President of North American Concerts. ?What better way to say ?Thank You? to the music fans who have made this possible than inviting them to attend OZZFEST for free.?
To gain entry into the event, fans will go to [Click, Dick] or [Click, Dick] to find links that will direct them to special sponsor sites where tickets can be secured. More details regarding the process are forthcoming.
As OZZFEST?s founder and namesake, OZZY will make his triumphant return to the headlining position on this year's mainstage after surprising fans last year by performing on the down-and-dirty second stage at a handful of dates. Audiences can expect the Prince of Darkness to unveil new songs from his forthcoming studio album, OZZY?s first disc of new material since 2001. While the rest of the in-progress bill is under wraps, Sharon points out, "we have bands committed, but we?re hoping that after today's announcement we?ll have a whole influx of artists who want to be a part of something this ground breaking. 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. If they're in town and want the rush of performing in front of 20,000 frenzied kids, they're more than welcome to join us. They can sell their t-shirts, CDs and whatever else they've got. They're also welcome to book their own shows in local venues on the day of OZZFEST. I?m not stopping them. People have to be creative and think of alternatives."
Since 1996, OZZFEST has been a virtual breeding ground for rising bands. The festival has been instrumental in igniting the careers of platinum-selling artists like System of a Down, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Incubus, Slipknot, Queens of the Stoneage and Godsmack. Along with supporting bands on the rise including Avenged Sevenfold, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coil, among others.
?OZZFEST was created to keep this genre of music alive by showcasing new talent," states Sharon. "You better believe we?re going to keep perpetuating that by hand-picking compelling new bands that are hungry for OZZFEST's career-making exposure."
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Um.
I cannot think of a larger, more boring festival than an American Ozzfest. 'world's greatest headliner'? He's over the hill, burned out, washed up and REALLY needs to get with Geezer, Bill and Tony and make a fucking Sabbath album. But he won't, cuz his head is so fried he cannot learn new lyrics.
The use of 'platinum selling' and 'artists' in the same sentence is kinda funny. They all bore the fuck outta me.
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It'd be worth it for free ... ... or so I'd think
wrote ... BANDS Ozzy Osbourne www.ozzy.com System of a Down www.systemofadown.com Disturbed www.disturbed1.com Hatebreed www.hatebreed.com Lacuna Coil www.thekarmacode.com Dragonforce www.dragonforce.com Black Label Society www.zakkwylde.com Atreyu www.zakkwylde.com Unearth www.unearth.tv Bleeding Through www.bleedingthrough.com Norma Jean www.normajeannoise.com The Red Chord www.theredchord.com Between the Buried and Me www.betweentheburiedandme.com Strapping Young Lad www.strappingyounglad.com A Life Once Lost www.alifeoncelost.com All That Remains www.allthatremainsonline.com Full Blown Chaos www.fullblownchaos.com Walls of Jericho www.allhailthedead.com Bad Acid Trip www.badacidtrip.com
... admittedly, most of these bands don't interest me though I'm guessing that "real bands" that wanna get paid to perform and tour don't want any part of it ... (... or perhaps they are too busy harrassing Napster still)
Man, the BDO blows that line up away on its worst day... the only one of those acts worth seeing are Hatebeak.
wrote ... The festival has been instrumental in igniting the careers of platinum-selling artists like System of a Down, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Incubus, Slipknot, Queens of the Stoneage and Godsmack
Thats hardly any recommendation for OZZFEST. That just means that OZZFEST has done its job by shoving the most palateable dogshit down the throats of punters who dont know any better, and dont care theyre being fed shit.
wrote ... OZZFEST has done its job by shoving the most palateable dogshit down the throats of punters who dont know any better, and dont care theyre being fed shit.
Actually, SOAD, QOTS and Incubus are great and the others can't be THAT bad otherwise they wouldn't have such a HUGE fan base. Some of those bands (even if I don't like them) are HUGE compared to some of the less know bands at BDO.
...and to be honest Ian, I had never heard of BDO until you talked about it on here. Ozzfest however is massively popular here as are the bands that play at it.
Just because a group is popular and sells a lot of records doesnt mean they're any good, it just means that a record company paid for enough promotion that people allowed themselves to be sold the crap that was put out. There's a sucker born every minute, and herd mentality is all the rage.
In 5 years time no one will give a flying fuck about SOAD, or Incubus, or QOTSA. Same way as no one gives a fuck about Korn or Linkin Park these days. The record company will have their money though, to push the next bunch of garbage.
OZZFEST travels to the UK yearly. You never heard of the BDO before I posted about it here, because it doesnt travel away from Oz/NZ. That doesnt mean that BDO isnt any good.
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Mosh is right.
Hatebreed are barely on my radar, I'll take your word though man. However, that said, mosh-pit friendly acts are seriously lame and should meet with a hale of bullets.
Nah, this is a cash grab and the talent is thin and unimpressive. A bill like that would be laughed off the stages in Europe, because they have self-respecting metal bands over there. Here, you get piles of dumb Americans who feel Metallica still matters and think 'Slayer' is too heavy. All we got here is money and marketing skills.
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'we?ll have a whole influx of artists who want to be a part of something this ground breaking'
LOL
'artists'
Ground breaking? Hasn't this crap toured for years? Oh wait, it's now free and hence groundbreaking? Why don't you pay back all the tickets fees from last tours then, they were ripped off.
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There's this girl here in Florida (she's a friend of mine, no doubt), who's been doing the local and Florida circuits ... ... her music is called "groundbreaking" and (other terms to suggest it's different and monumental)
... she's REALLY good, however, I think her stuff is very poppish and typical of today
I'm not knocking her talent OR her performing the music/style she loves, I'm knocking the people that "critique" ...
I've said it before and I'll say it again; It's about MONEY, not about "art" anymore ... The faster these "hot acts" knock out tunes, the faster the revenue ... Bands and "artists" used to write their own stuff (for the most part, with exception) ... ... the thing is, it takes TIME to write an album's worth of material "The Old Fashioned Way" ... (New, "cookie-cutter") music, overall, and at this rate, is a lost cause
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All music sucks. I go to concerts for sex, drugs and violence.
Also, I saw Ozzy hook up with the old Sabbath boys for the 10th Ozzfest. He needs a full nervous-system transplant before he's allowed to try that again.
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Ba, the 'music industry' is in a panic because no one is spending money on their lame product. People are picking up on the notion that the 'powers that be' in the industry are just as you say Dave - "the faster these "hot acts" knock out tunes, the faster the revenue" - and that is why it is boring beyond the pale. It's systematic and cookie cutter Albums needs to sell 500,000 copies before they are viable to market, so that is why the 'talent pool' at the top of the heap is so fucking thin, and it is this shitty talent pool we keep hearing about. Fuck this industry man.
And this OZZFEST will not be free. You will pay for parking You will be a captive audience for terrible food at rediculous prices You will be a captive audience for the 5$ bottle of water You will buy shirts for 40$ or more You will be MASS marketed to like you are a fucking moron
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"WiseMasterYoda" wrote ... All music sucks. I go to concerts for sex, drugs and violence.
I will walk to the event from out of town I will sneak food in along with the drugs I will hold my nose and drink from the bathroom sink I will buy shirts at five-finger discount I will be rudely expose myself to mass-marketing morons
"lovernios" wrote ... Here, you get piles of dumb Americans who feel Metallica still matters and think 'Slayer' is too heavy. All we got here is money and marketing skills.
Hahahahah Metallica. Yeah right.
I have my Slayer ticket, long awaited. I have a ticket to see Suicidal Tendencies, I showed my boss, he just shook his head. If Mike Muir is anything like last time I saw him over a decade ago, this should be a great show.
