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 www.ozzfest.com or www.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.
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 Coli, 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."
###clevohardcore - 2-6-2007 at 04:35 PM
sounds to me like its winding down.BDx13 - 2-6-2007 at 04:59 PM
also doesn't hurt that bands pay to be on that tour.crazyfists28 - 2-6-2007 at 07:01 PM
its never been a tour i'd get excited to see but i guess i can appreciate a new marketing tactic to get people to go....JawnDiablo - 2-6-2007 at 07:26 PM
too much time in the sun for me personally....tireironsaint - 2-6-2007 at 07:26 PM
You couldn't pay me to go to that shit. Free admission means nothing to me.Discipline - 2-6-2007 at 08:38 PM
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You couldn't pay me to go to that shit. Free admission means nothing to me.
crazyfists28 - 2-6-2007 at 08:41 PM
what band would get you to go to this? considering its a metal show that is....just curiousDiscipline - 2-6-2007 at 09:08 PM
If I was going to see a strict metal show it would need to be an all-star lineup.
Motorhead
Judas Priest
Slayer
Kreator
Venom (original lineup)
Sodom
Iron Maiden
Deicide
Napalm Death
Lamb of God
I would see that lineup.Spoiler - 2-6-2007 at 10:02 PM
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You couldn't pay me to go to that shit. Free admission means nothing to me.
defstarsteve - 2-6-2007 at 10:22 PM
keep corporations out of music
I'd rather pay admission to a show then see pepsi commercials in between each bandtireironsaint - 2-6-2007 at 11:37 PM
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keep corporations out of music
I'd rather pay admission to a show then see pepsi commercials in between each band
Yeah, but honestly, I'd
rather watch nothing but Pepsi commercials than any of the bands that play on Ozzfest.DaveMoral - 2-7-2007 at 01:14 AM
You'd still have to get tickets right? So basically... the show itself is free but Ticketmaster will still charge you a handling fee for your free
tickets to shows that you likely won't get into because it's free. Rediculous.
Merch is going to be rediculous too. T shirts are already going for what? 30bucks? Imagine now... Plus labels will be forking out extra dough to get
their bands on this thing too.joe - 2-7-2007 at 01:21 AM
never been and i still wouldnt go if it was for free. evry year i see a couple bands on the lineup im interested in but i still wouldnt want to hang
out through all the other shit.morgan - 2-7-2007 at 02:14 AM
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never been and i still wouldnt go if it was for free. evry year i see a couple bands on the lineup im interested in but i still wouldnt want to hang
out through all the other shit.
Voodoobillyman - 2-7-2007 at 09:35 AM
the only band that could get me into this thing is Motorhead. I don't see that happening. I am, however, considering attending the warped tour for the
first time ever due to the fact that Tiger Army is headlining.JawnDiablo - 2-7-2007 at 09:57 AM
it's just too fuckin hot for me.
i hate sunburn and heat and humidity
i also hate a million sweaty metalheads breathing whatever smelly air is mine for the taking
id prefer to see motorhead in a smell venue.BDx13 - 2-7-2007 at 10:15 AM
never been, probably wouldn't ever go.
i don't like going to any large concert venue.
can't stand being so close to so many people.
funny, i suppose, coming from someone that's spent the past 10 years living in new york.MyOwnWay - 2-7-2007 at 10:16 AM
If they had Iron Maiden, Killswitch Engage, God Forbid, Anthrax, and Body Count on the same bill. I'd go. Otherwise...
No interest.stateofdisgrace - 2-7-2007 at 02:00 PM
Could care less actually.............clevohardcore - 2-8-2007 at 12:07 PM
For the record. I have never sen a ozzfest ever. So I don't want to start now.crazyfists28 - 2-8-2007 at 01:16 PM
me either, i am surprised that its still going though. not too many big festival types left...gavin - 2-8-2007 at 01:34 PM
if they said to me "here's $500 to sit at ozzfest all day" id say ................"NO"JawnDiablo - 2-8-2007 at 01:49 PM
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if they said to me "here's $500 to sit at ozzfest all day" id say ................"NO"
a guy in here just mentioned this to me....to which I said, you couldnt pay me to go to that.
too hot.Siczine.com - 2-8-2007 at 02:18 PM
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Originally posted by DaveMoral
You'd still have to get tickets right? So basically... the show itself is free but Ticketmaster will still charge you a handling fee for your free
tickets to shows that you likely won't get into because it's free. Rediculous.
Merch is going to be rediculous too. T shirts are already going for what? 30bucks? Imagine now... Plus labels will be forking out extra dough to get
their bands on this thing too.
Exactly. Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck Clear Channel. God damn monopoly.sleepwalker - 2-8-2007 at 02:21 PM
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Originally posted by tireironsaint
You couldn't pay me to go to that shit. Free admission means nothing to me.
i can't agree. If Danzig was playing, that would be tight.tireironsaint - 2-8-2007 at 11:27 PM
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You couldn't pay me to go to that shit. Free admission means nothing to me.
i can't agree. If Danzig was playing, that would be tight.
You could scatter 8 of my favorite current bands
through the line-up, make the show free, and have Sharon Osbourne drive me to and from the show and I still wouldn't wanna suffer through that crowd
and that atmosphere.upyerbum - 2-9-2007 at 12:15 PM
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I still wouldn't wanna suffer through that crowd and that atmosphere.
That's the clincher, big crowds make me chokin' mad.BDx13 - 2-9-2007 at 12:40 PM
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I still wouldn't wanna suffer through that crowd and that atmosphere.
That's the clincher, big crowds make me chokin' mad.
Discipline - 2-9-2007 at 06:06 PM
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I still wouldn't wanna suffer through that crowd and that atmosphere.
That's the clincher, big crowds make me chokin' mad.
crazyfists28 - 2-9-2007 at 07:10 PM
the only big festival show i've been to is warped tour a couple times and it was ok as long as you dont mind staying a little ways back from the
stage. im not one for mass crowds either, especially meat heads
