Friday, August 17, 2007

ed goes to Ozzfest


I missed most of the 2nd stage bands, but here's my 2 cents on what I saw.... note: all bands suffered from poor sound from the house mix....
BLACK TIDE: not too bad, a little inexperienced, but had a heavy sound. LORDI: had a cool stageshow with lots of pyro, but musically they are nowhere near as heavy as they should be judging from their look, fun to watch. noticed some people giving them the finger. STATIC X: again not bad, sufered from a muddy mix, but had good energy onstage LAMB OF GOD: they were probably good, but the insufferable mix rendered everything into thick mud. Although, that guy has a very cool scream. PA mix was Noticeably louder than the other bands. OZZY: surprisingly, quite good! I was expecting less vocals, but he came through with at least 90% of the vocals, I only winced a couple of times, ....BUT: this much I have determined: Zakk Wyld imitating Randy Rhodes' solos is bearable...a 20 minute guitar solo is Not.