Aug. 31, Alltel Pavilion, Raleigh, NC

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Home at last.... would do it again too LOL/ THANK YOU OZZY! WE LOVE YOU MAN.

Ok here a bit from my trip.

We arrived at our Vip parking shot, the night before had rained/stormed so hard I was starting to worry, the pool overflowed, but the effect was Super humidity the day of the show, so I made a choice to stay outside for most of the 2nd stage acts as we could hear it very well where we were parked, and we had some shade from my truck, a seat and a cooler full of water, etc. saved about 60.00 by doing this and sunburn LOL, we made the rounds looking for goodies...Not much to find LOL, as the show greesers tried to SELL us the Ozzfest cd 04...F# losers! they were free with a sign up at one tent.
I got to see Slipknot very cool, but the 2nd stage sound guys had the BASS so high you almost could not make out most of the songs, LOL out in my truck before entering my mirror was bumping good, with deep chest thump as well. then a dash for 1st stage to make sure I didn't miss a minute of BLS, Zakk's roadie came to the pitt giving us some BLS stickers. Zakk Kicked A S S, playing his new RR prototype his wife got him off ebay, he had a little harmonic probs with it when he did some neck sweeps but was Very cool anyways, Nick was kicking too just smiling like a **** billygoat thoughout, they threw maybe 3 picks into the pitt filled with 200+ people...and rung one girls chest, no chance of getting one. Zakk did very little looking out to the crowd, very hard to photo him LOL, then to a snak stop, the Raliegh venue was monster and no waiting in most lines, but it was not like my fav venue, the people were nice..weird kind of LOL not normal for fest in the south. Superjoint ummm I didn't waste my time going in for them, without Dimebag I think Phil s u x , didn't see Dimu Borg? but they sounded cool, Slayer ummm I caught the last song they were very over Bassed and Kerry King, as I never really noticed being far away, his guitar playing well....it S u c k ed! didn't want any picks LOL. I think there are kids out their who could smoke him bad, I suck and I could give him a good run LOL, Ok now what I came to see..Judas Priest Kicked Major A ss, they threw no picks...da mn.. Rob was riveting in all his new leather and fattened bald head, sweating like all get out, hitting some of his old high notes and getting crowd approval afterwards, Rob did very little looking into the crowd,squinting mostly not many pics of his eyes like Zakk. from the start to finish it was like a flashback of 20 years ago...unreal, playing all the great hits....ALL 5 stars, since the ending song of Slayer I was not moving, upgrading my spot with every break getting to about 2nd or 3rd row give and take LOL, as Sabbath was lighting behind the curtain Ozzy was messing with his mike making it look like his pecker LOL god my mind is so like his, I have done this stuff my whole life being a sick jokester. when I heard his voice a Great comfort came over me. The curtan raised and Ozzy was looking great, he played the Sabbath usual songs taking lots of lemon and honey tea breaks, he coughed alot and spit a great deal with his conjestion But it made me very proud to see he cared that much about us fans to do the show sick like this anyway,6 stars out of 5... we burned down vip style chronic was firing up everywhere, It was like the old days. Florida may not be so lucky on the next fest stop, I took a crap load of pictures 3 cameras with 27 pics most of Sabbath, I'm sure Ozzy was blind afterwards, he was smiling and he looked so happy, I could rest if he never toured again I guess, Tony and the Chinees body gaurds were watching me like a hawk LOL, I think they know who I am LMAO! you think? a old lady was sitting by Tony and was shaking her head No to Ozzy at the close of his set, she was looking at me too LOL, he did 2 more songs anyway, I never saw her before. Ozzy and I made eye contact many times, he saw my cross again and so did Tony Iommi, he was smiling almost to the point of laughing, not sure why but It just made my day...I mean year! Tony only threw like 2 pics maybe 3, one came right for me but a kid grabbed it, I let him rool with it..2nd genaration you know.

the trip was total H e l l! the venue sent me the wrong way again into the waiting hands of local cops, not very nice to do the tourist that way mo fo's the effect of this was a 2 hour delay in finding my way back to a hotel area, That will not happen again! the roads there all have medians no turning around easy LOL, then finding a hotel.... I lost it because some a s s took up 2 spaces with his truck, in front of my new room causing a Massive Jack attakk blistering my tires at 2:30 in the morning waking up that side of the building,(I hope) then going and getting my money back, raising some serios H e l l with Habib finaly getting to a Hampton Inn even later, nice mint. it was a nightmare getting around the place, not to mention the crack town we took a wrong turn into OMG! It was like we are going to die here any minute. On the way home we stopped by a nice Nuke site and grilled one for the ride home, cool looking at the large water bong looking stack with steam coming out of the top LOL, I will do a real review later as my mind is screwed right now with the tierdness I feel sinking in more, My voice is gone I screamed "thank you Ozzy" so he would hear me good, and when everyone would get quiet I would scream "Ozzy" and he would look right at me like yes? LOL. I just Love Ozzy, I would do it again in a heartbeat too just to see the wonderful Smiling Ozzy...AKA my God "Thank You Ozzy from the soul"



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Review and Photos : by Jack