I had been looking for a Asian band to get into for awhile.  And I turned on Headbangers ball and saw the video for "Saku", and immediately got sucked into there music.  If your to closed minded about English vocals, just listen to Dir En Grey's track "Marmalade Chainsaw".  This band set the stage for me to get into the music of Taiwan's Chthonic.

(Set list on the bottom person from MySpace sent them to me.) First of all thanks to Nick for inviting me, Des for picking me up, and there dad for letting me stay, Rose for the driving and her friend getting the poster Signed. Yeah I got to Catch Japan's Dir En Grey at Saint Andrews Hall in Detroit along with Fair To Midland! Second time going to the Venue. (First time saw my friends Jarred Band Any Direction play along with 30 other bands) I went with my friend Nick, his sister Rose, and her friends, who were pretty cool people. We were late from a wrong turn. The line was very long when we got there and we practically froze to death lol. A lot of people drew hearts with Kyo's name around it and for some reason the site www.downwithedetroit.com was something that was written all over Saint Andrews Hall lol.

 So we finally get in. When patted down they ask Nick if his mp3 player was an explosive or if it could record video lmao. They also took Rose's car key chain away. So Fair To Midland was setting up. (Missed the opening band Bleed The Dream from waiting in line) They reminded me of 30 seconds to Mars with a hint of Screamo. The vocalist jumped around and swung his fists like he was having a seizure or something. He also had a patch of hair missing and on the bald spot was a tattoo symbol. During changes to different songs they had clips playing of trippy echoing voices to bidders bidding on something. Overall I didn't like them that much, but some of the crowd seem to. I am sure they will grow on me in the future.  Finally Fair To Midland set was over. Dir En Grey was next! A huge Drum Set was placed on Stage and then a long came all the Members of Dir En Grey and everyone cheered.

 The crowd participation was amazing. Everyone was clapping and jumping around.  I Couldn't really sing a long since the music is in Japanese. There were moshing and crowd surfing going on in the front, but I was in the back, besides the place was overcrowded and to small to begin with, so I probably wouldn't of even bother to join. On stage the band had a screen behind them with clips of random things from a person having open surgery, a cartoon of a man crapping on a persons face, people bleeding from the mouth, the video for the song Saku, (Kid killing his parents and killing himself at the end), clips of other performances, to Pearl Harbor.  It was like watching something from "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas". Very crazy stuff. I saw at least 4 people get carried away from I'm guessing either drug overdose, moshing, or heat exhaustion.

 The Vocalist Kyo is one crazy mofo! On Stage he was hitting himself in the face and fish hooking his mouth, causing him to bleed all over. He also grabbed bottled water dumped on himself to cool off then out of nowhere grabbed a giant bucket of water,  with the words rape me on it, and put it over his head and hit it with his fist. (The bucket still on him.) Yes very crazy/Odd, but awesome to watch at the same time. You can tell by the screaming/growls and sadness of his voice the music is very emotional. The band walked off stage for a bit and everyone started stomping there feet and chanting Dir En Grey for a good 10 min. They came back out and played 4 more songs. The final song they played was in English and ended with a blood curdling breakdown of him screaming Fuck You! Over all Dir En Grey is very energetic, fun and put 110% in the show and music. First show I been to that's not a Music Festival and could very well be the best. Very insane, loud and Fun indeed!!! Souvenirs: Copy of Dir En Grey's Withering to Death, Signed Poster from the Bassist Toshiya and my Ticket stub. One more thing... a lot of people were very rude when walking through and just bumped into us without asking us to move at all. Only one person told me Excuse me.  I also saw a person with Pokémon tattooed all over his head.

The Final
The Fatal Believer
Agitated Screams of Maggots
Disabled Complexes
SAKU
Grief
Itoshisa Ha Fuhainitsuki
Kodoku ni shisu, yueni kodoku
Ryoujyoku no ame
Kasumi
Merciless Cult
dead tree
OBSCURE
Machiavellism
C
THE IIID EMPIRE
Beautiful Dirt
CLEVER SLEAZOID

After an amazing time at Ozzfest 2005, you bet I was coming back.  I almost had thrown away all the nu-metal, but I still liked System Of A Down, and a few Disturbed songs.  I was pretty much stuck in the Melodic Death/Metalcore stage, for I went mostly to see Bleeding Through, All That Remains, Between The Buried And Me, and Atreyu. So not much to write, except Ozzfest is always fun no matter who is playing. This is what I wrote after coming back from Ozzfest 2006.

Well here is another concert review. Ozzfest 2006!!! First of all THANKS FOR THE RIDE JESSICA!!!! My friends Josh and Jessica Phenix and her friend Pattie and I stayed at a hotel the night before the show and left around 8: am two hours before the show started. They changed the time of when the show was supposed to start. Instead of 11 a.m. it was 10 a.m... Well we were like the 200th person in line.  We were still pretty close the second stage being able to see the bands perfectly. This time I only watched the bands I wanted to see.

Between The Buried and Me: Openers for the Second stage. I have been a fan of them since there release of Alaska and there live performance blew me away. Five min into there set a Moshpit broke out. My friend Josh and I got caught up in it. I got knocked over and someone stepped on my leg. Josh got kicked by someone. I ended up with a huge bruise on my leg. I got up from when I fell over and jumped to a safe spot which turned out to be right up front of the second stage. I found out that the lead singer was also the keyboarder. He does and awesome job at vocals and keyboarding. At the end of Between The Buried and Me Set the band thanked everyone for showing up so early in the day.

All That Remains: I have wanted to see All That Remains live for a little while and I finally got the chance. They dominated the stage. Phil did an awesome job with the Vocals and was very full of energy. He was always interacting with the audience from sticking out his tongue and making weird faces while people were taking pictures with there cell phones, dedicating a song to all the females in the crowd, to making sure everyone was having fun. Everyone sung along with All That Remains through there whole set. At the end of the set Phil threw stuff out to the audience. One of the things happens to be a towel that he put down his pants. The funny thing is I saw people were fighting over it when he threw it out.

Full Blown Chaos: Someone beside me was talking to someone by them said that they were better than Hatebreed. So of course all of us had to check them out to see if they were good. Hell no, they weren't better than Hatebreed. They were not good at all. I almost walked away from there set. But decided no to so My friends and I didn't get split up. During the set The lead singer yelled out that this song was dedicated to all his ex-gf that he wanted to cut there heads off. He also dedicated a song to his mom that was dying of cancer; I thought that was nice to do. Talk about Bi-Polar. They also had everyone chant Dimebags name. During the set they asked the hardcore kids to two- step and then thanked everyone for coming.

Bad Acid Trip: A very lame band. They were like a heavier- weirder- rip off system of a down.  Watched a little bit of there set and then all of us decided to go and walk around to look at everything.

Walls Of Jericho: Michigan's very own hardcore band!  One of the best bands on the rotating slot if not the best. They got my attention very quick.  Candace is very good female vocalist, very crazy and very brutal. During Walls of Jericho we were all caught in between two Moshpits. My friend Josh pulled a girl out of the pit who fell in by accident. Candace had the crowd going insane. The band dedicated a song to all of us since we all live in Michigan and it is the bands home state. After there set I went and picked up there All Hail The Dead album and got in line to meet the band. I got to meet them and got my cd signed.  I told one of the members, they were probably the best band on the rotating slot on the second stage, and he grabbed my hand, and said "Fucking Right We Are". Very awesome people.

Norma Jean:  They didn't really fit in well, but I thought they were pretty good. Not much to write amount them just that they had a lot of energy and again were pretty good.

Bleeding Through: They kicked so much ass. From what I saw and heard, a lot of people were singing along to them, including me. Most of the time my eyes were on Bleeding Trough's keyboardist Marta. She was looking really good. I couldn't help but keep staring. Very full of energy. Just what I expected from them to do kick ass!!! Brandon owned on the vocals, hit the notes very well and had some decent size pits going. After the set I got my copy of the truth signed by them and got to meet/shake hands with them. I was very nervous I didn't know what to say to them, especially to Marta. I missed all of Unearth waiting to meet them and the opening of Atreyu, but hey it was damn well worth it. Very awesome and kind people they are.

Atreyu: Very awesome job. Had some moshing going.  I thought they would get booed, because while walking around some people were talking shit about them. Alex rocked out! Atreyu asked of us if we saw the movie underworld. Of course everyone replied yes and then they kicked in to the song from the Underworld soundtrack Her portrait in black. Close to the end of the set they the crowd choose either to play a new song or an old song by having the crowd scream for which one they wanted. Of course we all screamed for the older material. They ended there set with the signature song Lip-gloss in black.  I wanted to get signatures from them, but you had to buy there cd and I already own it and so I didn't bother. Pretty low if you ask me. After Atreyu we all went and got lunch and missed Black Label Society. I had already seen them from last year and none of my friends liked them so we skipped them for lunch. From what I heard while walking around BLS set list was very similar to last years. Only difference was being on Second Stage.

Dragonforce:  Big disappointment. I heard that these guys were mind blowing from reading stuff online about them, but sadly they were not. Let's just say they sound a lot like 80's Metal. Don't get me wrong I love Iron Maiden and I mean the guitar work by Dragonforce is really wicked, and they are very talented, it's just the Vocals were very horrible live and annoying.  But Maybe they will grow on me in the future.

Lacuna Coil: Let's just say I'm a fan now. I thought they were pretty amazing. Both vocalist sounded great. Not a lot of people seemed to be into them, but one thing for sure I was. They did a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" and did an excellent job at doing so. Cristina Scabbia is very gorgeous! Ended the set with there new song "Our Truth"!

Hatebreed: Fucking insane live. People that were walking in the ail just stopped and stared and no one could get through. People started just dropping over the railings to get back on the lawn. I ended up and ran into the people I met last year, in line; They thought I died or something, because we got split up last year and they were  worried about me and they asked me how I manage to survive. I thought it was funny. It was cool running into them again. After that I went up and watched on the lawn. Jamey Jasta did very well on all the songs. They had pits moving and were of course very full of energy. Probably the best hardcore band. Jamey thanked all of us keep the underground scene alive. Jamey also mentioned how he felt about Child molesters and child abuse, (since one of the songs was about fighting against it and trying to get it to stop.)  that instead of going to Prison for there crime they should all instead go straight to hell and burn! I totally agree with what he said. Close to the end of the set he introduced us to all the members in Hatebreed. Very awesome set!

A7x: Very huge disappointment. From what everyone said they rock live. Bull shit they do. The vocalists was off on some of the songs and really screwed up during Bat Country. No one seemed to be really into them until they did a tribute to Dimebag and Covered Walk. They did a good job on it, only because Bleeding Through's Vocalist Brandon helped out.

Disturbed: Decent live. David did pretty good on the vocals. Everyone went crazy when they played. I just loved the way David presented himself on stage. Whenever he talked he had like eerie music playing in the background. He was like god or something cause like everything he said everyone paid attention to what he had to say and Obeyed him. One comment I thought was funny from them is this "Thanks for keep hard rock and Metal alive every time it seems to start to fade away you people bring it back and keep it alive. One thing that seems to be in the way of it is that emo/screamo/retro whatever you want to call it shit, that sings  about cutting there wrists over there 14 year old girlfriend and then running away  on a skateboard thinking they are badass when they aren't needs to end! If you agree say fuck that shit!"  Of course everyone did. Disturbed had about 5 small pits going at once and one giant one that lasted through out there whole set. They played everyone one of there hits.

System of down: The Highlight of the day. I can't even describe in words how kick ass of a job they did live. Opening up with B.Y.O.B. They had about the same amount of Mosh pits that Disturbed did. A set list that lasted 90 min of pure comedy, chaos, fun, and tons of energy. Everyone loved them. They Played all the hits along with non-hit songs from the new albums and non-hits from the older ones. They had me laughing during some of there songs when they changed the lyrics around with non sense. For example I believe it was during Sugar, Serj said "I'm going to take some Ice Cream and shove it up your mom's ass." I couldn't help but laugh!  Very excellent Job I wouldn't mind seeing them live again. To bad they are going on Hiatus after Ozzfest.

Souvenirs: Ozzfest 2006 T-shirt, Walls of Jericho Signed Cd, Bleeding Through Signed Cd, and Ozzfest 2006 Summer Sampler.

Things That were annoying: The Prices were way higher this year. $4:50 for water and like 5 bucks for a slice of Pizza. The Hardcore dancing kung fu swing your arms around whatever crap was pathetic.  Moshing is way better.

This tour is what set the stage for me to become the Metal head I am today.  I was seriously scared for my life and didn't know what to expect.  I wasn't really familiar with Metal or any of the bands genres.  I looked up everything I could about the bands and listen to some of the music before going to the tour, and after seeing the bands, before I wrote this out.  I didn't want to sound stupid online or at Ozzfest.  Mudvayne was actually too heavy for me when I started listening to them at the start of 2005, that year.  I remember watching Arch Enemy and it just blew my mind it was a female on stage going all out Death Metal.   The only bands I really knew about were Rob Zombie, some of Mudvayne's stuff from L.D. 50 and stuff on the radio. For Black Sabbath, from listening on Classic Rock stations.  After this tour I pretty much got into Slipknot and Mudvayne and started exploring Metalcore, Hardcore, Melodic Death Metal, and classic Metal bands. This is exactly what I wrote out. Everything I wrote down back in 2005 is true and the subgenre's I found out before and after the show. Some of the explaining a little over dramatic, but still true.

My day at Ozzfest 2005 Thursday August 04 Clarkston Michigan DTE Energy Music Theater. I went alone. My dad dropped me off at 7 a.m. on his way to a business meeting he had to attend to. So I get in line I'm about the 8th person in line. A person in line kept asking if he could get my ticket off of me for a pack of cigarettes. And I'm like No way dude!!! So I'm standing there and I talked to some of the people that were in line before me. They started the line they were there since about 4 a.m. They were really cool people. They made some fun of me a little bit; when they found out I was a Linkin Park fan. One of the people with them said they would help me out if a Mosh Pit broke out cause of how small I am. I thought that was really cool! Anyways they finally open the gates and I run as fast as I can to get a good spot by the second stage. I did get an awesome spot like right behind the people who were right at the front. I could see the stage perfectly and could like touch any of the bands if they reached out to shake hands with the crowd. The only complain I really have were the prices are really high for food and t-shirts and stuff. And I didn't get to see Mastodon because they had a family emergency.

The Haunted opens up the Second Stage. These guys were full of energy. A very good opener for the Second Stage indeed to get the Ozzfest crowed to go insane first thing in the morning!!! They played new material from their new album rEVOLVEr. Songs that I recognized were "99" and "All Against All". The Haunted brought pure Sweden Thrash Metal to the Second Stage that had the crowd screaming for more! To bad the second stage bands only have a very limited time to play.

Next up was Bury Your Dead. Bury Your Dead tore up the Second Stage. Bringing threatening, intense, volatile Hardcore in the vein of Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, and Pantera, they were brutal as hell and were full of energy. The lead singer Mat Brusco was jumping around like a maniac on stage. At the end of the set Mat had everyone participate in a 4 min chant that went like this "Bury Your Fucking Dead"!It was the first time I have ever heard them before and I became a fan.

After Bury Your Dead, Wicked Wisdom came on stage. The lead singer is married to Will Smith. Her name: Jada Pinkett Smith. You might remember her playing in the Matrix. As you can probably already tell this band must be horrible. They were pretty awful and some people were booing. Yeah their guitarist is good, but the style the vocalist brought is not for me. You could tell by the way the audience was acting that not a lot of people liked them. Not to be racist or anything, but one thing I thought was funny is there is only one white guy in the band and the rest were black.

It Dies Today: I heard someone behind me say that some shitty Emo band called It Dies Today was up next and that they don't belong on Ozzfest. Hell yeah they do. I really wouldn't call them Emo there more like Hardcore. It Dies Today had Mosh pits going on that were pretty brutal. The vocalist yelled out to everyone "Everybody start moving, if the mother fucker right next to you is not moving make them move." Everyone just went crazy after he said that. I had at quite a few  people get slammed into my back.

  A person that was falling went to pull me up for leverage and didn't realize how small I was and he ended up and pulled me with him right into a pit. I almost got elbowed right in the face and I jumped out of the pit as fast as I could. It was a good size pit. When I looked back I saw a person with blood gushing from his nose. The craziness started to die down during there set and then the band had everyone jump together through the rest of the set. Very good performance. I would have loved to see the face of the guy who was calling them shitty.

Gizmachi: I first heard about this band from hard drive radio. They are signed to Clown of Slipknots record company Big Orange Clown. I didn't really know what to expect from them live.  They were pretty decent. The lead vocalist did all the screaming and then the guitarist sung all the melodic parts of the song mainly the chorus. During the set it started to rain for a little bit. The crowd patrol started putting on rain ponchos. The Vocalist made fun of the security for putting on rain ponchos and yelled out "The Ozzfest audience isn't afraid of no rain are we?!  Overall they were ok and from what I saw there were quite a few people that liked them.

Next up was Sweden Metal Masters Soilwork. These guys are Phenomenal live. The vocalist has such an awesome vocal range, able to hit high notes as well as being able to pull off death metal growls and screams that seem impossible. It was truly amazing.  Ozzfest loved Soilwork. Everybody joined along in all there songs. In the middle of the set the pits started moving and everyone just went crazy. I became a huge fan after seeing them.

Arch Enemy's curtain dropped with their logo and name and everyone behind me just started chanting Arch Enemy! This was the first time for me ever hearing them and I was amazed at how much fan base they had.  I couldn't believe that the vocalist was a female. It was kind of scary seeing her pull of the death metal growls and screams. The guitarist is pretty kick ass and pretty crazy on stage. Angela put some of the bands vocalist on the second stage to shame!

Trivium busted out onto the stage and my first reaction was HOLY SHIT ARE THEY YOUNG! They must have just gotten out of high school at least 4 years ago. They pulled off some impressive guitar solos. The vocalist is pretty amazing live. They had some huge moshing going on and were always interacting with everyone. During the set the band gave the crowd patrol a run for their money by having tons of people crowd surf. You could tell on the faces of some of the crowd patrol that they didn't appreciate it that much.  At the end of the set Trivium revealed that they were going to be on tour with Children Of Bodom and then bowed before everyone. After seeing and hearing them the very first time I Immediately became a fan of them.

The Black Dahlia Murder: Michigan's very own Metal Maniacs. Very brutal! The lead singer screeches and yelps were way too intense for me at the time. I didn't really like them that much, but from the peoples reaction they seemed to like them a lot. The vocalist Trevor never stopped jumping around the stage. The pits were going crazy again. More people slammed into me. During the set I saw someone who was crowd surfing get dropped right on there head. It seemed like it hurt when you heard him land, but he just got up like nothing happen. If you're a fan of intense screeching then they are for you.

A Dozen Furies put on a fun show to watch.  Some people were criticizing them by that they were posers, because of being on Battle for Ozzfest MTV show.  The guitarist jumped into the crowd twice to crowd surf and kept playing his guitar while doing it. Marc the bassist for some reason kept spitting in the air, looking down really quick while playing bass, and then looked up and kept catching his spit. The Vocalist jumped down while singing to where the Crowd Patrol were standing and reached out and shook hands with some of us really quick and then hurried up and jumped back on stage. I got really lucky and got to shake hands with him. At the end of the set a dozen furies told us that they wanted to meet all us motherfuckers and that they would be by the FYE Tent and Jaqier meister tent drinking. Sadly I didn't get to meet them for I wanted to see what As I lay Dying was like.

As I lay Dying was alright to me. The lead vocalist screamed his ass off while the guitarist, just like Gizmachi sang the chorus. A lot of hardcore dancing or whatever you call it was going on during the set a long with a little bit of moshing. A lot of people were singing along to them. I wasn't to into them for some reason. I don't know, just didn't like the style they brought. It is pretty cool that a Christian Metalcore band played at Ozzfest. I left early before they were done to go to the bathroom, grab some food really quickly, and bought me an Ozzfest 2005 t-shirt.

Killswitch Engage was freaking Phenomenal. Howard Jones is such a kick ass front man. He was Very full of energy, and always talking to the audience. This was the first time hearing material by them other than the song End Of Heartache. The guitarist Adam kept making weird comments about (please mind my language) pussy and peanut butter and running around like a lunatic on stage. Howard Jones yelled out to everyone So I heard from Trivium you guys love to crowd surf well start it back up. And so everyone did and went crazy doing it. So much crowd surfing the crowd patrol could barely keep up with it. They had to get more patrol to help out. These guys put enough Emo into there Metal. Proof in that is I saw a couple girls, with tears streaming down there face, singing a long to "End Of Heartache". Towards the end of the set a huge moshpit broke out the biggest pit at the second stage. At the very end Howard thanked everyone for coming out and seeing all the underground acts.

Rob Zombie I can't even describe how kick ass he was. It was good seeing Rob Zombie back after being gone for over three years working on the films house of a thousand corpses and the devils rejects. On stage with him was Ex- Marilyn Manson Guitarist John 5, Alice Cooper's drummer Tommy Cluefetos and The Bass player I have no idea who he was, but he was good. Rob opened up with Super beast. Playing all the hits from his albums, like "Living Dead Girl, to "Feel So Numb", and some White Zombie classic hits. Of course everyone sang along to all the songs and did what Rob Zombie asked us to do from jumping up and down to the songs to clapping along. During the set Rob talked about the past of watching Hardcore Punk shows, to the days with White Zombie opening up for Pantera. Rob Zombie ended with More Human Than Human. Very awesome set list.

 In Flames: very good opener for the Main stage. First time actually listening to them. They didn't get the recognition they deserved from the people watching, but they did an amazing job. Some people behind me were complaining that they didn't play enough old material. Who cares! They for sure can they rock out live! I of course became a fan.

Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society of course without question did an amazing job. Zakk Wylde is such a kick ass guitarist I am sure many of you reading this already know that he is and also already know he is Ozzy Guitarist for his solo career. Zakk did some jaw dropping guitar solos and played new material from his album Mafia, and songs I have never heard before from his older albums. Over all Zakk did a damn good job.

Shadows Fall owned the Main stage. Playing new stuff from the War Within and older songs that I never heard before since I just found about them like couple weeks before Ozzfest 2005 was announced. Brian Fair did the vocals really well. It was cool watching him run around on stage with his long hair dreads swinging around all over the place. Everyone loved them and sang along through there whole set. I only sang a long with the songs I knew. There was a little pit of moshing going on during the set also. At the ending Brain yelled out this is for 10 years of music from Shadows Fall and everyone Roared and he also was thankful for being able to play on the Main stage with Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. And then he said up next is the Mighty Mudvayne everyone screamed.

Mudvayne destroyed the Main stage. Opening with Determined the lawn was like flooded with pits. It was truly an amazing sight to see. After Determined Chad was like so How the fuck is Detroit Metal City! The hardcore Mudvayne fans went fucking insane. Being a fan myself I to went crazy. Chad Grey was insane to watch on stage.  It was awesome watching him scream his ass off and jump around like a lunatic He was also very interactive with the audience asking questions like "how many of us were drunk?", "how many of us were high?, or "how many of us were both drunk and high".. Everyone knew all the lyrics and joined in the whole time. They played songs from all the albums. The songs I can remember are Death Blooms Not Falling Forget To Remember World So Cold Happy Internal Primates IMN and of course they ended with there signature hit DIG which brought on the biggest pit of the day. Of all the bands Mudvayne had the biggest and longest pits. A very spectacular performance indeed! Sucks to be you!

Iron Maiden The only thing to say is they are Metal Gods. They bleed Metal. Playing all the hits from the first four Maiden albums I think they beat the Sabbath performance that night. That is hard to say since I have been into Sabbath and Ozzy ever since I was a kid listening to them with my father. Bruce was wild that night. When they brought out there Corpse Mascot Eddie everyone went insane. It was so cool to see Eddie on stage. He was huge. Bruce pretended to be attacked by him and swung at him with a guitar and Eddie fell over defeated. Very cheaply done, but it was entertaining and funny at the same time. At the start of the song trooper Bruce ran out with a British Flag and ended (Since there from Britain and that is what the song is about a British solider.) up falling face first right on the stage. Everyone laughed. Over all the performance was mind blowing and was very cool to see a band that came out way before my time.

 The Original Black Sabbath the highlight of the day for everyone! Another band that were Gods of Metal! They practically were the ones who invented heavy metal. Ozzy can still kick ass even being almost into his 60s. They all did very good playing all the hits. Everyone sang along the whole entire time and held up their lighters. I felt kind of awkward not having a lighter since I don't smoke so I asked the guy in front of me if he had an extra one and he gladly handed it to me. It's good to see that the inventers of Metal can still kick ass!!! Opening the set with NIB and playing Iron Man, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sweet Leaf, Fairies Wear Boots, Black Sabbath, War Pigs, The Wizard, and ended the set with Paranoid, (Those are the songs I can remember that they played that I knew.) but then everyone demanded an encore and they all came out again and played one more song Children Of The Grave. At the end of the set Ozzy told everyone to drive home safely and not to drive drunk. I was shocked this came out of his mouth because you know its Ozzy. A very memorable performance, that I will remember the rest of my life! Thank you Ozzy, Bill, Toni, and Geezer for starting the whole Metal Scene!

My very first concert! I remember waiting forever for it to come I was so excited.  At this point in time Linkin Park to me was the only band that mattered.  Now days, not so much, still respect them, just don't listen to them as much, a long with Korn.  I did become a huge Nine Inch Nails and Pink Floyd fan later on and still am.  This was when I learned that listening to a variety of music was important and not to just listen to one band or genre.  This is actually how I wrote it out, when I first wrote it 4 years ago, (well I corrected the errors with spelling, but you get the point.) I was very ecstatic after the show.

This was the first year that Projekt Revolution became an actual festival and I got to go!   Here is what happened at the show that I went to.  The show that I went to was in Clarkston Michigan at the DTE Energy Music Theater.   It was about a 3-hour drive to get there.   We finally get there and we stand in line for what seem like hours (actually it was 45 min to an hour) and they let us through.   First they scanned our tickets and then patted us down then we walked through the metal detectors and they took our water.  Apparently we weren't supposed to bring in our own water, which I thought was stupid, but oh well what could I do about it.   So finally we get in and the second stage opens with the hardcore band downset. 

They were an ok band.   I watched them for a little while, then my dad and I went to the stairs, which led to the main stage.  We were the first ones in line.   I wanted to go back to watch the other bands but I looked behind me and there were hundreds of other people behind in line so I was like no way am I going back now.  So my dad and I (while waiting there) talked to two guys that were crowd patrol.   They were very cool people.  The one guy decided to go check to see what was up because the main stage was suppose to open about 4 pm and it was almost 4:30 and he tells my dad don't move cause once you start moving the other people will.   So my dad listens to the guy and he comes back and tells my dad thanks and let's us in. My dad and I run as fast as we can to get a good spot on the lawn and I looked behind me and it was like a battlefield the way people were running in.   So we get our spots and that is when Less Than Jake opens up the main stage.

   Wow, are they full of energy.  They were like jumping tics on stage they never stopped moving and were always being interactive with the audience by throwing stuff off stage to the fans, encouraging people to dance to some of the songs and during one of there songs, the lead vocalists/guitarist jumped off stage and was running around the pavilion while playing his guitar which I thought was sweet.  The vocalist said, after playing a few songs, t "Yeah we just got back from touring in Europe there were so many fat chicks it was unbelievable". "Damn are we glad to be back in the States!" It was kinda funny.  Less Than Jake played about a 15-30 min set.

   Next up was The Used.  This band was cool and as energetic as Less Than Jake. Bert, the vocalist for The Used was always interacting with the audience.   Bert did this thing with us called the wave where people from the back on up stuck up there middle fingers and it kind of looked like a wave and Bert pretended to be hit by it and fell over.   The Used played about a 15 min set, which were about 5 songs, which I thought, was a little disappointing, but at least they played some new material.

  Snoop Dogg. He played a decent set I believed he played 40-45 minuets.   Playing classics like Gin and Juice and performing a rock track I believed was called "Foolin yaself".  The audience went crazy when he performed.   I had chicks wanting to use my binoculars to see him over and over.  After one of his songs, snoop asked "who has got the chronic I smell some chronic in here". Just a little before his set was over he let some girls on stage and gave them all back stage passes.   Probably the only reason snoop let them in, was because they were hot.  After Snoop ended he asked everybody to go out and vote for the 2004 presidential elections and after he said that he wanted everyone to sing along with him and the tune went like this: Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, hey hey, hey, Snoop Dogg!   Next up was Korn! 

Korn opened up with "Right Now", mosh pits started to flood the lawn.   It was crazy!  They played most of their hits, which included Shoots and Ladders/Metallica's One, "Got the Life", "Y'all wanna single"? "Here to stay", "Did my time", "Freak on a leash", "Falling away from me", "Twist/A.D.I.D.A.S.", Pink Floyds "Another Brick in the wall" and ended with there signature hit "Blind".  They played about an hour set.  When they ended they showed pictures of each of the band members on the screens and said here is for another 10 more years of Korn and the crowd cheered.   After seeing them live I became a fan.  I am glad I got to see them live, especially being around 10 years, and still having the same members.

Next is my favorite band of all time Linkin Park. The Set list is below they played a total of 17 tracks.  This band is amazing live if you have not seen them live yet this is a must! They opened up with Don't Stay. A little bit after that they played "Lying from you" and the mosh pits started up again.   During "Runaway", Linkin Park asked us to jump with them and everyone was jumping.  When I was jumping I almost fell, the hill was steep.   I had like at least 15 girls that wanted to use my binoculars constantly so they could drool over Chester.  During the Step Up song DJ Z-trip came on and did some break dancing. And this is where I found out Chester played guitar. He played all the way through "It's Goin Down"  One of the funniest things that I heard is Mike telling a story about how a friend got kicked out of a strip club for being drunk and stupid and he dedicated song to them, I believe it was during the song "figure 9". 

During "Faint", Bert from The Used came out a screamed the chorus with Chester. "Breaking The Habit" was performed really well. They added a new piano intro to the opening. During the song, Linkin Park had the video of "Breaking the habit" being played on a giant screen. While they were playing "In the End" Chester and Mike stopped and said "we are astonished that you guys are still singing your lungs out after being here already for over five hours! Keep it up!"   Then they continued the song where they left off, which was the bridge where Chester sings.  After "In the End", they pretended it was the last song and the lights went out on the stage and everything got quite. Some people even started walking away. That is when the violin intro for crawling started up and the audience went nuts.   After "Crawling", Linkin Park started up the song "Wish" a Nine Inch Nails song.

They did an amazing job on this song. I have seen some live performances on TV, online, and DVD of Linkin Park and Chester always goes crazy.   When he did the Nine Inch Nails cover it was the craziest I have seen him perform. Jumping up and down, running on the stage and screaming his lungs out. During the song, Mike was like "You should know the words by now if not just go crazy and pretend to". After that song it was Linkin Parks, final song for this performance. Ending with their signature hit "One Step Closer". During the reanimation bridge they had some fire works shooting off the stage and Jonathan Davis of Korn appeared to sing along. At the end they told everyone "thanks for coming" and that "they loved all there fans" and had the best fans in the world.  The booths and the food were excellent it was actually affordable.   A souvenir that I bought before I left was a Projekt Revolution 2004 t-shirt, with all the bands and tour dates on it. The Variety of music was pretty awesome too.

Don't Stay" (Extended Intro)
"Lying From You"
"Papercut"
"Points of Authority"
"With You"
"Runaway"
"It's Goin Down" /"Nobody's Listening/ Step Up" Together as one song
"Somewhere I Belong"
"Figure.09" (Extended)
"From The Inside" (Extended Intro) 
"Breaking The Habit" (Extended Intro)
"Numb"
"Faint With Bert of the used.
"In The End"
 Crawling" (Reanimation intro)
 Wish (Nine Inch Nails cover)
"One Step Closer" (Ft. Korn's Jonathan Davis)