ozzfest
heres my ozzfest weekend....
friday...the drive
got off work, went and go rental care. we got all our shit together and left at about seven. its a three hour drive to devore from where we are at. we get there sometime around ten or eleven. we get ahold of everyone else that was going that we knew. they say they are at motel six, so everyone that i was with but the driver said lets get a cab. my friend goes to the lady behind the counter and asks to call a cab and how far the motel six is in some city... i can't remember. so the cab arrives and we ask how much it will be to get a ride to motel six. he says, " its right across the street." so i was like fuck... i call up the other guys that we were trying to get to and tell them to wait outside the room and it ended up being the wrong fucking motel six. we were in riverside and they were way closer to the venue then we were. wasted an hour or so doing that bullshit. so all in all... made it to be around one or so.
saturday...day of
we get to the venue at about nine or so. buncha confusion between shit already. anyways, everyone i rode with was there and in line with me. i guess that is all the really mattered. the first band kicked off around 9:10am as we were still in line. they sounded good. outdoor concerts make live music sound so much better. we finally get in and walk striaght to the second stage. planted right in the middle of dirt. god forbid go up there, so i made my way to the pit. dust was just flying everywhere. on top of that, there was those gay little punk kids swinging and kicking their arms around. that shit is so fucking stupid. so i left and went back to were my friends were. they didn't want to pit at all. i tried to convince them. bastards! we ended up walking to the other gate which was waaay on the other fucking side. there were all kinds of kick ass stands. i bought a buncha shit. we ran into some of the people that we knew. hung out with them for a little bit and took of back to the second stage. some shitty band was just finishing up. standing around waiting... and a buddy of mine who came by himself somehow fucking found us. that was really amazing. me and him left to get a beer on the top of the hill. some guy stopped us on the way and was asking about my choker and bracelet. he was high on something. se we humored him for a little bit and found out there was only coors. bummer! anyways, we finally we and got our beer. heard devildriver wasn't gonna make it cause their bus brokedown. as we were standing on top of the hill watching the stage, they said devildriver was up next. i was pist till i heard that. watched their set from the top of the hill, cause i really didn't want to spill my beer, but i really wanted to be in the pit for devildriver. its alright though, i will definatly be seeing them again. they get off the stage and go to some signing booth. i had to buy another one of their cds so i could thank them and get them to sign the shit. i was and still am pretty stoked i got to talk to DEZ!! missed lacuna coils set...standing in line to meet the band and when we finally got out we went and got another beer. beer was ten fucking bucks!! went to the same place on top of the hill... started watching the stage and i think lacuna coil was just finishing their set and then i saw the banner for otep. so we ventured our way down towards the stage. its tough chugging a beer and walking down a hill dodging people. i managed... we get as close to the stage as we could. then the pit broke out. i was in that shit for their whole set. i inhaled so much fucking dirt it was not even fucking funny. i was covered in dirt. i had the shit in my mouth, nose, ears... you name it. it was there. it helped in the long run though. i didn't put sun block on and the dirt keeped me safe! after we got out of that mess. i coughing up shit left and right, spitting brown, rubbing sweat and dirt from my eyes. its was well worth it though. we then venture to get another beer. sept this time we went to the gate we originally came in. they had this mist tent...aw man am i glad they had that. i managed to get all the fucking dirt off my head. man i know i am leaving out a lot of shit, but i really don't want to go back and add the shit. we finally get our beer. run into some more people we knew. hung out with them for a little bit. then i thought... SHIT. the people i rode in with... i have no fucking clue where they are. so we make our way back to the stage. atreyu was just starting. we stand at the little hill that leads to the dirt and it turns out they were sitting on the hill right behind us. i knew they were. bastards were just sitting there!!! so, we decided to take a break from walking and sit with em. atreyu finishes up and then i see the lamb of god banner flying up. not even twenty minutes of saying im not gonna go back down their cause of that fucking dirt. we made our way back to the pit. we get there... pit starts i jump in, sept this time i wraped my shirt around my head so i don't inhale so much fucking dirt. it didn't work to well and i wasn't about to start pitting without it. i had already spit up blood. so i just went around and jumped in the front closer to the stage and sqeezed through to get closer to the stage. hung out up there... some fem was passing out from all the fucking dirt. she got lift up and crowd surfed to the guys in the front. that was pretty wicked. by that time the dirt was killing me and all i wanted was out. no way in hell was i about to walk out. i thought about crowd surfing my way out, but they had been dropping people left and right. i ened up stickin it out till the end of their set. then i got the hell out of their and didn't go back down there. caught up with a buncha the people i knew chillin on the hill, so i sat with them. after hatebreed finished they walked down there for slipknot. im not a big fan of them at all, but a lot of people like them so i knew they would have a good pit so i sat and watched. now being with with two person i rode in with. we ventured towards the main stage leaving everyone else who i was never to catch up with again. ive never really listened to much of black label society so i really didn't watch them. me and one other guy went and got some water leaving one down were we were chillin. we ended up staying up there cause we got something to eat also and i didn't feel like walking all the way back down there with the shit. we actually found him again though. superjoint ritual came on...stood for some of their songs, but by that time i was pretty burnt out. then DIMMU BORGIR came on... i wanted to get closer but the guy that we left there originally went to get a water... so i didn't want to lose him. as exhausted as i was i only stood up for a couple of their songs. i know they put on a kick ass show though. the guy that had left finally made it back... and then SLAYER came on!! we made our way to get closer... this shit got brutal. these guys started a fire and started moshing around it. then the staff came down and put it out. no one liked that to much. started another fire. sept this time i got down there and helped them. the staff came out and put it out again. it led to moshing through them and knocking the staff around. then led to stealing their water gun and the staff getting the shit kicked out of them. that shit was fucking awesome. i was fighting them, i was holding them back from getting to the fire. there were some nazzi guys that beat the living shit out of some black guy i guess. i missed it though. then the staff came back with a shitload more people. they came through were we where at. one guy was carring a dart. i started laughing at that. by that time, slayer had finished up and it became a small riot! i watched some guy get tackled by the cops and then all hell broke loose. the staff, the cops all came back with mace, batons, tazers, anything you could think of. i was still part of the crowd rushing them. as the mob got closer to the cops they threw mace bombs. i just turned around and ran like hell. we lost one of the guys i was with after that. he ened up catching some over spray from some guy getting maced. i later ended up laughing my ass off at him. anyways, they now have like seventy or eighty cops and staff guys and cops on horses now. a mosh pit broke out in front of them... the cops on horses pushed back and ended up leaving never to come back again. they had a chopper all flying low and back and forth over us. that was pretty funny... it accomplished nothing for them. then judas priest came on. kicked it off with ELECTRIC EYE. that songs kicks ass. they didn't play turbolover though. that sucked...! owell. they still put on a kick ass show. as for black sabbath, that made the whole fucking day worth while. ozzy fucking rocked it up! after sabbath finished up, i managed to stick with one guy i came with and we made our way to the gate. we get to the care and the driver is already there which is the guy we lost in the whole running away from the mace bomb. we were now waiting for the fourth guy. this guy has no commen sense i swear. all of knew to go out the gate we came and and he didn't. then he walkes past the vehicle and into another parking lot way the fuck away from where we were at. well, he finally found us and we sat around for a little bit more waiting to the traffic to actually move or atleast die down. well it eventually died down and we left. the driver... misses the turn for the highway and the cops were blocking off the road so we could do a Uie. so we had to get on the highway and head the wrong direction. the driver catches a cone in the midst and we dragged it all the way to the next exit. i ran and grabbed it when it fell off. it fell off in the median on the road we exited on. well, we are now finally heading in the right direction. we end up going past our exit not even noticing. i though my sense of direction was good or something. i was quite tired and doing the in-and-out. we left the venue around 11:30pm or atleast in that area. ended up not making it back to the room till about 1:30am. it was horrible. the driver was all frustrated... i really didn't give a fuck. what can ya do...
sunday...the drive home
we leave around 11am. we were making pretty good time. till we hit los angeles. of course this fucking city always has traffic no matter what time of the fucking day it is. as we were coming to a stop in the line of traffic a fucking carload of kids in a cadilac rearend us!! now being like 1:30pm, we are just all like fuck... now we are not gonna get home till late. we still had beers from the drive up float around the floorboard. i grabbed em and stuffed them in my backpack. oh wait... haha, can't leave out what happened in the vehicle. well, my buddy randy. who was with me at the end of the concert were in the back of the explorer, its a 2004. he had my bandage braclet and was going to put the rings around his knuckles and they hit us and he had the chest strap behind him cause his chest got burnt. he headbutted the seat. me... i had my arm laying across the window seal and my head leaning againt the little triangle window. i had just taken off my seatbelt to get comfortable. bad choice... haha. it ened up being a four care thing. the forth car, had like... two scratches on it and they claimed to have back and neck pain... haha. complete bullshit. they said they are gonna sue. they are in for a big hurtin. well we get out of that whole thing and hour and a half later. we manage to make it home about 6pm. fun times huh...
...this weekend is definatly one to go down in my books. it has been crazy as fuck. mobbin cops, car wrecks, booze and getting lost. all kinds of shit. i know i left out a lot of shit. owell, i know everything that happened. this is just more or less for me to come back and read at a later time. if you have actually read it this far leave me something and tell me what you think...
friday...the drive
got off work, went and go rental care. we got all our shit together and left at about seven. its a three hour drive to devore from where we are at. we get there sometime around ten or eleven. we get ahold of everyone else that was going that we knew. they say they are at motel six, so everyone that i was with but the driver said lets get a cab. my friend goes to the lady behind the counter and asks to call a cab and how far the motel six is in some city... i can't remember. so the cab arrives and we ask how much it will be to get a ride to motel six. he says, " its right across the street." so i was like fuck... i call up the other guys that we were trying to get to and tell them to wait outside the room and it ended up being the wrong fucking motel six. we were in riverside and they were way closer to the venue then we were. wasted an hour or so doing that bullshit. so all in all... made it to be around one or so.
saturday...day of
we get to the venue at about nine or so. buncha confusion between shit already. anyways, everyone i rode with was there and in line with me. i guess that is all the really mattered. the first band kicked off around 9:10am as we were still in line. they sounded good. outdoor concerts make live music sound so much better. we finally get in and walk striaght to the second stage. planted right in the middle of dirt. god forbid go up there, so i made my way to the pit. dust was just flying everywhere. on top of that, there was those gay little punk kids swinging and kicking their arms around. that shit is so fucking stupid. so i left and went back to were my friends were. they didn't want to pit at all. i tried to convince them. bastards! we ended up walking to the other gate which was waaay on the other fucking side. there were all kinds of kick ass stands. i bought a buncha shit. we ran into some of the people that we knew. hung out with them for a little bit and took of back to the second stage. some shitty band was just finishing up. standing around waiting... and a buddy of mine who came by himself somehow fucking found us. that was really amazing. me and him left to get a beer on the top of the hill. some guy stopped us on the way and was asking about my choker and bracelet. he was high on something. se we humored him for a little bit and found out there was only coors. bummer! anyways, we finally we and got our beer. heard devildriver wasn't gonna make it cause their bus brokedown. as we were standing on top of the hill watching the stage, they said devildriver was up next. i was pist till i heard that. watched their set from the top of the hill, cause i really didn't want to spill my beer, but i really wanted to be in the pit for devildriver. its alright though, i will definatly be seeing them again. they get off the stage and go to some signing booth. i had to buy another one of their cds so i could thank them and get them to sign the shit. i was and still am pretty stoked i got to talk to DEZ!! missed lacuna coils set...standing in line to meet the band and when we finally got out we went and got another beer. beer was ten fucking bucks!! went to the same place on top of the hill... started watching the stage and i think lacuna coil was just finishing their set and then i saw the banner for otep. so we ventured our way down towards the stage. its tough chugging a beer and walking down a hill dodging people. i managed... we get as close to the stage as we could. then the pit broke out. i was in that shit for their whole set. i inhaled so much fucking dirt it was not even fucking funny. i was covered in dirt. i had the shit in my mouth, nose, ears... you name it. it was there. it helped in the long run though. i didn't put sun block on and the dirt keeped me safe! after we got out of that mess. i coughing up shit left and right, spitting brown, rubbing sweat and dirt from my eyes. its was well worth it though. we then venture to get another beer. sept this time we went to the gate we originally came in. they had this mist tent...aw man am i glad they had that. i managed to get all the fucking dirt off my head. man i know i am leaving out a lot of shit, but i really don't want to go back and add the shit. we finally get our beer. run into some more people we knew. hung out with them for a little bit. then i thought... SHIT. the people i rode in with... i have no fucking clue where they are. so we make our way back to the stage. atreyu was just starting. we stand at the little hill that leads to the dirt and it turns out they were sitting on the hill right behind us. i knew they were. bastards were just sitting there!!! so, we decided to take a break from walking and sit with em. atreyu finishes up and then i see the lamb of god banner flying up. not even twenty minutes of saying im not gonna go back down their cause of that fucking dirt. we made our way back to the pit. we get there... pit starts i jump in, sept this time i wraped my shirt around my head so i don't inhale so much fucking dirt. it didn't work to well and i wasn't about to start pitting without it. i had already spit up blood. so i just went around and jumped in the front closer to the stage and sqeezed through to get closer to the stage. hung out up there... some fem was passing out from all the fucking dirt. she got lift up and crowd surfed to the guys in the front. that was pretty wicked. by that time the dirt was killing me and all i wanted was out. no way in hell was i about to walk out. i thought about crowd surfing my way out, but they had been dropping people left and right. i ened up stickin it out till the end of their set. then i got the hell out of their and didn't go back down there. caught up with a buncha the people i knew chillin on the hill, so i sat with them. after hatebreed finished they walked down there for slipknot. im not a big fan of them at all, but a lot of people like them so i knew they would have a good pit so i sat and watched. now being with with two person i rode in with. we ventured towards the main stage leaving everyone else who i was never to catch up with again. ive never really listened to much of black label society so i really didn't watch them. me and one other guy went and got some water leaving one down were we were chillin. we ended up staying up there cause we got something to eat also and i didn't feel like walking all the way back down there with the shit. we actually found him again though. superjoint ritual came on...stood for some of their songs, but by that time i was pretty burnt out. then DIMMU BORGIR came on... i wanted to get closer but the guy that we left there originally went to get a water... so i didn't want to lose him. as exhausted as i was i only stood up for a couple of their songs. i know they put on a kick ass show though. the guy that had left finally made it back... and then SLAYER came on!! we made our way to get closer... this shit got brutal. these guys started a fire and started moshing around it. then the staff came down and put it out. no one liked that to much. started another fire. sept this time i got down there and helped them. the staff came out and put it out again. it led to moshing through them and knocking the staff around. then led to stealing their water gun and the staff getting the shit kicked out of them. that shit was fucking awesome. i was fighting them, i was holding them back from getting to the fire. there were some nazzi guys that beat the living shit out of some black guy i guess. i missed it though. then the staff came back with a shitload more people. they came through were we where at. one guy was carring a dart. i started laughing at that. by that time, slayer had finished up and it became a small riot! i watched some guy get tackled by the cops and then all hell broke loose. the staff, the cops all came back with mace, batons, tazers, anything you could think of. i was still part of the crowd rushing them. as the mob got closer to the cops they threw mace bombs. i just turned around and ran like hell. we lost one of the guys i was with after that. he ened up catching some over spray from some guy getting maced. i later ended up laughing my ass off at him. anyways, they now have like seventy or eighty cops and staff guys and cops on horses now. a mosh pit broke out in front of them... the cops on horses pushed back and ended up leaving never to come back again. they had a chopper all flying low and back and forth over us. that was pretty funny... it accomplished nothing for them. then judas priest came on. kicked it off with ELECTRIC EYE. that songs kicks ass. they didn't play turbolover though. that sucked...! owell. they still put on a kick ass show. as for black sabbath, that made the whole fucking day worth while. ozzy fucking rocked it up! after sabbath finished up, i managed to stick with one guy i came with and we made our way to the gate. we get to the care and the driver is already there which is the guy we lost in the whole running away from the mace bomb. we were now waiting for the fourth guy. this guy has no commen sense i swear. all of knew to go out the gate we came and and he didn't. then he walkes past the vehicle and into another parking lot way the fuck away from where we were at. well, he finally found us and we sat around for a little bit more waiting to the traffic to actually move or atleast die down. well it eventually died down and we left. the driver... misses the turn for the highway and the cops were blocking off the road so we could do a Uie. so we had to get on the highway and head the wrong direction. the driver catches a cone in the midst and we dragged it all the way to the next exit. i ran and grabbed it when it fell off. it fell off in the median on the road we exited on. well, we are now finally heading in the right direction. we end up going past our exit not even noticing. i though my sense of direction was good or something. i was quite tired and doing the in-and-out. we left the venue around 11:30pm or atleast in that area. ended up not making it back to the room till about 1:30am. it was horrible. the driver was all frustrated... i really didn't give a fuck. what can ya do...
sunday...the drive home
we leave around 11am. we were making pretty good time. till we hit los angeles. of course this fucking city always has traffic no matter what time of the fucking day it is. as we were coming to a stop in the line of traffic a fucking carload of kids in a cadilac rearend us!! now being like 1:30pm, we are just all like fuck... now we are not gonna get home till late. we still had beers from the drive up float around the floorboard. i grabbed em and stuffed them in my backpack. oh wait... haha, can't leave out what happened in the vehicle. well, my buddy randy. who was with me at the end of the concert were in the back of the explorer, its a 2004. he had my bandage braclet and was going to put the rings around his knuckles and they hit us and he had the chest strap behind him cause his chest got burnt. he headbutted the seat. me... i had my arm laying across the window seal and my head leaning againt the little triangle window. i had just taken off my seatbelt to get comfortable. bad choice... haha. it ened up being a four care thing. the forth car, had like... two scratches on it and they claimed to have back and neck pain... haha. complete bullshit. they said they are gonna sue. they are in for a big hurtin. well we get out of that whole thing and hour and a half later. we manage to make it home about 6pm. fun times huh...
...this weekend is definatly one to go down in my books. it has been crazy as fuck. mobbin cops, car wrecks, booze and getting lost. all kinds of shit. i know i left out a lot of shit. owell, i know everything that happened. this is just more or less for me to come back and read at a later time. if you have actually read it this far leave me something and tell me what you think...