Ozzfest 2001 Review

Place ~ Somerset, WI
Venue ~ Float Rite Park Ampitheatre
Date ~ Saturday, June 16, 2001


Line-up
Otep
Beautiful Creatures
American Head Charge
Pure Rubbish
Systematic
Hatebreed
Drowning Pool
Godhead
Taproot
Union Underground
Mudvayne
Black Label Society
Crazy Town
Disturbed
Linkin Park
Papa Roach
Slipknot
Black Sabbath


Preshow
First of all, I didn't really know what the fuck was going on. I arrived in Somerset around 2AM, give or take an hour. I forget. I go to Float-Rite a little confused at what to do. I figure there is a parking lot where I can party. But the place was more of a campground. It WAS a campground. And it was a full campground. Fuck! I picked up a couple drunks because one was a hot chick. They let me in on things a little bit, so I decided to get a campsite at a different campground.

After paying fifty fucking dollars just to basically park my car in a slot, and more time trying to find the damn site, I eventually get to it. But some fat bitch was already in it, so some guys just told me to park next to them. I parked my car, got out, and hung out. They were all fucking drunk and stoned. We eventually got a case of beer from the fat chick and I got my drunk on, and one of the guys gave me a joint, so I got my stone on. We stayed up nearly all fucking night. We all started dropping like flies. I passed out on the picnic table. My head was fucking swirling like a son of a bitch, and I threw up until I couldn't possibly throw up anymore. Then I dry heaved a while, and passed out again.

Well, what sucked was due to being passed out, we overslept until about noon. The show started at 11. We got our shit together and walked over to Float Rite. It was a tough walk for five hungover guys. We eventually got inside. The guys I was partying with just stood around by main stage playing fucking hackey sack. I got annoyed, and searched for second stage. I eventually found it, and Hatebreed was playing.

Hatebreed
Actually, the freakshow guy was on first, then Hatebreed came out. I rushed down into the pit as fast as I could and fucked shit up. Hatebreed was great as usual. They demanded the circle pit during "Driven by Suffering" and they fucking got it. If the circle pit was any bigger, everyone would have run into 3rd stage repeatedly. They did their usual set, and went off.

The freakshow dude came out again. He was such an ass. People got sick of him and started calling him names, and he called them names and shit right back. I remember him bashing the "fucking fat millie vanillie motherfucker" all the time. He ate some worms, stuffed one up his nose, and ate the snot covered worm. He did all kinds of sick shit. He always taunted "You want to see something fucked up!?" and he'd say the louder we'd scream, the more fucked up it would be. Nonpoint was supposed to be next, I think, but for some reason they did not play. It pissed me off.

Drowning Pool
DP was ok. I had never heard of them before, and I don't think a whole lot of other people have either. They had some decent metal music. For some reason, the singer smashed a shovel on the stage repeatedly for the intro of one song. But what was the best was a song they came out with, which was something like "Throw the bodies to the floor!". I fucked shit up during that one, and got my surf on. I tried to throw as many people as possible, but I was one of the smaller guys in the pit, so I didn't get a whole lot of bodies on the floor.

Godhead
I was pretty fucked by this time. I walked up on the hill and sat down for awhile. I watched Godhead while sitting down. Cake told me they sucked, so I didn't bother moshing. By their sound, it seemed like difficult music to mosh out to. I mean it was good music, just not easy/possible to mosh to. They had played a couple songs that I had heard before. The most the pit did do was jump up and down. About all you could do.

I wasn't sure who was on next. I figured Union because they had a UU symbol back there. But instead Taproot came out on stage. I didn't even know they were going to be there, so I got excited and ran back into the fray.

Taproot
Taproot was pretty good. It's still not real good music to mosh out to, but a few songs had some good action to it. They just played their new stuff from their album "gift". What was great is that the singer demanded the girls to take off their tops and smother the guys in their titties. Quite a few of the girls complied, and I got bare tit smashed against by back in the pit.

Union Underground
The freakshow guy was annoying and did more stupid tricks. But then Union came on and everyone went apeshit. It was all cool, I love Union, but the guitar kept going out. I guess the sound guys fucked up. For most of the set, there was no guitar. It didn't stop everyone from fucking up shit, though. There was even a part where the entire fucking PA went out for about ten seconds, then came back on. The singer was like "WTF?".

The best part was when they went into "Turn me on Mr. Deadman" because the entire crowd fucking sang that with him. I went nuts and got up on top of the crowd again and was fucking DROPPED. I guess I jumped on a bunch of bitches or something. The set ended, Reverend B Gay showed up again. I believe this was when the crowd started chanting "Fuck you!" repeatedly to him. He just told everyone to shut the fuck up, and for the people on the hill to get up off their asses. He propped Mudvayne, who was next. And pretty fucking quickly, Mudvayne hit the stage.

Mudvayne
Mudvayne was fucking great as usual. Their make-up had changed differently. Mainly Ryknow. He grew his hair out, dyed it bright orange, along with his goatee, and has black face paint. Kud had a dark navy blue type color instead of the silver. His overalls were all bloody this time. Spag had black paint all over him. And Gurrg had more black kind of swirled in his face.

Kud kicked his own ass onstage. Especially during Death Blooms. He punched himself down to the floor. It was funny and fucked up at the same time. By favorite part was probably when he said "Man there are a lot of you motherfuckers out there today. It's like one big smorgasboard(sp?). I'd like to go out there and chew all your fucking faces off your heads. Why is that? Because I'm losing my fucking mind. And I don't fucking care. Kill. Kill. Kill." Or something to that extent, but it was fucking great. After the set, he had some words of praise for the audience. Told us to not let anyone stand in our way of doing what we want to do. And if they do, flip them off, and tell them to die and go to fucking hell. After the rest of the band left, Kud was still there. He said he wanted to hang out with us, but the security wouldn't let him. Then he said "...fuck it!" and jumped into the crowd. He landed right on ME!! We passed him around, and it looked like he was going to get away, because the guards were reaching for him. Then some fuckers dropped him and they ran in and took him out and backstage.

Black Label Society
Kud was doing his antics yet while BLS already started playing over on the mainstage. Probably half of their set I spent walking over to the damn main stage. But I was too tired to go mosh, so I just sat down for the rest of BLS. I was starting to feel really shitty about then and I nearly fell asleep in the dirt. Especially during the next band, Crazy Town.

Crazy Town
CT sucked. I never really liked them. I don't think anyone else there did, either. Everyone booed them, and I ALMOST felt sorry for them. The singer made an ass of himself telling gay jokes in which no one responded to. Some people even started chanting "Go home!" I was glad when they were over, because the next band was Disturbed.

Disturbed
Fucking eh. Disturbed was great. They pretty much played their entire album on stage. I had gotten back into the pit at this time, even though I wasn't feeling too good. I was only going about average through the set, until they played "Down With the Sickness" and I went fucking crazy. I got up on the crowd again, and as I was being thrown around, I looked up toward the stage to see fucking Draiman just a few feet away from me, looking right at me. It tripped me out. They ended with "Stupify" I believe. I don't overly remember.

Linkin Park
I'm a big fan of LP and wasn't too sure how it would be to try to mosh to it. It was pretty cool though. There were a lot of jumping parts and I think... "Authority", "One Step Closer", and .. I forget the name. Track 10. We moshed out to those. LP had good interaction with the crowd, but nothing overly cool about their set.

After LP, I went in search of water. I was about to die. One beverage stand only sold beer and wine coolers. Fuck. I found others, but they all needed "tickets". WTF? I tried to look for some fucking tickets then just to get fucking water to stay alive. I couldn't find anywhere to buy fucking tickets. Why can't you just use fucking money? Buh. Anyway, Papa Roach had already started, and I just sat down and watched them from a distance.

Papa Roach
I'm not a big fan of PR, but I thought their set was pretty fucking good. Mainly it was the singer's interactions with the crowd. Someone threw a bone from a turkey leg at the singer. He was like "What the fuck? A bone? Haha. I was boned!" then he all puts it in his mouth and shit. It was definately a lot funnier than CT's attempts at humor. Also, partly through, he stopped a song and told the guys in the pit to stop groping at the girls when they crowd surfed. To have some respect. That got a huge reaction from the females of the crowd.

They busted into "Last Resort" and got the entire fucking crowd singing alone with them. After the end of the set, he thanked everyone, crowd, bands, and crew. Then he said that there was only one thing he could wish. And that is that Marilyn Manson could play there to rock out for us, because I guess there was a protest by some Christian fucks to get him banned. PR ended, and I got into the pit as soon as possible because the next band was fucking SLIPKNOT!!

Slipknot
They started out with a long intro, which was not the one from the old CD. It'll probably be the one on the new CD. They came on stage and busted into a new song which kicked fucking ass. There was plenty of fireworks and pyro for Slipknot. I could feel the heat on my face.

After the new song, they busted into Liberate, and got the a lot of the crowd jumping. Corey must have gotten more of a response than he was expecting because he was like "Holy shit!" I believe they played a couple new songs as well. The new shit is great. It's a lot more hardcore than the first album, in my opinion. Most bands go lighter with the second album to appeal to more people, Slipknot is going heavier. Corey asked if we liked the new shit, and everyone screamed. He wanted to know who would buy it, and everyone screamed. And he said if you buy it or not, he doesn't care, you won't hurt his feelings any. But to all the people who were there, they kicked ass.

I believe this was the point to where Slipknot went off stage. Everyone thought they were done, but being the second to last band, I figured they would play longer. But to everyone's surprise, they were only half fucking over. The intro to (sic) kicked in, and people went insane again. They came back out and played (sic) and everyone went crazy. They played Wait and Bleed, getting the whole crowd to sing with them. Sometime during the set they also played Eeyore and Eyeless. They went into Purity, and shocked Corey when the whole crowd was screaming "PURITY!!" towards the end of the song. They also played a couple more news ones, including "Heretic Song", which got the crowd chanting "Six six six!!".

The final song was my favorite fucking Slipknot song. Our "national fucking anthem" as Corey put it, and they went into Surfacing. I about shit myself, and went fucking insane through the whole song. I got my surf on, and caught a glimpse of Clown as he had a TP fight with the crowd. After Surfacing, Slipknot ended.

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath was pretty sweet. It was night by now. Fucking water sprayed out of about eight holes on the top of the huge stage. They had the colored lights and these fucking bright ones on top that sucked ass, because it hurt my eyes. Ozzy was fucking awesome to see. But after awhile I started feeling fucking sick as hell, like I was going to die. Going full tilt nearly all day with no food or refreshment in the heat really took a number. Sabbath played Iron Man which I went crazy to a little bit. There was some fucking fatass dumb cunt next to me who kept fucking "woo"ing so damn loud, it would fucking drown Sabbath out. She would dance her fat ass around, then shove me out of her way and take a damn picture. I wanted to punch her in the fucking face so damn hard. I refrained. I just decided to leave because I figured I would die.

Postshow
I left, got a free rubber and went to walk back to the campsite. Well fuck me if I could remember where the hell it was. I was drunk, and now it was nighttime. After walking about two miles out on a highway leading to nowhere, I remembered a Dairy Queen. So I walked BACK into town, found the DQ and finally made it back, to where we partied some more until I decided I should sleep if I wanted to drive tomorrow.

All in all, GREAT FUCKING SHOW!! Best day of my fucking life. Best days. I probably consumed a good case of beer, at least. Also smoked about ten joints. Everyone was fucking awesome. I was alone, but was welcome by all the fucking freaks. Got a ton of free beer and free weed. I didn't pay for any of it, haha. I loved all the bands at the show. Except CrazyTown. They suck.

Thanks to the bands, my fellow freaks, respectable mosh pits, road crews, the hot girls, the hot girls in bikini's, the hot girls with no tops to their bikini's, the hot girl I fucked raw in the weeds when I was drunk.. oops I didn't say that, hehe. Thanks to fellow campers supplying me with beer, weed, and acid. Thanks to the drunk dude looking for his rubber, because he gave me a free case of beer. I don't think he ever found his rubber... Thanks to dudes at concert who gave me beer occasionally. Anything I'm missing... er... thanks to my car for not breaking down and getting good gas mileage.

Fuck you's to the fat cunt beside me during Ozzy's set. I hope someone did punch your fat face in and shove your camera up your fucking twat. Fuck you's to fucking Apple River Campground. Fifty damn dollars to stay, and even charge us a fucking dollar to use the damn shower. The fuck is that about? Reminds me, I have yet to shower... Anyway.. FUCK YOU to the Christian protesting self-rightious motherfuckers who ban my fucking idol, Marilyn Manson from playing in your shitty ass fucking rip-off town. You denied fucking 40,000 people from witnessing something THEY wanted to see because you didn't want him in your dick ass town of 800. You can't fucking tell us what we can and cannot like, watch, listen to, or fucking do because of your fucking hypocritical beliefs. If you don't want to have a good fucking time, then go off and shove plungers up your ass, and let us mosh out, get wasted, stoned, party, and fornicate with bitches wherever the hell we want to. FUCK YOU!!!!!!!! Oh, and fuck you to the campground security and rent-a-cops. You can't fucking tell us to turn down Pantera, motherfuckers. We'll party all fucking night long and blast as much Pantera, Slayer, Mudvayne, or Slipknot as we FUCKING WANT TO!!

Ok. Final notes... I am sunburnt as all fuck. Fucking red as this text. I am dehydrated. I'm so fucking sore I can hardly walk.. But you know what? THATS FUCKING GREAT!!! I love it. And as long as I'm alive, I will be going to Ozzfest every single year and fucking shit up hardcore! Ozzy is God!! Peace out, motherfuckers.

Oh yeah. Last thing. FUCK YOU!!! to all you who denied a free fucking trip to this shit. You just missed out on the best time of your fucking life. I couldn't pay enough to experience that shit. ..... except a dollar to shower... but FUCK THAT! I wasted fifty damn dollars on a spare ticket where I could have got a damn t-shirt and a blowjob for that much. My friends, you need to LIGHTEN UP!

Uh... oh yah. Lol. Fuck you Float Rite for having things be paid for with your gay ass "tickets" instead of just cash. You should be kissing our asses for coming to this shitty town, not ripping us off and fucking oppressing us with your views of hypocrisy you worthless MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!! Ok... I think I'm done now....