The opening band for Ozzy was the Black Label Society. It was an interesting discovery that the lead singer and lead guitarist of BLS is Zack Wylde. Zack Wylde is the lead guitarist for Ozzy as well. Some how Zack worked out a nice deal here. His music is good, I will listen to some more in my free time before I make a final judgment. It's filled with rockín guitar solo's that's for sure. I noticed that he spit a lot, mostly up in the air, sometimes it fell on his head, other times it fell on the audience. They didn't seem to care.

The break between the 2 bands was shorter than expected because they used the same setup. Maybe 15 minutes. Ozzy's first song was Bark at the Moon, but he didn't moon the audience until War Pigs, though. He really has some good songs when you combine Black Sabbath, his early records with Randy Rhodes, his mid 80's records with Jack E. Lee and then recently with Zack. He did have a nice single with his daughter as well, plus he has mellowed down a bit in these recent years. I guess he's trying to take his music to the masses. That's ok. Zack played a 15 minute guitar solo half way through the concert. It rocked!

The concert was said to have sold out, but there were many empty seats. About 60% through the concert I decided to move up a bit and made it to the front row of the seating area. Still a little too far away. So I sneaked over the railing, running away from the security guard into the floor population. I pushed my way up as close as possible to the front, I was probably 15 feet away from the front of the stage. Ozzy had buckets of water that he was throwing onto the audience and dipping his head into. He said the words Crazy and F*ck probably 100 times each. He moved, danced and clapped his hands in a way only Ozzy can. I love going to concerts, knowing all the songs and being able to sing along with the person who created it, this was one of those concerts.

I really enjoyed the concert, it was one of my favorites so far. I spent many hours of my life listening to Mr. Crowley and Crazy Train, which was the song he closed with. I remember when I was at my friends house (Shane Holton) way back in 1983-84 we filmed our self lip syncing to A Shot in the Dark, a song which he did not play, bummer.

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