Tour name:
Ozzfest 2004
Type: Festival
Organizer: Clear Channel Entertainment
Show Information:
Opening: 9:00 A.M.
Second Stage:
ATREYU (9:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.)
DARKEST HOUR (9:55 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
THROWDOWN (10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.)
MAGNA FI (10:45 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.)
DEVILDRIVER (11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
GOD FORBID (11:35 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.)
UNEARTH (12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.)
EVERY TIME I DIE (12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.)
OTEP (1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.)
LACUNA COIL (1:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.)
BLEEDING THROUGH (2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.)
LAMB OF GOD (2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
HATEBREED (3:10 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.)
SLIPKNOT (4:05 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
Main Stage:
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY (4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
SUPERJOINT RITUAL (5:25 p.m. - 5:55 p.m.)
DIMMU BORGIR (6:05 p.m. - 6:35 p.m.)
SLAYER (6:45 p.m. - 7:35 p.m.)
JUDAS PRIEST (7:55 p.m. - 9:10 p.m.)
BLACK SABBATH (9:30 p.m. - 10:45 p.m.)
Ticket Prises:
Golden Circle: $79.75
Orchestra: $79.75
Loge: $59.75
Lawn: $39.50
Attendance: 24,951
Capacity: sellout
Ticket:
Advert / Poster:
Lineup:
Rob Halford: Vocals
Scott Travis: Drums
K.K. Downing: Guitars
Ian Hill: Bass Guitar
Glenn Tipton: Guitars
Set List:
1. The Hellion / Electric Eye
2. Metal Gods
3. Heading Out to the Highway
4. A Touch of Evil
5. The Sentinel
6. Victim of Changes
7. Painkiller
8. Beyond the Realms of Death
9. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
10. Breaking the Law
Encore:
11. Hell Bent for Leather
12. Living After Midnight
13. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Photos: Unknown
Memoirs:
"Judas Priest is one of my favorite bands ever, right up there with Sabbath, and Rob Halford is truly the voice of metal. He's been my favorite frontman of any band. It was great seeing him with Priest. Great show - they actually had the best stage show of any of the bands on Ozzfest. I can't wait for the new Priest album and tour. The band did pretty much what you'd expect. Awesome show, I thought the guitars could have been a little louder. Halford's voice was loud and clear. You could tell being in Priest again is a very emotional thing for Rob and he obviously loves playing with the other guys again. The crowd really liked them."
- Joe Karavis,
eyewitness
"Finally, Judas Priest. They fucking stole the show...super tight, impeccable guitar work. Just totally fucking nailed it. Tipton and Downing are two of the best ever, no doubt. Halford sounded great as well...better than I expected. Had a bit of trouble with the highest of high notes, but still hit them to some degree. Long set too, played all (most) of the classics. The sound was finally well done, too. Halford's vocals were a little too high in the mix, but at long last I could hear the damn guitars."
- Andrew Shal,
eyewitness
Recording: Unknown
BLACK SABBATH with ROB HALFORD
Lineup:
Tony Iommi: Guitar
Geezer Butler: Bass
Rob Halford: Vocals
Bill Ward: Drums
Adam Wakeman: Keyboards
Black Sabbath Set List:
01. War Pigs
02. N.I.B.
03. Fairies Wear Boots
04. Into The Void
05. Black Sabbath
06. Iron Man
07. Children Of The Grave
08. Paranoid (with "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" intro)
Photos:
Author unknown
Memoirs:
"That was a remarkable moment in itself. I mean, that just came out of the blue one day. It was the day after my birthday, actually. I was in Philadelphia and we had a show that evening in Jersey. And I got a call from Sharon Osbourne. And I thought she was calling me to say, 'Did you get the gift that Ozzy and myself sent you?' which was like this really beautiful hand-made luggage with, like, skulls and crossbones all over it - typical Osbourne material. But then she said Ozzy wasn't feeling too good and he got a really bad case of bronchitis and he couldn't sing, so, 'Can you help us out?' And I said, 'Sure, what do you want me to do?' 'Well, can you sing tonight?' 'You're kidding me!' I'm about two hours away from a Priest show. And she said, 'We really need your help, because if we can't have you kind of helping out, stepping in for Ozzy, then Sabbath will have to cancel', which would have been nothing short of a riot had that happened. So I said to Sharon, 'It's a bit short notice, but send me a tape of everything that they do'. I'd seen most of the shows standing on the side of the stage, being the Black Sabbath fan that I am; but she sent me a video of the performance and I was singing along with Ozzy in the back of the tour bus going to the show. Got off the bus, did the Priest show, took a shower, and 10 minutes later I was back out fronting Sabbath. And it was such a whirlwind. I mean, I got back to the hotel room that night and my whole body was, like, humming. Like it was this [makes buzzing noise] going on for two days. "As I said, being a huge Black Sabbath fan, it was just an ultimate moment for me. But yeah, you do what you can. I mean, Ozzy and I, we're mates. We've known each other forever; we're from the same neighborhood in Birmingham. The originators of metal are Sabbath and Priest, so it was a spectacular evening."
- Rob Halford
"One thing that sticks in my mind about last year's Ozzfest was the day in New Jersey when Ozzy couldn't perform so we had Rob Halford sing, which was the second time he saved the day for us... ...At first we were worried, because people expect Ozzy, but if Rob hadn't helped us out, there wouldn't have been a show at all. When our manager told me Ozzy had bronchitis and couldn't sing, he asked me what I thought about Rob doing it. I said, 'I think it's a good idea as long as you tell everybody beforehand so they know.' Of course, they told the audience right before we went onstage, so I thought, 'Oh, no.' But the crowd received him really well."
- Tony Iommi
"When Ozzy fell sick, we had a very difficult situation to deal with, and before going any further, I want to salute every single audience member at the now infamous Camden, NJ gig. I love playing Camden, and my heart went out to that audience. Rob Halford deserves a medal for coming in like he did. Rob was great. There is no doubt. I think that night, everybody - Tony, Geezer, Rob and myself - worked our nuts off. We were very sorry that the Camden audience was disappointed, and at such a late hour in that day. We poured it out, and now I think there's a live bootleg somewhere, of that show."
- Bill Ward
“So when I went out and started doing the first Sabbath song, a bit of spit hits me and a bottle whizzes past my head. And I go, ‘Holy shit, am I going to get through the first number before I get knocked out?’ But as it was, they were great that crowd. They understood. What else can you do? You’re either going to see something or you’ll get nothing at all. So I thought the crowd was absolutely fantastic."
- Rob Halford
Recording: Bootleg audio exists
