I haven't seen these guys since the 1999 Reunion Tour.  I took the following Ozzfest photos on August 21st 2004 at the Tweeter Center in Chicago.  Our seats were decent and I managed to get in a camera...enjoy


Opening Bands:
Main Stage: Judas Priest, Slayer, Dimmu Borgir, Superjoint Ritual, Black Label Society, and festival headliners Black Sabbath.
Second Stage: Slipknot (headliner), Hatebreed, Lamb of God, Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Lacuna Coil, Every Time I Die, Unearth, God Forbid, Otep, Devil Driver, Magna-Fi, Throwdown.
 

Ozzy Osbourne - vocals

Tony Iommi - guitars

Geezer Butler - bass

Bill Ward - drums


Set List:
(intro)
War Pigs
N.I.B.
Fairies Wear Boots
Into the Void
Black Sabbath w/ long Iommi guitar solo
Snowblind
Iron Man
Children of the Grave
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath intro - Paranoid
My Review:

I’ll not bother reviewing any opening bands since they’re just not worth it.  In fact, while the opening bands were playing, the lawn-seat crowd was throwing sod and empty plastic bottles around, which was far more entertaining to watch.

As soon as Judas Priest came on, all sod throwing ceased permanently.  Priest was good, there appeared to be as many Priest t-shirts in the crowd as Sabbath t-shits. Rob Halford’s voice was strong and he's still able string out his long notorious screams.  For the encore set Halford rode his motorcycle on stage.  They played a nice long set.
 

Now on to the main attraction… the video on the jumbotron showed a movie montage spanning Sabbath's entire career. Then a curtain showing the outline of the band was projected, the crowd roared feverishly!  The curtain lifted and there they were!  The original Black Sabbath.  The sound of WWII air-raid sirens blasted, and then, the song War Pigs begins!
 

After War Pigs, Ozzy speaks to the crowd… “You know I had a major accident on an 4-wheeler a while back and the doctor said Ozzy you can’t tour for 18 months. You know what I said? F*** YOU!.”  Then Ozzy says “What did I say to him?”  The crowd: “F*** YOU!"  This went on several more times.  Ozzy then said “The doctors gave me some really cool drugs, legal too!”  He then said: “I smell some really powerful weed coming from this section over here!”  “You know I don’t do that anymore”, putting his hand in front of his nose and pulling it away slowly like Pinocchio's nose getting longer (like Sam Kinnison used to do) and the whole crowd laughed.
 

Ozzy’s voice was as strong as ever.  He doused a few people with buckets of water.  The rest of the guys looked and sounded great too.  Geezer Butler’s non-stop head banging makes me surprised he doesn’t need a neck brace.  Bill Ward has grown a ponytail.  Tony Iommi did an extended guitar solo at the end of the song Black Sabbath, it was sweet watching the master at work.
 

After a few songs Ozzy introduces the band.  He starts off “Mr. Geezer Butler!”... the crowd cheers, then once again “Mr. Geezer Butler!”, more cheering.  Then “Mr. Bill Ward!”... “Mr. Bill…” Ozzy hold out the microphone for the crowd to finish... The crowd: “Ward!”, this went on several times… Then finally he says: “And now the one and only, Mr. Tony Iommi!”  The crowd cheers and Ozzy gets on his hands and knees and starts play-worshiping Tony Iommi.  Iommi loved it and was full of smiles!
 
Sabbath played a short set.  At the end of the show Ozzy implored us to get home safe and don’t drink and drive because he wants to kick all of our asses again next time.

Sabbath was full of energy and sounded great, I only wish they would have played more songs.

My ticket

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Opening band Judas Priest






Black Sabbath 

I took these photos during the opening song War Pigs.






Ozzy speaks to the crowd after the first song and explains that he's onstage against doctor's orders...

...and then my camera battery dies!  Doh! 

Luckily other fans who attended this show submitted their photos to Joe Siegler's superb website www.Black-Sabbath.com  These next photos are courtesy of Joe Siegler's website where you can view other info about this show.

Judas Priest

Black Sabbath


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