Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1992 17:14:37 -0400 
From: Eric Scott Jefferson <ej0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Ozzy Concert

Well last night I saw Ozzy Osbourne/Ugly Kid Joe/Motorhead in concert
here in Pittsburgh at the Starlake Amphitheater so I figured I'd post a
review of it:
Motorhead came on at 7:00 p.m. (fortunately for me not many fans arrived
in time for Motorhead so I was able to have a clear unobstructed view of
the stage)
	They played a clean tight set that included:
The One to Sing the Blues (opener)
I'm So Bad Baby I Don't Care
Hellraiser (not as clean or polished as the Ozzy version but they gave a
rough edge to it so I liked it)
Cat Scratch Fever
Brazil
a few other songs from March or Die that I can't remember (since I don't
have this album)
Ace of Spades (encore and closer. This is the song that really got
people going bananas since Motorhead fans in the audience kept screaming
for this song during every break between songs)
They played for about 45 minutes. They really did not ainteract with the
audience and they all sort of stood in one place the whole set but
overall their set was very spare but tight and to the point.
Ugly Kid Joe then came on about 8:05
These guys really were awful. I was really disappointed that the place
was packed for this band but not for Motorhead. They played:
Neighborhood (the heavy metal version of the Mr. Rogers song)
Madman
Sweet Leaf (they really screwed this song up. I didn't know it was
possible to do such a rotten cover of a Black Sabbath song)
Fire (or something like that from their upcoming album)
Everything About You (set closer)
They played about 45 minutes also.Their music just sounds very
uninteresting. To me these guys are just one hit wonders and they proved
it last night. I doubt they will last much longer as a band 
Ozzy came on about 9:00. A curtain of black had been draped over the
stage in preparation. When he came on, a bunch of riffs from famous Ozzy
songs (Iron Man, Mr. Tinkertrain etc. etc.) and a spotlight was trained
on the white curtain now remaining on stage and a gigantic Ozzy
silouhette could now be seen whereupon the whole place went nuts
screaming and carrying on (it was a soldout concert, about 21,000 people
showed up)
He played the following songs:
Paranoid (set opener)
I Don't Want to Change the World
Mr. Crowley
Suicide Solution
Desire
Road to Nowhere
War Pigs
Goodbye to Romance
Flying High Again
Miracle Man
Shot in the Dark
I Don't Know
Bark at the Moon (first set closer)
Mama I'm Coming Home (first encore)
Crazy Train (final encore)
His voice was a little off but I liked the rough sound of his voice
compared to the polished layered version on his last couple albums.Of
course he was typically Ozzy during the concert, throwing buckets of
water on the fans that were close up, haranguing the crowd into greater
displays of enthusiasm stalking up and down the stage (though for the
song Goodbye to Romance he did bring his wife out which kind of
destroyed the gargoyle like image of evil he seems to be on stage)
The pace of the show did flag some during Goodbye to Romance which was
pretty boring and also the drum solo was far too long and annoying (Zakk
Wylde managed to keep his solo down to a reasonable amount of time). The
show lasted about 1 hour and 50 minutes. There were giant TV screens set
up at the back of the stage that showed images relating to the songs
(during War Pigs there was a bunch of footage from Vietnam on the
screens and during Miracle Man there was a bunch of footage of
televangelists shown). Also giant banners unrolled periodically showing
various slogans or pictures (like the monster from the video Bark at the
Moon when this song was played). The fans of course were crazy. They
were setting fires to the grass (at this theater there are a bunch of
seats like a concert hall with a roof where I was, luckily since it
rained during the concert, and behinf this there is a big lawn where all
the people with cheap tickets sit) along with their T-shirts and
everything else. So all in all it was a really good show (7 out of 10 on
a concert scale) but it ended badly since it took me an hour and a half
to drive out of the parking lot after the show (all the smart people
left early but I had to stay for Crazy Train)


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