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| 2012-06-04
DE – Dortmund - Westfalenhalle |
| This night was actually meant to be one of those sensational BLACK SABBATH reunion shows. Man proposes, God disposes. It goes to show you never can tell. Unfortunately guitar player Tony Iommi was diagnosed with cancer and underwent chemotherapy. Besides, also drummer Bill Ward is out due to irreconcilable differences when it came down to the green. Anyway, there is only one BLACK SABBATH show with the original ¾ -line-up at Download Festival, Donington UK, as Tony is doing better these days. Just not to let the entire tour fall through most of the dates got turned into an OZZY OSBOURNE & FRIENDS thing with Geezer Butler and Zakk Wylde as “friends” during a handful of BLACK SABBATH songs. First it was also rumored that Slash would appear as he is actually in Germany right now, but he was anywhere else for some other business. :: pics :: The day is grey, very cold and very rainy. For some reason I’m out of things, mess up with days and times and other stuff but manage to be on time on the spot with Dani (Reflections Of Darkness) just to face the one and the other surprise, which made this evening to one of the oddest and most bizarre I experienced so far. To begin with all attendees had to shell out 6 Euro for parking at • Westfalenhalle • Dortmund. Waylay that is. At least fans got money back for their BLACK SABBATH tickets or could change them into much cheaper OZZY OSBOURNE & FRIENDS tickets.
The main reason
to arrive that super early at the location was to see L.A. rockers
:: STEEL
PANTHER :: Yep, we urgently wanted to see and take
photos of them ;) But that wasn’t the easiest thing at all.
First, stage time was brought forward from 8pm to 7.30pm. Okay,
we got that on time. But STEEL PANTHER already kicked off
when security still led us towards the stage, what made us antsy.
After the usual 3 songs we were forced to leave the concert hall
*grmpf*. So what I can tell is what I got during the first 3 songs
only, and that isn’t that much. The stage was way too big
for a band like STEEL PANTHER. All their gimmicks and ironical
actions just went under. Besides, I expected live much more power
in their music. Great to look but lame to hear. As Steel Panther just played 20 or 30 minutes it wasn’t too bad to wait outside in the lobby. As we just wanted to get in again we got surprised with photo contracts for :: BLACK LABEL SOCIETY :: with content not to agree to. “Needless to say we declined” (Alter Bridge quote *lol*), except for one journalistic freshman who signed and wanted to take pics of a support band come hell or high water. In fact, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY didn’t take place for us. That’s it.
We give our
equipments away and have fun as well as enjoying the first part
of :: OZZY
OSBOURNE & FRIENDS :: Contrary to usual conventions
we don’t get the first 3 songs but 2 in the middle of the
set, the BLACK SABBATH part, to photograph the “friends”
as well. The show starts with a lengthy video intro showing live
cuts of a long OZZY OSBOURNE career on stage. Too bad the
curtain is still closed ;) (we can see because we stay at the
side). As the curtain falls Mr. Osbourne gets extremely lively
and agile into his set with Bark At The Moon and has a
lot of fun to pour water upon himself, even much more to wet the
fans with foam from 2 hoses. Gee, that's going to be fun. Not.
So we get first songs from Ozzy’s own repertoire, then the
BLACK SABBATH parts begins with Iron Man and Geezer
Butler on bass. Three songs later also Zakk Wylde joins in for
another two SABBATH songs. Oh, by the way, here we can
take photos of Zakky baby without a contract and without any restrictions.
Odd, isn’t it? Meanwhile OZZY loves to hunt us photographers
with his hose and what can I say. He caught us. One more, the
other less. Although most of us were well prepared with rain capes
and with trash bags wrapped cams. I actually thought that OZZY
would fall off stage laughing when he gotta see us like that.
One of my cams tanks but smells good now. Luckily it survived
the foam attack. After our 2-songs-photo-part we again have to
leave the hall. So we do, try to get foam and wet off the clothes
and hit the road again back home. As I said, a very strange concert
evening…
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| story & pics © Dajana |
