Apparently this year Ozzfest will be free. Yes, as in, nothing, zilch, nada, free. Unfortunately this means that there will be so much promotion/publicity stuff there you may see Ozzy in an amazon.com t-shirt while he's performing.
According to Ozzfest.com
"That's right, OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE and tour producer LIVE NATION broke the news today at the Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles that their 12th annual hard rock spectacular--a 25-date extravaganza launching July 7 in Los Angeles--is pulling the plug on ticket prices and giving the power back to the fans calling this summer’s OZZFEST "FreeFest."
The other OZZFEST cities as of now are San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Nashville. Note: a final confirmed list of cities and dates is forthcoming."For the last few years," says SHARON, 'ticket prices have steadily climbed as artists demand more and more money for summer tours. We certainly want everybody to make money, however we also want the kids to be able to afford to come out and have an incredible experience. If we continued with the traditional touring festival model, we would have no choice but to raise ticket prices again this year."
This will either be the most amazing thing to happen to the concert business or this will be the most disastrous. As a person with some marketing experience I hate to be so "glass half full" but if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. What will we be sacrificing in the quality of the show just to go for free?What do you guys think?
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