{"id":117,"date":"2007-07-15T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/archives\/117"},"modified":"2007-07-15T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:29:56","slug":"ozzfest-2007-rocks-the-gorge-in-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Ozzfest 2007 Rocks the Gorge in George"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ozzfest\"This weekend we traveled out\u00a0to the Gorge in George to take in Ozzfest 2007<\/a>.\u00a0 We started the journey at about 1pm on Friday.\u00a0 Wendy and I met up with\u00a0our friend, Art, at Pyramid Alehouse<\/a>\u00a0and then hopped onto I-90 to head east.\u00a0 It was a\u00a0simple plan:\u00a0Wendy and Art would take the day off of work at Pyramid\u00a0and\u00a0we would camp out in the desert near the amphitheater in order to ensure a timely arrival at Ozzfest on\u00a0Saturday.\u00a0 The\u00a0plan was perfect with the exception of one unforseeable\u00a0flaw…\u00a0 Ozzy’s band\u00a0(Ozzy not included) decided to roll into Pyramid for a beer at around 3pm Friday afternoon.\u00a0 As we pulled up in the 103 degree desert, we got the call on our cell telling us about the celebrity encouter at Pyramid.\u00a0 Throughout the day, we continued to get updates from the folks at Pyramid telling us that the guys were still in the bar, that Zakk Wylde<\/a> was totally cool, that they were signing autographs and taking pictures, and on and on it went until they finally headed back to their Seattle hotel sometime after 10pm.\u00a0 Of all the weekends not to follow our usual routine of hanging out at Pyramid!!!<\/p>\n

All was not lost, however, in turn for the hospitality shown by the fine folks at Pyramid, Zakk agreed to put us on his backstage pass list.\u00a0 I was pleasently suprised when, indeed, the three backstage passes were sitting at the gate for Art, Wendy and I.\u00a0 Very cool for\u00a0the band\u00a0to do that for us!\u00a0 It was awesome to hang in back with the tour buses and it was really impressive to watch the shows from the side of the stage.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we did not get the opportunity to meet Zakk<\/a> or Ozzy<\/a>.\u00a0 Zakk (and even Sharon Osbourne<\/a>) were floating around back stage, but the buses arrived very close to show time and they didn’t seem eager to do the fan thing, \u00a0so we left them alone to prep for the show.<\/p>\n

Even though we were cooking in the Eastern Washington Desert instead of drinking IPA’s with rock stars, it was a great weekend.\u00a0 The show was awesome, the Gorge was beautiful as usual, and we learned that our rock idols are not only cool and down to earth, but they also have great taste in beer.\u00a0 Below is some brief\u00a0video I recorded as I wandered around the fest.\u00a0 Check it out if you have 3 spare minutes.\u00a0 There’s no polish on it, but I recorded a brief snippet of Lamb of God<\/a>, Ozzy<\/a> and Zakk<\/a>.\u00a0 Also thought it was funny that, while poking around on the stage, we noticed that Lamb of God<\/a><\/em> is using a Dangerous Toys<\/a><\/em> flight case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend we traveled out\u00a0to the Gorge in George to take in Ozzfest 2007.\u00a0 We started the journey at about 1pm on Friday.\u00a0 Wendy and I met up with\u00a0our friend, Art, at Pyramid Alehouse\u00a0and then hopped onto I-90 to head east.\u00a0 It was a\u00a0simple plan:\u00a0Wendy and Art would take the day off of work at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}