Ozzy Osbourne official kicked off his "No More Tours 2" Friday night (April 27) at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Jacksonville, Florida. He was joined at the gig by his longtime collaborators Zakk Wylde (guitar), Rob "Blasko" Nicholson (bass), Tommy Clufetos (drums) and Adam Wakeman (keyboards)
The setlist for the concert was as follows:
01. Bark At The Moon
02. Mr. Crowley
03. I Don't Know
04. Suicide Solution
05. No More Tears
06. Road To Nowhere
07. War Pigs
08. Miracle Man / Crazy Babies / Desire / Perry Mason (Zakk Wylde Guitar Solo)
09. Drum Solo
10. I Don't Want To Change The World
11. Shot In The Dark
12. Crazy Train
Encore:
13. Mama, I'm Coming Home
14. Paranoid
Osbourne has one more show booked in the U.S. this month — Sunday, April 29 at the Fort Rock festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida — before heading overseas for much of May, June and July.
The main North American leg of "No More Tours 2" will launch on August 30 at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania and run through October 13 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ozzy will be joined by STONE SOUR for this leg of the tour.
"No More Tours 2" is a reference to Ozzy's 1992 "No More Tours" jaunt, which was meant at the time to be his goodbye to the road.
The heavy metal legend said in a statement: "I've been extremely blessed to have had two successful music careers. I'm looking at this final tour as being a huge celebration for my fans and anyone who has enjoyed my music over the past five decades."
Ozzy admitted a while back that his voice doesn't always hold up these days. "Sometimes it blows out," he said. "I do the best I can. Sometimes I sound terrible, and sometimes it's good, you know. But I'm only human. I mean, I'm honest about it, you know."
Ozzy's solo swan song is expected to last into 2020 and will mark his final bout of global touring, although he will still perform selected shows in the future. He and BLACK SABBATH bid farewell to their 50 years on the road more than a year ago with two final concerts in their hometown of Birmingham, England.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Awesome setlist. I would swap out "I don't Want to Change the World" for "Flying High Again", but other than that, pretty great.
I'm kind of keeping tabs on his tour. I saw him with Sabbath in 99, but never solo, so trying to catch a date this go-around. Worried about his voice, but at this point it is about the show and watching Ozzy do what he does. I'm hoping when he leaves the festival environment the set list just gets a tad bigger.
I saw him twice in the mid-80s solo, then 1999 and 2016 with Black Sabbath.
I'd be up for seeing him again if the setlist was heavier on his first 2 solo albums and maybe a Sabbath gem they didn't do on their farewell tour.
I am gonna see him in Syracuse.
over $400 face for a decent seat...R U kidding me?..saw the Blizzard tour from row at Masonic Temple in the D......good enough me me...have fun kids!
My shed Blossom (Cleveland), appears like a decent seat in the center of the second level of 3 seating levels would be $142 + fees face value and third level is $85 + fees. Just single seats remain at face value here or there left in the pavilion, surprised the entire pavilion is just about sold out (show 9/16).
Live Nation has what they are calling "platinum tickets" which they describe as:
Platinum Tickets are tickets that are dynamically priced up and down based on demand. Platinum Tickets are not part of VIP packages - they are tickets only.
Live Nation is in the price inflating game too! This is in addition to resale tickets people are selling and VIP tickets as part of the official sale. Their platinum tickets range from $474-312-217, which they admit is not face value. The most common resale tickets I see are $400-200. I'll give them this, Live Nation's platinum tickets are priced more competitively than the other resale tickets...but still.
My shed Blossom (Cleveland), appears like a decent seat in the center of the second level of 3 seating levels would be $142 + fees face value and third level is $85 + fees. Just single seats remain at face value here or there left in the pavilion, surprised the entire pavilion is just about sold out (show 9/16).
Live Nation has what they are calling "platinum tickets" which they describe as:
Platinum Tickets are tickets that are dynamically priced up and down based on demand. Platinum Tickets are not part of VIP packages - they are tickets only.
Live Nation is in the price inflating game too! This is in addition to resale tickets people are selling and VIP tickets as part of the official sale. Their platinum tickets range from $474-312-217, which they admit is not face value. The most common resale tickets I see are $400-200. I'll give them this, Live Nation's platinum tickets are priced more competitively than the other resale tickets...but still.
This is why a RARELY got to concert's anymore. Its been out of hand for quite some time and only getting worse.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
I would've tried to get pavilion seats when they went on sale in mid February, but wasn't aware of it. Now probably looking at $35 lawn.
