YESSSSSSSS!!! last night was spent at the staples center seeing Ozzy and Rob Zombie and unexpectedly (for me) In A Moment. I'll go through it chronologically. I'd never heard of In A Moment before but they were pretty good. I looked them up on Wiki and it says they're Melodic Metalcore. But i've never been one to trust Wiki (seeing as it lied about GNR :P) so i'll go ahead with my and those around me first impression. Death Metal. Although the difference (as far as i'm concerned) is extremely slight.

Anyways the lead singer was a girl and came out in a white dress. Which was cleverly contrasted to her vocals which made YOUR throat hurt just listening to it. She screamed incredibly loud into the microphone so that i couldn't make out a single lyric. But wiki didn't lie about some parts being melodic when she mellowed out and sang softer (softer being a relative term) and then started up screaming again. They were the opening act for Rob Zombie and they did they're job. They got me standing up, my addrenaline pumping and me (and the entire audience) screaming for more. Then Rob Zombie came on.

I'm sorry In A Moment but Rob Zombie blew you away. They had a huge devil head on stage a guy in an 11 foot tall metal robot costume (think Eddy) and monitors that showed scenes from they're movies and other movies. All of them of the Horror genre of course. And they were loud. They were LOUD. Naturally everyone was on their feet and when they came off i truly thought that there was no way Ozzy could match them. I'm a HUGE ozzy fan but how could you beat that performance. Ozzy was about to show me just how you could beat that performance.

After Zombie a huge screen came down and a projector put the OZZY OSBOURNE symbol on it (aka: the cover for Black Rain) Then the lights went off. The crowd started screaming (me among them of course) and then the scene showed a several parodies including ozzy. Ever seen ozzy as gandalf? well just think of that only in a lot more shows. The first one involved him as Captain Jack Sparrow and biting off a parrots head and the other parodies included Lost, The Queen, and others that i didn't recognize but were just as funny none the less. Then the screen dropped and ozzy came on screaming. He says **** a lot. Of course you knew that didn't you?

So ozzy comes on asking us if we're ****ing ready. Then jumps into the setlist. He spoke a lot between the songs, one time he said we're weren't "****ing crazy enough for the ozzman" and waited till we got crazy enough then comes back on stage and starts "Not Going Away" (get then hidden pun there, was i the only one who got it?) One of the best parts was the multiple times he pulled out a hose and sprayed the first 5 or so rows with beer. At first i thought it was foam but then he says "Waste of good beer though" and (as pointed out to me) a cup of beer costs 8$ (there) and he was spraying out the stuff by the gallon. Also pretty funny was when people started throwing beers back at him. One point he almost got hit but sprayed the cup back into the audience with his beer gun. Then enter the longest guitar solo I'VE seen yet. It was Zakk Wylde (no it was chuck berry OF COURSE it was Zakk Wylde)with tributes to Eddie Van Halen (when he played Eruption) and tributes to Jimi Hendrix (end of the solo when he played Star Spangled Banner) Slash i think Zakk Wylde just took your spot at #1. When the main setlist is over does ozzy just do the encores? OF COURSE NOT. You want to get another song you had to work for it. How did you work for it? YOU (and i qoute) GO F***ING CRAZY!!!!!!! he told us to chant "One More Song" and we did. So he comes back on and plays "Mama I'm Coming Home" which live is a really great song. Then (without any prompting whatsoever, ozzy isn't even on stage at this point) the audience again starts chanting "One More Song" except for a group of people next to me who were chanting "Two More Songs" then ozzy comes back out and does paranoid with a lot of explicit commentary beside. Then the incredible night is over.

It's worth mentioning that that was the first concert i'd been to where everyone was standing up and screaming through EVERY ACT. There were about 2 people in the entire sold out audience that weren't standing up and screaming constantly. Of course during songs you scream the lyrics while in between you scream period. I had been disappointed in the past with Rush, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Edgar Winters, and Van Halen because they failed in completing the rock and roll mood by getting the entire audience to stand. I wanted to stand at all of them but i didn't want to act like a jerk to the people behind me. Only at key moments at those other tours did people stand (Rush: Dreamline, Van Halen: Guitar Solo, Deep Purple: Smoke On The Water) but at one point ozzy actually said "I can't ***ing HEAR YOU!!!" "I STILL CAN'T ****ING HEAR YOU" "I'M NOT CONTINUING UNTIL I CAN ****ING HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!" it was awesome. It was a night i will never forget for i do declare that so far that is the best concert i've ever been to (with rush in CLOSE second)