No wonder everybody talks shit on Ozzfest. They treat the bands like crap! While doing the rounds promoting his upcoming solo project, THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, Devy was interviewed by Noisecreep and revealed just how shitty the band, and all second stage acts were treated.
There was one point, early on, when the band was walking to the catering area to get food, and [guitarist Jed] Simon walked down the wrong ramp, leading an Ozzfest stage manager on a tear. “He went fucking ballistic on Jed, so Jed was like, ‘Fuck you.’ The guy went nuts, and pulled this rank thing on us, like we were a bunch of upstarts and we spent the next three weeks at war with Ozzfest. They wanted to kick us off, we wanted to leave… the guy who put the lineup together didn’t want us to leave.
“Finally, I went up to the Ozzfest guys and said, ‘We’re old, for sure, but you gotta know we’ve been doing this for 15 years, and we have no delusions of becoming the next big thing. We do this because this is what we do, and the label paid $80,000 for us to be on this tour. So either we’ll spend the rest of the tour hating each other or we’ll pull it together.’ And they were like, ‘We’re old, to… let’s just get along,’ so I just went up on stage every day after that and gave the show shit.”
Yesh! Whereas everybody speaks wonders of how Mayhem Fest treats them, every second stage Ozzfest act I've spoken to has had similar stories to this. Speaking of that Ozzfest, it brought us the now-legendary interview of Snake from A Life Once Lost interviewing Devy about how much he hated being where he was.
