August 25, 2005 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Centre

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General Information

Date: August 25, 2005
Location: Dallas, TX
Venue: Smirnoff Music Centre; 1818 First Avenue, Dallas, TX 75210 [ Venue website ]
Box Office Number: 214-421-1111
Additional Info: Ozzfest Festival 2005. Mark Schulman was a temporary replacement for Matt Sorum, who fractured his hand in a boating accident.

Thanks to Jeff Axelrod for the set list!

Set List

• Sucker Train Blues
• Do it For The Kids
• Headspace
• Superhuman
• Dead and Bloated
• Fall To Pieces
• Come On, Come In
• Big Machine
• Set Me Free
• Mr. Brownstone
• Slither

Reviews (5) [ send in your own review/pictures of the Dallas show ]

Thanks to CD: Dead & Bloated & Come on, Come in were nice surprises. Scott was very funny, full of F bombs & very high energy guitar wish they were the headliner! Suckertrain blues, Do it for the kids, Headspace, Fall to pieces, Big Machine, Set me free & Slither.

Velvet Revolver rules !!! Peace from Texas!

Thanks to Teresa Gubbins from the Star-Telegram: Hotter than usual and louder than ever, Ozzfest 2005 made its annual stop Thursday at Smirnoff Music Centre, where nearly 15,000 fans roasted in what felt like an outdoor oven to see a lineup of metal-rock acts headlined by Black Sabbath.

It's been a controversial year for the heavy-metal tour, launched in 1996 by Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne: from Osbourne's announcement that he'll retire this year, to the tiff between Sharon Osbourne and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, which climaxed at the August 20 show in California, when Maiden was pelted by the audience with eggs, bottle caps and ice.

Already scheduled to leave the tour, Iron Maiden was replaced by Velvet Revolver, the charismatic Los Angeles rock quintet.

The Velvet Revolvers got the second-to-last slot before Black Sabbath, which they easily deserved.

But that meant they were forced to follow the cartoonish Mudvayne, whose moronic posturing on songs such as Forgot to Remember sapped the energy out of the crowd. On the heels of all that, Velvet Revolver's slinky, nuanced rock felt like a whisper.

Whether with Black Sabbath or his eponymous band, Ozzy's performances hardly vary from year to year; same story for his guitarist buddy, Zakk Wylde, who fronts Black Label Society, which also played the main stage, where he served up the same silly gee-whiz guitar nonsense that he always does.

One thing Dallas fans got that no one else did was a one-off performance by local rock band Drowning Pool, who carpetbagged itself onto the main stage to show off its latest singer, Ryan McCombs, formerly of Soil.

He did an adequate job covering 4-year-old Drowning Pool songs such as Sinner, so mission accomplished; but during its 20-minute set, the band never acknowledged the obvious -- folks, here's our new singer -- which was supposedly the whole point.

Thanks to ELIAZAR SAUCEDO JR: Velvet Revolver fucking rocked out. The show was fucking awesome. Yall did a great job. Keep on rocking! Fuck what everybody else says you just be you!

Thanks to Jose Francisco: It was my second time seeing Velvet Revolver. They rocked the house as expected. Weiland got water thrown on him by a crowd member and went off on him during the song and after. He said during the song pointing at someone something like "stop it mother fucker, da da da.... beat your mother fuckin ass". And after the song was over "if anyone wants tickets to the next show and backstage passes, throw that mother fucker up to security so they can take him away."

Then he went into DEAD AND BLOATED and everybody went apeshit. Great show!!!

Thanks to Jeff Axelrod: Let me start off by saying I'm a huge Velvet Revolver fan and impatiently awaited a long time to see this show. Visually, the show was excellent. It was your standard Velvet Revolver show. The sound, however, sucked big time. Duff's bass and mike were well out in front of everyone drowning everything else out. Even Duff's background vocals were louder than Scott's lead vocals. The 55 minute set was also a disappointment. Now, these things are not likely Velvet Revolver's fault, but it does add to the disappointment in the show. Add that to the 103 degree heat and the price of the tickets, only 55 minutes was very disapointing. It also seemed that Ozzfest may not be the most appropriate forum for Velvet Revolver's style of music. The 12 or so other bands on the bill like Bury Your Dead and It Dies Today play death-speed-metal or whatever you call it with absolutely no melody to their songs. I thought Velvet Revolver was extremely out of place here. Luckily I missed all but one of the other bands so I could just see Velvet Revolver and Sabbath. For the most part the crowd was not into Velvet Revolver's set at all. The ONLY time the crowd stood was when Scott sang the intro "I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday death bed." The crowd went wild, many people stood up, the moshpit sharted moshing....after the song was over everyone sat down again til the set was over. Songs like Dead And Bloated and Crackerman I think were more appropriate for this type of crowd. The highlight of the show (or lowlight depending on how you look at it) was during the 2nd or 3rd song of the set. I think it may have been Do It For The Kids. Someone from the audience threw a full plastic water bottle at Scott. It hit him dead center in the chest and you could see water splash everywhere. The band kept playing the song, but Scott missed the entire second verse because he was too busy telling off this loser "You mother f**ker, etc etc". After the song was over, Scott laced into one of his patended tirades against this idiot. He said whoever helps push this guy (or mother f**ker as he called him) to the front so security can evict him will get a backstage pass to the next TX show.

1 interesting observation: when Velvet Revolver first started touring back in 2004 there was a lot of onstage interaction between Scott and Slash. The feeling I got this night was that they are "tolerating" each other on stage. There was virtually no interaction between the two this night and it makes me wonder if there is some truth to those European news articles about Scott and Slash having problems. If you are attending future Ozzfest shows please keep an eye out for this. This really does make me curious. If anyone taped the show, please post the Scott rant after he got hit by the water bottle.