Thinking twice about Ozzfest this year?

[unclemeat]

Well this news will help make you mind up!


Report: OZZFEST Gets Jiggy? JADA PINKETT SMITH's Band Added To Lineup - May 17, 2005

Chris Harris of MTV.com has issued the following report:

In one of the most unusual summer-tour pairings in recent memory, the Ozzfest Web site announced Monday night that there will be one final act added to this year's second-stage lineup: actress Jada Pinkett Smith's rock group, WICKED WISDOM.

The addition of the Christian-leaning rock-and-soul hybrid to a summer touring package that boasts ferocious metal merchants like BLACK SABBATH, IRON MAIDEN, SHADOWS FALL, MUDVAYNE, IN FLAMES and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER is unexpected, to say the least.

WICKED WISDOM is an EVANESCENSE-esque act that Pinkett Smith, the band's frontperson and the wife of actor/rapper Will Smith, has said is influenced by ANI DIFRANCO, PRINCE, TORI AMOS and SEVENDUST. The group also includes a guy named Pocket on guitar, another fellow named Rio on bass, keyboardist Cameron Graves and drummer Satnam Ramgotra. This summer's Ozzfest stint will mark WICKED WISDOM's first North American tour: The group primarily performs club gigs in and around Los Angeles, although it has opened for PAPA ROACH and was the support act for BRITNEY SPEARS' 2004 European tour.

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Ugh. Good bands like Black Dahlia Murder and Mastodon have to be soiled by something that sounds like Evanescense. My non-Christian urine goes out to their mouths.

[Shevy]

OzzFest usually features one or two good bands that are worth seeing, and then throws in a bunch of complete shit. I've never heard Wicked Wisdom, but I'm willing to bet that I'll think they suck. What are the odds Will Smith appears with Kelly Osbourne to help with a cover of "Parents Just Don't Understand"?

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"My mom shows me a shirt and says it costs 50 dollars
I said this shirt is wack and it's not worth a dollar"

When I heard that rhyme, I was quoting it for weeks. It was so bad.

[OneEye]

This is real? I've never been to an Ozzfest, in fact I was hoping it was somebody that wouldn't make me want to go. This is almost as funny as the time the guy spoofed all those webpages saying Metallica was suing because another band used the chords E and F. If this is true, then I give credit to the writer for including the fact that they OPENED for Papa Roach. My god, who the fuck in their right mind would do that? This has got to be a joke.

[sc00ts]

i'm not even thinking once about ozzfest

[unclemeat]

OZZFEST 2005: WILL SMITH May Join Wife Onstage During WICKED WISDOM's Performance - May 27, 2005

ContactMusic.com has issued the following report: Jada Pinkett Smith is set to infuriate heavy rockers even more as she considers including hip-hop husband Will Smith in her Ozzfest tour plans.

Ozzfest headliner Ozzy Osbourne caused controversy earlier this month when he added the actress' metal group WICKED WISDOM to the touring festival.

Enraged fans suggested the move would cause a riot when they sent hate mail to the Ozzfest web site — and now Pinkett Smith plans to add insult to injury with an idea to bringing her husband onstage.

She says, "We're thinking about it. He's really become a real metalhead lately. He fell in love with OTEP the other night, so that was really interesting. He wanted to get in the pit.

"Now he's all excited and wants to be down with it."

Whether or not the Ozzfest dates come off for the Hollywood couple, Smith will join his wife and her group when they tour Europe in November.

[Shevy]

unclemeat said:

He's really become a real metalhead lately. He fell in love with OTEP the other night, so that was really interesting. He wanted to get in the pit.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Will Smith is so metal, magnets stick to him.

[Nico Mc Brain]

You gotta wonder how a rock band would sound like with influences like Prince and Sevendust at the same time. Plus having a drummer named Satnam Ramgotra. THey should have aptly named thier band Black Forest instead