Report: Families Bond Over Day Of Heavy Metal At OZZFEST

July 22, 2006

Andrew Hampp of The Columbus Dispatch has issued the following report:

The hard-rocking Family Values Tour won't come to Columbus until Sept. 13, but the name would have been just as apt for yesterday's (July 21) Ozzfest.

Parents and their children from throughout the state flocked to Germain Amphitheater for the annual heavy-metal event. Many made a day of it: The first band took the stage at 10 a.m., 12 hours before headliner SYSTEM OF A DOWN was scheduled to close.

Wearing a skull-and-crossbones bandanna that covered her ringlets of blond hair, Jessica Salvatore, 40, could be found hanging around the second stage in the festival's early hours with her son, Alex, 17.

This was her fourth trip to Ozzfest in its 10-year history and marked the 20th time she'd be seeing DISTURBED, her favorite band.

"When I tell my friends my mom goes to these shows with me, they get the wrong idea," Alex said.

"They think I'm crazy," Mom added. "I have a couple of girlfriends that'll come with me, but not too often."

Salvatore, of Avon Lake, wasn't the only parent eager to rock out as much — if not more — than the kids.

Many of the parents making Ozzfest a family affair were raised on festival founder Ozzy Osbourne's band, BLACK SABBATH, in the 1970s.

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