FREE... ???

[GhostShip]

This one has evryone looking for the catch.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/16641428.htm

In a move that bucks the trend of skyrocketing concert ticket prices, Ozzfest promoter Sharon Osbourne announced Tuesday that admission to the 25-city heavy metal tour -- which stops at Shoreline Amphitheatre -- will be free this summer.
Sponsors will pick up the tab for the tickets, bands will not be paid to perform and expenses will be covered from sales of food, drinks and merchandise.

It will be the first national tour ever to do so.
``We needed to change something and we didn't want to change the format,'' Osbourne said by phone from the annual Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
``We were putting offers to all these bands we wanted to tour with and they were coming back to us with exorbitant prices that would have meant we had to put the ticket prices up, which I won't do. With Ozzy's audience being younger, they can't afford any higher prices.''

I hope this gamble on sponsorship and merchandise covering the costs turns out ok, hopefully one or two of our readers will get a ticket.

[Cobra]

And yet I still wouldn't go.