Dana and I got there a little later than planned due to me and my navigational skills.  well, in my defense, the sign off of the exit that said which way to go was partially hidden by a tree limb.  I took the wrong direction and after a bit, I realized that we should have been there already... so, by the time we got there, we missed Charm City Devils (which we had planned to miss) and all but 2 songs from Drowning Pool's set (which we wanted to see)... that sets the stage for the rest of the review.
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<strong>Drowning Pool</strong>: Entertaining.  They did do that song that most everybody knows, "Bodies."  You know... let the bodies hit the floor... but I am still not a fan.  I probably wont' be buying any DP music soon.  [I did like the ode to Metallica they did at the very end with a snippit of "Creeping Death."  Nice touch.]
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Theory of a Deadman: </strong>Good, but they sound similar to Drowning Pool.  The final two songs they played, "Hate My Life" and "Bad Girlfriend" were the best 2 of the set.  Dana seemed to like them, but I was, "meh."
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Godsmack:</strong> I will start off by saying, I don't get why they are so popular.  Even their music was sort of similar to the 2 bands that preceeded them.   The crowd seemed to be really into them except me, of course.  The songs were ok.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The best part of the set was the "drumming duet" towards the end of the set with a nice medley of covers including Black Sabbath, Rush, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin.  Funny how the best of their set, to me, was the covers...</p>


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<p style="text-align: left;">I will say that they were very entertaining.  Much more than when I saw them on Ozzfest 2000 (where after the lead singer told us to "get up or get the fuck out".  I made sure I sat right there and stare.  How dare they say some bs like that... and by the way, when Pantera took the stage afterwards, everybody stood up.  Nice!).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Motley Crue:</strong> Ah, the reason I was there.  It makred the return of Tommy on the skins due to a hand injury.  The Crue was pretty tight and Vince was decent.  He is not the same singer he was in the 80's.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">He did miss some lyrics here and there, but Motley would not be the same band without him (they tried that...) and you kind of have to accept Vince as he is.  They did "Dr. Feelgood" from beginning to end and then about 5 more songs.  "Wild Side" "Saints of Los Angeles" "Shout of the Devil" and then encore with "Home Sweet Home" and "Girls Girls Girls."</p>
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The only real dissappointment is Motley only played like 90 minutes.  I realize it's a festival, but they could have still played 2 hours...
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<p style="text-align: left;">Overall, the experience was good.  Lakewood was better than I had remembered.  Got in and out pretty well.  Accoustics were much improved over Ozzfest 2000.  The three bands prior to Motley, I would rank about a 3/5.  Motley, I give 3.5/5.  Good Set but very short.</p>