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Two for the Road

Ozzy vs. Moby -- compare their concert tours. How to tell which of these music men is throwing the right summer bash for your taste

Two of this year's biggest tours -- Ozzfest and the Area 2 -- are headed by musicians who would never be mistaken for twins separated at birth: Ozzy and Moby. Here's our handy guide to some of the differences between the 36-year-old vegan techno wizard and the 53-year-old foul-mouthed, hard-rocking MTV dad.

  OZZY
MOBY
 
Aging rocker on the tour
Metal madman Rob Zombie
Space oddity David Bowie
Audience
Balding metalheads, and teenage counterparts
Hipsters with shaved heads, and teenage counterparts
Needed at the concert
Ham to toss at mediocre opening acts
Wraparound sunglasses and shiny clothing
In the pit
Moshing, stray fists, and raging testosterone
Belly rings and lanky blissed-out groovers
Tools of the trade
Power guitars and wailed vocals
Macintosh computers and stacks of LPs
Stance on religion
Sings 'I am not the antichrist'
Devout Christian
On meat
Loves it, including live bats
No animal products in more than a decade
Animal lover?
Once worked in a slaughterhouse
Titled 1996 album ''Animal Rights''
Home turf
Cluttered Beverly Hills mansion, seen on MTV
Spare, stylish loft in NYC's funky Lower East Side
Surprising role model
Put John Lennon's ''Imagine'' on his family's CD
Wore an ''I Love Eminem'' shirt on ''Saturday Night Live''
Originally posted Jun 18, 2002

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