![]() ![]() The Warped Tour was a traveling rock tour that toured the United States plus three or four stops in Canada annually each summer from 1995 until 2019. I think when touring comes back, if it ever comes back, I'm going to get involved in booking shows again and provide young people around here with something positive to do.Annual traveling rock music festival (1995-2019) Warped Tour I had a great time and I miss doing shit like that but I'm an old man now as far as punk goes and my friends have either passed away or moved on for simple, domestic lives and I don't blame them because they had that opportunity. I'd gather up some friends, we'd go in on a motel room and stay until the day was concluded, snagging sampler CDs and other SWAG from the various sponsors, then we'd go back to the motel and have a little "afterparty" and get ready to do it again the next day. Pete, then Miami and I made a week of it which is how I got to hang out with the bands and artists as a dumb under 21. I have four years of good memories attached to the tour, because I used to go to multiple Florida dates in sequence: Usually Orlando, then St. If I could, I'd probably volunteer and offer up free bottles of water and a place with those mist coolers so people wouldn't get heat stroke if they were to ever bring it back. Pete) and that's unsafe for the kids, because many of them would end up sunburnt and dehydrated in the late afternoon. ![]() Hell, I'd probably try to be a vendor or a volunteer to work it at my age now, as the problem with Warped from the first one I went to was that shit like water (a must in Florida summers) was a ridiculous price from the get go (which is why Lars gave away three cases of water at the 2004 date in St. I'd probably go check out Warped if it came back just to see some new music and try to relive the happier times of my life, but I'd really only be interested in it if there were punk/hardcore bands on the bill, preferably ones that are new because I've seen all of my generation's bands enough (I've seen the Unseen at least 8 times). I would have loved to see something like that even if I didn't know any of the bands. ![]() ![]() I think I've missed out on a lot in life, both for better and for worse, by not living in California. Its Not Dead that was like old school warped tour. The question is: could this be done in a way that wouldn't make it seem like a Disneyland experience? It would be cool to see bands of my generation playing alongside newer ones, so that parents and older siblings who had gone to the original tour could enjoy it with their kids. If it was going to be all mumble rap and haircut bands, I'd probably skip it and leave it for the kids. However if they brought it back and did it right, had a lot of modern, fresh faced punk bands, I would go just to check out what's happening now even if I would need to bring a fold-out chair for my construction-worn body. "Scene" acts like Millionaires, 3OH!3 and brokenCYDE were the future of the tour and less and less punk was being brought to the dates in Florida, besides I was a newly minted 21 year old at this point so I started spending more time at bars. 2008 was the year I stopped going due to the addition of a lot of "bands" (read: cash grabs) that I didn't respect and it seemed like punk had all but been forced out of the festival in a hostile takeover. I personally only went four times and had a lot of good memories attached to those four times, but toward the end I had lost touch with the direction the tour was moving and I think this is because the punk element gradually faded out and the tour went more in a pop/metalcore direction. I'm just curious as to what the general consensus is on this summer institution that has since come to an end. I'm not, nor have I ever been affiliated with Warped, Kevin Lyman, or Vans in any way. ![]()
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