if warped tour comes back I feel as though the ticket prices should also make a comeback. The main reason why people love and miss warped is because how affordable it was to see as many bands as possible, with festivals like when we were young or sad summer you're paying large amounts of money to not see as many bands. I get with inflation a $50 ticket may not be as feasible but I do think there are ways to make a warped tour come back accessible and affordable for everyone
With bands selling t shirts for $40 screen prints these days, I doubt that price point is ever coming back. Greed trickled down to where everyone had to get on board or perish.
Those prices are just not coming back and if they did They will most likely go out of business Everything and I mean everything has gone up in prices since the old days of warp tour
You could build a Playlist using DLC in Rock Band that easily fits this. Kind of funny though, we got "Rock the 80s" in 2007ish, which would've been a perfect time to cash in on Warped Tour kids instead.
Went to Warped every year from ‘97 to ‘03. In ‘99, I was just barely through the gates when I was checking the band schedule board and this GORGEOUS girl was standing there next to me mapping out who to see and when. A lot of my favored bands were on her list and I told her she had good taste and that I was on my way to see the first band on her list. She smiled and said her cousins were there but wanted to see another band first, and asked if she could tag along w me. I ofc said yes and we clicked within minutes. Spent all day together and were very much bf/gf for the day. Met up with her cousins later and towards the end of the night, one of them told me she was just visiting and didn’t even live in the state. I was crushed. They told be that she was from Minnesota and I lived in Kansas. As the night drew to a close, we said our goodbyes and I told her I knew I could not feasibly pursue anything with her. She kissed me and said I was her favorite part about the day. It was bittersweet, but we walked into the parking lot and quite literally went our separate ways. 5 years later I had risen up a couple ranks in my job and had to take a business trip to St. Paul, MN. Stopped by a local cafe for a quick breakfast one morning and guess who the waitress was? We both looked quite different but we both recognized the other instantly. We talked for a while but still ultimately decided not to do anything as it was still quite challenging to pursue anything. Keep in mind at the time, texting/long distance still was being charged for by the minute/message and social media was still in its infancy so it left us with little option. I got up and we hugged and I told her I still thought about that day. She told me she still tells her friends about the perfect guy she met on a whim for 1 day. She remains my favorite warped tour memory. ☺️
I somehow doubt that some of the entitlement kids have these days would ever make it the same vibe it once was. In the earlier years people were just so chill and pretty nice to each other. It was all just about the music, not how you looked, not social media, just the experience.
I think another reason was rock wasn't as culturally relevant to youths as in the 2000s. Unless Warped Tour is relying on nostalgia and legacy acts like When We Were Young and Sick New World.
I started going to Warped Tour in 2003. I was 14 and I went every single summer until 2008. I went again several times in my 20s but it just wasn’t the same. I did get to stand on stage while TBS played, which made my inner 14 year old emo kid melt to pieces. I’m still emo. Covered in tattoos and 35. This video was super nostalgic so thank you! I subbed!
My first Warped experience was 05 ,and it is still one of the best events I ever went to. I remember seeing Strike Anywhere, The Unseen, Underoath, My Chem, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, shit even Billy Idol there. What a year, great memories. I still have some of tickets for warped tour, we would go to the local safeway cigarette counter and get them lol 05 my ticket was $32.50.
I remember watching the warped tour documentary on fuse and being bummed I couldn't go that year. but it was cool seeing my friends from school in the crowd.
I Miss Warped tour , Who didn't love moshing in 90 Degree weather on a blacktop from a large parking lot of The Pepsi Center. Full of Monster, a black eye , sunburnt top to bottom, wearing new sweaty merch and it was just another summers day. I never imagined warped tour would end, still blows my mind. It was the most anticipated event of every summer.
I played warped tour in 2016 on the full sail stage with my band The New Low. It was a dream come true and one of the best summers of my life. Kevin was a fantastic guy, very involved and appreciated the community and helping each other more than anything. We often volunteered and helped give our effort to the tour and respect to the other bands and crew. We got bumped to main stage on a few dates and it really felt like Kevin cared about the people putting in the hard work and appreciated being there. Sad it went away but hopefully we can learn to love each other again and bring warped tour back 🤘🏻💯
I like how there was 2 stages back to back cuz there was less time in between bands on those stages cuz the other band can be set up already or finish setting up while the other band is finishing! So many times I got lucky and like 3 bands were back to back on those and didn't have to sprint anywhere and it was so nice! The sprinting across the whole place sucked I had to do that a bunch of times...good times though! I miss warped tour...
RIP Warped Tour. I went every year from 1999-2005 and then again in 2016. Man, I discovered SO many new bands every year. And my favorite bands I went to see never disappointed. I loved how Fat Mike was there damn near every year, either with NoFx or Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. I also saw bands, or performers, go from relatively unknowns to huge acts. Like in 99 when the Blackeyed Peas(before Fergie) played before Blink 182. Or in 2002 when I sat down next to a stage to get out of the sun that barely had 10 people watching the performance. When the band’s set was over, they said “Thank you. We’re ‘Flogging Molly’ and we’ll see you next time.” Forever Warped, baby.
Great video! :) I’d love for warped to make a comeback. I was 15 when they announced it was the last year and it broke my heart that I’d never get to experience it. Even though I’m in the UK, now as an adult I’d try my best to make it over there if it made a come back. Hoping I can make it to WWWY in the coming years as that’s definitely the closest you get to warped now a days.
The Atlantic city show was amazing. I was there with my friends. Ending with blink and ADTR was top teir. I remember they stopped the show mid through the day due to the rain and we all crashed the casinos and boardwalk. We drank free drinks and played penny slots for an hour and went back to it once the rain cleared. It was a somber ending on the final walk out but it will forever be something to remember. All scandals aside, it was a great memory. Warped tour will always have some of my best memories as a teen. And I miss it. Dearly.
Warped Tour was how I found myself and still how I carry myself confidence even after all those years I will forever be grateful for such an amazing concert
@@VIIZZZYY i had a bunch but I went a few times. I enjoyed avenged early in their career. Fenix Tx was one my favorites during that time. Finch was cool. I missed blink the first time I went but saw them another time there. The Ataris. I really enjoyed all the aspects of it. I liked the heavier stuff making its way in but still liked all the pop punk stuff too so it was one of my fondest memories.
I remember seeing escape the fate in the Ernie ball stage aka a 1 foot riser in the middle of the asphalt parking lot. I hated the fact that water was 6$ but a monster was free. Then the emergency crews on site always asked “man why are these kids having such a hard time hydrating in this Arizona summer heat?”
funny because i have always said that when you see a band at warped it wasnt the same as seeing that band at a typical show because warped was a sampler show because each band only played for 30 mins enough time for maybe 5 or 6 songs
When I worked for Roadrunner Records. They sent to a Warped Tour to promote Madina Lake. It was my first one and while I had a lot of fun…yeah there was way too many stages and not all the bands stayed on for the whole tour.
@@VIIZZZYY my stint with Roadrunner was some of the best days of my youth. I got free concert tickets, promoted bands I loved, got to meet them, and was still rewarded for my efforts. I could not have asked for a better young adult life.
My sister took me to warped tour in 2017 in lumen feild in Seattle. My 1st show too I got to go to. I was 16 that time and my lord was it amazing! Saw bands like memphis may fire, sworn in, I prevail and much more. Glad I went to warped when I did I'll never forget that day.
I attended the Atlantic City festival and I can confirm the vibes were incredible. I went to 9 years of warped tour and the Atlantic City festival was the best one by far. It was absolutely incredible and to this day is my favorite concert experience I have ever been to.
Man the best thing about warped tour was getting there early to map out who and when to see! Plus the early shows were always the craziest! This thing was in the middle of the summer so the later you were out the crispier you got!!
I met Kevin in 2015 at a music conference great guy and very smart. It was sad to see it end. I went to the Atlantic City 25th show and it was such a great atmosphere
I quit going to the warped tour after the third one (all the way back in 97). Before the fest got so big individual bands would go on their own tours and it wouldn't have the budget for a travelling support act. That led to the travelling bands have from about two to four locals open for them in each town. The clubs would be packed so the local scene would benefit hugely.....the local bands and the clubs themselves. The shows would be ten bucks or less and would be packed.... you'd have about twenty nights or more a year like that. No corporate sponsor and a real community vibe. The Warped Tour comes along and gets it all over with in one day and advertises shoes and other crap to you all day. It really felt like a trip to the mall on boxing day.
I went to Ozzfest in 03 and 04. I was always told how much fun, and cheaper, Warped Tour was so I went to it in 05, 06, and 07. Some of my best summer memories during my college years.
At Warped 2019, Kevin mentioned that 2005 was the only year Warped Tour turned a profit on Ticket Sales. Edit: I was at the Ohio date in 2019 at the hall of fame. I had a hell of a time checking out the HOF and the Warped Tour segment. It definitely didn't have the same feel as the previous shows, but felt very bittersweet.
18:12 Someone from a completely different scene chiming in (i'm heavily involved with a lot of grindcore/crust sorta shit for multiple decades now). OK the big BIG fucking issue people have with Kevin has mainly been his attitude, which was displayed fairly well in that Kerrang interview. He's been like this for 30+ years. Nobody owes you a fucking thing homie, just because you asked them to come play your fucking dumb fest doesn't mean they have to say yes.
I grew up in a really religious house so I never got to attend but would live vicariously through Deefizzy and that whole gen of TH-camrs. I remember when they all went on tour I was even more devastated i couldn’t go. Now that I’m 23 I hope it comes back at least in some shape and they bring back a lot of old bands for people like me who didn’t get to enjoy it the first round :(
I went to warped tour from 2008 - 2018 and I still have thing bag I’d get bands to sign every year and it’s such a great momento from all the years I went I would totally love to see warped tour back to show my kids as I was 30 weeks pregnant when the last warped tour date I went to so I call her my warped tour baby because she loves music soooo much and show her what a great time she could have
Just letting you know. Those monsters from the monster truck were mostly just canned water. Not sure if u never went to warped or played it but they would throw out / give out canned water with the monster logo on it.
Warped was my very first concert experience in 2006 when I was 16. I discovered one of my favorite bands, Rise Against there. It was such a great time. When We Were Young felt like the best Warped Lineup of all time for me. Loved it so much, but wish it was a touring fest.
I really wish I was old enough to go to Warped Tour then, I just know it was so fun. You can’t deny what Kevin Lynman did was insane, a festival around the country is nuts. I really hope and have a feeling it will come back in some form.
No it was monster. They were literal monster cans. Were you even there? I witnessed a girl die in Toronto from cardiac arrest from them. Then they had a limit of 1 per person the following year. It was literally monster, not water. You obviously never went.
Handguns also followed around Warped tour along with Forever Came Calling. I bought both bands CDs in line, and I don’t even know how many times I ending up going to Handguns shows afterwards
The good old days. Get to see all these bands for like $25. Getting sun burn and drunk at 11 am. Running from stage to stage to make sure you dont miss the band you wanna see. Then picking the band you wanna see the most because they are playing at the same times. Ah i feel old now
I was fortunate enough to perform various dates on the tour in 2001 and 2002. This is a great video that's very accurate. I really enjoyed that Roadies show as well. Great job!
My first Warped was 98 in Tahoe, then pretty much every year from 03-11 at Sac Valley. I saw so many amazing bands, some that i knew some that where new and i fell in love with. I miss it, it was always something to look forward to, but i have Aftershock now right down the street from me, shit just costs too much!
Jeremy for Touché Amore said he didn’t want to play because he didn’t want to be playing with misogynistic bands like Asking Alexandria and Falling in Reverse every night and exposing Touche's fanbase to that.
For all the reasons that he stated in this video I honestly ponder sometimes if the world would be better if social media just didn't exist. I am only 24 years old so I hardly lived without social media, but I bet a lot of people in the comment session can attest that before social media everything was just more peaceful and more people got along. You couldn't just judge someone for what they said online or you couldn't just say that you didn't like someone because of something. People nowadays just judge people based off of their opinion without actually meeting that person and it's sad because you could actually be missing out on a friendship or someone that's actually a good person, but because their views are different than yours you won't give them the time of day.
Warped 2010, I got to meet Suicide Silence. Missed Parkway Drive cause they played first, missed Enter Shikari to meet Suicide. Emmure played & a whole human was thrown on my head. Nothing has ever compared since. Mitch really made that scene awesome. RIP
To add on to your comment, There’s def a lack of love in the industry, why would someone try to redo something like warped when they can make the same amount of money in a few one off festivals
Forever wishing the guys that coordinate Sad Summer Fest, Sick New World, When We Were Young, and the other bigger festivals would revive Warped Tour or something similar
I remember going to Warped Tour first then just a couple of days later going to Mayhem Festival then finishing off the summer going to Uproar Festival i wish they would bring touring festivals like that back again big highlight in my concert going life and all at the same place in Dallas TX
a huge contributing factor to warped tours down fall is Kevin Lyman’s skewed morality, giving second chances to child predators and then having the nerve to compare selling drugs to child predation is actually insane 😭
As a warped alumni for 2 summers I really appreciate this video. We struggled with the same inner conflicts about where the tour was heading and if we “belonged” or agreed with some of the things going on with the tour. Overall looking back as a fan who attended from 2002-2005 and then playing 2010/2012 I have a pretty positive, memory filled experience on both sides of the barricade. And I totally remember warped roadies and no room for Rock stars. I think my Mom thought it was cooler to make a cameo on those shows/movies then be on the tour 😂
If it was a one day festival then how do the line ups change from day to day like you mentioned? Like a band could play early in the day. Then the next day, the same band could possibly close the night out? Or did I miss hear that?
I never understood hating the lineup of a festival but going ahead to spend your money and go to the festival. If you don’t like the lineup…save your money and just don’t go.
I did Warped 2008, 2009 & 2010. Great content but the last slot of the day is normally the worst for the smaller bands because everyone bails. Warped tour was great but it felt like it was bringing less people every year and some of those drives in a van are accidents waiting to happen, so bands normally have a bus, so then you have to have parking for like 50-60 buses, plus trucks/trailers for the stages.
The Cleveland 25th Anniversary show was an unfortunate let down. The weather here was cruddy - scattered storms, humid, gray and windy. The stage was incredibly small and offset from the Rock n Roll HOF entrance. I was living in downtown Cleveland at the time and walked over to the show. During the headliners, there were maybe 500 in attendance in front of the stage. As an opening attraction to the exhibit, I can understand how the show could be called successful. The fall, I believe, is that the show was promoted as a third location rather than a promotion.
Running around trying to catch the band I like was fun to me lol. Only thing that sucked is having to pick between 2 bands you like because they are playing at the same time but either way I miss warped tour so much
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if warped tour comes back I feel as though the ticket prices should also make a comeback. The main reason why people love and miss warped is because how affordable it was to see as many bands as possible, with festivals like when we were young or sad summer you're paying large amounts of money to not see as many bands. I get with inflation a $50 ticket may not be as feasible but I do think there are ways to make a warped tour come back accessible and affordable for everyone
ESPECIALLY if so many people are expected to go. Its easy revenue
With bands selling t shirts for $40 screen prints these days, I doubt that price point is ever coming back. Greed trickled down to where everyone had to get on board or perish.
No there isn't. Those days are gone. You're paying 80 bucks if that ever happened
I do agree also those festivals don’t travel like warped did :/
Those prices are just not coming back and if they did
They will most likely go out of business
Everything and I mean everything has gone up in prices since the old days of warp tour
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Would've been so cool if it happened.
The most W comment I’ve ever read
You could build a Playlist using DLC in Rock Band that easily fits this.
Kind of funny though, we got "Rock the 80s" in 2007ish, which would've been a perfect time to cash in on Warped Tour kids instead.
Both brands could make a huge comeback if they market it correctly
Went to Warped every year from ‘97 to ‘03. In ‘99, I was just barely through the gates when I was checking the band schedule board and this GORGEOUS girl was standing there next to me mapping out who to see and when. A lot of my favored bands were on her list and I told her she had good taste and that I was on my way to see the first band on her list. She smiled and said her cousins were there but wanted to see another band first, and asked if she could tag along w me. I ofc said yes and we clicked within minutes. Spent all day together and were very much bf/gf for the day.
Met up with her cousins later and towards the end of the night, one of them told me she was just visiting and didn’t even live in the state. I was crushed. They told be that she was from Minnesota and I lived in Kansas. As the night drew to a close, we said our goodbyes and I told her I knew I could not feasibly pursue anything with her. She kissed me and said I was her favorite part about the day. It was bittersweet, but we walked into the parking lot and quite literally went our separate ways.
5 years later I had risen up a couple ranks in my job and had to take a business trip to St. Paul, MN. Stopped by a local cafe for a quick breakfast one morning and guess who the waitress was? We both looked quite different but we both recognized the other instantly. We talked for a while but still ultimately decided not to do anything as it was still quite challenging to pursue anything. Keep in mind at the time, texting/long distance still was being charged for by the minute/message and social media was still in its infancy so it left us with little option.
I got up and we hugged and I told her I still thought about that day. She told me she still tells her friends about the perfect guy she met on a whim for 1 day.
She remains my favorite warped tour memory. ☺️
Send this shit to Netflix, this was beautiful 😭
@@VIIZZZYY hahaha idk about all that.
Great video though and it triggered this memory of mine. For a few moments I was able to relive that day again.
I somehow doubt that some of the entitlement kids have these days would ever make it the same vibe it once was. In the earlier years people were just so chill and pretty nice to each other. It was all just about the music, not how you looked, not social media, just the experience.
Similar thing happened to me at Blink 182 in 2004.
Loved reading this 🤘🏼
As a kid growing up 10.000 miles away from a typical Warped Tour dates, the lineups was a great way for me to expand my musical horizon
It’d be cool to bring back warped tour without the drama and the pedos
I think another reason was rock wasn't as culturally relevant to youths as in the 2000s. Unless Warped Tour is relying on nostalgia and legacy acts like When We Were Young and Sick New World.
Nah fr
@@gx1tar1erYeah, rock is kinda dead.
@@dee5298there are lots of rock festivals killing it
@@dee5298 How long have people said that X genre is dead?
I started going to Warped Tour in 2003. I was 14 and I went every single summer until 2008. I went again several times in my 20s but it just wasn’t the same. I did get to stand on stage while TBS played, which made my inner 14 year old emo kid melt to pieces. I’m still emo. Covered in tattoos and 35. This video was super nostalgic so thank you! I subbed!
Let's goooo TBS!!!
My first Warped experience was 05 ,and it is still one of the best events I ever went to. I remember seeing Strike Anywhere, The Unseen, Underoath, My Chem, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, shit even Billy Idol there. What a year, great memories. I still have some of tickets for warped tour, we would go to the local safeway cigarette counter and get them lol 05 my ticket was $32.50.
The metalcore scene was the best years.
I remember watching the warped tour documentary on fuse and being bummed I couldn't go that year. but it was cool seeing my friends from school in the crowd.
Bro I saw Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the buzzcocks in the same day when I went to my first warped tour.
2006 warped? That was my first one.
Warped tour was at its best before everyone had cell phones. Seriously, it was such a chill vibe but hot AF most days.
the heat was brutal
I Miss Warped tour , Who didn't love moshing in 90 Degree weather on a blacktop from a large parking lot of The Pepsi Center. Full of Monster, a black eye , sunburnt top to bottom, wearing new sweaty merch and it was just another summers day. I never imagined warped tour would end, still blows my mind. It was the most anticipated event of every summer.
i miss it so much, also i like your name! im assuming you climb?
I played warped tour in 2016 on the full sail stage with my band The New Low. It was a dream come true and one of the best summers of my life. Kevin was a fantastic guy, very involved and appreciated the community and helping each other more than anything. We often volunteered and helped give our effort to the tour and respect to the other bands and crew. We got bumped to main stage on a few dates and it really felt like Kevin cared about the people putting in the hard work and appreciated being there. Sad it went away but hopefully we can learn to love each other again and bring warped tour back 🤘🏻💯
I like how there was 2 stages back to back cuz there was less time in between bands on those stages cuz the other band can be set up already or finish setting up while the other band is finishing! So many times I got lucky and like 3 bands were back to back on those and didn't have to sprint anywhere and it was so nice! The sprinting across the whole place sucked I had to do that a bunch of times...good times though! I miss warped tour...
That's standard for any festival
I only ever went to the last one in 2018😢 guess I should’ve stopped bein busy being 9 back when it was in its prime
Take me back to how it used to be, I’d never close my eyes again.
23:13 I'm one of the wrestlers with the green bandana what the hell how did I find this
i just youtubed warped tour wrestling lmao want me to try to find the link?
Hell yeah that'd be rad! This match had Andy Williams from every time I die as my tag team partner coming back from injury
before camera phones id have to go back to the big wall to remember who is playing when
Lol the nascar aloe cameo went hard
Was lucky enough to have my band play the 03' and 04' versions of the Warped Tour. Still a lifetime highlight!
my first warped tour was the last camden show in 2018, had such a great time i was so pressed when it was over
RIP Warped Tour. I went every year from 1999-2005 and then again in 2016. Man, I discovered SO many new bands every year. And my favorite bands I went to see never disappointed. I loved how Fat Mike was there damn near every year, either with NoFx or Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. I also saw bands, or performers, go from relatively unknowns to huge acts. Like in 99 when the Blackeyed Peas(before Fergie) played before Blink 182. Or in 2002 when I sat down next to a stage to get out of the sun that barely had 10 people watching the performance. When the band’s set was over, they said “Thank you. We’re ‘Flogging Molly’ and we’ll see you next time.” Forever Warped, baby.
The monster cans were actually filled with water. I still have an unopened one.
I wish I could have experienced warped tour now I have to pay 400$ for when we were young and sick new world
You don't have to go to nostalgia cash grab festivals. You can support small touring bands at your local venues instead.
LMAOOO at 26:54 where he's showing the Atlantic city footage, that's me in the green striped shirt in the pit! That's so crazy lmaoo
my first Warped Tour was the last Warped tour... 2018
I’m not the biggest fan of fronz or atilla but if he actually brought back warped tour I’d give huge respects.
Great video! :) I’d love for warped to make a comeback. I was 15 when they announced it was the last year and it broke my heart that I’d never get to experience it. Even though I’m in the UK, now as an adult I’d try my best to make it over there if it made a come back. Hoping I can make it to WWWY in the coming years as that’s definitely the closest you get to warped now a days.
The Atlantic city show was amazing. I was there with my friends. Ending with blink and ADTR was top teir. I remember they stopped the show mid through the day due to the rain and we all crashed the casinos and boardwalk. We drank free drinks and played penny slots for an hour and went back to it once the rain cleared.
It was a somber ending on the final walk out but it will forever be something to remember.
All scandals aside, it was a great memory. Warped tour will always have some of my best memories as a teen.
And I miss it. Dearly.
“You can wear what you want without being judged…” I judged people I saw wearing long pants at them when it’s outside in the middle of the summer ;p
Warped Tour was how I found myself and still how I carry myself confidence even after all those years I will forever be grateful for such an amazing concert
Warped tour was so fun. I learned about so many bands there.
Same! Who was your favorite set?
@@VIIZZZYY i had a bunch but I went a few times. I enjoyed avenged early in their career. Fenix Tx was one my favorites during that time. Finch was cool. I missed blink the first time I went but saw them another time there. The Ataris. I really enjoyed all the aspects of it. I liked the heavier stuff making its way in but still liked all the pop punk stuff too so it was one of my fondest memories.
The demographic of the bands was not a back end thing. Most of the folks running the tour directly reporting to Kevin were women.
hopefully Warped tour can return in the not so distant future regardless if its less dates and less bands
I remember seeing escape the fate in the Ernie ball stage aka a 1 foot riser in the middle of the asphalt parking lot.
I hated the fact that water was 6$ but a monster was free. Then the emergency crews on site always asked “man why are these kids having such a hard time hydrating in this Arizona summer heat?”
Where the hell were these free water refills lol? Is that assuming you buy a bottle there?
I met Sublime in 95, 311 in 96, and Em in 99, and that was the last GOOD year
funny because i have always said that when you see a band at warped it wasnt the same as seeing that band at a typical show because warped was a sampler show because each band only played for 30 mins enough time for maybe 5 or 6 songs
When I worked for Roadrunner Records. They sent to a Warped Tour to promote Madina Lake. It was my first one and while I had a lot of fun…yeah there was way too many stages and not all the bands stayed on for the whole tour.
Yeah some bands were only on a few dates
Glad you had fun tho dawg
@@VIIZZZYY my stint with Roadrunner was some of the best days of my youth. I got free concert tickets, promoted bands I loved, got to meet them, and was still rewarded for my efforts. I could not have asked for a better young adult life.
My sister took me to warped tour in 2017 in lumen feild in Seattle. My 1st show too I got to go to. I was 16 that time and my lord was it amazing! Saw bands like memphis may fire, sworn in, I prevail and much more. Glad I went to warped when I did I'll never forget that day.
i still have all of my warped tickets and paper set times 😭 seriously some of the highlights of my teen years
I attended the Atlantic City festival and I can confirm the vibes were incredible. I went to 9 years of warped tour and the Atlantic City festival was the best one by far. It was absolutely incredible and to this day is my favorite concert experience I have ever been to.
Went to the 01 warp tour in the Woodlands. Man it was fun. Lost my friends for the entire day and was lost but had the greatest time ever.
I went in 2004, 2005, and 2006 then never went again for some reason. Some of the best times of my early life.
Man the best thing about warped tour was getting there early to map out who and when to see! Plus the early shows were always the craziest! This thing was in the middle of the summer so the later you were out the crispier you got!!
It turned into Emofest by the end.
I met Kevin in 2015 at a music conference great guy and very smart. It was sad to see it end. I went to the Atlantic City 25th show and it was such a great atmosphere
I’m almost certain it will come back eventually
Warped had had a pro life tent? I gotta respect that honestly
I quit going to the warped tour after the third one (all the way back in 97). Before the fest got so big individual bands would go on their own tours and it wouldn't have the budget for a travelling support act. That led to the travelling bands have from about two to four locals open for them in each town. The clubs would be packed so the local scene would benefit hugely.....the local bands and the clubs themselves. The shows would be ten bucks or less and would be packed.... you'd have about twenty nights or more a year like that. No corporate sponsor and a real community vibe. The Warped Tour comes along and gets it all over with in one day and advertises shoes and other crap to you all day. It really felt like a trip to the mall on boxing day.
Camden Warped Tour veteran here from the early 2000s. Also saw one in Asbury Park (2003?). Had a blast up there.
I went to Ozzfest in 03 and 04. I was always told how much fun, and cheaper, Warped Tour was so I went to it in 05, 06, and 07. Some of my best summer memories during my college years.
Hope you took loads of photos and videos, warped tour memories are so precious
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Great work
Thanks dude! Means a lot !
At Warped 2019, Kevin mentioned that 2005 was the only year Warped Tour turned a profit on Ticket Sales.
Edit: I was at the Ohio date in 2019 at the hall of fame. I had a hell of a time checking out the HOF and the Warped Tour segment. It definitely didn't have the same feel as the previous shows, but felt very bittersweet.
I went from 2012 - 2018 and stayed open to close warped was my escape..I miss it.
I worked/played this festival for 5 years straight. 2005-2010 was a crazy couple of years
18:12 Someone from a completely different scene chiming in (i'm heavily involved with a lot of grindcore/crust sorta shit for multiple decades now). OK the big BIG fucking issue people have with Kevin has mainly been his attitude, which was displayed fairly well in that Kerrang interview. He's been like this for 30+ years. Nobody owes you a fucking thing homie, just because you asked them to come play your fucking dumb fest doesn't mean they have to say yes.
I grew up in a really religious house so I never got to attend but would live vicariously through Deefizzy and that whole gen of TH-camrs. I remember when they all went on tour I was even more devastated i couldn’t go. Now that I’m 23 I hope it comes back at least in some shape and they bring back a lot of old bands for people like me who didn’t get to enjoy it the first round :(
I went to warped tour from 2008 - 2018 and I still have thing bag I’d get bands to sign every year and it’s such a great momento from all the years I went I would totally love to see warped tour back to show my kids as I was 30 weeks pregnant when the last warped tour date I went to so I call her my warped tour baby because she loves music soooo much and show her what a great time she could have
I went to warped from 99-04. I definitely felt like I aged out went the next generation came in.
Even Eminem started on warp tour
Kevin says stage was a stage for bands that asked Kevin to be on the tour and he didn't like saying no.
Warped tour is like the comic convention of music festivals, I really wish I could've gone when I was younger
Just letting you know. Those monsters from the monster truck were mostly just canned water. Not sure if u never went to warped or played it but they would throw out / give out canned water with the monster logo on it.
all the water were in monster cans for promo, but if you went inside the truck to hang out it was actual energy drinks
The bands drank water in cans on stage for promo. False advertising
Warped was my very first concert experience in 2006 when I was 16. I discovered one of my favorite bands, Rise Against there. It was such a great time. When We Were Young felt like the best Warped Lineup of all time for me. Loved it so much, but wish it was a touring fest.
I really wish I was old enough to go to Warped Tour then, I just know it was so fun. You can’t deny what Kevin Lynman did was insane, a festival around the country is nuts. I really hope and have a feeling it will come back in some form.
11:18 it wasn’t monster. The cans said “Tour Water.” Other than that, the cans were identical to a regular monster can. It was water.
No it was monster. They were literal monster cans. Were you even there? I witnessed a girl die in Toronto from cardiac arrest from them. Then they had a limit of 1 per person the following year. It was literally monster, not water.
You obviously never went.
Tell us you didn't go without telling us you didn't go
Handguns also followed around Warped tour along with Forever Came Calling. I bought both bands CDs in line, and I don’t even know how many times I ending up going to Handguns shows afterwards
If Warped Tour comes back all the bands should be forced to ID the fans they sleep with for obvious reasons
The good old days. Get to see all these bands for like $25. Getting sun burn and drunk at 11 am. Running from stage to stage to make sure you dont miss the band you wanna see. Then picking the band you wanna see the most because they are playing at the same times. Ah i feel old now
American festival organisers will go above and beyond not having to organise a 3-day event with camping
I was fortunate enough to perform various dates on the tour in 2001 and 2002. This is a great video that's very accurate. I really enjoyed that Roadies show as well. Great job!
My first Warped was 98 in Tahoe, then pretty much every year from 03-11 at Sac Valley. I saw so many amazing bands, some that i knew some that where new and i fell in love with. I miss it, it was always something to look forward to, but i have Aftershock now right down the street from me, shit just costs too much!
Jeremy for Touché Amore said he didn’t want to play because he didn’t want to be playing with misogynistic bands like Asking Alexandria and Falling in Reverse every night and exposing Touche's fanbase to that.
Dang I wish I saw that!
Oh god the irony.
@@arthurcharlie2873 How is that ironic? As far as I know, Touche aren’t misogynistic.
A lot of the modern bands are very self righteous.
I love touché amore but that was a bullshit comment especially in the era of the internet.
For all the reasons that he stated in this video I honestly ponder sometimes if the world would be better if social media just didn't exist. I am only 24 years old so I hardly lived without social media, but I bet a lot of people in the comment session can attest that before social media everything was just more peaceful and more people got along. You couldn't just judge someone for what they said online or you couldn't just say that you didn't like someone because of something. People nowadays just judge people based off of their opinion without actually meeting that person and it's sad because you could actually be missing out on a friendship or someone that's actually a good person, but because their views are different than yours you won't give them the time of day.
Warped 2010, I got to meet Suicide Silence. Missed Parkway Drive cause they played first, missed Enter Shikari to meet Suicide. Emmure played & a whole human was thrown on my head. Nothing has ever compared since. Mitch really made that scene awesome. RIP
Fuck dude, missing parkway drive would have pissed me off hahaha
@@VIIZZZYY getting Mitch to sign my CD made everything else not matter. But the MF that stole it later, THAT pisses me off.
Y'all gotta remember too that in this musical financial climate, having these mega tours like Warped and Ozzfest is damn near impossible now.
To add on to your comment, There’s def a lack of love in the industry, why would someone try to redo something like warped when they can make the same amount of money in a few one off festivals
Forever wishing the guys that coordinate Sad Summer Fest, Sick New World, When We Were Young, and the other bigger festivals would revive Warped Tour or something similar
I remember going to Warped Tour first then just a couple of days later going to Mayhem Festival then finishing off the summer going to Uproar Festival i wish they would bring touring festivals like that back again big highlight in my concert going life and all at the same place in Dallas TX
had some really fun times at attila sets at warped. warped 25 in AC was a great day
a huge contributing factor to warped tours down fall is Kevin Lyman’s skewed morality, giving second chances to child predators and then having the nerve to compare selling drugs to child predation is actually insane 😭
As a warped alumni for 2 summers I really appreciate this video. We struggled with the same inner conflicts about where the tour was heading and if we “belonged” or agreed with some of the things going on with the tour.
Overall looking back as a fan who attended from 2002-2005 and then playing 2010/2012 I have a pretty positive, memory filled experience on both sides of the barricade.
And I totally remember warped roadies and no room for
Rock stars. I think my
Mom thought it was cooler to make a cameo on those shows/movies then be on the tour 😂
VWT99 was amazing, Green Day, Gob, Less than Jake, Millencolin, Long Beach Dub Allstars, one of the best times of my life
Tbh, I never went to warped tour but I definitely regret not going
If I can go back in time for one day to experience it, I would take you with me 😭
Same for me.
I went 03 saw thrice, poison the well and glass jaw. Got to chill with the vocalist from poison the well for a few mins.
I will never understand why my 2014 warped tour shirt claims to be the 20th anniversary when it was the 19th
i went to 2015 & 2017 and wish it was still going!
2017 was the only one I got to see. It was so fun. Met Creeper and Ash Costello.
If it was a one day festival then how do the line ups change from day to day like you mentioned? Like a band could play early in the day. Then the next day, the same band could possibly close the night out? Or did I miss hear that?
I never understood hating the lineup of a festival but going ahead to spend your money and go to the festival. If you don’t like the lineup…save your money and just don’t go.
The earnie ball stage was the best
So many bangers played that stage
I was at Warped Tour when it was at Action Park
That’s so sick
I did Warped 2008, 2009 & 2010. Great content but the last slot of the day is normally the worst for the smaller bands because everyone bails. Warped tour was great but it felt like it was bringing less people every year and some of those drives in a van are accidents waiting to happen, so bands normally have a bus, so then you have to have parking for like 50-60 buses, plus trucks/trailers for the stages.
The Cleveland 25th Anniversary show was an unfortunate let down. The weather here was cruddy - scattered storms, humid, gray and windy. The stage was incredibly small and offset from the Rock n Roll HOF entrance. I was living in downtown Cleveland at the time and walked over to the show. During the headliners, there were maybe 500 in attendance in front of the stage.
As an opening attraction to the exhibit, I can understand how the show could be called successful. The fall, I believe, is that the show was promoted as a third location rather than a promotion.
Definitely met this dude at holmdel warped tour
Running around trying to catch the band I like was fun to me lol. Only thing that sucked is having to pick between 2 bands you like because they are playing at the same time but either way I miss warped tour so much
Yeah it def was fun, the excitement of catching your band JUST IN TIME was awesome
Mohawks & Mullets haircuts was a vensor one year i went.
they gave out a bunch of canned water that looked like monster
I didn't know it poofed. I have unreleased video footage of many backstage interviews from warp tour 1999 by the top acts of that day