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Warped Tour 1998

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Warped Tour 1998 was the 4th edition of the Vans Warped Tour . The 34-date North American tour began on in Phoenix , Arizona , and ended August 9, 1998 in Austin , Texas . Four concerts were held in Canada, with the rest in United States locations. After the North American tour ended, Warped Tour traveled overseas for the first time, with a modified lineup appearing in Europe, Australia and Japan. [1] The previous edition had a European leg.

The tour featured four stages – two main and two side – and included a "World Warped Stage" sponsored by ASCAP / Ernie Ball that showcased local bands. [2] [3] [4] The band lineups and running orders on the stages differed between dates. The tour headliners included Bad Religion , Cherry Poppin' Daddies , Deftones , NOFX , Rancid , Reverend Horton Heat , and The Specials . [5] [6] [7] A 2011 Warped Tour retrospective article in the Dallas Observer deemed the 1998 lineup one of the four best ever Warped Tour lineups in its 17-year history up to that point. [8] Other attractions featured on the tour included skateboarding demonstrations by pros such as Steve Caballero , Neal Hendrix , Andy Macdonald , Mike Frazier, and Jen O'Brien. [7] [9] A tour documentary, Punk Rock Summer Camp , was released on VHS in 1999 and on DVD in 2003. [10] [11]

The July 18 concert in Somerset , Wisconsin at Float Rite Park was merged with the heavy metal festival Ozzfest for the first and only time, resulting in a 12-hour, six-stage, 48-band event called "Ozz Gets Warped" [7] with attendance first reported as 60,000 [12] and later as 39,000. [13] [14]

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Warped Tour is one of the biggest names in the concert canon. Those who haven't gone want to and those who have gone wait for the day they can go again. For a majority of its run, it was the largest traveling music festival in the United States. A number of past Warped Tour lineups have been impressive, but which year was the best? Help decide below! 

Starting as an eclectic alternative rock festival in 1995 and gradually morphing into a punk rock festival by the next year, the tour gained momentum when Vans, the wildly popular shoe manufacturer, was signed on as the tour's main sponsor in 1996. As Warped Tour became increasingly popular with each passing year, more sponsors signed on, slowly growing the tour's scope of influence. Sadly, 2018 proved to be the final year of the famous tour as announced by Warped Tour's founder, Kevin Lyman. 

You'll find every Warped Tour lineup here! Vote below on the best Warped Tour lineups, keeping in mind factors like the bands performing, production value, and overall spectacle. If you're an avid concert-goer, you can also check out this list of the best Coachella lineups ! (Disclaimer - some years certain dates had slightly different lineups). 

Warped Tour 2005

Notable Peformers: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Billy Idol, The All-American Rejects, Bowling for Soup, Dropkick Murphys, Hawthorne Heights

Dates: June 18 to August 14

Warped Tour 2004

Notable Performers: NOFX, My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Anti-Flag, Bowling for Soup 

Dates:  June 25 to August 19

Warped Tour 1998

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Godsmack, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Blink-182, Beck (some dates), Unwritten Law, Reverend Horton Heat, Incubus 

Date:  July 4 to August 9

Warped Tour 1997

Notable Performers:  Blink-182, Reel Big Fish, Descendants, Less Than Jake, Sugar Ray, Pennywise, Social Distortion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 

Dates:  July 2 to August 5

Warped Tour 2001

Notable Performers:  Pennywise, New Found Glory, Dropkick Murphys, The Vandals, Sum 41, Rancid, Less Than Jake, The All-American Rejects, Good Charlotte 

Dates:  June 29 to August 12

Warped Tour 2000

Notable Performers:  Weezer, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Anti-Flag, No Doubt, Papa Roach, The Muffs, Suicide Machines, NOFX, Good Riddance

Dates: June 23 to August 6

Warped Tour 1999

Notable Performers: Cypress Hill, Blink-182, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Black Eyed Peas, Suicidal Tendencies, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls

Dates:  June 25 to July 31

Warped Tour 1995

Notable Performers:  Sublime, No Doubt, Quicksand, Fluf, Deftones, No Use for a Name, Supernova, CIV, Deftones

Dates: August 4 to September 5

Warped Tour 2007

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Pennywise, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Killswitch Engage, Yellowcard, Ambelin, Flogging Molly, Hawthorne Heights

Dates:  June 28 to August 25

Warped Tour 2011

Notable Performers:  Paramore, Jack's Mannequin, Bowling for Soup, Relient K, MC Lars, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag, Simple Plan 

Dates:  June 24 to August 14

Warped Tour 2018

Notable Performers:  Korn, Prophets of Rage, Limp Bizkit, Reel Big Fish, Pennywise, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, We The Kings

Dates:  June 21 to August 5

Warped Tour 2002

Notable Performers: New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, Reel Big Fish, Yellowcard, Goldfinger, NOFX, Jimmy Eat World, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte

Dates:  June 21 to August 18

Warped Tour 1996

Notable Performers:  Fishbone, Pennywise, CIV, Rocket From The Crypt, Dance Hall Crashers, Down By Law, The Figgs, Guttermouth, Blink-182, Fluf, Red 5, Sensefield, Far 

Date:  July 4 to August 8

Warped Tour 2006

Notable Performers: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,   Less Than Jake, The Academy Is..., Anti-Flag, Billy Talent, Motion City Soundtrack, Paramore, Rise Against, NOFX

Dates:  June 15 to August 13

Warped Tour 2008

Notable Performers:  Katy Perry, Amberlin, Jack's Mannequin, Angels and Airwaves, Reel Big Fish, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Broadway Calls, The Devil Wears Prada 

Dates:  June 20 to August 17

Warped Tour 2003

Notable Performers:  The Ataris, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, The Used, Pennywise, Less than Jake, Suicide Machines, Andrew W.K., Yellowcard, Glassjaw 

Dates: June 19 to August 10

Warped Tour 2016

Notable Performers:  Falling In Reverse, Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte, Sleeping With Sirens, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Ghost Town, Bad Seed Rising, We The Kings

Dates:  June 24 to August 13

Warped Tour 2013

Notable Performers: Chiodos, New Beat Fund, Gin Wigmore, MC Lars, Craig Owens, Dia Frampton, Charlotte Sometimes, Big Chocolate, Echosmith, Motion City Soundtrack, Reel Big Fish 

Dates:  July 15 to August 4

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Warped Tour 2010

Notable Performers:  Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, Andrew W.K., Penny Wise, Reel Big Fish, The All-American Rejects, Suicide Silence, We The Kings

Dates:  June 25 to August 15

Warped Tour 2012

Notable Performers:  Falling in Reverse, The Used, Yellowcard, Dead Sara, Rise Against, Yellowcard, MC Laws, Machine Gun Kelly, Anti-Flag

Date:  June 16 to August 5

Warped Tour 2009

Notable Performers:  Less Than Jake, Underoath, Bad Religion,  T.S.O.L., The Adolescents, Sing it Loud, TAT

Dates:  June 26 to August 23

Warped Tour 2014

Notable Performers:  Breathe Carolina, Falling in Reverse, Mayday Parade, Less Than Jake, We The Kings, Yellowcard, The Ghost Inside, The Mighty, Finch

Dates:  June 13 to August 3

Warped Tour 2017

Notable Performers:   Andy Black, Beartooth, Dance Gavin Dance, I Prevail, New Years Day, Falling In Reverse, Streetlight Manifesto, Neck Deep

Date: May 27 to November 1

Warped Tour 2015

Notable Performers:  As It Is, Bebe Rexha, New Years Day, Knuckle Puck, Metro Station, Candy Hearts, Motion City Soundtrack, Memphis May Fire 

Dates:  June 19 to October 18

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"There was really no barrier between the kids and the artists.

"There was no backstage. There was no VIP. There was no exclusivity.

"It was an event for the kids, by the kids. It was a glorious thing to behold."

AJ Maddah was a punk rock fan coming off an internship with Frontier Touring, the massive company founded by Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg in the late 1970s.

Having witnessed the explosion of punk rock and its crossover appeal in the US, he urged his bosses to take a punt on this fledgling event that had captured the hearts and minds of kids Stateside. 

“I'm fairly sure I was the first to go to Michael Chugg and say, 'Hey, you need to do this',” Maddah says.

“Because, previous to that, the mainstream promoters in Australia at the time had completely missed the new West Coast punk phenomenon. Offspring, Pennywise, NOFX and Rancid, most of those bands ended up being snared by indie promoters."

It was an uphill battle to convince them that this was a worthwhile thing to go after. I remember having conversations with one person at the time who said I was an idiot. That they could do a couple of RSL shows with Dragon and make more money.”

But the idea had legs and Frontier took the punt. In January 1998, Warped would hit Australia for the first time, dragging a motley crew of punk rock bands and extreme sportspeople around the country for nine haphazard shows in cities and towns of varying sizes.

“Chuggy approached me, AJ was working for him at that point, so [I thought] what the heck? I was always open to doing new things,” Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman says.

“It had never really been done. No one had camped around Australia and done a tour with international bands.”

Perhaps there was reason for that. The travelling Warped roadshow had worked so well in America for a couple of key logistical reasons. Firstly, each of the cities on the run were a mere couple of hours apart. Secondly, bands were able to use sleeper buses filled with bunk beds.

In Australia, the distances were a little longer. And those buses were illegal. When you're building an entire festival from the ground up every morning, these snags have real consequences.

“It was a bit of a shock to [the Americans] when they turned up and we were all sitting up in a rigid bus, driving seven or eight hours, getting off the bus and trying to build a venue,” Maddah says.

“We're literally talking about rolling up in the middle of the night, setting up skate ramps, stages, PAs, lighting etc. and opening the gates at 11 o'clock in the morning with a bunch of super enthusiastic kids going really, really hard.

“Then, packing up and rolling out at midnight or one o'clock in the morning to the next destination.”

“The Australian production guys thought we were all crazy,” Lyman recalls. “They were so used to dealing with other American bands and how they did things. We were all, 'Don't worry, we'll make it work! We'll share! We'll figure it out!'”

Besides, who needs a sleeper bus when you can just pitch a tent?

“I convinced everyone that they would sleep in tents and tour,” Lyman says. "And we did. The agents and managers didn't get it, [but] the bands were cool.”

“I just remember people not sleeping enough,” Frenzal Rhomb guitarist Lindsay McDougall , who was on that first Warped Tour,   says.

“There was just this filthy little sea of two-person tents. There was no shelter from the sun or the weather or the noise or people kicking your tent as they came past.”

McDougall has equally fond recollections of the catering at the shows.

“We wrote a song which we named 'Tapeworms and Grass in a Piss-Based Sauce', which was named after one of the salads that was prepared for the vegetarians,” he says.

“We were horribly unhygienic and dirty people at the time, but even for us the standards of the Warped Tour were a little bit low.”

“Frenzal Rhomb were the expert drinkers on that tour,” Lyman says.

In 1998, the line up was pretty big. In hindsight, 20 years on, it looks enormous. Pennywise and 311 sat atop the bill, with a bunch of scrappy youngsters called Blink-182  one of the promising up-and-coming acts often playing in the afternoon, as were local newcomers  The Living End .

“Blink-182 weren't what they are now back then,” Maddah says. “They were still in the ascendency. I think they were fourth on the bill.”

“Back in those days Blink-182 just wanted a bottle of Captain Morgan and some hair gel,” McDougall quips.

“Pennywise basically became synonymous with the Warped Tour in Australia,” Maddah says. “I think they did all but one Warped Tour here. I think the focus was mainly on them. The Living End hadn't quite broken yet to commercial success, but they were a great band for people in the know.”

The fact that the line up skewed a little obscure was part of its appeal to the young audience.

“The kids had more ownership of these bands because they weren't commercially massive,” Maddah says. “You kind of felt in the know if you knew these bands.”

Even though alternative music was booming at this point in time, the punk end of the spectrum was still flying somewhat under the radar.

“These weren't the type of bands who were being put on Big Day Out or anything like that at that point,” Lyman says.

“The kids who were really in the know were excited, but it wasn't a groundswell,” Maddah says. “The Offspring were doing well, but [punk] wasn't at a level where you were sure that a festival was gonna be a sure-fire hit.”

A travelling roadshow of punk rockers meant plenty of hijinks. After over 20 years and countless Warped Tours around the world, the stories from that first tour are pretty blurry.

“It was such a weird vibe back then,” McDougall says. “The amazing friendships that exist between Australian bands now didn't really exist. It was much more competitive, for some stupid reason.

“We were competing with Bodyjar and The Porkers and whoever else was on the line up. The Living End were streets ahead of everyone.

“I vaguely remember sleeping in a tent next to Pete Porker's tent and we heard snoring, so Jason and I started talking some nonsense about Pete Porker. I don't remember what we were saying, probably making jokes about ska, which as a punk band is a law that we have to do.

“The next morning he comes up to us and goes 'Oh man, did you hear that guy snoring last night? That was really loud!'. So we realised he was awake the whole time.

"There wasn't much camaraderie in the world of Australian loud music in the late-90s.”

The competitiveness took a different form in other parts of the camp.

“We were all just friends, sitting sround, taking all the money off the singer of 311 [Nick Hexum], who was such a bad poker player,” Lyman says.

“Fletcher [Dragge, Pennywise guitarist] renamed him Baby Ostrich Head. We saw some emus at a zoo one day and the baby ones looked like the singer of 311. So, he named him Baby Ostrich Head.”

Sometimes the rivalries were a little less friendly.

“A big fight broke out between our crew and the skaters at Manly Beach for some reason,” Lyman recalls.

“A pro-skater hit me over the head with her skateboard. I'll never forget that. I became friends with her later and we had a good laugh about that.”

And there was at least one minor disaster.

“We all learned how to play cricket. Chad [Sexton, drummer] from 311 had his wrist broken learning how to play cricket, so Josh Freese [drummer for The Vandals] literally learned the whole 311 set in an hour and finished the tour playing drums for them.

One of the key aspects of Warped was the location of the events themselves.

Sure, there were dates at Sydney's Manly Beach and the Melbourne Showgrounds, but Warped went to places no other festival would dare. Places like Coffs Harbour, Ulladulla and even Byron Bay hadn't ever hosted an event like this.

"To be perfectly honest, there was a good reason for that," Maddah laughs. "Some of those locations actually did end up pulling the tour down financially.”

But Lyman was adamant that Warped would not be like other festivals currently on the Australian circuit.

“We wanted to do places other people hadn't done,” he says. “This was the first skate-punk thing that had happened in Byron Bay. It was just a great adventure. We had a lot of fun.”

The regional shows meant a great deal to young punks living in regional areas. Ash Mustchin was a 13-year-old living in Canberra in 1998, and made the trip east to be a part of the Warped crowd in Ulladulla.

“There was such a buzz and excitement, mainly around the logistics of getting there, making shortlists of which bands you wanted to see and what you wanted them to sign,” he remembers.

“I remember it was really freakin' hot but, given the 90s fashion at the time, everyone insisted on keeping on their cargo pants or huge jeans. I also remember in hindsight the festival was pretty DIY and low key. The stage was tiny by today's standards, with no signage or anything like that. It felt just like a huge backyard.”

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Of course, the internet was a different beast in 1998. While it's now a powerful tool for disseminating information about events, two decades ago you were better off doing it face-to-face.

“I remember spending four or five days on the road, going around New South Wales meeting kids at skate parks and recruiting them to spread the word,” Maddah says. “Giving them flyers and posters and things like that.”

As far as the performances themselves go, some recall them better than others.

“We were very good at not caring about stuff at that time,” McDougall recalls. “We were very good at taking things for granted.

“For people who went to see it and saw all of those bands, I can only imagine how stoked they would have been. It was the Punk-O-Rama times, the Survival of the Fattest times, all together in one venue.

“The stages were great, the stages sounded awesome. And we got to play rad gigs. The Vandals and Pennywise were there - it was definitely fun hanging out with those bands.”

The young Canberran was far more engaged.

“Blink-182 were great, really scrappy and young,” Mustchin says.

“I remember really liking The Living End and thinking it was so unique for them to have that huge double bass.

“I was really into Frenzal Rhomb at the time – I think Meet the Family had just come out – and had a lot of fun in their set.

“I was only 13 years old so even just being in a mosh pit was a novelty at the time. I had no idea how to 'mosh' or do anything.”

The final ever Warped Tour in the US wrapped up just last month, bringing an end to Lyman's brainchild after 23 years. When asked if anything like Warped could happen again, there's a pretty strong consensus.

“I don't think our insurance companies would insure for something like that today that they did 20 years ago,” Maddah says.

“The insurance premiums would be ridiculous, with all the motocross and skaters.

"The amount of OH&S that would go into an event like that now – and the amount of barriers you'd have to have to keep any idiot from potentially walking onto a skate ramp or a motocross ramp at the time it was happening – it would just make it prohibitive.

“It's really sad to lose that culture, where you could go out there and have some fun.”

McDougall expresses a similar view.

“I think the problems would come down to insurance,” he says. “I think everything costs so much more to do now. To have a touring festival, where every single venue has to lock down its public liability insurance and all of that kind of stuff, we live in a more litigious society now, and I don't know if people come out in those numbers anymore to make something like that viable.”

He also thinks that bands would be less inclined to roll with the slapdash nature of the festival's rough and ready production.

“At Warped Tour, you got up, you plugged into the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier that was still there from when 311 played, and you just played,” he says.

“It probably didn't sound very good, but it just didn't matter at the time. I think bands are probably a little bit more particular with all that stuff now.”

Lyman agrees that the appeal for Warped isn't as strong among musicians as it once was.

“I don't think people are as adventurous,” he says. “I think back then bands were open to new ideas and open to trying things. Touring was not the sole thing to do back then. Back then, you put out records and make money because you'd sell records.

“But now touring is a bit of a grind for most people. You're on the road all the time trying to make a living. So that sense of adventure has been taken out. 

“One of the reasons I'm not doing Warped Tour anymore is that it's not as much fun as it used to be. Maybe it's not as fun because I'm older, but it's not as fun. It was just a good time.”

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First, a moment of silence — or, perhaps more appropriately, a moment of loud, guitar-backed screams — for the Vans Warped Tour , which just concluded its final year as the traveling festival as we know it. After 24 years of spending summers bringing punk and pop and rock and ska and emo and screamo to cities around the country, founder Kevin Lyman decided it was time to call it quits due to a combination of reduced ticket sales and exhaustion. 

“I’ve done everything I can in the format that this is in,” Lyman says at the tour’s final stop in West Palm Beach, Fla.. “It wasn’t supposed to be around 24 years. It wasn’t supposed to be around more than one year. But enough people saw what I was trying to do.”

What Lyman was trying to do was give people like him a place to be themselves — and feel good about being themselves. “I know Warped Tour isn’t perfect, but the world’s not perfect,” he continues. “And I think that the kids that came here from a society where we always look for perfect weren’t perfect, but they realized they were all right.”

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Some of those kids are no longer kids; some brought their own children this year, introducing a new generation to the loud playground that is Warped Tour. While the festival used to be chiefly about discovering your new favorite band, it’s now more of a haven for nostalgia — an excuse to bust out studded belts and Avenged Sevenfold caps and, in the case of one young attendee, (hopefully) fake blood.

Billboard  was on the scene to capture it all. Read on to find out more about what it was like to be on the grounds for the final day, along with behind-the-scenes insights from Lyman and members of Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and Less Than Jake.

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10:51 a.m.: My first mission is to find the press trailer. I spot a boy with shaggy blond hair and an official-looking orange shirt guarding a metal fence and ask him to point me in the right direction; instead, he just lets me through the fence. I feel triumphant, momentarily forgetting that I’m sporting two press bands on my wrist. The triumph quickly dissipates as soon as I realize I still have no idea where I’m going. 

This is where my new pal Randy comes in: As I’m wandering around the sea of buses, I see a man wearing a Warped Tour badge and ask him where to go. Turns out Randy is a bus driver for Nekrogoblikon — a band that “gives 110 percent,” he says earnestly — and has been driving different musicians for 12 years on Warped. Right before he lets me into the press trailer, he shouts out at someone, “I don’t know when I’m going to see you again, but I love you!” This is like high school graduation but with ratty Old Skools and cargo shorts instead of shiny caps and gowns.

12:18 p.m.: About halfway through the Mayday Parade set, frontman Derek Sanders muses about how cool it would have been if Blink-182 returned to their Warped Tour roots for the final go-around. “I fucking knew it!” a man exclaims, seemingly expecting Mark Hoppus to prance onto the stage. This man did not fucking know it, though, because Sanders was just teasing. They launch into a cover of “The Rock Show” and let the audience sing the line “couldn’t wait for the summer at the Warped Tour.” 

12:22 p.m.: Everyone is vaping. Everyone is sweating. If Warped Tour had an official candle, it would be called Man Smoking a Cherry-Flavored Cigarillo in a Sauna.

12:32 p.m.: Real Friends come on and suddenly, giddy audience members start scaling over the seating in the amphitheater to get closer to the stage. A girl accidentally kicks me with her checkered Van, which feels poetic.

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1 p.m.: Simple Plan are now Warped Tour veterans, coming in second behind Less Than Jake in the record of who’s played the most shows. But there was a time when it seemed impossible that they’d return: Drummer Chuck Comeau remembers receiving an, uh, interesting welcome the first time they played in 2003. “They started throwing everything they could find at us, whether it was grass or bottles, and at the end it was literally rocks,” he recalls to Billboard , explaining that the Warped crowd wasn’t too pleased with Simple Plan’s pop-leaning sound. “We were like, ‘We don’t give a shit. We’re just going to keep playing.’” 

Luckily, they aren’t fielding projectiles anymore. Instead, they’ve found fans where they’ve least expected them. “These super heavy bands will be like, ‘It’s been so great watching you guys every day,’ and I’ll be like, ‘You were watching us every day? You? ’ And they’re like, “Yeah, man, I grew up with you guys, and I know we do heavier stuff now but, man, you’re my childhood.’” Now they’re someone else’s childhood: Comeau breaks out his phone to show me photos of his three-year-old son, London, wearing blue over-ear headphones and jamming out behind his dad onstage. 

1:35 p.m.: Time to meet Kevin Lyman, who has the rare skill of making everyone feel like he’s there to talk to them, just them, even though he’s probably the busiest guy on the lot. Someone suggests we do the first part of our interview in the air-conditioned bus, but he waves off that idea. It’s in the 80s with sun attacking anyone who dares walk outside; to him, this is a beautiful day — sunburns and all. “You can never let your guard down on a tour until the trucks are closed,” he says. “And today we’ve already had our catering truck catch on fire on the way down here. And then one of our staff thought they had a heart attack. I just heard my head of merchandising tripped on some cords in a tent, might have broke his ankle.” 

There was some drama the night before, too. “We should have our parties in a parking lot, but we went off-site at a wings place, and the locals and that energy don’t mix,” he explains. He doesn’t go into more detail but clarifies that there was “almost a little trouble” before they dealt with it, narrowly avoiding a showdown. “Warped’s a tornado, and once you jump into it, you gotta be careful,” Lyman says with a laugh. “But you jump on and try to hold on until you get kicked out the other side.”

1:44 p.m.: Everybody loves Kevin, and Kevin loves everybody. We’re walking to a tent for a signing, and multiple people stop him on the quick journey to thank him for everything he’s done. He stops for each fan, listening to their stories and smiling and posing for selfies. Much of the day so far has seemed fairly business-as-usual — beyond bands shouting, “It’s the last Warped Tour ever!” throughout their sets, there’s not much indication that this is the end of a 24-year-long journey. But seeing Lyman interact with these musicians and crew members and fans feels special, and each new “thank you” is a reminder that Warped Tour has been so much for so many people. 

1:52 p.m.: A fan asks Lyman to sign her yearbook of sorts. He takes his time writing a sweet message: “It may end, but we will all see each other down the road!” he signs it. 

2:09 p.m.: After posing for a photo with a large group of fans, Lyman begins meeting people one by one. One boy asks Lyman to sign his white graduation cap, which he got — along with tickets to the final four Warped shows — after finishing high school this past May. Others ask him for photos, including a little girl with “THANK YOU KEVIN” written in messy black ink on her arm. 

2:55 p.m.: Less Than Jake have played more Warped shows than anyone else — tonight marks their 440th — so saxophonist Peter “JR” Wasilewski is definitely the person to ask about what changes the tour has gone through over the years. “The bones and the heart of this tour are completely the same as they’ve always been, but the body type is completely different,” he says. “Everybody treats everybody the same. If you have a laminate on, it doesn’t matter if you’re in a vendor booth, if you’re playing on the Owl.ly stage or the main stage — you’re supposed to help out everybody and treat everybody the same. And so I guess some of that stuff is still happening. That’s a good thing, but maybe not as much as it used to be. But maybe that’s more societal? That’s a different generation of people now.”

3:30 p.m.: New Found Glory weren’t planning on coming to Warped Tour this year — until the Florida-bred band heard the last few stops were in their home state. That’s when they decided to dive back in. “There was a point where people were like, ‘I don’t need to go this year, I can just stream it online,’” frontman Jordan Pundik says. “But now it’s this resurgence, especially with the bands from the early 2000s and stuff. It’s cool to see it grow, and it’s just been cool to be a part of it for so many years.”

4:40 p.m.: This past May, New Found Glory headlined a benefit for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School , the site of a mass shooting in February that left 17 dead, and today, they reveal they raised $116,000. This is especially meaningful for the band, who founded New Found Glory at that very high school.

4:51 p.m.: Yellowcard’s Ryan Key is playing second guitar for New Found Glory after previously playing some solo acoustic sets earlier on the tour. “Play ‘Ocean Avenue’!” someone shouts — the “Play ‘Freebird’!” of Warped Tour. It doesn’t work.

6:47 p.m.: We the Kings frontman Travis Clark wants to teach everyone a dance move that involves squatting and then jumping up and down while waving your arms violently. He instructs anyone who spots someone not obeying the rules to force said rebel to do it. “That’s obnoxious,” I think to myself, waiting for half the crowd to ignore his demands. I quickly learn these people defer to their Kings when everyone in the front sections shrinks before popping up like possessed Whac-a-Moles.

7:30 p.m.: Less Than Jake are the second-to-last act of the night, but they put on a big enough party that their set feels like an appropriate conclusion. At multiple points, they bust out toilet paper streamers (fun, but probably deeply upsetting for anyone who encountered a TP-free Porta Potty at any point in the day). They invite a few crowd members on stage, including a guy with long, curly red hair that lead vocalist Chris DeMakes says “dances like John Travolta” and two men dressed as Mario and Luigi. The horn section of Reel Big Fish, who played earlier in the day, also join them on stage, and they lead the audience in a “Kevin” chant for a full minute until the man of honor comes out for a hug.

8:29 p.m.: At the very end of the last set of the night, Lyman comes up to the mic to share that he always said Pennywise would be the last band to sing the last song on the last tour stop. That song? “Bro Hymn,” a 1991 track they dedicate to “our fucking Warped Tour family.” From there, they — along with dozens of guests crowding around them onstage — lead the audience in the final, celebratory sing-along. There’s moshing and crowd-surfing and jumping and screaming at the front; in the back sections, people sit in their seats, looking tired and chatting and fiddling with their phones. Even with the packed stage and energetic pit, the ceremony as a whole feels fairly understated, a strange thing to notice at a festival known for unbridled enthusiasm. No tornado can go on forever, though. It’s time to come out the other side of this one.

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Warped Tour 1997 is the 3rd edition of the Vans Warped Tour . The 26 date tour began on July 2, 1997 in San Diego California and ended August 5, 1997 in Atlanta , Georgia . The tour featured one main stage, a side stage, and a "Locals Only" stage sponsored by ASCAP / Ernie Ball on each date. The tour headliners included: Blink-182 , Descendents , The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Pennywise , Reel Big Fish , Royal Crown Revue , Sick of it All , and Social Distortion .

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Warped Tour has been a summer festival institution for what seems like forever now, boosting the careers of countless famous musical acts in the scorching summer heat. Poison The Well, Thrice, Avenged Sevenfold, and dozens more cut their teeth here. The 2015 lineup is looking solid as well, though for this reader, the summer of 2004 will always hold the best memories. However, there’s an alarming number of people who are convinced Warped tour has only ever had “punk” bands like Bad Religion and Pennywise play. They would be wrong. There’s a surprising number of Warped Tour alumni who now headline amphitheaters and arenas, or who are/were extremely influential on a number of today’s bands. Check out the list below, along with some pics/video where applicable. You can even check out betwinner to get in on the action.

Honorable Mention: Eighteen Visions

The highly influential Orange County metalcore band never got their deserved success (2006’s major label debut, the self-titled Eighteen Visions , wasn’t promoted well at all) played on the 2004 and 2006 editions of Warped Tour. They influenced a generation of newer bands like Escape The Fate and Asking Alexandria with their “fashioncore” style, and with their brand of metalcore that combined pummeling breakdowns (“You Broke Like Glass”, “Tower Of Snakes”) with hook-filled choruses is still popular today. A comeback looks unlikely with the 2013 death of guitarist Mick Morris, unfortunately. See you on the other side.

Yes, the influential rapper and frontman of Body Count played Warped Tour in 1999, along with some other famous luminaries (which we’ll get to later). Warped was one of the first summer festivals to group punk-rock acts with rap/hip-hop stars.

#9: Deftones

One of the most influential bands today, Deftones proved that you could gain a fanbase just from a long slate of touring and releasing volatile, transcendent albums during the height of the nu-metal era (that they were unfortunately lumped in with). They played Warped 1995, 1996 and 1998, too. Their music at this time proved to be a hit with concertgoers, because it contained a lot of the spirit of punk in its rage. Today, they’re still going incredibly strong – 2012’s Koi No Yokan is their most recent in a long line of great albums.

#8: Katy Perry

Platinum selling albums and on the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime show? You bet. Katy Perry hit up Warped Tour back in 2008, though, right before she became one of the world’s biggest musical icons.

#7: Limp Bizkit

Jacksonville’s finest may not be as great as they once were, but there was a time where they were kings of the nu-metal world. 1997 was a huge year for them, touring on their debut album 3 Dollar Bill, Ya’ll , and on Warped 1997, they captured a large portion of their sizable audience. This covers Limp Bizkit at not quite the height of their power, which is something to behold.

#6: Snapcase

Super influential post-hardcore band was one of Victory Records first big signings, and they were a big part of Warped 1997. Their album Progression Through Unlearning continues to be a stone cold 90’s hardcore classic.

Couldn’t find any footage of Staind at Warped Tour, but right before they went into the studio to record their 1999 album Dysfunction , Staind played the 1998 Warped Tour. They’re pretty far removed from the kind of sound that got them here, but it’s interesting to see them as alumni, nonetheless.

#4: Incubus

Right before hitting it big with 1999’s Make Yourself , Incubus was captivating audiences with their explosive, genre-bending music on Warped 1998. One has to wonder if they played “A Certain Shade Of Green”? Here’s hoping.

#3: No Doubt

Warped 1995 and 2000, No Doubt played Warped Tour. 1995 saw No Doubt bringing the third-wave ska movement to the mainstream, and by 2000, they were one of the biggest bands in the US. By 2000, they had released the follow up to 1995’s Tragic Kingdom , in Return Of Saturn . They had also been nominated for Grammy awards, and managed to have Tragic Kingdom eventually certified Diamond.

#2: Kid Rock

He may not be anything like he was in 1998, but Kid Rock supported his multiplatinum selling album Devil Without A Cause by playing the 1998 version of Warped Tour. At the time, Kid Rock was a struggling musician three albums deep into his career – but none of those albums sold well or gained any critical success. Devil Without A Cause changed that.

One of the biggest artists in the world, and one of the highest selling rap/hip-hop artists ever, Eminem played Warped 1999, while promoting his recently released landmark LP, The Slim Shady LP .

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