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Warped Tour 1996 was the 2nd edition of the Vans Warped Tour , and the first Warped Tour to be sponsored by Vans. [1] The 24-date tour began on July 4, 1996 in Phoenix , Arizona and ended August 8, 1996 in Panama City , Florida .

The tour featured a main stage and a second stage, on which bands alternated so that as one band finished playing, the band on the other stage would begin. The band lineups and running orders on the two stages differed between dates. Some shows also featured a third stage with additional bands. All shows were held in outdoor venues with the exception of the show in Washington DC and Milwaukee, WI. The show was originally scheduled for Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD but due to issues with the venue, the show was moved at the last minute to the much smaller The Capitol Ballroom nightclub . It [2] The tour headliners included Fishbone , The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , NOFX , Pennywise , and Rocket from the Crypt . [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

This was the first Warped Tour for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, NOFX, Pennywise, and Blink-182 , all of which played on multiple future Warped Tours. According to tour founder Kevin Lyman , the addition of punk bands such as NOFX and Pennywise helped establish the tour as a "credible" punk festival, thus making it more successful than the first year's eclectic lineup. [1] A 2011 Warped Tour retrospective article in the Dallas Observer deemed the 1996 lineup one of the four best ever Warped Tour lineups in its 17-year history up to that point. [8]

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After almost a quarter of a century, and having showcased upwards of 1700 bands, Warped Tour as we know it will come to an end when summer 2018 does. For the most mainstream of Americans who never attended, the tour always looked like an outlier -- a noisy summertime day out for the same kids that shopped at Hot Topic, wore too much eyeliner, and learned HTML by editing their MySpace profiles. Truthfully though, Warped Tour's impact on mainstream pop culture was enormous.

Warped Tour started out scrappy. It was 1995, pop punk was just starting to explode out of the underground -- thanks to Green Day's major label debut, Dookie -- and founder Kevin Lyman , having spent three years working on the Lollapalooza tour, recognized a gap in the festival market. That first Warped was 25 dates -- a breeze for bands and crews who later got used to the jaunt going on for twice as long. No one could foresee back then just how big -- or long-running -- this juggernaut would become.

While Warped's biggest impact has been taking underground culture and smearing it across America in broad daylight every summer, what is so often forgotten is that this was also the venue used by the likes of Katy Perry and Eminem to launch their careers to wider audiences. It's where Sonny Moore started out (in a band named From First to Last ) before he metamorphosed into EDM megastar, Skrillex . It's where No Doubt spent their summer the year before they exploded on a global scale.

Dominic Davi , Oakland-based bassist of  Tsunami Bomb , has been attending Warped since 1995 and playing it since 2001. "It's so easy to forget now," he says, "but when it started, and for a long time into it, the bands Warped Tour was assembling did not get played on the radio. They were not featured on festival lineups. Kevin Lyman helped shine a light onto all these bands that were drawing various amounts on their own, but together could fill a festival. That took a lot of vision."

"In the end," Davi continues, "Warped launched all these careers and was directly responsible for the punk rock explosion that happened in the early 2000s. That's quite a feat."

Warped Tour, especially in its earliest years, acted this way, year upon year, launching artists out of obscurity and into the eyeline of the mainstream. Blink 182, a band that was long considered too crude and provocative for mainstream success, appeared on three out of the four Warpeds between 1996 and 1999. It's no coincidence that by 2000, they were one of the biggest bands in the country.

Not only did Warped change how punk rock was treated by mainstream music culture, it had an indelible impact on the lives of the thousands of people who lived and worked on the tour over the years, some of whom came back annually, without fail. Along the way, it also helped to further unify a nationwide community of punks, rebels, and renegades.

Dominic Davi compares spending a summer on the tour to "running away with the circus." Photographer Lisa Johnson , whose work documenting Warped Tour has been featured on the covers of several official compilations, as well as in the book, Misfit Summer Camp: 20 Years on the Road With Vans , elaborates: "Warped Tour is a place where seemingly anything is possible. Utopia. Hard work and happiness, plus some fun in the sun. There is just always something magic in the air."

The unique spirit of Warped is precisely why hundreds of people have stepped up, year after year, to work in unbearably high temperatures, notoriously dusty environs, facing parking lot after parking lot with few views of the outside world (unless you count the occasional midnight trip to Wal-Mart) for weeks on end.

It's difficult to fathom why anybody would want to spend an entire summer in those conditions -- until you actually do it. In 2006, I joined Warped Tour for five days to write a story for a British rock magazine. Somehow, five days turned into seven weeks. I skipped my flight home to sell merch for one of the bands I had met along the way, and had zero regrets about hitting 'pause' on the rest of my life to do so.

For thousands of us, Warped has always been that way -- once you get caught in its vortex, it's hard to extricate yourself from it. "It's this huge production," Davi says, "with so many moving parts. It's hard work. You are moving all day. I think you have to be a particular personality to love that life. I always did."

The video below that Lisa Johnson took at a backstage party in 2014, effectively sums up the hilarity, unified chaos, and good-natured anarchy of Warped Tour (and also why the nightly after-show barbecues have become the stuff of legend). Take into account that the people you see in this clip are the people working the tour -- crew members, band members, merch people, stage hands. Work days may be long and conditions may sometimes be hard, but on the best nights, this is what happens once the ticket-buying public leaves:

There's no doubting that in recent years Warped Tour has, to some degree at least, lost its niche, while also weathering some damaging storms. "In many ways," Davi notes, "I think when the bands on the tour became bands that the radio and MTV embraced, it became harder to preserve that core exclusivity and unique feeling that Warped Tour had. At first it made the tour bigger, but having to chase the trends and adapt to bands with more exposure, I think made it more difficult to make the tour a special experience. By trying to please everyone they had a harder time pleasing anyone."

The summer tour's time might be drawing to a close, but Warped promises to live on in other capacities: there will be some sort of 25th anniversary celebration, and the first Warped Rewind at Sea cruise just happened last month. More than that though, the tour leaves behind a legacy. It impacted a couple of generations of punk, emo and hardcore bands, as well as their fans. Warped brought a newfound acceptance of alternative culture to all corners of the country. It was a confidence builder for teens who felt alienated in their suburban high schools; it was a training camp for small bands, and a springboard for larger ones; and, for a long while there, it fundamentally changed the fabric of alternative music in America.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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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