Warped Tour is about Timmy Grins and the Cool Suppliers, who literally sold tens of thousands of vegan ice pops on tour in the blazing heat to get a chance for his employees like MC Bravado and Justine Markman to perform on the Transform stage alongside Bless Brando from the LIE Crew, who was building stages on set up crew, selling schedules, and performing and curating a fully operating stage. Tales From the Tents: An Insider's View Into the Final Warped Tour Since he started this year, he got sober with MusiCares and has set up regional stages and booked multiple acts through America on the Full Sail University stage. It is about him having the opportunity to not only play, but learn a new way of life.
Warped Tour is about the lead singer of Kaiser Solzie, who has been homeless off and on for 15 years. After writing a few of these, I finally figured it out. While writing Tales from the Tents, I wanted to come up with things that might be perfect for people to grasp what Warped Tour is really about. One trick I learned is that I am not important at all. I am one of the exceptions like Riff Raff and Twiztid, or MC Lars, Prof and even Eminem back in the early days. Us rappers are part of the circus, so I always looked at Warped Tour as yet another amazing arena where I could perform my tricks that I have learned and earned along the way. I am just another interesting rapper existing in the world of it all, so I don’t really grasp every moment as a true fan of the scene.
On the Scene at the Final Warped Tour Show: Simple Plan, New Found Glory and More Look Backįor some people, the entire world of teen angst and pop punk is ending as we know it. I recall doing punk rock Shabbat, where I managed to do Shabbat dinners with 30 kids in the city of Dallas in the midst of a rainstorm. So what tales from the tents do I recall the most? For me, I recall moments like leaving my laundry at the Jacksonville production office, performing my unknown hit song “Sauce Daddy” with 3OH!3 for a few thousand people in Tampa, or counting the amount of people that thought my Hebrew Warped Tour merch was Japanese. Some of us, like myself, did wrestling tournaments with my parents. Some of us went to the Shore with our family. Then I saw him taking the final pics with his daughters, his wife and the tour manager Lisa Brownlee, knowing that it was the last picture moment backstage.
I saw Kevin Lyman the other day in that 20 day run on his bike watching a sunset, realizing that this will be the last sunset he ever watches from that specific parking lot. "It's still a lot of good music for a good price.Now that the tour is over, everyone online is more self reflective than usual. "The tour has grown, there are a lot more tents and a lot fewer hard-core bands," he said. O'Connor, who drove two hours from Melborne to the Jacksonville stop, attended the first Warped Tour in Fort Lauderdale. Though bands like Taking Back Sunday drew 23-year-old Jon O'Connor to this year's tour, he said the tour has changed since 1995. But the heat didn't detract from the crowds, which continued to pack the stages into the night. Many attendees sought moments of refuge from the sun under the tents as vendors kept busy selling bottled water. Parents were not the only crowd members looking to escape the heat.
She said that while she kept up with the girls for most of the day, the heat drove her to the tour's Reverse Daycare, a tent offering parents a cool place to take a seat and watch a movie while blocking out the tour's loud music with headphones. White came to the tour with her daughter Katie and friend Brooke.
"We've been working so hard on the tour and that hard work is really starting to pay off."Īlso on the tour were Jacksonville locals Yellowcard, which made its first Jacksonville main-stage appearance, and members of Gainesville's Hot Water Music which made a surprise appearance joining The Bouncing Souls to perform "Trusty Chords."Īside from nine hours of music, the tour brought along several pro skateboarders including Anthony Furlong and Neal Hendrix, who performed tricks on the vertical ramp next to the main stages.įirst time tour-goer Kathy White said the tour was a lot of fun. "It was really, really cool to come to Florida and see everyone come support us on stage," said band member Matthew Good. The group garnered several hundred tour-goers moshing and hard-core dancing as they screamed along with new lead singer Sonny Moore. The tour also brought home a few local bands, including former Gainesville residents, in From First To Last.