Warped Tour. Is it sacred anymore?

[x Audi0 Blo0d]

Today was an eye opener for me.
I came across an issue of Cosmo Girl and was browsing through when I saw that this year's Van's Warped Tour was being advertised on the hot 100 list( i think it was number 28)
Now call me whatever you want but I find something seriously wrong with Warped Tour, a summer tour with mosh pits, stage dives, the works; being advertised on a list that also has Paris Hilton as one of the hottest celebrities. Is nothing sacred anymore?
P.S. I can name atleast 10 girls in my school who are attending Warped Tour this year who cannot even name five bands that will be there. I would have to say this is a problem.
-Kristin

[heyyhardxcore]

I know one whore that's going :]
Her name is in a song.

[AP_Punk]

It was never sacred.

[BGP]

who even goes to warped tour anymore?

[summer skin]

Warped tour is just a giant commercial anyways so I'm not really surprised? If your so against a magazine then don't read it.

[myantiyou]

Hahaha Cosmo Girl

[BGP]

how much does it even cost to go to warped tour?

[AP_Punk]

who even goes to warped tour anymore?

People who read Cosmo Girl magazine, silly.

[BGP]

People who read Cosmo Girl magazine, silly.
suprised i'm not going then.....LOL

[summer skin]

how much does it even cost to go to warped tour?
8 blow jobs

[AP_Punk]

8 blow jobs

Backstage pass costs 10 bj's and anal.

[cahrishurr]

lol sacred?

[summer skin]

Backstage pass costs 10 bj's and anal.
or ten minutes of staring at hawthorne height's drummers eyebrows without laughing...but I heard that's impossible.
http://www.smashmagazine.com/webissue11/hawthorne.jpg
on the right...

[heyyhardxcore]

Warped tour is just a giant commercial anyways so I'm not really surprised? If your so against a magazine then don't read it.
my ten year old sister showed it to her, thanks.

[FullCollapse299]

lol sacred?

It's just a tour...sheesh! lol

I love how everyone expects it to be the same every year though, like for it to never change just even a little bit.

[AP_Punk]

or ten minutes of staring at hawthorne height's drummers eyebrows without laughing...but I heard that's impossible.
http://www.smashmagazine.com/webissue11/hawthorne.jpg
on the right...

:lol:

No backstage pass for me, I guess.

[summer skin]

my ten year old sister showed it to her, thanks.
WOAH COOL IT GUYS, SHE HAS BACKUP!

[x Audi0 Blo0d]

i think its 35-45 bucks.

[x Audi0 Blo0d]

and the cosmo girl wasnt the friggen point. i just think its weird and obnoxious, am i really the only one?

[myantiyou]

That means...

I can get a blowjob nowadays for a little under 4 bucks?

:woot:

[Yes. And?]

ha..sacred.

[heyyhardxcore]

WOAH COOL IT GUYS, SHE HAS BACKUP!
damn right she doesssss.

[summer skin]

That means...

I can get a blowjob for a little under 4 bucks?

:woot:
The drummer of hawthorne heights is giving them away for free.

[AP_Punk]

:chill:

[summer skin]

damn right she doesssss.
AND SHE'S FOURTEEN! RUN

[myantiyou]

29.99 on ticketmaster, not including all those fees.

[heyyhardxcore]

AND SHE'S FOURTEEN! RUN
as fast as you can.

[myantiyou]

Hahaha

[Nimrod5]

who cares if people that don't necessarily know all or most of the bands go? they'll probably have a fun time anyway and discover new music they may like. the tour has always generated a wide variety of people.

[xidreamofyou32x]

how much does it even cost to go to warped tour?My ticket was $20, but I think they're up to 30 something now. Anyways, I agree that the Warped tour was never 'sacred,' although it is becoming more popular, and alot of people go just to act cool and don't even like any of the bands. But whatever.

[FullCollapse299]

Mine was like $37.50. Anyway isn't like one of the purposes of the tour to get bands to be heard by new listeners? Who cares if they advertise in Cosmo Girl. Just go to the tour and see the bands you want to see and have a good time. If you don't want to go then don't go. But when I'm there I'm going to be doing it up with these Cosmo Girl readers. ;-)

[yoyoninjagirl]

warped tour is way overrated. It's not the entrance fee that's bad, it's the $3.50 they charge for water.

[cooltobeyou]

Warped Tour is gay because The Lawrence Arms said so. That is all ;-)

[xxemo_kittyxx]

i wish we have warped tour here.

[Melissa Johnson]

The better question is : Why is a 10 year old reading Cosmo girl? Even though it's for "young adults" it still has stuff that no 10 year old needs to be familiarized with for at least another 4 - 5 years.

[cfear]

The BEST question is: What does Warped Tour have to do with anything, in the grand scheme of things?

[Shatter590]

you mean it used to be sacred?

[Anthony Lutz]

I know what you mean by sacred... The very first summer that I went, which was in 2002, I got to see New Found Glory, Bad Religion, and NOFX. I found out about Something Corporate, The Starting Line, and a few other bands from that tour alone. That tour is really what got me into the music I like now, but looking at the line up for this year, I don't feel as stoked. I think that I would much better fit at SXSW or Lollapalooza. I'm still going though, but it doesn't seem to have the same feel as it did. Then again, my musical taste has changed between now and five years ago.

[Danny Schme]

Damn, that is impossible.

veryyyy true.

[SanePsychotic]

I know what you mean by sacred... The very first summer that I went, which was in 2002, I got to see New Found Glory, Bad Religion, and NOFX. I found out about Something Corporate, The Starting Line, and a few other bands from that tour alone. That tour is really what got me into the music I like now, but looking at the line up for this year, I don't feel as stoked. I think that I would much better fit at SXSW or Lollapalooza. I'm still going though, but it doesn't seem to have the same feel as it did. Then again, my musical taste has changed between now and five years ago.

I wish Warped was like that for my first year. There are only a few bands that I'm interesting in seeing this year and it kind of pisses me off. I wish that there were more bands that I'm into on Warped, but most of them have either already done Warped Tour or wouldn't touch Warped with a 50 foot pole. But 2002 sounded fantastic.

[*crying stars*]

I find it funny that a 14 year old was the one to bitch about it.

It's not a big deal.

It was never sacred.

I came in here to say that. Thanks.

[Skadrist]

Of course it's sacred you won't see as many Christian Bands unless your at Cornerstone.

[TheOtherAndrew]

It only sucks this year because the lineup is terrible. Next year it has a perfectly good chance to redeem itself. Also it would be cool if there was none of this "band playing 6 dates and then getting off" crap.

[LexDisko]

I love how everyone expects it to be the same every year though, like for it to never change just even a little bit.

I agree. it's bound to change...I mean the music "scene" changes all the time, why wouldn't the tour? (including the people attending the tour).

[SickOfStars]

Didn't Warped Tour used to be at least tangentially related to "punk rock"???

[love_american_style]

Backstage pass costs 10 bj's and anal.

...and a zj.

[love_american_style]

Didn't Warped Tour used to be at least tangentially related to "punk rock"???

pshh...whatev..

my buddy went to the first Warped in '96 and saw the Deftones and Alanis Morrisette.

[LexDisko]

But 2002 sounded fantastic.

2002 WAS fantastic.

[love_american_style]

2002 WAS fantastic.

fuck yeah...2000 was pretty sweet as well.

[itsjustadrian]

1979 was pretty sweet too.

[Hainzey X]

It only sucks this year because the lineup is terrible. Next year it has a perfectly good chance to redeem itself. Also it would be cool if there was none of this "band playing 6 dates and then getting off" crap.


seriously, what the fuck is with that ? there cant be many bands playing the entire tour, what, maybe 10 ?

[love_american_style]

1979 was pretty sweet too.

1876 was better.

[xJangsterrx]

seriously, what the fuck is with that ? there cant be many bands playing the entire tour, what, maybe 10 ?

There's 29, and not all of them are even that good (imo). Half of them i haven't even heard of

[Hinge]

By the time it comes to my city most of the good bands are off already. I'm not going to go this year.

[chcougar1]

If you like pop punk at all this year is fantastic:)

[xJangsterrx]

I'm going just because i haven't gone since 04', and because i already got invited to go with some one i know

[TheOtherAndrew]

seriously, what the fuck is with that ? there cant be many bands playing the entire tour, what, maybe 10 ?
Yeah Alkaline Trio get off like the day before my date, it pisses me off.

[PDon11]

Today was an eye opener for me.

I came across an issue of Cosmo Girl and was browsing through when I saw that this year's Van's Warped Tour was being advertised on the hot 100 list( i think it was number 28)
Now call me whatever you want but I find something seriously wrong with Warped Tour, a summer tour with mosh pits, stage dives, the works; being advertised on a list that also has Paris Hilton as one of the hottest celebrities. Is nothing sacred anymore?
P.S. I can name atleast 10 girls in my school who are attending Warped Tour this year who cannot even name five bands that will be there. I would have to say this is a problem.

-Kristin



Is this some kind of poem?

[Genuma]

or ten minutes of staring at hawthorne height's drummers eyebrows without laughing...but I heard that's impossible.
http://www.smashmagazine.com/webissue11/hawthorne.jpg
on the right...
That's sadly not photoshopped! HAHAHA!

[Yes. And?]

or ten minutes of staring at hawthorne height's drummers eyebrows without laughing...but I heard that's impossible.
http://www.smashmagazine.com/webissue11/hawthorne.jpg
on the right...
kinda looks like ryan ross from p!atd.

[TheOtherAndrew]

kinda looks ghey
fixed

[The Revisionist]

Sacred??

VANS Warped Tour.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Sacred??

VANS Warped Tour.
/thread



Was it always sponsored by Vans though?

[The Revisionist]

Yes, thereby showing that it was never sacred in the first place.

[AP_Punk]

"Success - the ability to perform within a framework of obedience. Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands selling shoes for venture-capitalists, silencing competing messages, rounding off the jagged edges."

[StillPickedLast]

I'm let down with warped tour. I was hoping for some older group kind of like billy idol or even joan jett. the line up doesn't offer enough for me. the bands i do want to see (set your goals) fuckin plays on the west coast. plus warped is in late july early august this year. so its so much later then im used to.

PS the comp pissed me off when it had that one guy from aiden. wasn't impressed.

[CrazyRockGirl]

Today was an eye opener for me.
I came across an issue of Cosmo Girl and was browsing through when I saw that this year's Van's Warped Tour was being advertised on the hot 100 list( i think it was number 28)
Now call me whatever you want but I find something seriously wrong with Warped Tour, a summer tour with mosh pits, stage dives, the works; being advertised on a list that also has Paris Hilton as one of the hottest celebrities. Is nothing sacred anymore?
P.S. I can name atleast 10 girls in my school who are attending Warped Tour this year who cannot even name five bands that will be there. I would have to say this is a problem.
-Kristin

yea, I gave up gping to Warped Tour like 5 years ago or so. One of the main reasons I gave up going was that the bands were just getting worse and worse by the minute. I remember back in the day all of the good bands were there, not that there are any bad bands there now, but the good bands are alongside some pretty crappy bands. I also agree with you on that it is becoming more advertised, I liked it way better when it was more underground, and people didn't have a clue about it. I also know a lot of preppy girls who will be there, as well. I also wish that I could have gone to Woodstock in the 90's. :(

[PoliticalMike]

It was sacred back in the 1990's before they started to put tons of mainstream artists on the bill, jacked up the prices and incorporated every possible sponsor they could.

[CrazyRockGirl]

It was sacred back in the 1990's before they started to put tons of mainstream artists on the bill, jacked up the prices and incorporated every possible sponsor they could.

everything, well..at least most things were better and more sacred in the 90's, such as green day and blink-182, and even The Offspring's sound was better in the 90's

[PoliticalMike]

everything, well..at least most things were better and more sacred in the 90's, such as green day and blink-182, and even The Offspring's sound was better in the 90's


I say fuck Warped Tour really. IMO The Fest is what Warped Tour wishes it could be like artist wise.

[Rockybehri]

Warped Tour sucks because they picked up their eyeliner and tried to mimic the crappy taste of chaos tour.

[CountMeOut923]

yea, I gave up gping to Warped Tour like 5 years ago or so. One of the main reasons I gave up going was that the bands were just getting worse and worse by the minute. I remember back in the day all of the good bands were there, not that there are any bad bands there now, but the good bands are alongside some pretty crappy bands. I also agree with you on that it is becoming more advertised, I liked it way better when it was more underground, and people didn't have a clue about it. I also know a lot of preppy girls who will be there, as well. I also wish that I could have gone to Woodstock in the 90's. :(

you gave up when you were 13?

Warped Tour sucks because they picked up their eyeliner and tried to mimic the crappy taste of chaos tour.

they may have their generic eye liner bands playing, but there are always a slew of bands that dont look like that, that continue to play:

NOFX
Bad religion
less than jake
new found glory
pennywise
vandals
circle jerks
rise against
against me!

etc.

[x togepi x]

Warped Tour sucks because they picked up their eyeliner and tried to mimic the crappy taste of chaos tour.

you do realize that taste of chaos is ran by the same people right?

of course, what do you expect from kevin lyman (the guy who runs it)? He's such a dick for so many reasons. The least of which being his rants about how he doesn't care about punk music anymore, he just wants money.

[Nolessthanblink]

I still love Warped... not so much the artists, this year, just the atmosphere as a whole. amazing.

[xsxarexsoxscene]

i think the thing that sucks most about warped tour is the people that attend; i agree.

the first year i went everyone was really cool and there was a feeling of camaraderie that used to be present in the music scene.

last year, everyone was a drunk jerk who made the tiny girls hold up crowd surfers because they were too lazy to help or pick anyone up.

[CountMeOut923]

the people do make it sucky to go, but i try to ignore it as much as possible. i've been going to warped tour for a long time now and i'm not going to let some douchebags ruin it for me. i strap on my backpack, put on some sunscreen, get my free shit, and watch my favorites all day.

[.invisible ink.]

It was sacred back in the 1990's before they started to put tons of mainstream artists on the bill, jacked up the prices and incorporated every possible sponsor they could.


No it wasn't. It was still sponsored by Vans and it had the pop-punk bands that were popular back then playing, i.e. Pennywise and Nofx. The price wasn't that cheap either. There were some good more hardcore type bands like Sick of it All that played but seriously, it was *always* a corporate tour. Anyway, this thread is ridiculous - when the Warped Tour started most of you were in kindergarten or first grade. Geesh.

[Nimrod5]

No it wasn't. It was still sponsored by Vans and it had the pop-punk bands that were popular back then playing, i.e. Pennywise and Nofx. The price wasn't that cheap either. There were some good more hardcore type bands like Sick of it All that played but seriously, it was *always* a corporate tour. Anyway, this thread is ridiculous - when the Warped Tour started most of you were in kindergarten or first grade. Geesh.

what does having pop-punk bands as opposed to hardcore bands have to do with anything?

[KayforKayla]

I still love Warped... not so much the artists, this year, just the atmosphere as a whole. amazing.

Exactly. Being a later tour date my town ends up losing quite a few of the bands, although no doubt some of them suck in general.
But no matter what people come you can't change warped tour, it's still ran by the same people for the same people. All of the chicks or guys that go just because "It's the cool fad" don't step into any of the crowds for the most part, because "they're to tough", so stop being pansys and crying over something that was bound to happen.
We're humans, we poke and prod and try to get our nose in everything that we should stay out of.

It's still warped tour.
There's still the good people.
And there's still the same amount of assholes.

[iaminsane20]

Backstage pass costs 10 bj's and anal.
ha. thats funny. anyway thats sad when cosmo does a thing on warped. but as i say that, i already have a ticket to go.

[piglet]

this thread is full of fail.

[AP_Punk]

this thread is full of fail.

Fail.

[oldwirehands]

girls are so catty and dramatic.

[myantiyou]

Is this some kind of poem?

Hahaha

[konstantine94]

yea, I gave up gping to Warped Tour like 5 years ago or so. One of the main reasons I gave up going was that the bands were just getting worse and worse by the minute. I remember back in the day all of the good bands were there, not that there are any bad bands there now, but the good bands are alongside some pretty crappy bands. I also agree with you on that it is becoming more advertised, I liked it way better when it was more underground, and people didn't have a clue about it. I also know a lot of preppy girls who will be there, as well. I also wish that I could have gone to Woodstock in the 90's. :(

Were you going to Warped Tour when you were in elementary school or something?