![]() ![]() It was a bigger deal for me that they included Vegas on the tour than it was what bands they included on the tour.”īrendan Scholz, Mercy Music singer-guitarist They didn’t always come through Vegas, so it was definitely an event when they did. “Band-wise, The Story So Far put on the best show that day. They were all wearing black, which I thought was stupid and knew it was going to be a problem. “I just remember kid after kid being stretchered out and thinking there’s not going to be anyone left at the show. One-hundred-seventy-two people were treated for heatstroke and 34 were taken to the hospital. ![]() It ended up setting the record for hottest Warped Tour date: 117 degrees. “I don’t know if it’s my ‘favorite’ memory from Warped Tour, but it’s definitely the one that stands out: The 2013 Warped was held in the Silverton parking lot. It was almost an affirmation for bands: If you made it onto Warped Tour, you made it in the scene.” It will be very weird not having this festival anymore. I remember being so proud of something I created hitting a monumental moment in the scene. “I unfortunately had left my band The Cab the summer before they got to perform at the festival, but I remember watching them. That performance at that festival to this day has stuck with me. I don’t think I’m the only one who’s had their life change after seeing that band. “I will never forget the first time I saw Underoath at Warped Tour in 2004 at Desert Breeze Park. The tour returns Friday for one final outing at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center with new and old favorites such as Black Veil Brides, The Used, Falling in Reverse, Simple Plan, Every Time I Die, Unearth and dozens more.īefore we bid it farewell, we reached out to some Vegas musicians for their favorite Warped memories:Ĭash Colligan, solo artist, former bassist for The Cab Warped didn’t always come here, but Vegas has been a regular stop in recent years. There’s never been another tour quite like it, from its guerrilla-style setup, often taking place outside traditional music venues with traveling stages set up in parking lots, to its punk-leaning lineups, to the egalitarian way each show’s running order is arranged, with rotating headliners, meaning you might see just one of the biggest bands of the day at 4 in the afternoon.īeginning in 1995, Warped played a key role in the mid-’90s punk boom, introducing tens of thousands of kids every summer to the likes of NOFX, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys and hundreds more. Standing atop concrete or asphalt all day beneath the punishing sun, turning oneself into a human raisin while taking in dozens of bands is a brutal, merciless, self-flagellating kind of fun.Īfter 24 years, this will be Warped’s last run. It’s a heavenly kind of hell, the Warped Tour experience. (Samantha Clemens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Bad Religion performs during the Warped Tour stop at Desert Breeze Park on Sunday, July 4, 2004. ![]()
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