Warped Tour
by Were there any good bands on the Warped Tour this year? Discuss, because supposedly it was disgracefull for Rancid to be on the tour. Do you think so? Why or why not?
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i thoroughly enjoyed INDEPENDANT CONTRACTORS ... they were amazing so were POOL BOYs'rUS
GLASSJAW WAS AMMMMAZZING...I dunno how many glassjaw fans there are in here, but, they definately were my favorite performance this time around...And, words of wisdom: If, you have in fact, heard glassjaw before, and, you either have no reaction at all to it, or, flat out hate it, this, is a normal reaction. For, I, a someone who's currently romantically in love w/the band, couldn't stand them the first time I heard them..but...for some reason I tortured myself w/it every once in a while... and then,BAM they grew on me like an infectious parisite..And, now, I snort glassjaw like that white powder the junkies like
speaking of which the cds are like copying so messed up
i'm a huge glassjaw fan. i was going to go just for glassjaw, but alas--i wasn't able to go. but i've seen them a few times. THEY ARE QUALITY. and you're certainly right about glassjaw growing on you. when i first heard 'em i was like "no way! there isn't crazy music lik this! no way! his voice can't really do that" but i've learned the way.
i didn't get to go....but the used is amazing
They need new blood on warp tour and need to can penny wise and all the ranicds cause they are all a quater away from selling out. Plus I know u ezabelers are gonna hate this but bands like taking back sunday make crap cause they know you like crap they suck, they are just one gigantic chick fest. See its cool if u happen to fall in a genre and its like hey where this. But its not if its about the money and is co produced marketed crap and they wrote taht cause they know it will sell. Bands like good charroltte and new found glory and Taking Back sunday are all guilty of this and they will soon fade. I used to like Good Charlotte like 2 yeras ago but they got corupted by sucess and money and forgot what it was all about it should always be about the music not mass production. I mean have u heard good charlottes new song girls dont liek boys girls like guys with money, are you kidding me that sounds like bad 80's goth pop and theres some good 80's goth pop but its not that rock. And rock should never be assiciated with them. They are like the minie kiss. Back to warp tour If ur headling band is a 7 song powerhchick band then the tour will fall soon. They better get some new blood and I know for a fact thats why drive thru wasnt on there this year they didnt wanna loose money and its becoming a poorly managed. To be frank i was disapointed by that cause i am a big fan of rx abndits and thats the only drive thru band i iike those guys are talented and doing thier thing. FMQB and CMJ are my sources plus I have a contact at the label so I am not speaking lies. Just expressing my self and to each is his own
i know what you're saying, for the most part. i've been to the warped every single year except the very first [96, i think] and the most recent [2003] and it's just gotten progressively more crowded and more weak. a strange way for it to go. no one is doing anything interesting anymore. don't get me wrong i wanted to go this year, but it was to see bands i'd already seen a few times. bands that already have a good name. none of the new bands on display are doing anything new or exciting. except BERET! but anyway, the fact that the weaker the line ups are, the more crowded it gets AND the younger the crowd gets--it just adds to the fact that these new bands suck and are ripping you kids off. it doesn't add up to me. but you all seem to love it so much, so i guess you're, in fact, NOT being ripped off! but there is much more intelligent, interesting, ground breaking stuff out there. you don't have to sit in a digusting sweating pit of juveniles to see good bands. good bands are all over the place. but soon--you'll be forced to grow out of it--because these bands absolutely will not last. in another ten years we'll talking about the one hit wonders of 00's the same way we talk about the one hit wonders of the eighties and nineties. s'all the same in the end.
You act like you're some wise 90 year old man. What makes you such an authoratative voice on music?
i'm just a whiny music snob. get used to it!
::sheds a tear:: someone understands! it feels like i wrote that article! only i'm probably not quite as eloquent and structured as that writer.
They are playing some shows with Flogging Molly..totally wanted to catch that.
only brian says it was disgraceful. and he should be taken out back and stabbed all over repeatedly with a little corn holder thing. because, man, corn can get hot sometimes when you're trying to eat it. so they have those prongs!
dude, that is insane. i wouldn't die or anything, but..ouch! and Rancid has had it. I'm sorry. they're all washed up. they're just cashing on people like you! real punk advocates wouldn't have anything to do with the warped tour. i guess rancid isn't punk anymore. they are emo. i see why tho [and i've said this before] the lead singers wife got stolen by josh homme of queens. i mean, c'mon! what a loser!
And who do "real" punk advocates like then? Because Rancid is like the definition of original punk at the moment.
the definition to people who read the punk cliff notes! you're all so silly!
i will give armstrong of rancid minor props for being part of the Transplants. that was an unexpected and interesting departure. too bad he didn't stick with that gig. the new rancid apparition went down like this: armstrong was like, "right now--these brand new bands are getting rich biting our style and stating that we're their influeces AND they drive better cars and own bigger houses than we do and given the state of the industry, we could sell a whole bunch of albums! the kids still think we're real punk. we can pull this off. and the record company will compensate us well!" you know what? chances are--Warped Tour was a contract stipulation! they probably had to do it. being REAL punk simply doesn't pay the bills, folks.
PS: i give Dashboard minor props for NOT doing the warped tour! that would have made the attending crowd completely unbearable. he knows he can do his own thing and still make out like a bandit.