Warped Tour

Warped Tour gave many bands their start. Blink-182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte to name a few. Many genres of punk rock music got their start there, skaa, screamo and all kinds of punk came from Warped Tour. Yesterday we saw bands such as 3 Oh! 3 (suburban punk rap?) and as small as Deer in the Headlights (Southern Rock, kind of like a modern Bob Dylan) and bands with a few devoted fans such as Sing It Loud (pop punk gay rights activists) and bigger bands like Senses Fail (Hardcore modern metal?). I found a new favorite band, Anti-Flag, whose lead singer talked about things like tearing down unnecessary barriers between people, like race, religion and how much money you do or don't make. He said that the goverments of the world spend trillions of dollars on creating and sustaining such borders, physical or not. The music was awesome and so was the message. I realized about halfway through the day that it has almost become a modern Woodstock. It's about as close as our generation can get. By 5 in the afternoon, the parking lot it was held in was muddy and they were spraying us with water hoses to keep us cool. Almost all the guys there were covered in sweat and had taken their shirts off, their skinny jeans sagging with the water. People lost shoes in mosh pits, make up was running and everyone was laughing. Joints were being passed around and the parents in the crowd didn't seem to mind. Most people weren't smoking and the security guards didn't notice the few who were. There were circle pits and contests to see who could crowd surf the most. If someone fell down, you picked them back up and the kept doing what ever it was that they were doing.

Anti-Flag - This Is The End (ForYouMy Friend)