Warped tour what is it like

Everybody's pumped. Buddy Lieras, pictured at his fourth Warped Tour, loves crowdsurfing: "Just getting picked up out of nowhere and circling around, all these hands and fists in your back — it looks a lot more fun than it is, to be honest! Acosta had come twice before, in and "It was a great run. Eddie Quintero has been attending the Warped Tour since the mid-'90s. He said he hoped there would be a reincarnation. There's a lot of first-timers, their first concert ever, and they're going to go home and absorb everything they saw here, the whole culture.

This show makes new people. Chris Barnes requested "special liberty" time off from the naval base where he is posted to attend the Vans Warped Tour stop in San Diego. This is his eighth Warped Tour and he's been attending since or The first band I saw was Zao. It was wild.

I watched them from a tree. I was like, 'What is this? I literally got into 10 bands at Warped. That's what got me into going to shows. The tour is important to Lee because it's welcoming to all. Did anything surprise you? AC: The people. Nothing has really surprised me. GR: I'm actually very old school. But I like this too. GR: I'm just here to listen to every single band, and eventually I'm gonna go home and listen to every single album.

TV : Has anything surprised you about this first experience at Warped Tour? GR: I expected to see a lot more mosh pits.

Everyone is somewhat the same, so everyone gets each other. I like to see that. I like to see everybody getting along. TV : What's been the biggest shock you've experienced at Warped Tour this year? I was kind of surprised by how many kiosks there were. And I also forgot how, like, white it was.

TV : Where in Canada are you from? LW: Calgary. It's where Tegan and Sara are from. TV : When you were 16 and first exploring this space, did you feel intimidated at all by how strange everyone looks and how intense some of it all is?

JC: It was super overwhelming, it was more of like a shock because back at that age I was living in the Bronx, so there wasn't such a large number of people who were like that.

Also everyone was much older, so when I was 16 everyone was like in their 20s. It was overwhelming and sometimes foul, but there was something about the familiarity of it, knowing that the smell meant you were at one of the happiest places on Earth, that leaves us with a nostalgic hole in our hearts.

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