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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had tickets to vans warped tour in Seattle in 1997 but didn’t end up going because the friend I was supposed to go with bailed on me.  I was 18 and wasn’t brave enough to go by myself. Plus, it would have been an 8hr drive from where I lived and I didn’t have a car :(

Would have been amazing though.[/quote]

I was at the Warped Tour in 1998 at Irvine Meadows my rising junior year of high school. So many of the bands on the line-up were from LA and OC - it was basically a “home field” audience and the bands were going nuts.

My buddy in HS had an uncle who was a roadie for the Warped Tour. That uncle put us on the list for backstage VIP passes. It was crazy - it was just like that scene in Wayne’s World where they get the VIP lanyard and they keep getting waived through layers of surprised security cards. We were 16 and so impressed with ourselves lol

We got to sit on the edge of the main stage for a bunch of sets - 311, Blink 182, Pennywise.

The best performance by far was NOFX. Huge mosh pit spread out in front of us, with a massive cloud of dust rising into the sky. Since I was sitting on the side of the stage, Fat Mike had me hold his cooler bag of beers and toss them to various members of the band on demand. The guys from Pennywise gave me a beer from their stash.

I was 16 and over-the-moon. Totally wild and memorable. One of those things that only happens when you grow up in L.A. and “know somebody’s uncle.”[/quote]

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