Matsuda, a singer/guitar player in the band The Sect, from Tokyo, sings Sunday at the Vans Warped Tour in Fresno. Ninety-five bands on 10 different stages played throughout the day.
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
Crazy shows
7,500 fans turn out in Fresno to drink up the music at the Vans Warped Tour.
By Mike Osegueda / The Fresno Bee
(Updated Monday, July 10, 2006, 8:17 AM)
It was one huge freak show.
The Vans Warped Tour — young rock 'n' roll's favorite traveling music circus — pulled into Fresno on Sunday, spewing 10 stages and 95 bands into Selland Arena's parking lot to the joy of about 7,500 fans.
Just how crazy was it?
Consider this: The Warped Tour had to be the only place in town on Sunday — or any day of the year for that matter — where you could simultaneously see a guy walking around in a "robot" suit made of cardboard boxes, traveling monks trying to sell books, a big game of Twister, T-shirts that read "Don't Be Emo," people lusting after $3 bottles of water, bands named The Pink Spiders and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, a guy whose job it was to spray a fire hose into the air and a woman getting a haircut while a punk band played 10 yards away.
The Warped grounds, which moved this year from the Save Mart Center's parking lot to Selland's, were one giant maze.
There were two main stages positioned 50 yards apart that rotated 30-minute performances from 18 headlining bands.
In the middle of those were hundreds of booths, serving as band hangouts and places for record labels and vendors to peddle T-shirts and CDs.
There were eight more scattered stages, which ranged in size and attention. Some were worth walk-bys, others had fans staking out spots, waiting for a favorite band.
The music, all loosely fitting into the punk and hard-core rock genres, ranged from thrashing screamers like Underoath, to vibrant singers like Cartel, to throwback acts like Less Than Jake and Helmet, to way throwback acts like Joan Jett. Even a few local acts were tossed in.
The notable exception missing from Sunday's lineup was NOFX, one of the scheduled headliners, which had to cancel its set because of an emergency in frontman Fat Mike's family. Still, organizers said, there was only one person who wanted a refund.
The bands who did play, and their mostly teenage and young-adult fans, shared one common goal on Sunday: trying to survive the 105-degree heat, which couldn't help but increase by the event being packed into an asphalt-paved parking lot.
Kyle Black from Los Angeles, with the band Nural, startles a woman as he approaches her in a cardboard robot get-up complete with homemade ray gun.
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
"Today is comparable to Phoenix," said Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, who sat in a chair 10 minutes after his group's set using his shirt to wipe the sweat from his face
"Today was like, whoa! I didn't know Fresno got this hot."
As always, water and shade were alongside free T-shirts and CDs on the list of most-sought-after items at Warped Tour.
Perhaps the most popular place for refreshment was underneath the huge stream of water pouring out of a firehose.
Others found shade under the overhang of Selland Arena, or inside spacious tents that Cingular and MySpace.com provided, which also housed autograph signings.
Valdez Hall was opened up as an air-conditioned shelter, and several hundred tired, sweaty and shirtless kids were relaxing there at almost all times.
Among them were Jared Marquez, 17, and friends Nick Salazar and Jacob Cavazos, both 18.
"There's favorite bands I want to see," Marquez said. "When they're not playing, I come in here."
The three friends from Sanger had retreated there four times by mid-day, as they waited to see bands such as Thursday.
"We cool off," Cavazos said, "let the shirts dry out and then go back out there."
The reporter can be reached at mosegueda@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6479. Read his blog at www.fresnobeehive.com. Johnathan Martinez holds a hose that sprays the crowd Sunday at The Vans Warped Tour in Fresno. Temperatures were in the triple digits but that didn't deter several thousand people from attending the event. An air-conditioned hall was open as another way for fans to escape the heat.
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
Crazy shows
7,500 fans turn out in Fresno to drink up the music at the Vans Warped Tour.
By Mike Osegueda / The Fresno Bee
(Updated Monday, July 10, 2006, 8:17 AM)
It was one huge freak show.
The Vans Warped Tour — young rock 'n' roll's favorite traveling music circus — pulled into Fresno on Sunday, spewing 10 stages and 95 bands into Selland Arena's parking lot to the joy of about 7,500 fans.
Just how crazy was it?
Consider this: The Warped Tour had to be the only place in town on Sunday — or any day of the year for that matter — where you could simultaneously see a guy walking around in a "robot" suit made of cardboard boxes, traveling monks trying to sell books, a big game of Twister, T-shirts that read "Don't Be Emo," people lusting after $3 bottles of water, bands named The Pink Spiders and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, a guy whose job it was to spray a fire hose into the air and a woman getting a haircut while a punk band played 10 yards away.
The Warped grounds, which moved this year from the Save Mart Center's parking lot to Selland's, were one giant maze.
There were two main stages positioned 50 yards apart that rotated 30-minute performances from 18 headlining bands.
In the middle of those were hundreds of booths, serving as band hangouts and places for record labels and vendors to peddle T-shirts and CDs.
There were eight more scattered stages, which ranged in size and attention. Some were worth walk-bys, others had fans staking out spots, waiting for a favorite band.
The music, all loosely fitting into the punk and hard-core rock genres, ranged from thrashing screamers like Underoath, to vibrant singers like Cartel, to throwback acts like Less Than Jake and Helmet, to way throwback acts like Joan Jett. Even a few local acts were tossed in.
The notable exception missing from Sunday's lineup was NOFX, one of the scheduled headliners, which had to cancel its set because of an emergency in frontman Fat Mike's family. Still, organizers said, there was only one person who wanted a refund.
The bands who did play, and their mostly teenage and young-adult fans, shared one common goal on Sunday: trying to survive the 105-degree heat, which couldn't help but increase by the event being packed into an asphalt-paved parking lot.
Kyle Black from Los Angeles, with the band Nural, startles a woman as he approaches her in a cardboard robot get-up complete with homemade ray gun.
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
"Today is comparable to Phoenix," said Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, who sat in a chair 10 minutes after his group's set using his shirt to wipe the sweat from his face
"Today was like, whoa! I didn't know Fresno got this hot."
As always, water and shade were alongside free T-shirts and CDs on the list of most-sought-after items at Warped Tour.
Perhaps the most popular place for refreshment was underneath the huge stream of water pouring out of a firehose.
Others found shade under the overhang of Selland Arena, or inside spacious tents that Cingular and MySpace.com provided, which also housed autograph signings.
Valdez Hall was opened up as an air-conditioned shelter, and several hundred tired, sweaty and shirtless kids were relaxing there at almost all times.
Among them were Jared Marquez, 17, and friends Nick Salazar and Jacob Cavazos, both 18.
"There's favorite bands I want to see," Marquez said. "When they're not playing, I come in here."
The three friends from Sanger had retreated there four times by mid-day, as they waited to see bands such as Thursday.
"We cool off," Cavazos said, "let the shirts dry out and then go back out there."
The reporter can be reached at mosegueda@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6479. Read his blog at www.fresnobeehive.com. Johnathan Martinez holds a hose that sprays the crowd Sunday at The Vans Warped Tour in Fresno. Temperatures were in the triple digits but that didn't deter several thousand people from attending the event. An air-conditioned hall was open as another way for fans to escape the heat.
Mark Crosse / The Fresno Bee
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