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Skateboarding DVD Video Review:Van's Warped Tour Live 2002
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Released: 2002
Rating: 3 Stars
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Lots of bands and some Action Sports athletes.
The Van's Warped Tour is an amalgamation of bands and action sports figures. They typically have a ton of bands and incorporate a half pipe and motocross track to add to the adrenaline. It's a wild tour to catch live in person. Replicating that feeling on a DVD is much harder. Very hard as it would seem.
Obviously the bands on the Warped Tour go hand-in-hand with skate culture since music is tightly tied to skating. I guess since the Warped tour is primarily a music tour, they don't cover the action sport side of things as much, but if you blink, you'll miss both the skateboarding and motocross on this DVD... Which kinka sucks. Seriously, there was less than one minute of both. Hopefully future releases will emphasize the sk8 and moto-x sides more.
I highly recommend attending Warped Tours, but this disc doesn't do justice to the actual experience.
The Bands
- GOB
- Something Corporate
- Might Mighty Bosstones
- Ozma
- Good Charlotte
- No Use For A Name
- Alkaline Trio
- Lagwagon
- Morgan Heritage
- Hot Water Music
- Flogging Molly
- Reel Big Fish
- MXPX
- Anti Flag
- Bad Religion
- Yellowcard
- Midtown
- The Used
- Switched
- Thursday
- Handsome Devil
- Tsunami Bomb
- Quarashi
- Casualties
- Places To Park
- Wanted Dead
- Death By Stereo
- Fairview
- Deviates
- Useless ID
- Arkham
- Smackin Isiah
- Finch
Interviews
The bonus features have un-cut versions of interviews, but these are bands that were given some time to talk the talk:
Something Corporate, Give Em What they Want, Good Charlotte, The Used, Lagwagon, New Found Glory, MXPX, No Use For A Name, Alkaline Trio and Bad Religion.
Bonus Stuff
- The Cities - a quick clip from each of the cities on the tour.
- Shopping with The Bar-B-Que Band - thug-like band members are filmed at the grocery store.
- The Interviews Un-cut - interviews with Something Corporate, New Found Glory, No Use For a Name, Flogging Molly, Alkaline Trio, and Bad Religion.
- Web Links
- Captain Kevin I - a pep talk for those embarking on the tour as hired help.
- Captain Kevin II - story behind how the Warped Tour was started.
Everything Else
- Is This Annoying? - guy on a megaphone yelling "Is this annoying?" over and over. He said it didn't get really funny until he'd done it for over 4 minutes.
- Wanna Buy Some Stuff - tour of the vendor booths.
- Swag - the mechanics of how vendor product gets shipped to each show's location... a logistical nightmare.
- Moto-X - began in 1998 and they showed 20 seconds of footage.
- Fastest Drummer Contest
- Weathering the Storms - how to deal with rainy days on the tour.
- What Its Like ON The Tour - interview out takes.
- On The Bus With Flogging Molly
- How to get on The Warped Tour - how they hire kids to work booths and do set ups.
- Birth of the Warped Tour
- Half Pipe - don't blink or you'll miss the sk8 footy.
- Eating on the Tour - how catering works.
The Bottom Line
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