Warped Tour '09

If you haven't heard of it, die. Now. And brace yourself. This is a long post.

List of bands I saw before I forget:

• 3OH!3
• A Day To Remember
• A Skylit Drive
• Aiden
• Alana Grace
• Alexisonfire
• All Time Low
• And Ive Landed
• Attack Attack
• Bad Religion
• Bayside
• Big D and the Kids Table
• Black Tide
• Breathe Carolina
• Broadway Calls
• brokeNCYDE
• Cash Cash
• Chiodos
• Dirty Heads
• Echo Movement
• Escape The Fate
• Every Avenue
• Forever The Sickest Kids
• Gallows
• Hit The Lights
• I Set My Friends On Fire
• In This Moment
• InnerPartySystem
• ivy league
• KIA Kevin Says Stage
• Left Alone
• Less Than Jake
• Longway
• LoveHateHero
• Madina Lake
• Meg and Dia
• Millionaires
• NOFX
• P.O.S.
• Plugin Stereo
• Saosin
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids
• Senses Fail
• Shad
• Shooter Jennings
• Silverstein
• Sing It Loud
• Single File
• Streetlight Manifesto
• TAT
• The A.K.A.s
• The Architects
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Maine
• The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
• The White Tie Affair
• There For Tomorrow
• Therefore I Am
• This Providence
• TV/TV
• Underoath
• Valencia
• VersaEmerge
• We The Kings
• Westbound Train
• YB
• You Me At Six

The lineup this year was love/hate. Either I loved the band or I hated them, with very few grey areas. I hated brokeNCYDE, Escape the Fate... The list goes on. I did not watch many of these bands, but did see them around. A lot of them sucked. With a name like All Time Low, what do you expect?

We started our journey near the end of the massive, sidewinding (insert more words for LONG) line. I had tried to get Jenny and my aunt to move faster, but they are what most people know as "delay fish". They delayed and delayed until we got there, at a far back position in the line. And when I say far I mean at least two to three HUNDRED people were in front of us. That's how big of delay fish they are. The line was going to easily last an hour or two. Then, seemingly falling from the heavens, a guy comes up and tells us about a way to cut the line. We pay $5 and we get into the VIP line which is around, oh, fifty people long. Yeah, that's it. We got in at around 11:10. Doors opened at 11:00. Which is around when we originally got in line. That's a whopping ten minute wait. For ten bucks? Deal. Oh, and we only had $14 for food. Soo... We didn't eat. But we were in the front for Chiodos. The reason I went to Warped. I was in the front of the main stage. Big deal. I was in the mosh for most of it, and got my first official bleeding wound in there. I think it was around the time of the wall of death... Hehe. So, for around one song(Chiodos was playing Bulls Make Money) I went over to Scary Kids Scaring Kids. Good band, great vocals. I think they were one of the only bands to sound almost better live than in studio. I went back to Chiodos as they finished(not the good way).

After Chiodos we walked a bit. I am trying desperately to say that we saw Silverstein next, but I'm not sure. If I get these out of order, don't get mad at me. In all honesty, I'm not entirely sure. I didn't buy a schedule, I mooched off other people's, cause they're nice. Anyways, we did see Silverstein, and it rocked. We saw Black Tide, which has a 16 year old kid for a singer. He's a badass, so you know. We saw Gallows, where Jenny got pulled into the biggest circle pit I have ever seen and probably will never see another that big. The guy who rammed into her got a facefull of Sierra Mist. We maneauvered our way around, sneeking peeks at LoveHateHero, We The Kings, Alexisonfire and a few others. Then VersaEmerge's time came around, a sort of small time band that sounds better than old Paramore already. They are more mature and, well, sexy.

We got around to seeing Aiden. They were simply amazing. They rocked their little stage better than any band before them. Even In This Moment didn't compare, and they are an amazing band as well. The Fall of Troy, as always, sucked live. Absolutely sucked. They don't do their vocals right, butcher the guitar parts... The list goes on. I saw a bit of Anti-Flag and NOFX, and for some old(er) bands they were really good. The last band I really wanted to see was The Devil Wears Prada, but we were tired and left. On our way out we thought we caught parts of Attack Attack but after replaying my memory, it was actually I Set My Friends On Fire. Absolutely love them to death.

After Warped we went to the Indian Festival on Pioneer Square. Ate some delicious Indian food, got some ice cream, cuddled a bit and now my beautiful is watching Death Note while I type this. These are the times I will cherish and recall when in need.