Warped Tour 2017 Festival • Page 8

More proof Lyman does not care about the safety of anyone at Warped. Truly amazing that Radke is given a platform

 

Radke sells tickets and I'm sure FIR is playing for cheap.

 

That has nothing to do with my point, but okay

 

They're also playing one of the first dates and the last day of the tour. FIR being added will help fill the holes left by bands only playing partial dates and the bands that skip the first week all together

 

Again, this doesn't excuse Lyman from giving someone like that a platform

 

I'm not excusing or denying anything that FIR or Ronnie has done as a person. The music is terrible and he's even worse. I can see why Kevin did this financially, but that's it. It's a shame that this act still sells/influences people and has a platform to begin with

 

Again, Radke brings in money. If Front Porch Step could bring in 500-1000 people to go JUST for him, I'm sure he'd be back on the entire tour.

 

I'm not so sure about that. Radke is bad enough but FPS is a whole other level. I would hope Kevin wouldn't stoop that low.

 

Any idea what stage they will be on?

 

I wonder if there will be more special guests.

 

You never know. Obviously he wouldn't flat out say "FPS is back on the tour because he brings in money". I'm hoping he got the message from people online and from other bands on the tour.

 

I actually enjoyed FIR's set last year. I didn't expect that.

 

I'm guessing there could be a lot of one-offs but it'll just be a day of announcement.

 

How many post-announcement special guests were there last year? I only remember The Vandals.

 

Journey's Right for both dates according to the website.

Warped also added: "For those asking the band was on the full tour last year; they are playing these select dates because they are from the LA / Las Vegas area."

 

Neck Deep played a random date last year

 

Ah, I forgot about that one. American Authors were also a late addition last year for the 3 dates they played.

 

Didn't PVRIS play the Hartford date or was that 2 years ago?

 

Yeah that was last year. 2 years ago they played the full tour.

 

Didn't linkin park do suprise dates in 2015? Maybe again this year?

 

Yeah, ADTR and LP did surprise dates in 2015.

 

LP is probably too big for Kevin to afford again. ADTR is a stretch too, but definitely more realistic than LP.

 

I can see either Fall Out Boy/Paramore/Panic this year if he's going to do bigger one-off acts.

 

SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor Considering Performing On The VANS WARPED TOUR - Rock Feed
Holy fuck. Also to save anyone from a slight click bait title, Scott from Carnifex asked Corey Taylor on Twitter if he would perform The Heretic Anthem with them on Warped and Corey asked when they'd be on the west coast.

 

Was looking over the stage breakdowns for the date and took some notes. The only dates that absolutely need an extra main stage band are 6/16 and 6/21. Otherwise there would be only 8 bands on a main stage those days even with the Ernie Ball band opening one stage. Bowling For Soup will most likely wind up on Journey's Right because otherwise there will be 11 bands on Left Foot for a few days. That's not saying that there may not be other special guests added since last year showed you can do 10 on each main stage. But only those 2 dates I mentioned will definitely need some filler.

They also need 2 Monster North bands for the first two shows and probably 1 for 7/4. They've run a stage with only 8 bands before but Kevin typically has a minimum of 9.

They're also going to need at least 1 more Skullcandy band from 6/16-7/4 and 7/18-7/28 and maybe an additional one for the first two shows. Hard Rock will also need someone for 7/4 and then 7/26-8/1.

As for Full Sail, they can add 1-3 bands for almost every single date.

*Edit*

Of course now that I did all that I just noticed that Save Ferris' dates have been changed to the whole tour so none of this is probably accurate