LAX To O'Hare (To Hopkins)
Big props to Warped Tour main-stagers the Academy Is... for inspiring today's blog title. I'm currently sitting in LAX with some dinner and a glass of wine (don't worry, I've been of a legal drinking age for quite a while now, and the wine helps me relax for the flight), getting ready for my redeye back to Cleveland which takes off at 11:55 PST. I have a layover at O'Hare in Chicago though, so I won't be getting back to Cleveland until 9-something tomorrow morning. Time zones are trippy.
So today was the last day of Warped Tour. It was pretty standard procedure for the most part, though as the day ticked away, more and more of the sponsor peeps were counting down the hours to tear-down (Keli from Hell Cat, I'm looking at you). All day long was a flurry of goodbyes and hugs and "see you on the next tour"s. It was also a plus that Luis and I had a street-teamer today, so we could take turns showering early and packing up our bunks. I definitely didn't get to say goodbye to everyone before I had to take a cab to the airport from the Home Depot Center. (Side note, this is the venue where the LA Galaxy play, and our showers were down in the locker room area. I saw three dudes wearing Galaxy practice jerseys, but none of them were David Beckham. Bummer.) Even though I was only on the tour for 10 days, it's hard to say goodbye to some people (especially the ones I knew from last year's Warped), and it's so obvious how much of a family everyone becomes, it's hard not to get caught up in it all.
As far as the day itself, we had two signings--one with Say Anything, and one with Sky Eats Airplane. It was the first time we did a signing with SEA, and we had quite a crowd. Those dudes are also super nice and they were really thrilled that we wanted to do a signing with them. They even asked me and Luis to pose for a pic with them afterward. It was really sweet of them.
I also checked out two of the five acoustic sets the MySpace tent held today, one being FTSK (they let Kent play guitar!) and one being El Bronx's mariachi set. El Bronx's set was by far one of the coolest things I saw on Warped this year. They are such a talented band, and I encourage everyone to check out their "real" stuff (just the Bronx, uh, duh), and if you ever get the chance to see them in mariachi mode, you definitely have to take it. Check out the cell phone vid from both sets above, in the video section.
Overall, I got to see some amazing bands, I met a lot of dedicated readers (I love it when people say they heart AP before they realize I work for AP) and for about two weeks, I got to be part of the "family" that Kevin Lyman started building 14 years ago. All in all, not a shabby way to spend part of one's August. See you next summer!
So today was the last day of Warped Tour. It was pretty standard procedure for the most part, though as the day ticked away, more and more of the sponsor peeps were counting down the hours to tear-down (Keli from Hell Cat, I'm looking at you). All day long was a flurry of goodbyes and hugs and "see you on the next tour"s. It was also a plus that Luis and I had a street-teamer today, so we could take turns showering early and packing up our bunks. I definitely didn't get to say goodbye to everyone before I had to take a cab to the airport from the Home Depot Center. (Side note, this is the venue where the LA Galaxy play, and our showers were down in the locker room area. I saw three dudes wearing Galaxy practice jerseys, but none of them were David Beckham. Bummer.) Even though I was only on the tour for 10 days, it's hard to say goodbye to some people (especially the ones I knew from last year's Warped), and it's so obvious how much of a family everyone becomes, it's hard not to get caught up in it all.
As far as the day itself, we had two signings--one with Say Anything, and one with Sky Eats Airplane. It was the first time we did a signing with SEA, and we had quite a crowd. Those dudes are also super nice and they were really thrilled that we wanted to do a signing with them. They even asked me and Luis to pose for a pic with them afterward. It was really sweet of them.
I also checked out two of the five acoustic sets the MySpace tent held today, one being FTSK (they let Kent play guitar!) and one being El Bronx's mariachi set. El Bronx's set was by far one of the coolest things I saw on Warped this year. They are such a talented band, and I encourage everyone to check out their "real" stuff (just the Bronx, uh, duh), and if you ever get the chance to see them in mariachi mode, you definitely have to take it. Check out the cell phone vid from both sets above, in the video section.
Overall, I got to see some amazing bands, I met a lot of dedicated readers (I love it when people say they heart AP before they realize I work for AP) and for about two weeks, I got to be part of the "family" that Kevin Lyman started building 14 years ago. All in all, not a shabby way to spend part of one's August. See you next summer!
posted by Rachel at
12:13 AM
1 Comments:
lmao kent always plays guitar for the acoustic sets!
the first time he ever played the keyboard was on the recording for hey brittany.
nonetheless, im glad you got to see their acoustic! they didnt play acoustic at either of the two warps i attended.
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