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Concert Reviews & Photos Vans Warped Tour @ Superpages.com Center 7/03/08 Reviews and Photo Galleries: So lets delve into the first band I watched, Cobra Starship from New York and on the fueled by ramen label. Cobra's front man Gabe Saporta dressed colorful as usual, sporting a hilarious Justin Timberlake necklace. The power to their stage went out during their first song but Gabe did his best to keep the crowed entertained with a little banter after the first number. He is definitely the energy in the band running around on stage, hip thrusting, swinging his microphone around over his head, doing gigantic leaps off the drum platform. Their most well known song "Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)" was saved for later in their set where they were joined by William Beckett of the band The Academy Is, ending the number with a little bit of Gwen Stefani's "Holla Back Girl" more appropriately changed to Holla Back Boy. -Rachel Parker Cobra Starship Having never seen them so it was a first for me and let me just take the time to say their singer Max Bemis is nuts, but in a good way. He's incredibly expressive, tossing his microphone around, and likes to lean out and get close to the crowd, while their guitar player was thrashing his long hair around rocking out. This was the first I really saw crowd surfers coming over the barricades and we got the pleasure of seeing a banana crowd surfing.. or at least a kid in a giant banana suit crowd surfing. Pretty amusing if you ask me. Their most memorable songs for were probably "Shiksa" and "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" where they got the crowd all clapping along. -Rachel Parker Say Anything When Gym Class stepped out on stage I was quite surprised to see their front man Travis McCoy walking without the cane he was using off stage after blowing his knee out a few stops before Dallas, They started with "Clothes Off" and I shouldn't have been that surprised or shocked that Travis started to undo his belt which wasn't really holding his pants up anyway. I should have expected something like that from him, and it got a reaction from the female crowd. They also did some new stuff from their upcoming release "The Quilt" including a song titled "Peace Sign." Before Travis then took the time to touch on the incident that had happened a couple days previous in St. Louis. He apologized to anyone who saw the video on youtube or read the story on the net. Ending on a high note with "Cupids Chokehold" joined by the singer of the band We the Kings both he and Travis getting off the stage and onto the barricades to show the fans down front a little love. -Rachel Parker Gym Class Heroes When Jack’s Mannequin’s set started, they jumped right into the well known stuff with the song "Dark Blue." Jacks Mannequin for the most part is just Andrew McMahon. It's pretty piano driven and that's Andrews forte. Which made his set a bit of a breather to all the heavier rock. But Andrew's really no rookie to Warped Tour, he played in the past with his old band Something Corporate. But Jacks Mannequin's songs don't really sound like Something Corporate’s songs. Mannequins set while more mellow than some of the other acts still had the crowd singing along to every word, especially during the song "Mix Tape." He ended his set by playing piano with his feet, which is something that cant be described, you should probably make an effort to go see it. -Rachel Parker Jacks Mannequin Angels and Airwaves set was probably the second largest draw of all the acts, no doubt thanks to the fact their front man is Tom DeLonge formerly of Blink 182. This band was definitely one of the crowds favorites, and the band wasted no time jumping into their set. Right away they were getting the crowd to clap along, they didn't have to make them sing, they were doing that all by themselves word for word during every song. But out of their whole set, what stands out for me the most personally didn't even involve the band. It was when I was shooting the third song and took my camera down for a second to wipe the sweat from my hand, yes my hands were sweating (it was that hot!), and noticed a flip flop flying straight for my face. I lifted my hand up next to my face as if to "give someone the hand" and that's exactly where the flip flop made contact before falling to the ground. Cat like reflexes! -Rachel Parker Angels and Airwaves The band Story of the Year came out running around and jumping all over the stage. Singer Dan Marsala wasting no time getting his head banging, and during the first or second song he was already off the stage, onto the barricade and into the crowd diving right in. Later in their set the guitarist did backflips off their amps. Tossing their guitars to the techs across the stage before jumping onto and off the amps. That would have made a pretty awesome picture had it been in the first 3. They finished up their set with their probably most well known song "Until the Day I Die." The crowd definitely loved them and they were incredibly energetic during their set even in the sweltering sun. -Rachel Parker Story of the Year The band I wanted to see more than any of the other bands (and I wasn't the only one, seeing as how they had the biggest crowd).... Paramore. I think they did a whole six tour dates of warped tour and we lucked out. The band came out rocking right up on the edge of the stage and Hayley running around head banging, hair flying everywhere. While the entire band deserves credit for their musical skills and incredible energy. You have to hand it to Hayley, who is a great frontwoman, sounding better than ever and singing with such attitude. My favorite moments had to be Hayley throwing in the rap song "Low" into their song "CrushCrushCrush" just for humor factor alone, and towards the end of the set when she let the audience know she could die right there under the sun and be happy.. then she tried to take it back, only to decide not to take it back and to leave it there for everyone to think about before jumping right into their hit "Misery Business" to finish their set with a bang. I would go see them again in a heart beat without having to think twice. -Rachel Parker Paramore To finish my day I went to watch the 2007 Battle of the Band winners Nothing More. These boys are from San Antonio and have a descent following packing the house at home town shows and playing with bands like Miser when in Dallas. This was actually the first time I had seen the band since they went through a loss of a guitar player and a change in singers. I have to admit Johnny singing will take some getting used to because I'm used to the more gritty vocals of their ex front man Trey Graham. Johnny's vocals are similar but smoother/softer. The boys sounded good, just a tad bit different from normal. I was also very glad to see them pull out some of the crazy drum antics as usual, including the 3 man bass solo. Also glad to see them still full of energy as usual. They're in an adjustment period, but I really think I was the only one who could tell, because the folks that were watching their set, most hadn't seen them before so they're indifferent. -Rachel Parker Nothing More Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Reviews Archive: 2008 2007 2006 2009 2010
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