Lets Party!
Posted on July 18, 2007 @ 2:50 PM
THe First Time ( i only attended 2) I ever went to a Vans Warped Tour was in 1997, or 98, with Mike tag, and some Buddies. We got VIP passes from Leigh Ramsdell, and checked out the scene. I was recovering from either a badly broken leg, or arm, i can't remember which one, so I was basically in asshole mode. The stop was in Buffalo NY, which was 2.5 hours from my house. If I remember correctly, we drove to rochester, met up with Greg Walsh, and pounded beers the entire way there, but that could be a different time. Any Rate, we get there right as the Bouncing Souls finish up, they were the band i was stoked on that summer, so screw it, Tag and I go find Leigh, and we hang out in the Vans Bus with him and Rick Thorne and drink all the Vans Per Diem beer, and set ourselves good and shit hammered. We were Dicks that day, throwing cans into crowds of rebel rousers, heckling wanna be rockers, and generally just being antagonistic. At one point, which is my personal highlight of the day, we ended up in the beer tent, Beer was not cheep, so we jaust kind of loitered around, poking fun at half hippy/ half punk rockers, with mohawks and sandals... The beers were being sold in 12 ounce plastic dixie cups, for safety purposes. At some point I noticed it was being poured out of cans, into the cups by a team of halfwits behind a loosely guarded service area. Thats when my instincts kicked in, and I noticed they were pouring 16 ounce cans into 12 ounce cups. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the math, thats 4 ounces of pure golden delicious fuel, per can, just sitting there, ready o go to waste, and there were dozens of them. Thats a lot of fuel for the Asshole machine we had started earlier, so Mike and I creep behind the line of authority, and just start casually finishing each beer like its our job. One of the workers catches wind of what we were doing, and just starts freaking out. We tried reasoning with her, even mention that we are doing her a favor, and then resort to explaining how stupid it is to pour 16 ounces into a 12 ounce cup anyway. Here comes security... and we just start pounding as many 1/4 beers as we can get down before getting tossed....
