Thats's cool that you got to experience that. Vans Warped tours were awesome..!I can only imagine what it would be like to see the infancy of something like that. I remember going to some of the first Vans Warped tours and the first years of Paid dues but to be part of an emerging genre like that is something truly special.
Its definitely special being part of the birth of any scene. i remember hearing stories from guys a little order then me
telling me about the birth and emergence of the early Punk & New Wave scenes in the late 70's & early 80's. I always
felt like i missed out because I only caught the tail end of those scenes in the mid to late 80's.
So getting to experience the birth of another new scene and being there on the ground floor, was definitely something
special for me and lot of other people. Im just glad that after all these years the scene had a made a major reemergence
and it now bigger then it ever was worldwide. Instead of just holding onto the music we had back then, I get to constantly
hear new music, which for me, I love, because I'm not one of those guys that wanted to get stuck like my parents only
listening to what they listened to in their teens & 20's