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    End of the Warped Tour: What the loss of rock's 'cheap, scruffy' roadshow means for the concert biz

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Jun 18, 2018 6 minutes

    Days before Andy Biersack joined his first Vans Warped Tour as an artist, the singer for the L.A. glam-metal band Black Veil Brides got a little overexuberant onstage. His band was playing a pre-Warped warm-up show in 2011 when, in a fugue state over finally making it on the bill, he stage dived off a piece of rigging.

    He missed the landing. Biersack fractured several bones and had to spend the rest of his first Warped Tour wrapped in a protective body brace. But he wouldn't have missed those dates for anything.

    "When I was a kid, there was no greater dream than to be on the other side of that fence as an artist," Biersack said. "It's next to impossible to describe the importance of Warped Tour in my life."

    A lot of bands, fans and music-industry pros are thinking the same thing this summer. Warped Tour, the traveling punk and skate-culture festival, a

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