338 – [Daniel Glass Show]: Life on the Warped Tour, Pt. 1
In this podcast, Daniel recounts the nearly two years that his band Royal Crown Revue spent on the fabled Warped Tour.
What’s covered in this session:
- The unlikely story of how a swing band ended up on a punk rock tour for nearly two years.
- The story behind the Warped Tour, the largest traveling music festival in the United States, and the longest-running touring music festival in North America.
- The Forrest Gump situation in which Daniel and the band found themselves, touring with many punk legends (including The Descendants, Social Distortion, 311 and Pennywise), and unknowns on the verge of huge success (Sugar Ray, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Limp Bizkit and Blink 182).
Resources/Links/People Mentioned:
- Warped Tour Wikipedia site.
- Complete lineup of bands who performed on Warped over the years.
- Royal Crown Revue’s live album from 1996, Caught In The Act.
- RCR performing live on the 1997 Warped Tour.