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311, Rancid, Pennywise, Rollins, New Found Glory To Get Warped
03/13/2001 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Darren Davis
(3/13/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- 311, Rancid, Pennywise, the Rollins Band, and New Found Glory top the list of acts set for the Vans Warped Tour 2001, which kicks off in Phoenix on June 22. Others featured on this year's model of the venerable punk tour, as announced at a party in Los Angeles yesterday (March 12), include Fenix TX, Alien Ant Farm, Good Charlotte, Less Than Jake, and Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, the all-covers side project of NOFX's Fat Mike and the Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett.
The Vans Warped Tour 2001 will hit more than 40 cities during a summer stretch that extends until its final gig in Detroit on August 12. The roadshow will also feature the Misfits, Fear, H2O, rapper Kool Keith, the Vandals, AFI, the Ataris, Big Wig, Distillers, Grand Theft Audio, Dub Pistols, Guttermouth, the Julianna Theory, Kill Your Idols, Madcap, Jepetto, Midtown, reggae outfit Morgan Heritage, River City Rebels, No Motiv, Saves The Day, Sugarcult, Esham, and Userfriendly.
More acts are expected to be announced shortly.
New Found Glory vocalist Jordan Pundik and guitarist Steve Klein told LAUNCH they're no strangers to the Warped Tour. "We're doing, I think, three or four weeks," Pundik said.
Added Klein, "We did a couple of shows last year. When we first started out we did a local stage on one of the shows, and that was pretty exciting for us."
Pundik continued, "We outdrew the headliner I heard. That's what I heard. I don't know."
Klein said, "We played while Black Eyed Peas were playing, and Dropkick Murphys, and, no, it said it on a local newspaper actually. 'Local band...,' you know, more people watching us than the headlining acts. So it was pretty cool."
Pundik added, "Warped Tour is like summer camp--punk rock summer camp. You like, you wake up, we eat breakfast with all the bands and stuff."
As is always this case with the tour, this year's events will also include extreme athletes--among them, skater Steve Caballero, BMX rider Rick Thorne, and Moto X madman Jeremy "Twitch" Steinberg.
New to the festivities is Incredibly Strange Wrestling, a marriage of rock music and wrestling born in the clubs of San Francisco. "It pits Christian against lion, homosexual against furry beast, and Scientologist boy band against Mexican Viking Horde!" said a spokesperson for the sport.
The Vans Warped Tour 2001 is owned by LAUNCH Media.
Here is the complete tour itinerary (subject to change). Venues are to be announced in the coming days:
June 22 - Phoenix, AZ
June 23 - Las Vegas, NV
June 24 - Fresno, CA
June 27 - Chula Vista, CA (San Diego)
June 28 - Irvine, CA
June 29 - Los Angeles, CA
June 30 - San Francisco, CA
July 1 - Soda Springs, CA (Lake Tahoe)
July 2 - Nampa, ID (Boise)
July 3 - Quincy, WA (Seattle)
July 5 - Calgary, ALB
July 6 - Bozeman, MT
July 7 - Salt Lake City, UT
July 08 - Brighton, CO (Denver)
July 10 - Kansas City, MO
July 11 - St. Louis, MO
July 12 - Indianapolis, IN
July 13 - Milwaukee, WI
July 14 - Minneapolis, MN
July 15 - Tinley Park, IL (Chicago)
July 17 - Cincinnati, OH (Sparta, KY)
July 18 - Nashville, TN
July 19 - Little Rock, AR
July 20 - Dallas, TX
July 21 - San Antonio, TX
July 22 - Houston, TX
July 25 - Atlanta, GA
July 26 - Panama City Beach, FL
July 27 - Orlando, FL
July 28 - Miami, FL
July 29 - Jacksonville/Tampa, FL
July 31 - Virginia Beach/Norfolk, VA
August 1 - Bristow, VA (Washington, D.C.)
August 2 - Pittsburgh, PA
August 3 - Camden, NJ (Philadelphia)
August 4 - New York City or Long Island, TBA
August 5 - Asbury Park, NJ
August 7 - Cleveland, OH
August 8 - Buffalo, NY
August 9 - Boston, MA
August 10 - Montreal, QUE
August 11 - Barrie, ONT (Toronto)
August 12 - Pontiac, MI (Detroit)
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles and Darren Davis, New York
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