Twelve-year Warped Tour veteran William Frances of Seattle, coffee in hand, got to the Home Depot Center in Carson on Aug. 23 in the morning, before the show opened. It’s the tour’s 15th year, and Vans has sponsored it since its second edition. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Diana Mendoza,27, of Seattle represents the PETA cause. She helped with the table for the organization’s young adults group, peta2, at the show. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Flexing her recycling muscles, Tara Redavid,28 is the one of the Vans Warped Tour’s sustainability coordinators. Last year the tour diverted 40,000 pounds of recyclables from landfills. Implemented in 2005, the sustainability initiative reduces the tour’s carbon footprint by way of a solar-powered stage, volunteer-driven recycling program, biodiesel fueling of 40 vehicles and a waste reduction program. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Performers Lantz Lazwell and Kim Manning are all smiles after their set. Manning also plays with the P-Funk All Stars. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Reverend J. Peyton looks stern before Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band takes the stage. The Brown County, Ind., family trio (the other members are his wife and his brother) plays country blues. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Petronella Cameron with son Vashawn Briscoe, 6, don’t seem particularly warped. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
He rode in on a skateboard. His name? “Pumba.” He drums for punk band (surprised?) Total Chaos. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Lynne Chomyong,19, is all heart rims and polka dots. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Rob ‘Chaos’ Clanson is the lead singer for Pomona Valley punks Total Chaos. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
The dread-ed Lomas of Hollywood. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Ice Cream Man’s Craig “Crash” Hattori and Suze Q are on a mission: to give away free ice cream. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Trent Nicely is, at 10, too young to have attended every Vans Warped Tour, but he says his first was when he was 3 weeks old. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Paul Schmidt helped musicians create these skateboards and others to benefit charities. He is considered the “Godfather” of modern skateboard deck manufacturing. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Mitch Schneider is punk classy. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Kevin Circosta, lead singer for the band The Truth, strikes a contemplative pose in front of his band mates: from left, Jamie Davis, DJ 7, Renee Wilson, Mic Holden and Ezroy Cameron. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Kevin Lyman founded the Warped Tour in 1994. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Victorville couple Davey Castillo and Dayna Beck are positively stud-ly. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Beck peeks over Castillo’s shoulder. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Elliot Lefko and his son Jacob,7, dig the scholarly punk rock of Bad Religion (frontman Greg Graffin lectures on life sciences and paleontology at UCLA). (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Chris O’Neill is a sustainability co-coordinator for the tour. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Kori Grzyb,13, right, of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Ashley Espinoza, 14, of Ontario participated in the All Girl Skate Jam. Grzyb won the jam. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
