For almost a quarter of a century, Vans Warped Tour was a clubhouse for music culture, focusing on alt-rock and then branching into a punk-rock juggernaut with tentacles in all kinds of genres and nonprofit initiatives. After this weekend’s final event at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, tour founder Kevin Lyman’s vision for a massive touring fest will be remanded to the record books, and all we’ll have left are our own personal memories of ringing ears, sunburn, sweat and smiles. As we were completing what would be our final Warped issue (AP 372), we realized there were plenty of commentaries from people on all sides of the stages that we simply could not get into the book. We hope that as you are waiting for your fave band to jump around in front of a Vans logo backdr...