Taste Of Chaos 2007: The Warped Tour's Little Brother Makes Good

Remember the days when the winter season was merely a waiting period before the summer’s most enticing concerts arrived? Thanks to Van’s Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman, the masses can have their fix of rock even in the subzero temperatures.

Two years have past since Lyman unleashed the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos tour upon the world, and it’s rapidly gaining a reputation that rivals only its Warped predecessor. With dates already covered overseas in late 2006, it’s now time for the United States and Canada to get their own dose of cutting-edge rock. Granted, it doesn’t quite match the 100-plus band lineup of the Warped Tour, but for the price of the ticket (between $15 and $30) you’re still getting a lot more for your buck than the majority of concerts out there.

The Headliners

The tour kicked off Feb. 15 in Seattle, Wa., with a lineup that includes some familiar faces from the 2006 Warped Tour, along with a few MTV darlings. Here’s a rundown of this year’s headliners:

The Used

The band is no stranger to the annual event, headlining with My Chemical Romance back in 2005.

Their next album is tentatively scheduled for May, and audiences will likely get a taste of the new material at Taste of Chaos.

Before vocalist Bert McCracken had his supposed fallout (which may or may not be over) with My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, they courageously covered “Under Pressure” (Queen and David Bowie) with impressive results.

30 Seconds To Mars

The band is possibly the biggest draw thanks to heavy rotation on MTV for the video “The Kill.”

Two new songs are making the rounds and will likely be played at Taste of Chaos: “Some Other Son/The Believer” and “Sisters of Heresy.”

Back when the band first formed, vocalist Jared Leto refused to use his fame as an actor on such shows like “My So-Called Life” to gain publicity for his band. Even if you don’t like the band, at least they started out with some integrity.

Senses Fail

They regularly feature fans’ photos taken at concerts in their band gallery page. The tradition will likely continue if fans bring out their cameras to Taste Of Chaos.

If you’ve got a creative side, check out the band’s website www.sensesfail.com. They recently announced that every week they will be holding a contest that draws on their fans’ creative skills.

Saosin

The debate over whether current vocalist Cove Reber lives up to original vocalist Anthony Green rages on. Check out their live show to see who is the eternal Saosin frontman.

Evaline

It was only about a month ago that drummer Steven Forrest announced that he was leaving the band. Taste of Chaos marks a big turning point for Evaline, and may shed light on who his permanent replacement will be.

Aiden

Regardless if you think the band is an AFI knockoff, the quintet has been touring at a feverish pace and will continue to do so over the summer. Their stage show has gotten stronger as a result.

Chiodos

If you’re looking for both an amusing and energetic stage show, look no further than Chiodos. The band is usually introduced by a costumed character (possibly the “Troll Master”), which is then followed by some classic fog effects and a manic crowd.

Battling To Be The Next Big Thing

If you didn’t get a chance to sign your band up for this year’s Ernie Ball Music Man Battle of the Bands, the deadline unfortunately was Jan. 31. Discouraging news aside, there are still quite a few lucky bands who may earn the coveted award of playing live in their hometown. The Ernie Ball-sponsored contest has actually been going strong since 1996 and has been used at many more festivals than just Kevin Lyman’s brainchildren. The contest is judged by fans in the first portion of it, so it’s possible that the battling bands might have more of the audience’s welcome than the headliners. The top 20 bands with the most votes then go on to be judged by an illustrious panel of judges that include Lyman and Ernie Ball CEO Sterling Ball.

Chaos’ Charitable Addition

The tour features an assortment of booths, ranging from retail-oriented goods to charitable organizations. One notable addition to this year’s Taste of Chaos is the Music Saves Lives booth, which is dedicated to registering new bone marrow donors under the age of 25 for cancer programs.

FAQs

Doors typically open around 5 to 5:30 p.m. and cameras are allowed, so long as they are non-professional. Some bands will do autograph signing sessions, so keep a watch out for these booths. To purchase tickets and find out more about the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour, please go to Tickets can be purchased through the event site at rockstartasteofchaos.com.

02/15 Seattle, WA Everett Events Center
02/17 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
02/18 Reno, NV Lawlor Events Center
02/20 Fresno, CA Selland Arena
02/21 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
02/22 Los Angeles, CA Long Beach Sports Arena
02/23 Sacramento, CA Arco
02/25 Phoenix, AZ Glendale Arena
02/27 Denver, CO Magness Arena
03/01 El Paso, TX County Coliseum
03/02 Dallas, TX Nokia
03/03 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheatre
03/04 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
03/05 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless
03/08 Jacksonville, FL Morrocco Shrine Auditorium
03/09 Miami, FL Bank United Center at U of Miami
03/10 Orlando, FL Tinker Field
03/11 Tampa, FL Sun Dome
03/13 Atlanta, GA Gwinett Arena
03/15 Champaign, IL Assembly Hall
03/16 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
03/17 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
03/18 Dayton, OH Hara Arena
03/20 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Center
03/22 Boston, MA Tsongas
03/23 Long Island, NY Nassau Coliseum
03/24 Asbury Park, NJ Convention Hall
03/25 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
03/27 Montreal, QC Stade Uniprix
03/28 Ottawa, ON Corel Center
03/29 Kitchener, ON The Auditorium
03/30 Toronto, ON Arrow Hall
03/31 Detroit, MI Cobo Arena
04/03 Winnipeg, MB Convention Centre
04/04 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Center
04/05 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Hall
04/06 Calgary, AB Stampede Corral

Comments

[Cynoxx]

It's Scotia Bank Place not corel center! Sounds like there's only emo bands. Eugghhh.

[Guitar_Guy00001]

I havent even heard 3 of these bands...

[Paddles]

I was pissed off that I didn't get to go last year because I got stomach flu the night before, but this year's lineup looks like shit. Pass.

[dio5288]

this concert is gonna be sick, i dont care what you guys think

[LPShredder]

eh... I would only go to see 30 seconds to mars, and i've already seen em

[PopNFresh07]

What a horrible concert. :\

[break-me-in]

30 Seconds to Mars are the only band there that I've heard of which are worth seeing. (Who are Chiodos and Evaline?)

[Adam_Harrison9]

There was only one decent band on last year and they're not on that list.

[Xerothunder]

I'd see 30stm, MAYBE the Used... that's it.

Checked

[frankv]

My girlfriend likes the Used, my bassplayer likes Aiden, I saw 30 Seconds myself on MTV (on the rare occasion when they play music). I wouldn't go there even if the tickets were for free.

[Trifixion]

30 seconds to mars are a wicked band! 'a beautiful lie' is an amazing album.. a must hear!!

[Soma3009]

Wow.
Thanks for telling me two days after the show stops by Seattle.

[Crimson_tornado]

Actually the used would probably be quite a good live band, there's so much energy in their music, no matter what you think of it. I've been to see bands that I've never even heard of before (at Reading Festival) and it either enlightens you to new bands or shows you which bands you should avoid in future. And if you don't like the line up, why bother commenting?

[randyrhoads...]

im going , and its going to be sick

[Gibson_Rocker13]

30stm is a joke...when i saw them open for audioslave in 05 for the out of exile tour (sadly their last), they got booed off the stage or something and then they were doing a signing and there was about 8 people there...it was hilarious i was laughing my ass off

[Matt.Chavie]

I'd go if I lived within a 100 miles of where it's happening. Saosin is pretty good even though they don't have Anthony Green, and Chiodos is a really good live band, and as much as I hate Aiden's music they sound completely different live and put on a great show. I don't know about the Used, and I saw Evaline a year ago and it was ok, it isn't really music that translates good live.

[Hashmire420]

Sweet. I missed the Chiodos at the house cafe a while ago.

Now i just gotta wait a month.

Oh and they are definetly not emo, go listen to f.c.p.remix you metalheads will love it.

[Mikke]

A concert filled with emo's. That must really suck

[f***music]

everyone who doesn't think senses fail are the best band on this bill are completely wrong.

30 is decent, but im sure live they are no spectacle

The used suck

[masterohumans]

why do people tell other people what to like? and then if they dont like its they say "your stupid" "you dont good music" or "kill youself"?

[hugehair87]

What I don't understand is why is this the "rock" festival?

[samuwel]

uhhm i agree senses fail are waaaay better than the used.

[axeslinger0u812]

yeah, senses fail are better, totally agree. 30 seconds to mars just continuously ripped off Thrice on that cd. and I've seen The Used, and they aren't a headlining band. Atreyu blew them off the stage.

[Metal_freek]

aiden is such a sweet band. definitly not a rip off of afi. totally different

[TempoTantrum]

"a is cool!"

"b is better you loser!"

"c is the best you idiots!"

who cares, why is it so threatening for people to like bands you don't? people probably hate the bands you like, so shut up

[rock3rath3art]

it'd be good seeing senses fail and aiden again. plus... i like chiodos. hmm...

[AcsticRckr89]

im f***in pissed that they arent coming to Norfolk, VA... they've always come here... AHHHHH!!!!! i wanted to see chiodos so bad

[fireoptic]

No thanks.

Someone bring back Woodstock, where some actual good bands play!

[GetTheGasoline]

this isnt worth my money. my chemical romance is good. soasin is great(although i would rather see ccirca survive!). chiodos makes me wanna kill myself. 30 seconds to mars is overrated. the end

[ibanez_player]

This is one hell of a line-up
Who cares what you think
And noone out there rocks harder
for the used, than their hometown!
=)
hell yeah Next monday

[Room On Fire]

Hashmire420 wrote:
Oh and they are definetly not emo, go listen to f.c.p.remix you metalheads will love it.

F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. is The Fall f Troy

[k90728]

Ouch, Wack line up. Warped tour also sucks LAWL.

[Acheron95]

30 Seconds To Mars is the only band I would go see

[drummerdude5]

CHIODOS FUCKING ROCKS!!!!! SO DOES AIDEN!!!!! THIS IS A HELLA GOOD LINEUP!!!!

[im not mental]

all the bands except senses fail (and maybe red jumpsuit) suck. i don't understand how 1/2 my school is going to that shit festival.

[SG5533]

Chiodos and Saosin are definatly worth seeing live

[kmilongo]

saosin and 30stm get my approval. aiden sucks sucks sucks!
the rest of the bands, i haven't heard too much of them.
and TFOT should've been in that lineup.
my two cents.

[phungar]

pfft gets worse every year

[A Lost Soul]

geez i guess they kind of got rid of the hardcore bands this year... now it's going to be all emo and shit, well aiden is good, hopefully the used will play some old stuff and drop their emo junk

[punk_isntemo12]

i think the tour is coming to Australia in october.....ifso im going. i love 30stm! oh and senses fail is kinda better than 30stm. but the Used kick ass!!! whoooo

[xcrunner1]

more like taste of eyeliner...nothing chaotic about this tour.

[RickGardiner]

Only band I'd like to see there is Chiodos, and it's coming to my hometown. I'm not gonna waste $40 just to see one band though.

[Kurtsmyhero06]

30 seconds to mars = wayyy overrated i like 2 of their songs but they arent that great
the used-gota love them even tho their lyrics have gay terms(nuthing against gays but im straight so i find it gross)
saosin and senses are ok rest never herd of

[Hashmire420]

Room On Fire wrote:

Hashmire420 wrote:
Oh and they are definetly not emo, go listen to f.c.p.remix you metalheads will love it.


F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. is The Fall f Troy

What the hell was going through my mind when I wrote that.

Whatever, chiodos are still good.

[BlinkMe-Rancid]

The Used are an Awesome Live band
30 Seconds to mars im sick of now

[theataris_dan]

"Thanks to Van’s Warped Tour"

Vans*

Also, I went to TOC last year here in Australia. Good lord it was terrible I only went to see Anti-Flag and had to put up with thousands of faggots dressed in black having a bitch about their "shitty lives". God damn emos.

[guywithtoaster]

circa survive is better then saosin. therefore anthony green wins

firstly a hell of a lot of you should learn the definition of 'emo' and also stop being wildly judgmental. different people like different things, which is GOOD. otherwise we'd all like the same things and drift through life.

secondly, this tour isn't that great in my opinion. i fail to see how a tour sponsored by an energy drink and a clothing brand (it was in the uk) can be billed as 'chaos'.

AND checked.

[kdcisgod]

Taste of "Chaos"
sounds to me like madd heavy shit
Saosin...The Used...****ing 30stm
how about like As I Lay Dying and Atreyu and shit
don't get me wrong, i like a lot of the bands on this lineup [chiodos, saosin, senses fail, the used] but i was hoping for more heavy stuff

[Dreaming-V]

no emo

gigantour all the way

[S2S]

I can't believe Deftones did this tour last year. I sat through literally 13 bands of the same genre as this year's acts (and exactly the same as one another to top that), but as soon as Deftones came out, I didn't care anymore. Good times.

[XxXgUiTaRxXx]

i missed the deftones last year... but this year the bill is less impressive. im going to see the used and 30stm and i hardly care about the other bands. and theres no metal bands this year which is kind of disapointing.

[rtbsmgsmf]

why didnt they come to norfolk,VA this year. When i talked to wiL form aiden he said taste of chaos was coming here. wow this sucks.

[DR_SH]

Didn't know that taste of chaos had anything to do with the warped tour I'm from the UK so correct me if I'm wrong but i always thought that the warped tour was a punk festival and that taste of chaos was more metalcore scremo and heavy rock. or at least it was the year that KSE played.

I'v not heard of hardly any of the bands on that lineup the Used are alright and I can't stand Aiden and that's about it.

the music saves lives sounds like a really worth wile coarse only I'm not a fan of needles

[ihaterap69]

Hashmire420 wrote:

Sweet. I missed the Chiodos at the house cafe a while ago.

Now i just gotta wait a month.

Oh and they are definetly not emo, go listen to f.c.p.remix you metalheads will love it.

i didnt see fall of troy listed up there.

[sum41freak8733]

im not trying to be an ass , and half of you will think im completely wrong but , anyway

emo means "emotional" now emotion means everything happy,angry,sad,excited, everything so why do people always say "ew there emo i dont like them " if you think about the way i use the term "emo " EVERY BAND IN THE F***ING WORLD would be emo i hate it when people use emo as a genre in the music world i consider these bands rock or alternative or mainstream (well not all chiodos half the people dont even know about which take note are a very good live band ) stop saying emo just means "slit my wrist im depressed" i cant stand it emo is even a f"""ing genre in my opinion

[placebic]

PopNFresh07 wrote:

What a horrible concert. :\

^

Mikke wrote:

A concert filled with emo's. That must really suck

see also: My first year of warped tour.

fireoptic wrote:

No thanks.

Someone bring back Woodstock, where some actual good bands play!

^
(they tried that, but it obviously no longer ment anything in '94, when stuff just got wrecked, burnt-down, you name it. Warped, IMO, at least seemed awesome when it first rolled around the bend. Looks like ToC tour's headin' for the same path. But that's just my opinion )

[sum41freak8733]

i remember last woodstock in rome (where i live ) back in 1999 everything was trashed and riots were going on it was horrible (moshpits , slam dancing , stage diving , crowd surfing ) thats all ok but riots no just f***ing no lol

[TeenBite]

I love the way that the article has to try and justify why you should see most of these godawful bands.

Saosin are the only band on the list with integrity, and even then they're not original or very interesting.

[BassNewbie]

kryptonite22 m :
firstly a hell of a lot of you should learn the definition of 'emo' and also stop being wildly judgmental. different people like different things, which is GOOD. otherwise we'd all like the same things and drift through life.

secondly, this tour isn't that great in my opinion. i fail to see how a tour sponsored by an energy drink and a clothing brand (it was in the uk) can be billed as 'chaos'.

yeah image isn't everything

id go to see chiodos and circa survive. chiods is amanzg

[sum41freak8733]

kryptonite22 is right but i just thought of something you know we had the period where pop punk was big ..... now the new stuff (i refuse to call it emo )what happens if classic rock , blues ,metalcore , hardcore(mind you not post-hardcore ), metal , hair metal ,and all that kind of stuff becomes the next what are people gonna say that zepplin and hendrix or hell even deathmetal or grindcore like cannibal corpse and nuclear death are gonna suck you cant tell me half the people on hear only bitch when bands get big (well most not ALL bands that get big )y is it that pop punk and "new stuff" always get trashed talked think of blink and yellowcard and simpleplan(dont care to much for SP or YC ) but still people LOVE circa survive and chiodos but dis blink becuase tom has a whiny voie ...wtf is that ?

[sum41freak8733]

voice*

[Y.RiseAgainst.Y]

some of these bands are actually pretty desent,
Chiodos = CRAZY
The Used = Awsome Live
And the otehrs are actually not bad,
Those 2 bands are really great though

[Masterbasser36]

BAHAHAHA, IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN WARPED TOUR! HAHAHAHA!

[zappafanatic]

what in the hell happened to real music? all this new-fangled music sucks. well, most of it anyway.

[gibson4ver]

no music festival will ever beat the unholy alliance.ever.

[jyeeah]

dude some of you are one crack
30 seconds to mars was prob performed the worst out of them all
jared cant hold a note
and it just sounds so stupid when he calls people ****ers
i just went last night in SF
senses fail rocked, crowd was craziest then
saosin, and the used were good as well

[petetheelite]

taste of chaos is the annoying little brother that the warped tour beats on.

[misirlou]

is there really any difference between warped tour and taste of chaos anymore?

[headlessbex]

I forgot something.
WHERE THE FUCK DID MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DISAPPEAR TO??
-rawr-

[claudman]

headlessbex wrote:

I forgot something.
WHERE THE FUCK DID MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DISAPPEAR TO??
-rawr-

there on tour with rise agaisnt



the only reason i would go would be because of senses fail but since they lost dave they suck and come on, you cant find a better band to headline then 30 seconds to mars. there are a shit load of bands with more talent then them to choose form.

checked

[vote-claypool]

i dont know why the hell the deftones decided to play this tour, as it seems to be crappy emo bands and thats it. **** the used

[vote-claypool]

gibson4ver wrote:

no music festival will ever beat the unholy alliance.ever.

hell no it wont, it doesnt get better than slayer, mastodon, lamb of god, and children of bodom....sadly that tour didnt come to virginia, that i know of, so i missed out. still, i could only imagine the crazy shit goin down

[headlessbex]

Oh thanks claudman.
Damn.
Wish it would end quick.
So they would have gone for TOC, then I would go.
HUH.

[MetallicA44]

YUS!!! Saosin.
wow they're awesome.
im going when they stop in new zealand.
lol.
new zealand.













new zealand is better than stupid usa.
pfft.