A man scams his way onto the Warped Tour by pretending to be a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. | dG1fMmpYWVpzQ3lmOFU
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00:00I'm a writer.
00:24And one day, through work, I meet the guy who runs the Vance Warp Tour.
00:28This is the biggest punk rock traveling music festival in the world.
00:32And I ask the guy if he'll put my band on the tour so that I can write about it.
00:36And he says yes.
00:38The only problem is I don't have a band.
00:40So I got four weeks to put a band together.
00:43The first guy I call is my buddy Joey, I've known since high school.
00:45He used to play tuba in the marching band.
00:47Now he's a flight attendant and amateur bullfighter.
00:49Too much tequila.
00:50That could be a problem.
00:53The other vocalist is this Mexican kid from Tijuana who used to sneak across
00:56the border every day to go to high school.
00:58The guy is a maricon, man.
00:59Chad is our token 23-year-old pretty boy we used to attract to ladies.
01:03On drums, Sean, semi-respected television producer.
01:06But I also have a wife, a kid, and my in-laws along for the ride.
01:09I never sang a note in my life.
01:11But I figure if you're going to do it, be David Lee Roth.
01:15Everybody dreams about being a rock star.
01:17Now at 38, with no experience whatsoever, I'm getting my chance to live that dream.
01:22We're one of 86 bands on the tour, right?
01:25There's huge stages and we're nowhere near them.
01:27We're in a tent way off to the side.
01:29So I know that if we're even going to get anybody to notice us, we're going to have
01:33to come up with something original.
01:34Everybody loves mariachi music.
01:36Why not combine punk rock and mariachi?
01:38Everybody loves mariachi music.
01:40Why not combine punk rock and mariachi?
01:50Now we might be amateurs and we might be old, but we do have money for a fat Van Halen style
01:55tour bus and tons of booze.
01:57So we all take vacation time off work and we hit the road.
02:09Do you think it'll get worse before it gets better?
02:11No, I think I made rookie mistakes and I'm going to correct them and be back on track.
02:39Hell yeah!
02:40These guys freaking kicked my ass.
02:42They fucking rock.
02:43Oh my god, my husband is transformed into a rock star.