Kevin Lyman

Kevin Lyman is creator of the Warped Tour the Taste of Chaos and the Mayhem tours. He also is a partner at Sideonedummy Records, home of Gogol Bordello, Bedouin Soundclash and The Briggs. He owns 4FINI which annually produces the above-mentioned tours as well as produced past tours such as the Down From the Mountain Tour, The Watcha Tour, and Sprite Liquid Mix Tour. 4Fini is based out of Pasadena, California with 4 employees including Kevin. The operations manager for 4fini is Keri Lee. She worked in radio for years and is a very knowledgeable person in the music business, she is basically Kevin's right hand man (she is a female though). One of Kevin's most recent success' is the Coachella and Stagecoach Festival campgrounds. He was contracted by the promoter Goldenvoice to consult on the Campgrounds. In 2007 it was reported that campground attendance was in upwards of 17,000 [www.coachella.com] .

Tours & Festivals

Active tours

* Vans Warped Tour
* Taste of Chaos tour
* Mayhem Festival
* Rockstar Energy Drink Get a Life Tour

Previous tours

*Down From the Mountain Tour
*The Watcha Tour
*Sprite Liquid Mix Tour
*This is Why Wurr Hot Tour

Filmography

Kevin Lyman has appeared in two films:
*"Punk Rock Holocaust"
*"Punk Rock Holocaust 2"

Warped Tour

In 1994, Warped Tour started out as Kevin Lyman, a 3-year Lollapolooza veteran, took a handfull of his favorite SoCal Punk & Ska bands, including Sublime and No Doubt, shoved them on a bus and embarked on what was inevitabley a financially unsuccessful, but life-affirming tour. Debating calling the whole thing off for the upcoming 1995 summer, Lyman was approached by Vans shoe company to put together a skating fest. Seeing the obvious connection, Kevin jumped on the chance to incorporate their idea into his Warped Tour, and the longest running annual tour in North America was born: The Vans Warped Tour. By 1997, the crowd was twice as large than the one in 1996 due to the fact that bands such as Blink-182 and Social Distortion were there all year long. This still continues, and that is why it is known as "The Tour That Won't Die". Kevin also included Warped Recycling in recent Warped Tours to help get all the trash left at the shows recycled. The incentive is If you bring the most trash to the "recycling tent" at any show you get a 100$. He also worked with Shelleylyn owner of Tada Catering, who is the annual tour caterer, to include Earth ware as the dish ware used everyday. He also started to use a mix of diesel and bio-diesel in the production buses on the tour.

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