LIMP BIZKIT (1997)
Hate on Limp Bizkit all you want (deservedly so, in many cases), but their debut, Three Dollar Bill, Y’all (released while the band was playing Warped Tour in the summer of 1997), is a solid exercise in white male middle-class catharsis. Tracks like “Stuck” and “Sour” detail how an immature, shortsighted young man of the late '90s would respond to a relationship gone wrong, and the band’s cover of George Michael’s “Faith” remains a fun novelty listen to this day.

KATY PERRY (2008)
Hey, before you headline the Super Bowl halftime show, you have to start somewhere, and that’s exactly what Perry did in 2008. Perry played Warped Tour in support of One of the Boys, which was released that summer and eventually sold more than 7 million copies. Perry’s sound doesn’t exactly jibe with that of Warped Tour, but the pop star actually credits the traveling festival for the success she’s had over the past decade. “I really got my bearings there,” she told USA Today of her Warped Tour experience.

SUBLIME (1995)
Per Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, this one almost didn’t come to pass, as Sublime insisted on breaking the festival’s “no dogs or friends” rule. This resulted in Sublime's temporarily being sent home in 1995, only to rejoin later. A year later, the band became superstars with the release of its self-titled third album. Unfortunately, front man Bradley Nowell wasn’t around to see his band break; he died of a drug overdose two months before Sublime hit shelves.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS (2002)
In 2016, Pharrell is the man behind massive hits like “Blurred Lines,” “Get Lucky” and “Happy.” He’s a coach on hit TV singing competition The Voice and an 11-time Grammy winner. In 2002, he was a member of N.E.R.D. (No-One Ever Really Dies), a hip-hop/rock hybrid he co-founded with childhood friend Chad Hugo. The group played Warped Tour in support of that year’s In Search Of…, which eventually sold more than 600,000 copies.