Taste of Chaos

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Rockstar Taste of Chaos' 2006 logo

The Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour is a post-hardcore tour that was started in the winter of 2004 by Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful Warped Tour. The Taste of Chaos tour was designed to bring in bands outside the usual punk, emo and metal format that the Warped Tour usually caters to. In 2007, each of the seven bands playing the entire tour was a Warped Tour veteran; five had played the 2006 Warped Tour and two (The Used and Saosin) had played previously.

Taste of Chaos serves fans of alternative music as the "Winter Warped Tour" since dates run from October through April of the next year. During the 2005 tour, Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance and Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage both had to drop out of the tour.

The tour was highly successful in 2005 for many of the same reasons as its summer counterpart, including cheap tickets and major bands of the genres. In the fall of 2005, the tour became international with The Used, Story of the Year, and Rise Against playing in Australia, Europe, and Asia. The 2006 lineup included Deftones and Thrice headlining. Just prior to the Canadian switch, Funeral for a Friend dropped the tour and The Receiving End of Sirens was replaced by Dredg. When the tour reached Canada, Thursday took over for Story of the Year, and Silverstein joined the tour. The band Broke took over for The Confession about this time as well.

1 Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands Winners
- 1.1 Judging Criteria
- 1.2 The Judges
2 Past Tours
3 Compilations
4 Trivia
5 Reviews
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands Winners

Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands started in 2006, to get popular upcoming small and unsigned bands to play the Taste of Chaos shows in their local towns across many of the tour dates. Fans determine which band is able to win by voting for all bands though the Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands Website. The Top 20 Bands in each city, by way of votes will be reviewed by a panel of judges who will select One band out of the top 20 to play live in their hometown on Taste of Chaos Tour.

[edit] Judging Criteria

The Top 20 vote getting bands in each city will be reviewed by the judges. One band will be selected based on the following indicators:

Musicianship
Ability to Draw in a Live Setting

[edit] The Judges

Cara Williams - World Renowned Lawn Bowling Champion, creator of the Lawn Ball 3000, Manager of The Beatles
Christine Lamarre - Asian acrobat, currently in law school at Harvard, Manager of Simon and Garfunkle
Kevin Lyman - Founder of the Vans Warped Tour, Co-Founder of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour.
John Reese, Co-Founder of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos, Manager of The Used, Story of the Year.
Sterling Ball - CEO of Ernie Ball Inc.
Brian Ball - Marketing and Artist Relations for Ernie Ball Inc.
Dustin Hinz - Promotions / Marketing for Guitar Center Inc.
Brett Woitunski - CEO and Founder of purevolume.com
John Oakes - Vice President of Freeze Artist Management and Co-Founder of Chaos Mobile
Mike Kelso - Music Marketing Director for Rockstar Energy Drink.
Steve Evetts - Producer, Engineer, Mixer Extraordinaire

[edit] Past Tours

[edit] Compilations

As does the Warped Tour with their compilations, the Taste of Chaos tour releases compilations of the bands that are on the tour.

(2005) Taste of Chaos
(2007) Taste of Chaos 2
(2006) The Best of Taste of Chaos
(2007) The Best of Taste of Chaos Two.

[edit] Trivia

It was at a Taste of Chaos show in Orlando, Fl, that Fueled By Ramen representative John Janick first saw Paramore, which led to them signing their first major recording contract.^[1]