RVM wrote Here's my story, not sure it'll be any good to you or not but oh well--

Was seeing the band Rush live. One of the most amazing concerts I've ever had the chance to be at in my life. Just the energy that was around alone made me feel amazing. So I got up at one point to go walk to get something to eat, as I was waiting in line there was a girl in front of me, she had dropped her purse and everything scattered Over the floor. I went to help her gather everything and after it was done she thanked me and we got to talking and kind of hit it off. We were just 2 peas in a pod. We didn't want to split up but we had tickets on opposite sides of the auditorium. She gave me her number I texted her. And we met up later that night for drinks and food. This was 3-4 years ago. Now we are engaged, with a 1 year old son! She is the love of my life. Never will forget that day as I met the most amazing woman I ever have met. And now we have our own baby boy, if it wasn't for that concert, we would have never even met! Crazy to think. -- Just wanted to share as this was the best expierience of my life and thought it was worth sharing.

Nicholas wrote I've been to warped a handful of times with all access. Thought maybe some of you would be interested in knowing what it's like back there.
The experience is going to differ each time depending on the stage crew. Some are real chill and just leave you alone to enjoy the show. Others are more high strung and clearly do not want you there and in their way,
The sound up there is horrible. The sound equipment is set up to project out over the audience. Not behind or to the side of the band. From on stage you can barely make out even your favorite songs. It all just sounds like jumbled noise. In addition to that you are just staring at everyone's backs and more often than not your view is blocked by props or sound equipment. You are honestly much better off watching the bands from the crowd.
The appeal to me for being on stage is watching the crowd. It is amazing to watch the energy of the crowd from that perspective. I think the best example of this was Bring Me The Horizon on one of the smaller stages, The crowd was massive and the entire stage shook with noise and energy. It is also interesting to see a bit of a different side of the musicians. From the stage you catch little things like the guitar player from Anberlin accidentally blowing a snot rocket while on stage and asking the drummer if he still had snot running down his face, or the toddler daughter of Hawthorn Heights guitar player watching her daddy play and kept trying to run out on stage to be with him.
Another perk is being able to meet some of the band members. Whats cool about Warped is a lot of other band members will come check out their friends play. While watching the Chariot, I got to talk with Jason Butler from letlive. That dude is honestly the nicest and most sincere guy.
Another cool guy is the singer from Pierce The Veil. Not really a fan of their music but I ran in to him one one of the side stages watching some new band. They had literally a hand full of people in front of the stage and you could tell they were excited to have him there supporting. Thought that was cool of him. We chatted for a minute and he was a real friendly guy as well.
Other random encounters - The guys from Taking Back Sunday let us share their tent while they stretched out and got ready to go on stage. . One of the guys from Motionless in White sat and talked with us for a bit about tattoos. We have run into and talked with Jenna from Tonight Alive a couple of times and she was very sweet. I chatted with the drummer from the Chariot a bit last summer as well which I was excited about as they are one of the bands I actually listen to. Not all of the musicians you meet are very friendly or sociable though.

-Silky wrote My story.
So this year I went to British Summer Time to see Green Day perform and I was extremely excited as they are one of my favourite bands. I had saved up loads of money to afford this (keep this in mind)

I had got there many hours earlier with a friend and got relatively close to the stage, all good so far. Green Day come on and two songs later comes on the song 'Holiday' before they start playing they ask to get 3 people on stage which they chose randomly, after going mental I was suprsingly picked at which I couldn't believe (nor my friend) and I made my way over the fence at the front but as I did this I was tackled by 4 security men and chucked out the festival.

So I paid a massive amount of money to be chucked out 2 songs in.