"Kevin Lyman" is the founder and operator of 4Fini, Inc., a live event production company and brand strategy firm. His most notable live production is the Vans Warped Tour, which attracts about 500,000 people annually and is the longest-running North American festival concert tour.

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Some people had doubts about an African-American woman leading the congregation, but it just took one Sunday and everybody just loved her immediately.

Our goal is to give fans a six hour arena show with a multimedia experience of live music and activities for under $30 bucks.

Try to do it without these corporate relationships and charge $25 for 100 bands. It?s impossible.

Punk is the root of this. Everything else is an offshoot. Some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. The best bands rise to the top.

I never thought it would last this long. I should be a schoolteacher somewhere.

This forum, the first of its kind in the industry, provided a valuable opportunity to work together with our industry colleagues to prepare for challenges and opportunities within the changing collective investment fund marketplace.

We want tickets to be $25, to make it a bit more accessible for kids who might not be able to afford a $200 ticket to another benefit. We'll raise somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000 to $400,000 for victims of Katrina, and we'll make kids feel like they were part of something larger.

On Thursday morning, I turned on the TV and was horrified by what I saw, ... And then I couldn't sleep that night. So the next morning, I knew we had to do something, so I just sent out a mass e-mail to all the Warped family. And within 48 hours the whole thing started coming together.