Mayday Parade's Derek Sanders Recounts Going From Warped Tour Fan to Performer

In 2002, Derek Sanders hit his first Warped Tour. Now, he and his band Mayday Parade are Warped veterans, rising from just another band playing the tour in 2007 to snagging their first go at slaying the main stage in 2014's just-wrapped fest. Fuse caught up with the 28-year-old for a little punk summer camp nostalgia.

"In 2002, 12 years ago, the first time I went ... it was about two weeks after I had lung surgery," he tells Fuse's Katie Van Buren. "I was kind of in rough shape. I went with all my friends and a lot of the reason we came was to see New Found Glory. They played last and I wanted to get up close, so my friends made a circle around me so we could get up close and they were kind of protecting me. The whole thing was an incredible moment."