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More than three dozen punk, metal, pop, emo, hip-hop and hardcore bands playing on asphalt beneath the skin-liquefying summer sun? That’s the Vans Warped Tour 2011, downtown Thursday.

It was pretty much a rhetorical question, its answer spelled out right in front of him in the form of an overexcited, exclamation-point-of-an-audience whose collective mood was buoyant enough to float on water.