[1] The 24-date tour began on July 4, 1996 in Phoenix, Arizona and ended August 8, 1996 in Panama City, Florida.

The former show was originally scheduled for Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, but due to issues with the venue, the show was moved at the last minute to the much smaller The Capitol Ballroom nightclub.

According to tour founder Kevin Lyman, the addition of punk bands such as NOFX and Pennywise helped establish the tour as a "credible" punk festival, thus making it more successful than the first year's eclectic lineup.

After a planned meeting with Calvin Klein was delayed by a blizzard, he received a call from Vans who wanted to launch an amateur skateboarding contest at the festival.

[1][9] Vans later gave Lyman an additional $100,000 to buy back merchandising rights to the tour that he had already sold to another company.