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Panic! at the Disco Fan Site
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This is an unofficial Panic!
at the Disco Fan Site meant to bring all that
Panic! at the Disco has to offer to the fans. Enjoy!
Fueled by Ramen Review
Some bands spend their whole careers just hoping to
produce an album as complex, cohesive and creative
as A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Not these guys. They
managed to get it right on the first try.
"Really, from that first year [playing instruments],
all we really did was cover Blink 182 songs,"
remembers Spencer, laughing. The band eventually matured,
moved on from all the small things and recruited classmates
Brent Wilson and Brendon Urie on bass and vocals,
respectively.
"We didn't want to write a record that had 11
of the same songs on it," explains Ryan (Guitarist).
In order to make sure that didn't happen, the band
came up with the concept to divide the album in two
halves: the first being futuristic, complete with
drum machines and synthesizers, and the second being
nostalgic, complete with Vaudevillian piano and accordion.
"It was too extremes of influence being put
next to each other: the most electronic music we have
on the record and the most old, out-of-style music
we have on the record." The band took pointers
from some of their biggest—although not overt—influences:
Third Eye Blind's melodic song structures (on "But
It's Better When We Do"), Queen's theatric instrumentation
(on "Build God, Then We'll Talk") and Counting
Crows' vivid and narrative lyrics (on "There's
A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You
Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet"). "You wouldn't
hear our record and say, 'Hmmm, these guys are influenced
by Fleetwood Mac or Counting Crows, 'but those are
our favorite bands," insists Spencer.
It's this split-brain approach to songwriting that
has resonated with listeners young and old. The band
has scored big with PureVolume (continually being
on the site's Top 10 Signed Bands chart) and MySpace
(reaching #1 on the indie charts), and when they returned
to Las Vegas after recording, they played a hometown
show (actually, the band's first live concert ever)
and over two hundred people showed up. The boys' parents,
especially Ryan's father, realized the band was more
than just a fleeting hobby and eventually became card-carrying
members of their fan club.
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Biography
Just
barely out of high school, pop-punk outfit Panic!
at the Disco fan site burst out of suburban
Las Vegas in 2005 with their full-length debut,
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. The group materialized
band members Spencer Smith
(drums) and Ryan Ross (guitar)
grew tired of covering blink-182 tunes together
and thus recruited classmates Brendon
Urie (guitar/vocals) and Brent
Wilson (bass) to complete the quartet.
Crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical
touches, quirky techno beats, and perceptive
lyrics, they posted some Panic! at the disco
MP3's online and soon caught the attention of
Decaydance, the Fueled by Ramen imprint headed
by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Even though the
band had yet to play a live show, they were
subsequently signed. With their record issued
in September 2005, the guys hit the road that
fall on the successful Nintendo Fusion Tour
alongside Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack,
Boys Night Out, and the Starting Line. As their
single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
found its way into TRL hearts (and the Top 40)
by the early months of 2006, the band kept the
momentum going on the road with the Academy
Is..., Acceptance, and Hellogoodbye.
Proving to be a popular lineup, the tour consistently
sold out venues across the country. Wilson parted
ways with the group mid-year; Panic! pressed
on with a full summer of headlining dates around
the country that culminated with appearances
in Chicago at Lollapalooza and overseas at the
U.K.'s Reading and Leeds festivals.
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