Since the age of 13, the two played Blink covers in bands of different formations, according to an interview with Walker and Ross. Ross and Smith then created a band under the name of "Pet Salamander" with two other friends, including Brent Wilson and guitarist Trevor Howell, who would later leave the band. Wilson asked Urie to try out as guitarist for the fledgling band, as they were looking for a replacement for Trevor at the time. Originally, Urie was not the band's lead singer.
Rather, the position belonged to former guitarist and lyricist Ryan Ross. However, when they heard Brendon sing backup vocals during a rehearsal, they were impressed with his backup vocal abilities and unanimously decided to make him the singer.
The band then settled on the name 'Panic! It was also stated by the band that the "! Wentz took a trip to Las Vegas to meet the band. After seeing them practice, he asked if they would sign with his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance.
After a consistent presence in PureVolume's top 10 signed artists, and reaching number one in MySpace's indie charts, Panic! The song was also featured and ran for a month as a "Hip Clipz" on the website of Curly Grrlz Skateboards.
The single itself, released April 27, got to 7 in the US charts. Due to their increase in popularity before and during the tour, the band ended up getting pushed above Acceptance to second-billed every night playing right before the headliner and "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" outsold The Academy Is The accompanying music video, released the previous month, portrays the band playing in a speakeasy in 's America, which, according to Urie, shows "the dark and secluded style of Panic.
The band officially announced the departure of their bassist, Brent Wilson, with a message on the band's website on May 17, Wilson has since claimed that the decision to leave was not his, and that he was fired without warning for monetary reasons, though the rest of the band deny this.
Just days after Wilson's departure, the band embarked on their first headlining tour through Europe, with long-time friend, Jon Walker, filling in for the summer tour as a temporary bassist while a permanent replacement was sought. All of the dates were sold out, with some, notably Manchester, selling out in a matter of hours. The success of their first two singles helped catapult their debut album to the top of the Billboard Independent chart and to 13 on the Billboard in July Toward the end of July , Panic!
The video only shows the band in one shot, reportedly because they felt that their looks were distracting from their music. During Panic! After a few minutes, he got back up and shouted to the crowd, "You can't take me out! Let's see how well you guys do with my left side", and continued with the same song. The band embarked on a world tour in the later part of It included dates in Australia, New Zealand, and continental Europe.
On November 7, , they kicked off their first-ever arena tour with Bloc Party who shortly dropped out because of drummer Matt Tong suffering a collapsed lung and Jack's Mannequin. They opened up the shows beginning in New York through November 26 in Iowa.
The accompanying music video portrays the fallacy of relationships. In , the band supported The Academy Is Beginning in June, the group headlined its first unnamed national tour, that would last until August. During the group's performance at the Reading Festival in August, the band was greeted by excessive bottling, one of which hit Urie in the face that knocked him unconscious. Despite this, the band continued with its set after Urie recovered.
In roughly one year, Panic! The Nothing Rhymes with Circus Tour debuted the band's highly theatrical and notable live show, which featured every song with dance numbers, skits and tricks performed by a six-member troupe, as the band donned intricate costumes, loosely re-enacting moments from the songs. After a short period of development regarding the ideas of the album, on March 6, the band arrived at a cabin in the rural mountains of Mount Charleston, Nevada and began the writing process for the new album.
After recording the new tracks and performing them live over the summer, the band returned to its native Las Vegas as well as the group's old rehearsal studio, where the band members wrote their debut record.
The band grew uninterested in the songs previously written and by August scrapped the entire new album which Ross later revealed was "three-quarters" done and started over. I think that we kind of skipped that part of songwriting on the first record, and this time we're sort of paying attention to that. I think it's the most fun and the happiest we've been since we started. In January , the band unveiled a new logo and dropped the exclamation point from the group's name, becoming Panic at the Disco.
Released on March 21, , Pretty. The record debuted at number two on the US Billboard chart, with first-day sales of 54,, and first-week sales of , copies in the United States.
Those figures marked the band's biggest sales week to that date, beating a previous record held by A Fever You Can't Sweat Out which sold 45, during the winter of The record also debuted at "Current Alternative Albums" chart and No.
The album charted high in various other countries and was eventually certified gold in the United Kingdom, however, Pretty. The band announced plans to headline the Honda Civic Tour in January , which took up the majority of early touring for the album. As expected and predicted by several music publications, the band adopted a very different style for the touring in support of Pretty. While reflecting on the theatrical nature of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out touring, Urie commented "We did it and it was a lot of fun when we did it, but this time around I think we wanted to get back to a more intimate, personal setting, and scale it down a little bit.
It's not as scripted out and pre-planned. It makes it more exciting for us, and less monotonous every night. An accompanying DVD contains photos from the tour, each music video from the album as well as behind-the-scenes footage of the videos and the tour, the short film Panic! On the tour, the band worked with two non-profit eco organizations: Reverb, which facilitates environmentally friendly touring; and Global Inheritance, which seeks to inspire more eco-activism. In a interview, Ross revealed that the band traveling on a biodiesel bus, to re-using plastics, and recycling more backstage.
The band went as far as to print tour booklets on recycled paper, with soy ink, and organize an "eco-contest," in which profits from the tour went straight to environmental organizations. In spring , the band began recording material for its third studio album.
However, on July 6, , Ryan Ross and Jon Walker announced via the band's official website that the two were leaving the band. In an interview following the split, Ross explained that he first brought the idea to Smith in late June over lunch: "Spencer and I had lunch and caught up for a while, and then the big question came up, like, 'Well, what do you want to do? Urie wanted the band to explore a more polished pop sound, while Ross — and, by extension, Walker — was interested in making retro-inspired rock.
The news asserted that both tour plans with blink in August and new album production "will continue as previously announced. On July 10, , Alternative Press also reported that the band had regained the exclamation point, becoming, once again, Panic! The band re-entered the studio during early and spent much of the year recording the group's third studio album.
During this time, touring bassist Dallon Weekes joined the band's official lineup along with Urie and Smith, making the band a three-piece. Although Weekes did not perform on the upcoming album, he was responsible for the conceptualization of the cover art of the album and was also featured on the album cover, masked and standing in the background behind Smith and Urie. The album was produced by Butch Walker and John Feldmann.
The record's first single, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", was released digitally on February 1, , with the music video being released February 8, The tour has sported the same electric, over-the-top theatricality the band was known for during the Fever era. Prior to the release of the album, Spencer unofficially left the band due to health issues. Brendon and Dallon being the only members left, carried on with the band.
In , Smith officially left the band; soon after that, Weekes went back to being only a touring member. Urie, being the only remaining full-time artist in the band, continued making music. My name is Camille Jackson; some of my friends call me Cam. Review: A Series of Unfortunate Events. Video game review: Why Roblox is for teenagers and kids. Land of Stories Series Book Review. Why Dobie students love Marvel Movies.
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