This story is from the Novemissue of Rolling Stone. Panic At The Disco Mainman Brendon Urie has seen the music industry’s trials and tribulations first hand through the years as the other members of the band slowly quit, making him the only remaining member. That’s really weird, but it’s awesome at the same time.” “I remember buying Fall Out Boy records not too long ago,” Smith says. Now, Panic! are trying to live like normal teenagers, eschewing the beer their dressing rooms are mistakenly stocked with, playing Xbox and splitting the driving of their van, which they sheepishly park next to their tourmates’ buses each night. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Panic At The Disco's music video for 'Emperor's New Clothes' from Death Of A Bachelor - available now on Fueled By. The band soon changed its name from the Summer League to Panic! at the Disco (a reference to the Smiths’ 1986 single “Panic”), but because of the dearth of welcoming rock venues in Vegas, they never played a show until they had been signed. This one was crazy fun to make :) Directed by - Daniel Cloud Campos.
After they added bassist Brent Wilson, 18, and played pop-punk shows around their respective high schools, Wilson met and recruited Urie, a Mormon kid who was forbidden from drinking caffeine but fell in love with his parents’ classic-rock records. This is a continuation of Panic At The Discos music video 'This Is Gospel' that I directed a couple years back. At twelve, Smith got a drum set for Christmas and began playing Blink-182 songs with his neighborhood buddy Ross. The expansive sound Panic! worked up on Fever is a long way from the band’s roots.
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After Wentz signed the teens and told them he wanted to release a record by the end of the year, Panic! began writing new tunes around Ross’ lyrics, drawing on their pop influences - Fleetwood Mac and Third Eye Blind in particular - and trying to distance themselves from the sound-alike punk bands around their Vegas suburb. In fact, Panic! had written only three songs.