Panic! At The Disco formed somewhere around April of 2004. Ryan, Spencer, and Brent (I'll get to him later) were in a band called The Summer League with this kid Trevor; at some point The Summer League dissolved
Ryan, Spencer, and Brent grew up together, and when Brent transferred schools their junior year he met Brendon, who he brought around to meet the guys at...some point. First mention of him is in Ryan's LJ, early April 2004 [brenden (sic) is a great guitar player and an even better beatbox-er. why didn't you tell me this sooner brent. ]; he originally came on to play guitar and do backing vocals, as Ryan had been the lead singer of The Summer League. Information differs on exactly when they decided to have Brendon sing, but it was before they put out their first demo (between May and July, I think?). Ryan recently said that the moment he knew the band was going to go somewhere was when they decided to have Brendon sing. Oh, sigh.
They put out demos of three songs between then and November (Time To Dance, Relax Relapse [later Camisado], Nails For Breakfast And Tacks For Snacks), posting them to PureVolume, and in November 2004 Ryan posted a link to their PureVolume in Pete Wentz's Livejournal. He IMed Ryan soon after and came down to Vegas to see them play their very first show, which was attended by about three hundred kids, most of whom had heard of them through the internet. By March, they were officially signed to Pete's imprint DecayDance. They'd been a band for less than a year.
Ryan managed a semester of college (at UNLV) before dropping out to focus on the band. Spencer and Brent finished high school by correspondence in January of 2005, while Brendon stuck it out, graduating in May 2005 and leaving for Maryland three days later to record A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. They had about half the songs written at that point, the rest were written in studio. (It's not entirely clear who all does what in terms of writing the music; the implication is that it's mostly Brendon and Ryan handling the music. Brent didn't write or, apparently, even record any of his parts on the album. Spencer presumably has some input, but all we really know for sure is that Ryan writes the lyrics.)
Hmmm, phrases for world peace....lemme think about that.
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Date: 2007-03-22 06:05 pm (UTC)Panic! At The Disco formed somewhere around April of 2004. Ryan, Spencer, and Brent (I'll get to him later) were in a band called The Summer League with this kid Trevor; at some point The Summer League dissolved
Ryan, Spencer, and Brent grew up together, and when Brent transferred schools their junior year he met Brendon, who he brought around to meet the guys at...some point. First mention of him is in Ryan's LJ, early April 2004 [brenden (sic) is a great guitar player and an even better beatbox-er. why didn't you tell me this sooner brent. ]; he originally came on to play guitar and do backing vocals, as Ryan had been the lead singer of The Summer League. Information differs on exactly when they decided to have Brendon sing, but it was before they put out their first demo (between May and July, I think?). Ryan recently said that the moment he knew the band was going to go somewhere was when they decided to have Brendon sing. Oh, sigh.
They put out demos of three songs between then and November (Time To Dance, Relax Relapse [later Camisado], Nails For Breakfast And Tacks For Snacks), posting them to PureVolume, and in November 2004 Ryan posted a link to their PureVolume in Pete Wentz's Livejournal. He IMed Ryan soon after and came down to Vegas to see them play their very first show, which was attended by about three hundred kids, most of whom had heard of them through the internet. By March, they were officially signed to Pete's imprint DecayDance. They'd been a band for less than a year.
Ryan managed a semester of college (at UNLV) before dropping out to focus on the band. Spencer and Brent finished high school by correspondence in January of 2005, while Brendon stuck it out, graduating in May 2005 and leaving for Maryland three days later to record A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. They had about half the songs written at that point, the rest were written in studio. (It's not entirely clear who all does what in terms of writing the music; the implication is that it's mostly Brendon and Ryan handling the music. Brent didn't write or, apparently, even record any of his parts on the album. Spencer presumably has some input, but all we really know for sure is that Ryan writes the lyrics.)
Hmmm, phrases for world peace....lemme think about that.