Protect your Panic! at the Disco

does anyone still look at this comm? lmfao

2008-03-31T15:42:00Z

hey boos! im taking advantage of being a ~mod to an almost dead community... however it says it still has watchers so who knows : )
reinvent and i entered that pretty. odd. photo contest to see the disco in LA aka the last date of HCT. im in second and megan is in 15th. please vote and give us a ten? : )

Give me a 10 for Panic At The Disco's Pretty. Odd. Photo

Check out this entry for Panic At The Disco's Pretty. Odd. Photo

thanks bitches! ♥ c'mon seriously? im losing to a girl with frosting on her face.............

protecturpatd @ 2007-02-25T19:47:00

2007-02-28T16:58:39Z

Spencer's the main man in an SJC drums ad

fullsize here

Jon is not Brent!

2007-02-18T20:27:16Z

Ok, so my little brother got this mag, K-zone, and there was a panic! thing in it, where they are talking about Jon they put a picture of Brent! Now tell me that's not stupid, its as bad as the smash hits "exclusive" interview! It was really sad, but any way, has anyone else seen it?

Public Service Annoucement

2007-02-05T01:13:39Z

Hi, kids, you can start posting any day now!

I don't know if you've noticed, but patd has reached a whole new level of suck. It'd be really great if we could ressurect this place and take over the fandom to prove that intelligence DOES exist amongst Panic! fans :).

While you're at it, check out antipatd, another community doing its part to clean up the crap that this fandom has become.

Rolling Stone

2007-01-25T18:09:09Z

RollingStone.com has updated with an excerpt from the upcoming issue with Panic! at the Disco on the cover, on newsstands until February 8th. Click the cut to read the excerpt.

Ryan Ross bought his C55 Mercedes three months ago, but it's been parked in his Las Vegas garage ever since. When the Panic! at the Disco guitarist climbs behind the wheel, cues up Tom Waits' new Orphans collection and starts pushing buttons on the navigation system, he's still not sure how it all works. Ross is searching downtown Vegas for Panic's favorite local sandwich chain, Port of Subs, to grab a quick bite before the second-to-last show on the band's arena tour: a sold-out concert at the Orleans Hotel & Casino for 7,500 fans, their families, friends and three-quarters of Fall Out Boy, who flew in from Los Angeles to see their proteges' biggest hometown gig yet. Later tonight, Ross, 20, will face the crowd dressed as a gothed-out Oliver Twist, black liner fanning from his right eye like a tangle of tree branches and a newsboy cap covering his thick brunet quiff. But it won't be Ross' first time onstage at the Orleans: Two and a half years ago, he was here in a gown and mortarboard for his high school graduation.

When Ross walks into a strip-mall Port of Subs with drummer Spencer Smith and singer Brendon Urie, both 19, the shop is empty except for two cold-cut slingers, neither of whom recognizes the three local celebrities clamoring to upgrade to combo meals when they hear that Rolling Stone is picking up the tab. A few bites into his sandwich -- "the Pilgrim," with turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing -- Ross rubs his jaw and notes that his wisdom teeth are coming in. After listening to Smith and Urie discuss how generous a helping one ought to get when one requests "extra mayo and mustard," Ross remarks that the Pilgrim is his second Port of Subs sandwich since this morning. When Urie says he's only on his first, Ross is befuddled: "What have you been doing all day?"

"I had to pack my Dior case," Urie answers, as if it were the most normal thing in the world for a teenager shoveling five-dollar fast food into his mouth to have a $1,500 bag from a Parisian couture designer. "And then I cleaned my room. Because it was starting to smell."

In mid-December, when I traveled with the band through Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles, they were about to settle into their first real vacation since signing to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's Decaydance label in late 2004. Back then, Smith and Urie hadn't even graduated from high school, the band had only three songs in its arsenal and Panic had yet to play a single live show. But as 2006 wound to a close, the biggest new rock band in America had album sales going on double platinum and was still scanning 20,000 copies a week of its debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. (The disc, which announced the arrival of a new breed of emo augmented by synthesizers and computerized beats, was recorded for a paltry $10,000.) Panic's single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" -- three minutes of pizzicato strings, power chords and cabaret melody -- has become an unlikely yet unstoppable Top Forty hit and earned them MTV's award for Video of the Year. They've followed it with a series of similarly over-the-top clips (the latest, for "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have With Her Clothes On," imagines a world where people spend their lives with their heads encased in fish tanks) that have flooded YouTube with fourteen-year-olds who missed out on the campy Technicolor of MTV in the Eighties.

"We didn't expect this album to have any success," says Ross, the group's introverted lyricist and main songwriter. "I don't really think it's that good. It was more like our experiment for figuring ourselves out. We just wanted to grow for a couple of years and really show people what we can do on the next album. But we didn't get to do that. For a while, we didn't even want it to be played on the radio or MTV. I remember asking our manager, 'How can they play our song if we don't want them to?' He said, 'Labels usually pay radio stations to play bands. They're playing you for free, and you want to stop it?' From that point, I was like, 'I'm gonna have to look at this a little bit differently.'"

"We weren't pessimistic," says Smith later, between fielding calls from his mom as he drives to the Orleans in his new Nissan 350z two-seater sports car. "But I wouldn't have been surprised if we were still in a van playing to a couple hundred kids right now. Fall Out Boy toured for three years in a van and trailer. That's what bands in this position usually do."

Even Wentz admits that he couldn't have predicted Panic! at the Disco would blow up so big they would threaten to eclipse his band. "They're a freak of nature," he says. "You can't explain it. They do absolutely the opposite of everything a label would recommend, and still thrive. Major labels could start telling bands, 'Put on paisley suits and make your show a circus' -- but it wouldn't work. There's something else there that's intangible. When you go to their show, you wonder, 'What makeup will Ryan be wearing and what are the dancers going to do?' It's like Kiss, but smarter and thirty years later."

In the age of MySpace, when you can construct an entire persona out of seemingly incongruous elements and change it as quickly as you can put up a new photo of yourself, guyliner bands like Panic appeal to the melodramatic, hyperimagized, Web-trolling youth, who depend on the Internet to find their next favorite artist. Panic! at the Disco's identity derives less from musical referents than from their cherry-picking of pop culture at large. Their lyrics cite Chuck Palahniuk novels; their song titles cop lines from the movie Closer; live covers like Queen's "Killer Queen" were learned from the game Guitar Hero. And their look is built from the visuals of their favorite movies -- Moulin Rouge!, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands -- which, like their songs, are full of the heartbreak and pathos that are never in short supply during high school.

Moreover, Panic are among a new breed of punk acts that includes My Chemical Romance and AFI, all of whom aim to bring the spectacle back to rock & roll by focusing as much attention on outfits, makeup and theatrical stagings as on the songs themselves. Most of their fans -- too young for the heyday of grunge (or even the teen pop that followed it) -- have never seen a rock show. Panic want to make their first concert nothing less than mind-blowing.

On Panic's fall tour, their production was so elaborate and expensive that their manager says the only money they made off the gigs came from T-shirt sales. The idea, says Ross, was to put on a show, not a concert. And though they don't always love playing the same eleven songs, they say they're obsessed with sitting around together and coming up with progressively more eccentric ideas for their performances.

"I remember Spencer saying, 'Mom, maybe we can get live animals and lions and have a carousel onstage,'" says the drummer's mother, Ginger, a medical secretary. Big cats never made it into the show, but the basic concepts stuck: Inspired by Cirque du Soleil and Moulin Rouge!, the band decided to make its stage set look like some kind of post-apocalyptic carnival or a Ringling Brothers fever dream. Ross, whose lyrics are so heavy on two-dollar words they could double as an SAT prep course, says the staging evolved from his fascination with Paris "and any true love story, whether it's Romeo and Juliet or Phantom of the Opera or Titanic. I don't know what it is, but something about the idea of a gentleman wearing a suit and being literate is fascinating to me."

During the show -- which features an intermission and finds the band attempting ambitious covers of both "Killer Queen" and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" -- Panic perform dressed in tattered-looking Victorian duds, their faces covered with stark white, black or red makeup. And then there are the dancers, whose gymnastic contortions, never-ending costume changes (Ballerina! Cleopatra! Mental patient!) and bawdy interactions with the band give the show an element of the unexpected, even if it goes exactly the same way every night.

Urie's between-song patter is also premeditated, and the bit that gets the loudest screams comes about midway through the set, right before they play "Lying." "Have you ever dreamt you were in a sunflower field," Urie begins, and then with some minor variations describes running toward a lover for "the perfect kiss." As he does this, he approaches Ross and leans his face in close to the guitarist, who pulls his mouth away just in time, almost every time: In San Diego, on the final night of the tour, Urie moved in quick enough to plant one on Ross' cheek, which immediately flashed crimson with embarrassment. And then, as he pulls back and the room fills with an audible gasp, Urie always says something like "Well, this isn't that kind of dream. This is about sweaty, angry, crazy, monstrous fucking." A sea of girls barely out of training bras shriek with delight at the PG-13 ribaldry.

"There's plenty of stuff we do in the show to get a reaction," says Ross. "Like, fans are always saying that me and Brendon are dating. It's funny to me how people freak out about stuff like that. I think the show almost splits you and makes you choose: Will I like this band from this point on, or was the show too much? When we were writing these songs, we were expecting the audience for them to be our age or maybe a little older. I know that our CD wouldn't have been allowed in my house until I was sixteen. I guess parents are a little lenient these days. Then again, I've seen some angry parents in the crowd, that's for sure."

>>This is an excerpt from the new issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands until February 8th.

Source

Are P!ATD dieing?

2007-01-11T21:02:37Z

ok, Im new to lj but I was wondering if any one has noticed how bad the boys are getting? Brendon doesnt know were he is at, Ryan looks like he is about to die, and Spencer gave himself a home haircut... Jon is still cool but... I dont know, I mean dont get me wrong I think they are great as a band but I was wondering if anyone else has picked up on it?

And this is why I always forgive Ryan Ross.

2007-01-07T19:50:31Z

I didn't notice this before, so forgive me if you have. After Brendon gets bottled, all the boys seemed force to leave the stage, yet Ryan stays around as long as he can and then flips off the crowd as he's forced to leave as well. I must say, it made my day.

(a picture and animation)

x-posted.

Mod Post

2006-12-17T20:02:22Z

Since we're on our way to 150 members, I figured I should encourage you all to get to posting. You have to remember that several people are looking to take patd off their friends list permanently, so this place has to be twice as informative to make up for any information they may miss out on. Anything important you see posted in patd is welcome here as well, so if it's relavent, feel free to contribute :).

I would also like to take this opportunity to ask you all for some suggestions and opinions, because this community was built to be bigger and better for you. What would you like to see protecturpatd become? What would you NOT like to see posted? How are we doing so far as a community? Are you happy with the moderation?

Feel free to speak openly, because we all know how much of a disaster patd is, and, to be blunt, our main goal is to be everything that community is not.

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Live Songs!

2006-12-12T00:31:18Z

I was mad at Panic! for not releasing a live cd with the dvd.. So I ripped the songs from the dvd, and.. I just thought I'd share them with those who might want them.. ;)

So.. Here you go:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LV4V4KWU

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2979CD6A76BB6149

Let me know if you want me to upload them on another page or anything! ;)

EDIT:

A new link:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3kbh67

Affiliates

2006-12-10T19:15:52Z

protecturpatd is looking for communities to affiliate with. To have your somewhat relavent community added to the list, contact one of the mods or leave a comment on this entry :).

Posting Guidelines and Rules

2006-12-05T22:59:43Z

Related Communities
patdticketfind - For buying or selling Panic! tickets.
patdmeetup - For arranging meetups between Panic! fans.
patdstreetteam - The official Panic! promotional street team.
patd_bookclub - The official Panic! book club.
patd_icons - Panic! icons and graphics.

The Do's and Don't's of Posting in protecturpatd

~~General Rules~~ Common Sense
-All posts must be directly related to Panic! at the Disco.
-Before you ask a question, check the FAQ to see if it's been answered already.
-The community memories are also very helpful.
-Mutiple and/or sizeable images, as well as large amounts of text should be placed under an LJ cut.
-If you wish to promote a community, contact one of the moderators beforehand.
-Don't start drama and you can stay. The minute you begin causing trouble, BAN_SET.

Do
-Post information and updates regarding the band.
-Post journal entries from the Panic! site and bulletins from their Myspace.
-Post concert reviews and any pictures you have taken.
-Post new tour dates and television/radio show dates.
-Post download links to videos and mp3s you've ripped or found.
-Proof read your posts before submitting them to the community. Livejournal has a built in spell check; don't be lazy.

Do NOT
-Type like a moron. If you can't string together an intelligible sentence let alone form a legible paragraph, your post will be rejected.
-Post any rumours that have not been confirmed by the band or their management.
-Post icons or graphics. Please refer to patd_icons instead.
-Post about your latest project for the guys. We don't need that here.
-Ask for help with your homework, whether or not it's somehow Panic! related.
-Post a story about something that randomly reminded you of Panic!. It's more than likely that no one cares.
-Ask to have merch purchased for you.
-Attempt to sell your merch here.

FAQ

2006-12-05T21:42:28Z

Click each header to link to the answers.

-"Where can I read the rules/guidelines of the community?"
-"Who are the creators/mods of the community? How can I contact them?"
-"Why did you make this if there was already an existing Panic! community on Livejournal?"
-"Why can't we post icons and graphics we've made?"
-"Why is posting moderated?"
-"Why are you openly affiliated with a slash community?"

-"Who are the current members of Panic! at the Disco?"
-"Jon hasn't always been in the band?"
-"Where did the band's name come from?"
-"When are the band members' birthdays? How old are they?"
-"I'm curious to know what Ryan's favourite cookie/song/movie is."
-"Who is Zach?"
-"Who are the Lucent Dossier?"
-"What happened to Brent?"
-"Are any of the band members gay?"
-"How can I contact the band?"

-"Where can I buy Panic! t-shirts/hoodies/purses/etc.?"
-"Where can I buy the limited edition boxset DVD?"
-"Where can I find Panic! ringtones?"

-"How many demos did Panic! record?"
-"Where can I find guitar tabs of this specific Panic! song?"
-"Which songs have Panic! covered? Who sang them originally?"
-"Why are there extra/different lyrics in the 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out' liner notes?"

-"When is the band coming to my city?"
-"Where can I buy tickets?"
-"What is the camera policy for my show?"
-"How can I find out if I've won a spot in the Meet and Greet at my show?"
-"I have early admission tickets. What does this include?"
-"What time should I get to my show at?"

-"How many bands have the guys been in prior to Panic! at the Disco?"
-"What was 'Pet Salamander' about?"
-"Where can I listen to the 'The Summer League' demo?"

-"I really like Brendon's shirt/hoodie/jeans/shoes. Where can I buy it/them?"
-"What is the name of the official Panic! font? Where can I download it?"
-"Can someone rip this video/song for me?"
-"Where does Ryan get his makeup? Does he do it himself?"
-"I have a question that wasn't addressed here."