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| Panic! At The Disco in Vices and Virtues |
Panic! At The Disco’s Spencer Smith on touring, Patrick Stump, new music and mankinis
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So why did you guys think Brendon had malaria?
We started in Indonesia and then we went to Australia for ten days and everybody was fine that whole time. It was actually on the flight back—we were in Hong Kong on a layover, getting ready to fly back to L.A. All of us around the same time started feeling like we were catching a cold or something. We just figured, “Well, obviously, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling [and have been on] a lot of airplanes and stuff.” When we got back, the three of us besides Brendon were jetlagged but not really feeling nearly as bad as he was. He thought he just had a cold, but after the first full day when he was just feeling really bad, he decided to go to the doctor, maybe get some antibiotics or a B12 shot.
When he told them he had been in Indonesia, they said, “Well, we can’t rule [malaria] out, because the symptoms are very similar. So you can’t fly, because if you do fly and the test results come back positive, you’re just going to be in a hospital in Salt Lake City for the next two weeks.” We just had to figure out what we were going to do, and luckily that night of that Salt Lake City show, they were like, “Well, okay, we don’t think it’s malaria—it’s just some kind of weird virus.” They cleared him to get on an airplane.
We learned a lot about malaria in the time leading up to [getting] any sort of results back. It turns out, we thought he would have had the symptoms in Australia, and then I read online the earliest it could come up is eight days after he’s been infected—and sometimes it can take up to four to six weeks, and it’s just in your liver basically growing as a virus. It’s pretty disgusting. [Laughs.]
Your stuff’s not the easiest to sing, either!
That song starts off with a sample of a cello; we’re not even playing anything, it’s a syncopated thing. You definitely have to have a good sense of rhythm to be able to keep up on vocals. That was another challenge, but yeah, she nailed it.
I saw you guys years ago and you covered Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins, and everyone in the crowd was befuddled. It is funny, what’s really familiar to one person is a mystery to someone else.
It’s an interesting thing, and a lot of it is an age difference or a generation difference. We have songs we grew up on from our parents playing us. It’s cool to be able to do our own take on it, but then also expose people to the original. We get tired of playing our own songs, so it turns out there’s all these other bands who have written a lot of songs that are quite better than ours are. [Laughs.]
You guys and Patrick Stump go way back. What’s really stood out to you about him now as a performer, as you’re seeing him do his solo stuff?
It’s really exciting, because when we were on tour with Fall Out Boy for two or three tours, he was always writing, and a lot of times it was Fall Out Boy stuff. But when we’d just be talking backstage and talking about music we like and music we were influenced by, he would always have influences that didn’t necessarily instantly translate into what you’d hear on a Fall Out Boy record. We always knew—and grew more aware—he had this whole love of this style of music that if he had the opportunity to do something, he would be able to really do something special. That was what was really cool abut his solo record. It made sense for us—and now seeing him onstage, he has this whole new persona and this whole new confidence almost being up there as himself. His band’s also amazing, too.
In a sense, Fall Out boy were kind of mentors for you guys, and now you’re almost peers with them.
We sort of still look to those guys as a little bit more of that, like, “You guys have been doing things a little bit longer than we have,” and still sort of look to Pete [Wentz] for some advice. But it has changed over the past few years. Now, touring together is less like a big-brother, little-brother thing.
Now that Vices And Virtues has been out for awhile, and you’ve played the songs live and they’ve had a chance to grow, what’s your take on the music on the record?
We have a weird perspective on it, because we were working on it for quite a while, and some of the ideas came from demos that were two years old—and then there are a couple songs that were written within the last few weeks of recording. [The album] seems to me like a good representation of what it actually was—which was two, two-and-a-half years of trying to figure out what we wanted the band to be, post-splitting with Ryan [Ross] and Jon [Walker].
To some people, when you just get the finished product, it can sound a little more fluid or a little more cohesive. To me, it’s still, when I hear a certain song, I know it’s three-and-a-half years old. It doesn’t come across as new as some of the other ones do. It’s now a motivating thing, because we were able to finish [the album] and get over the hump of knowing what we want to do, where we want to take the band and move forward and stop second-guessing any of our decisions. It’s positive reinforcement to move forward.
Are Ian and Dallon writing with you guys?
They have been! You know, it’s been something we had been letting happen organically, not really setting any rules. Brendon works on stuff by himself all the time, but there have been a couple times where it’s just like, “Okay, we’re all just sitting here in the middle of a field playing some German festival, and there’s nothing to do. There’s just mud everywhere you can see.” Those times lead to everybody collaborating on whatever Brendon or whoever has started working on that day. That’s led to some cool things. I think we’re going to let it keep growing naturally and see what happens, and not really have any defined roles.
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http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/panic_at_the_disco_spencer_smith_interview_patrick_stump_new_music
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