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i'm screaming i love you so, but my thoughts you can't decode.

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"I'm a top" "I'm a bottom" okay??? I am an arms dealer???? fitting you with weapons in the form of words?????

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P!ATD's first show (August 12, 2005)

Las Vegas Weekly wrote in October 2007 that The Alley would be “best remembered as the answer to the trivia question ‘Where did Panic! At the Disco play its first show?’” The Alley was in Summerlin (where the Panic guys were from) in this Family Music Center:

The store was pretty big and had a small venue in the back... here are some screenshots I just grabbed from google maps lol:

The show was announced towards the end of July after the band had finished recording AFYCSO. The venue sold out, so they let in more people than they technically should have. Ryan usually said there were 300-400 people there. Brent said there were 500 kids. And most journalists gave numbers anywhere between 200-600. Alex Deleon was also at this show. Doors were at 8pm. The opening bands were initially supposed to be The Collection and What About Apollo, but then The Collection dropped out and Fletch replaced them. Those were all local bands who'd played small shows before.

Here's Panic's set list. And here's a video (I forget where it originated but it's 100% for sure their first show. Ralph Fountain was a photographer who took some shots of this show from a very similar angle as this video… so maybe this came from a Vegas news outlet? idk I wasn't quite a total fan yet whoops).

P!ATD was legitimately popular online by August... I just want to emphasize that there was SO much hype at this point (like I couldn't avoid it). Several people at this show said the crowd was singing so loudly that they drowned out Brendon at times. Ryan told Rolling Stone in early 2006 that “people were singing along to every word. It was a shock; it was flattering.” 

Ryan later told Rolling Stone that the band only had 3 demos online at their first show. However, the final version of The Only Difference was definitely posted online several days before the band’s first show as part of the marketing campaign (more info here). Fans were also passing around the four demos, even though only some of those were still listed online.

This show was probably scheduled in order to give the baby band some experience playing their finished songs live before they joined a national tour in a few weeks. A couple people at this show said that it took the band forever to set up their gear. Panic's merch for that fall had already been designed, so they had legit professional-quality shirts at their first show too. Brendon said in a late 2006 interview:

“When we first started off, we made our record and then we played our first show. There was a bit of an expectation, you know, ‘Fall Out Boy signed them. They never played a show. They better be, like, real good.’ In the beginning, we sucked, too. We were horrible.”

Panic! at the Disco never had a normal "first show" experience. They launched into touring shortly after this show, so Vegas basically became another tour stop in their lives. Alternative Press asked Spencer in December 2008 if he missed the opportunity to build a local fanbase and he replied:

Yeah. I think more than that, we just wish that there was a little more camaraderie among the other local bands in Vegas. It's been a long time since we've been home for a long enough period to kind of figure out what's going on in the local music scene there. At least when we were kind of coming up and starting to play a few shows, it just seemed like every band was kind of out for themselves. [There was] this weird jealousy of everybody else [being] too substantial. It was just a little weird so I think that's why we didn't really have any local following or anything and why Vegas just seems like another show on the tour. But it's fine. Whatever. Can't go back now, I guess. 

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paramore - pressure (2005)

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i'm screaming i love you so, but my thoughts you can't decode.

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Just sold one of my Fall Out Boy records to a gay furry from Chicago... OK. The jokes write themselves here. :)

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pete wentz missed his calling as a locally famous gay weatherman/real estate agent

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we love you joseph 💗 may you have the best recovery of all time ever

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Bootsy Collins Spacebass and Warwick Guitars

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and we'll all dance along to the tune of your death...

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wife :)

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XO // Fall Out Boy

for @carpaltunneloflove

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Hayley Williams