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There is nothing I like better than multiple obsessions coming together in one place -- and even better when they've managed to manufacture some smackdown. Like in this Rolling Stone video in which Panic at the Disco talks about how they'd like to buy the world a coke the Jonas Brothers a beer.
Jon: The Jonas Brothers did a blog about our album, about how we ripped off the Beatles but they still liked it anyway. So that's good.
Ryan: Because they run the world.
And then, after slamming the JoBros' golden footwear at the VMAs -- as if Panic has any place questioning other bands' sartorial choices -- they move on to debating the best way to corrupt the young Christians.
Jon: They seem like they'd be cool guys. I don't know. Maybe give them a beer or two.
Ryan: They don't drink beer.
Brendon: We could do like a Bible study or something.
Ryan: We could do many things.
Panic's set headlining the Rock Band Live tour -- Dashboard Confessional, the Plain White T's and the Cab all open -- is a rocking, strong show, with a surprisingly effective closing cover of the Isley Brothers' "Shout!" and creative reinventions of songs off their first album.
It's also hands down the most effective and strangely enjoyable evidence I've ever seen of what ad people like to call "integrated marketing." During the opening acts, you can compete out in the hall on one of several Rock Band Xbox 360 set-ups; the best pretend players win a shot to go backstage and then rock out in front of the full arena. If we needed more evidence that Rock Band is the new karaoke, at the LA show when a band failed to meet a high enough score to keep playing, the entire crowd at Staples Center kept singing along to "Livin' on a Prayer."
More concert shots after the jump...
ahkay.
so maybe ryans' just totally gay.
in the homosexual way.
Posted by: bella | February 03, 2009 at 12:15 AM