P!ATD Split Gets Ugly

Earlier this month I read in Rolling Stone that Brent Wilson, former bassist of meterosexual Fall Out Boy cover band Panic! At The Disco left on "amicable terms with the band." Not that I give a shit about his feelings (due largely to the fact that anyone who thinks it's okay to write an album that is as bad as "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" should be isolated into a dark shed in the middle of a swamp and forced to watch the Twin Peaks movie), but I guess The Split was a tad uglier than was previously reported.

I love this shit. Wilson gets totally fucked out of a shitty band, and will never do anything again because a band that holds "plenty of sway in the indie community" claims that the guy can't even play bass. I think anyone who listens to music seriously, with the intent of enjoying it at least, has come to the unanimous conclusion that Panic! At The Disco is not only a bad band, but now they have been revealed to be shitty glam rock revivalists. This quote really bothered me:

"Anyone who goes to a show on this tour will see that we have a lot of production on the road with us," Smith wrote. "We are basically breaking even with the amount of money it is costing us to put on the show that we want to put on..."

Ugh. Any band (besides The Flaming Lips) that finds it appropriate to bring some sort of prop to make their stage show better is clearly a bunch of really shitty musicians who need to take the audience's mind off of that fact. The article states that each individual member will be making $30,000 - $50,000 a fucking show, and they think they are going to "break even"? What sort of elaborate backdrop do they plan to set up? Is there going to be a Flamingo Dancing troup? Are they going to pay good musicians to play the show instead? Fuck, those fat girls who look like unkept Elvis Costello clones came to see shitty music, not Cirque de Sole!