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Panic! at the Disco Bassist Splits
Panic! at the Disco Bassist SplitsThe split with former bassist Brent Wilson has landed Panic! at the Disco in the news for all the wrong reasons. Check out all thr fun the media has been having with this fiasco.
linkWhen the band announced the split in May they said it was a tough decision but that both sides were still friends, not so it turns out.
Speaking to MTV Wilson fumed: "I was kicked out of the band. It was 100 percent a surprise to me. We were about to leave for a show in California, and they called me the night before and told me I was out of the band. The only reason they gave was that it was for 'musical purposes.'”
The split between Panic! At The Disco and former bassist Brent Wilson just got nastier. Both sides are making accusations about each other, the latest being that Wilson didn't even really appear on the LP.link
Last month the band told MTV News that the decision to have Wilson leave was "a decision we all came to as a band." Wilson claims that that is untrue and that he was kicked out of the band.
"We were about to leave for a show in California, and they called me that night before and told me I was out of the band. The only reason they gave was that it was for 'musical purposes.' Everything was good and fine, we had just gotten back from a tour in Europe, and there had been no previous conversations about anyone leaving the band. I don't know why they chose me."link
"We were about to start a tour where the band would've been bringing home around $300,000, or something like $50,000 apiece, and basically they kicked me out, so the question about money goes through my head a lot," he said. "And I believe it. Brendan and Ryan can both play multiple instruments and Spencer handles a lot of the business, so that sort of leaves me as the odd person out."
Panic contend that this statement just isn't true, and that most of the money the band is set to make on the tour is being spent before it even materializes, on expensive stage props and guest performers (Los Angeles-based Vaudeville troupe Lucent Dossier was recently added to the bill for all shows).
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