u/Sbee_Blue_Country

I talked with Jerrod Bettis the other day. These are the songs he said were played, though it’s possibly there were more. He mentioned “Mercy” being written early but Drew wasnt in the band yet, so it couldn’t have been played

Last November I was able to access them, but they aren’t on the website anymore. Nobody on Archive.org Archie’s them either. Does anybody have a screenshot?

This is specifically for songs written about a person the songwriter actual knew, not for something like “Betrayed” by Avenged Sevenfold and “Side of a Bullet” by Nickleback, both written about the murder of Dimebag Darrell.

Phantom Planet signed on to Fueled By Ramen in 2007. The Honda Civic Tour in 2008 had Panic at the Disco headlining with a bunch of other FBR bands, including Phantom Planet; Panic promoting ‘Pretty. Odd.’, and Phantom Planet promoting ‘Raise The Dead’. The two bands spent a good amount of time together while on tour, and specifically Alex Greenwald and Ryan formed a bond. Ryan frequently played guitar on “Do The Panic” during Phantom Planet’s set. After the shows finished, Phantom Planet would do little acoustic performances for their fans, and Ryan would often attend.

By the time the Panic split had happened Phantom Planet was also on hiatus. When Ryan and Jon formed the Young Veins they had Alex produce and play guitar on the album. The album’s final song, “Heart of Mine”, has Alex’s voice very audible during the chants. During the post-song conversations you can also hear him talking with Ryan and Z Berg. Ryan would, of course, perform a ton with Z Berg over the following years.

The second performance was just over ten years later at a Z Berg + Friends show. Alex and Ryan played “I Don’t Mind”, the final song on ‘Raise The Dead’, as well as one of Ryan’s songs, “Lonely Moonglight”. Phantom Planet reformed just a few months later, and Ryan has made guest appearances at various shows. Most notably he joined the band for a performance of “Do The Panic” last year… with Dallon fucking Weekes! That marked the first time they ever appeared together in public, and possibly the first time they met?

The Brobecks opened for Phantom Planet sometime in the mid 2000s, and they hit it off. Darren from Phantom Planet actually recommended Dallon to the people at FBR as a replacement for Jon after Panic split. IDKHOW and Phantom Planet did a tour last year too. Basically, Phantom Planet were friends with Ryan and Dallon separately and the stars aligned for those two to meet at one of the band’s shows.

All these songs have eighth note chords with the right hand (higher notes) with the left hand playing both on beat and off beat. I’m looking for more pop songs like this.

The art for this album was created by a friend of the band, Rob Bronco. He got into some sort of accident (it may have been a car crash- i don’t remember) and suffered from amnesia afterwards. His family gave him a laptop on which he created this art using MS Paint… at a grueling pace of one pixel at a time. The band decided to leave the album untitled in order to not obscure Rob’s art. In the album’s booklet there is a similar art piece that Rob later painted onto frontman Alex Greenwald’s wall. Alex apparently still owns that chunk of wall even after moving out.