My Bamboozle: Behind the Scenes With Panic at the Disco, Paramore, The Bravery, Cobra Starship

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Best part of playing Bamboozle:
Elias Reidy: The thing i like about Bamboozle is the crowd is so enormous when you're on the large stage, that for a band like us, there's different vortexes of mosh pits. Dozens of them. Kids are throwing each other around, catapaulting each other ten feet in the air. Be careful, kids! If somebody's falling down, pick them up.

Pre-show rituals:
Reidy: I'm the kind of guy that if I had my way, I'd land in a helicopter right next to the stage, I'd get out, and I'd get handed my guitar.
Joey Westwood: We just say a prayer and all give high fives before we play. But recently it's turned into this thing we do called the group claw.
Reidy: It's hard to coordinate a five-way high five. Everybody picks a partner and Duke [Kitchens] always gets left out. This way, it's just a simultaneous thrown-up hand gesture. Just the claw.

Dream headliners:
Westwood: A lot of them aren't even around anymore. Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Who.
Ronnie Winter: We're into really old classic rock. I mean, come on, long hair, tight pants? We obviously ripped off everything about them. If you've heard any of Elias' new guitar riffs, you'd say he's the white Jimi Hendrix.