‘It got to the point where there might have been too many cooks in the kitchen,’ the guitarist tells MTV News.
Last week, fans were shocked when news broke that Panic! at the Disco were parting ways with guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker, who left the band to “embark on a musical excursion of their own.”
But according to Ross, the split had been in the cards for sometime now. It just took everyone a while to realize it.
“It’s been a little while, a few months since we started thinking that this might be the best thing to do,” Ross told MTV News late Monday (July 13). “Jon and I had been writing a bunch of stuff on the road, and it just got to a point when we were off tour, when we were talking about getting together and working on this stuff, that it became pretty apparent that we all weren’t wanting to go in the same direction. There was a period where we weren’t really talking to each other all that much, and Jon and I were just living at my house and continuing to write. And we kind of realized we needed to get over not speaking and figure out what was actually going on. So we all sat down and pretty much...
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