
He stayed with friends until he could afford to rent an apartment. The four left their educations behind to concentrate on music Ross had a falling out with his father when he dropped out of college, and when Urie dropped out of high school his parents kicked him out of the house. And to get out of Las Vegas.' Urie began working at Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Summerlin to afford rent for the band's new practice space. So it kind of influenced us to be different. 'In our practice space, there were something like 30 bands, and every day we'd walk into that room and hear the exact same death-metal bands. 'We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so bad. The band signed a recording contract without having performed a live show. In the group's early experimental demos, the band created a sound that was different from the many death-metal groups that were performing in Las Vegas at the time.
