PANIC FIRE - A powerhouse rock band fronted and created my multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Gary Schutt.  Gary is joined by long time musician friends Tracy Ferrell on bass and Cody Paige on Drums.  
.           Panic Fire's original music is the evolution of the Gary Schutt catalog, just modernized.  It's a combination of a lot of things and new bands that Schutt is influenced by.  Picture a combination of Foo Fighters, Chevelle, Filter, Stabbing Westward (and. few otherw) with a mix of (as always) Van Halen.
.           Panic Fire as a cover band is very unique, playing song you know from pop and classic rock radio, but in a way you've never heard them before.   Some of their cover versions, or re-makes, are on the streaming services

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About the guys:
.           GARY SCHUTT - graduated and taught at the prestigious Berkeley College of Music, was written up in Guitar World and Guitar FTPM Magazines circa 1992, has toured extensively as a sideman for vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, was a member of Disco Inferno in the early 2000s and is also a founding member of the Tampa Bay rising pop punk cover band The Supply Chain.
.           TRACY FERRELL has been Gary's bassist starting in Category Three and the Gary Schutt Band and the Ozzy tribute Diary of an Ozzman.
.           CODY PAIGE has been touring har in the metal band Famous Last Words when Schutt found him and befriended him.  On his down time from touring Cody joined the Ozzman band then joined Panic Fire in 2017.

The long story:

          One day on a long drive home from a gig (August 2017), Gary brainstormed about many things.  A rebranding was one of them.  Having already written and recorded most of a new album, he decided to give himself a band name and start from scratch.  All of the band names he thought of were cool, but taken in some way.  Then he decided to try the way of a song title, like most tribute bands do.  PANIC FIRE was a song from the Excruciating Pleasures CD from 2002.  The dot com for Panic Fire was available and so was the ReverbNation.  He scooped up the domains right away.    

          Before the completion of the Chrysalis album (2018), Gary decided to release a “preliminary” album of Schutt greatest hits.  That way his live band could continue to play the older material live, and they would have two CDs to sell!  That album is called EVOLVE (2017).     PANIC FIRE now combines the best of the Gary Schutt Band original live show and the former Category Three cover band, and will continue to play all over the Tampa Bay area... and beyond!     

          Panic Fire, as a cover band, is one of the tightest musically and uniquely diverse bands playing the Tampa Bay scene!  The song list is mostly built around songs that no other bands cover - for better or for worse - they definitely stand out from the rest!  They also take classic songs and pop song and make them our own, nothing is just like the record! 

          Notable:

-     GHOST - pre show at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Nov 2018

-     ALICE COOPER - pre show at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 2017 & 2018

-     STEEL PANTHER - opener at Jannus Live, April 2016

-     THE ARISTOCRATS - opener at The Brass Mug

-     MADAME MAYHEN - opener at The Crowbar, May 2017 

-     DREAM THEATER - pre show at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Nov 2016

-     SAINT MOTEL - opener at Ferg's Live Tampa

-     DIARY OF AN OZZMAN (Ozzy tribute) - opener numerous times

-     SLIPPERY WHEN WET (Bon Jovi tribute) - opener twice at House Of Blues Orlando 

          Gary is an endorsing artist with Peavey Electronics, Atomic Guitar Works, Gator Cases, DiMarzio Pickups,  and Tremol-No.