Well last night was the first Panthers show @ the Empty Bottle in their mini-tour that they are doing this month of June. It was awesome to watch them in Chicago again, they rocked the house like they usually do. I got a chance to talk for a little bit to their frontman Jason David Green and the big news with them is that their drummer Jeff Salane and his wife just saw their newborn come into this world. Good for him we can all wish him a happy father's day tomorrow. Unfortunately that was the reason why the Panthers had to play with a substitute drummer and that is also why they only played songs from their new album on Vice Records called "The Trick". We certainly all missed Salane's excellent drumming and consistency. They are coming back in September so probably I'll have enough time to figure out a cool interview with them. Enough gossiping about the Panthers, i just thought adding a little bit of dramatic literary value would be a good way to start writing an article about the Panthers. I think is also a great way to describe a band that transfers real literary value in the message they try to portray in their lyrics (although I've heard some hard criticism on them, according to someone [that I am actually omitting his identity for fucks sake] the Panthers "have no base in who they are"; I am assuming this means that they have no real influence on their audience or any kind of "political message" value as musicians. I wish this person could give a better definition of what is a musician and what is his function as an artist that he is supposed to be or better yet to tell me how can he create a band with a real base that could actually provoke the change that is supposed to create) . Panthers "musical value", if you like to call it that way, comes from their message in my own personal opinion. This, perhaps, proves one theory I have about musicians progressing in different ways throughout their careers according to their surrounding influences (I mean, don't get me wrong, if we go back to the year 1998 -2000 whereabouts when Orchid [which three members are now playing in the Panthers] came out as a band it was a new concept of music, very well structured but probably never heard before in the history of music, or in this case in the history of rock n' roll which could be considered the core/pivot base of what is now known as the musical genre of "hardcore")and I certainly concur with the fact that this band is influenced by a great amount of literary and philosophical value. By reading their lyrics you can actually understand the fact that the current intellectual point of view of this "new generation" is based on up to date systems of thought that might be able to spark a little fire in changing the conservative ways of thinking that prevail in our society. Ok here are the pictures, enjoy:
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