Calm Yourself: Panther

Like you got punched. Like an injection, not of drugs, well, not the hard stuff, but maybe like an injection of taurine and ritalin. More correctly, not like you got punched or injected, but me, like I got punched and injected. Well, this is silly, why don't I just say what I'm trying to say....Panther makes me feel weird and totally different. Panther is best experienced at a Panther live concert, because the feeling of the Panther fills the crowd and makes everyone start jumping and jamming and yelling. Panther sometimes sounds like really bad R & B mixed with fax machine beats and sometimes sounds like German films being played backwards and sometimes it sounds like an Eazy-E CD. Seriously, I saw one Panther show that was Panther just dancing with an Eazy-E CD. It was a great show. The Panther does singing and yelping but the Panther does even more dancing and posing than singing and yelping. Moving like a man possessed by small appliances the Panther moves so well and so crunk. Truly more performance art than band, Panther is some seriously amazing movement and sound.

Panther is the work of one man, Charlie Salas Humaras. Salas is like a total crazy dude. He is the front of the dance rock craze band, The Planet The, and also has other projects like the free jazzy sorta thing, Hong Kong. He is really enchanthing, I mean, he was voted "most fuckable dude" in the Portland Mercury in 2003. This may seem irrelevant but Panther is much more than just the music.
Panther seems to be this amazing and insane slice of this human being. The thing that grabs and pulls the audience is that the part of the dude that Panther reaches is such a joyful and powerful part of a dude. This makes a Panther performance an intensely cathartic experience for the audience. Seriously, I have seen Panther play probably 15 times and every show has had the feeling of joyful release. At first, when seeing Panther there is the feeling of confusion, but soon it becomes acceptance and extreme enjoyment and then sweet surrender and release.

Panther is supposed to have a CD coming out on some label run by the dude in Gold Chains, but finding info about this proved difficult. The moral of the story is lookout for Panther soon., because an act that acts as group therapy session through wild dance destroyed music and group slam hugs can only be called The Greatest Band Of All Time.