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Photo by Eric H. Roalsm Despite classification, slow-arriving audience band rips through show from beginning to end By ROB NEWBERRY Of The Battalion Staff A lot of bands can get off to a weak start when the audience is slow showing up. Not so with Panjandrum, a hot funk band from Houston, that played at the Front Porch Cafe Thursday night. At least they are classified as a funk band, a term that singer Johnny Goudie disputes. Gou- die knows a lot of bands who get classified as funk, but play different styles than Panjandrum. “I really don’t understand the whole music- classification thing,” he says. Guitarist Richard Weiss adds, “We don’t think about playing funk. Sure, the bass and drums have a definite funk feel. But when we write a song, someone comes up with an idea and the rest of us make up our own parts. “We don’t worry if it sounds funky or not.” The band is planning to take about half their set into the studio next month and try to get a re cording out. After that, the band would like to perform more often in the Texas and Louisiana markets. The band recently won second place for Best Urban-Contemporary Band in the reader’s poll of Public News, an alternative-music magazine in Houston. “We weren’t really expecting anything from them since they are mostly alternative,” says Gou die. “Still, we were happy about getting the award.” “The scene in Houston is fun,” he adds. “There are a lot of bands, but most of them play different styles of music. Most of the other bands don’t seem to have as much ‘pop’ in their music.” “We like playing College Station a lot,” Weiss says. “The crowd here is looser. This is our fourth lime to play here, and the people get bet ter every time.” When the band started their set about 9:30, it looked as if the crowd would not be as strong this time. The band was unaffected, though, and im mediately ripped into their energetic, full sound. The second song of the night was “Free," a song about a relationship. Listening to the words, however, recalls what Goudie said about not wor rying about music classification: “Follow what I hear/ What I hear in me/ No, I won’t be chained." The band later kicked into “Open Your Eyes" and “All Your Dreams.” With Justin Shahan keeping the background solid on the keyboard, Weiss moved through some fantastic riffs. His short fills have all the feeling of some of Eric Clapton’s moving riffs, but he packs a little more punch with his upbeat rhythm. The band closed their first set with “Did You Get What You Wanted?” Bassist Chris King opened the tune with an incredible bass solo. Through the rest of Panjandrum’s songs, King's style reminded me of Who bassist John Entwistle; he uses the bass as a lead instrument instead of a rhythm tool. By the time the second set began, the crowd had started to turn out. The band’s immediate jump into energetic music brought a quick re sponse from the crowd. Panjandrum’s T-shirts say “Get Up Off Yo' Butt” on the back, and that is exactly what the audience did. “Hey, Hey, Hey” kept the dance floor moving with an extremely funky feel. But like a lot of the songs in the second set, it seemed toendatlt wrong time. With the audience obviously enjoying tunes, the songs themselves could have desen a little more punch at the ending. Instead,lie stopped abruptly, leaving the audience fedi:; slightly awkward. The third set was the best. Goudie opened set by telling a few jokes, then immedts moved into the upbeat "Spend the Night." Another great number in the third set “Run Away,” a song with a feel that makes® think. You may move around and dance,h your eyes are closed and you’re in anotherworli T he band also played their newest and ks number, “Where Love Is.” The song coralline David Lentz’s hot drumming with King’sbass an incredible solo. Shahan’s keyboards added just a touch as intensity built, then Weiss tore into a solo at jin the right moment. Goudie’s vocals wereenhairi when Weiss and King added backup to theck rus. But Panjandrum’s optimal goal is toenjoytk music and the crowd. To top off the jokes.If band added their wacky number, “My and the Pope.” Panjandrum was not disappointing. $01 groups suffer when they have a slow turnout,bi Panjandrum packed as much energy intoiki opening numbers for five or six people as tiff did during their closing set for fifty-plus. They definitely have some funky numbers,b«i a lot of their music has a direct rock feel. The band plans to play a couple timesattk Front Porch Cafe this summer, and the shomait well worth seeing. Save Wild Orchid’s eroticism for $1 video Rourke ’s latest flick features more skin, less plot By CAROL GLENN Of The Battalion Staff “Wild Orchid” is a disappointing, extremely-erotic film with a shallow, predictable plot and unbelievable characters. This film is like a part two to the seductive movie “9'/a Weeks” (which isn’t surprising since both movies have the same creators) and demon strates to the audience how too much of a good thing can be ex hausting and mundane. In fact, some intimate parts of this film were so contrived and forced that I could hear chuckles from some of the people sitting around me. The most notable actor in this film is Mickey Rourke who plays his tra ditional role of using mind manipu lation to seduce his lovers, which is identical to his role in “9'/2 Weeks.” Rourke’s character, James 1 “ * , Wheeler, is a rich, successf ul real-es tate mogul who lives in Brazil and is acquainted, through business, with Jacqueline Bisset’s character, Clau dia. Claudia acts as a salesperson be tween her corporate real-estate of fice in the United States and real- estate of ficials in Rio de Janeiro. Carre Otis’s character, Emily Reed, comes in to the plot as a cor porate lawyer who is sent to Rio de Janeiro with Claudia to finalize ne gotiations on a destitute hotel lo cated on a valuable piece of real es tate. Otis makes her debut in this film playing the object of Rourke’s sexual desires. It becomes increasingly apparent, though, that she was hired for her good looks and her ability to make love in front of the camera and not for her acting abilities. In many scenes it appears she is reading her lines straight from cue cards, which makes her character hilariously un believable. As the plot unfolds, Claudia more or less forces Emily on James to see if Emily could sexually arouse James, and you guessed it, Emily spcceeds. Some of the scenes in this film were so erotic and sexually explicit that it made the audience uncom fortable and figidity. This movie would make a good home video where lovers could enjoy the pas sionate love scenes in the privacy their own home and not with mixed crowd of strangers. Viewers who would like to beset ually aroused would enjoy this film but anyone interested in anyk plot or story pattern would k grossly disappointed. The director, Zelma King,created such obvious sexual scenes that was nothing surprising or imriguiif about the plot, and some viewers may consider this boldness anil to their intelligence. The only high points in the were the occasional breath-ta glimpses of the picturesque, tropical and mountainous scenes of Arp tina and Rio de Janeiro. The pfr ducers, Mark Damon and ToiiyAn thony, couldn’t have chosen a morf fitting setting for this lascivious Ik My advice to people who are con templating seeing “Wild Orchkfis save your money and wait until® can rent it cheap on video. MAHENDRA O. THAKRAR, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. 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