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Aggielife
Friday • April 12,
Outlander looks to attract frenzied fans
By John LeBas
The Battalion
W hen Gabriel Gomez, lead
guitarist and vocalist for
the band Outlander,
saw the movie Children of the
Corn years ago, one scene stuck
in his mind.
At one point, he said, children
chase a man, yelling, “Outlander!”
When the time came to name
his band some time later, he re
membered this, and Outlander
was born.
Now the Dallas-based band is
growing in its hometown and
reaching out to College Station.
Outlander will play Saturday
night on Northgate.
Gomez said the incarnation of
the band began last June. Since
then, he said, Outlander has
played “every dump in Dallas,”
as well as at more well-known
clubs, such as Trees and the
Galaxy Club.
“We used to open for Tripping
Daisy and the Nixons when we
were still too young to know what
we were doing,” Gomez said.
These days, the band has a
better idea of what it is doing —
it will release its first studio-pro
duced tape next month in Fort
Worth to an expectant fan base.
Gomez said people have already
been asking for tapes, and he
hopes the first run of tapes will
sell out soon.
This popularity may be attrib
uted to Outlander’s style and
stage show. Dismissing most
modern bands as just plain bad,
Outlander strives to do things a
little differently.
Gomez, chief songwriter for the
band, said his lyrics are sincere
and meaningful, a far cry from
lyrics in most popular songs.
“As far as the songwriting goes,
most of it is personal,” Gomez said.
“A lot of people today write the
same kind of thing, that kind of
sold-out agony. Most of the songs
aren’t about anything in particu
lar, just whatever happens to come
up. Most of it
is poetry put
to music.”
Drawing
upon influ
ences such
as The
Smashing
Pumpkins,
Nirvana and
Jane’s Addic
tion, Outlander’s
music has a “heavy al
ternative” sound, bassist Chris
Rivera said.
Rivera, a junior psychology
major, said the music is usually
enough to get a crowd moving
at a show.
Band members wear weird
clothes, tell jokes or just talk with
the audience for deeper engage
ment, while eschewing the “rock
’n’ roll bit” in favor of an honest
performance, Gomez said.
Whatever the approach, the
crowd is never too sedate, Rivera
said. One show at the Engine
Room in Fort Worth was partic
ularly wild, he said.
The crowd was busy moshing
under the club’s balcony-style up
per level, when one guy was ap
parently overcome by the intensi
ty and lapsed into insanity.
“Some crazy guy jumped off
(the balcony), and people were
supposed to catch him,” Rivera
said. “They caught the first half«[
his body, but the rest ofhim
slammed into the ground. It was
pretty funny.”
At another show, one of tit
guitarists jumped off the drum
riser — right into a ceiling fat
suspended over the stage.
But Outlander wouldn’t haveit
any other way. Gomez said hat
ing fun at a show is
a priority.
“It’s a re
lease,” he sail
“It’s fun tt
get in
of a
c row!
and
go of a
lot of stuff,'
Outlander’s
show attracted
tention from an
ual in Dallas who agreed tofi-
nance the band’s first studio at
tempt. Hopefully, this new tapt
will attract independent recori
labels, Rivera said, so Outlandei
can do its part in reshaping tit
modern music scene.
“I think we’re all getting sick
of hearing bands that sud'
Rivera said. “They’re just in it
for the money, and it’s not
coming from inside them.”
Outlander will stay true toils
own style, Rivera said, no
what the future may hold.
But presently, Outlanderis
looking forward to playingits
first College Station show thi-
weekend. The band only ask:
that people here support the lo
cal music scene and give Oi
lander a listen.
“We just want people to coi
out and have fun,” Rivera said.
Live Oak Ranch lets students bare it al
By David Hall
The Battalion
I f you can’t decide what to wear
for Parents Weekend, Live Oak
Ranch has a suggestion —
nothing at all.
Larry Hilderbrand, manager of
Live Oak Ranch, a nudist resort,
said he is waiving the $10 fee in
the interest of acquainting new
comers to the nudist lifestyle.
“I am opening doors,” Hilder
brand said, “to welcome and invite
any and all students.”
The weekend offers a large
number of recreational activities,
including a DJ who will provide
music for a nude dance and a vol
leyball competition between visit
ing Aggies and members of the
University of Texas Longhorn
Nudist Club.
“Jane,” a senior political sci
ence major who wished to re
main anonymous, said the nud
ism at the ranch is liberating.
She said in society at large, peo
ple are too often judged by their
apparel. She feels less judged at
the camp, she said.
“After you’re there a while, you
don’t want to put your clothes back
on,” she said. “It provides a sanctu
ary — a place to get away from the
restrictions of society.”
Normally, clothing isn’t permit
ted at the ranch, Hilderbrand said.
“Clothing separates and makes
gawkers of the people who wear
it,” he said.
However, it will be optional
this weekend, as first-timers
get acquainted with the idea of
open nudity.
Opened in 1976, Live Oak
Ranch was started in order to
provide relaxing entertainment
for nudists from as far away as
Houston. The fact that partici
pants in the club’s activities do
so without wearing any clothes
is indicative only of their recre
ational preference, Hilderbrand
Stew Milne, The Bint
Live Oak Ranch normally does not permit people to wear
said. Membership is based sim
ply on the opportunity for enjoy
ment the club provides.
“Live Oak is the same as any
other facility,” he said. “It’s just
another recreational option.”
Nudist resorts are, in fact, one
of the fastest-growing forms of
recreation in the United States,
Hilderbrand said. There are cur
rently over 200 nationwide,
more open every year. For Elite
brand, the attraction is in thi
erating nature of nudism. He
nudity as a healthy, natural
means of recreating.
“Being nude is a freedom,’
said. “It is a relaxer, a stress i*
liever, and there is nothing
natural in the world.”
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