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Mar012015

Jackyl Sell Out Dayton Show

Jackyl played in Dayton, Ohio Friday night. I wrote about the show in advance for the Dayton City Paper. I thought you might be interested in reading some tidbits from Jesse James Dupree. The show was sold -out. I could have gone, but didn't. But I heard it was crazy as ever! 

 

“It’s the equivalent of a man being shot out of a cannon,” Jackyl frontman Jesse James Dupree said when asked how to describe a Jackyl show in one sentence or less.

The rockers will bring their unique brand of southern metal and debauchery to Oddbody’s Music Room Friday, Feb. 27. The show is sold out. The band will be joined by special guests Transylvania Hellhounds and Four Star Revival.

Jackyl is probably best known for raunchy lyrics and for the stage antics of Dupree. After all, he plays a chainsaw in addition to guitar – and saws a wooden stool in half during every show during “The Lumberjack,” a song with more than a cult following. The modern day outlaws are no strangers to Ohio, spending a lot of time in the state for bike week, held annually in Sandusky. Ohio Bike Week is the largest motorcycle rally in the Midwest and Jackyl has been a part of the event for the last several years.

“We play Ohio Bike Week every year,” Dupree explained. “We turn that first Thursday night into ‘Jackylstock,’ if you will. It’s something we look forward to. As far as we go, you could keep us in Ohio nonstop. We’ve never had anything less than a great connection with everyone there. The common denominator is that we all work for a living. We’re right there with people that bust their knuckles 40-50 hours a week or more and they know when it comes time to jam and have a good time, they are going to get it with us and vice versa.” Bike Week is set for May 29 – June 7, 2015.

While the guys in Jackyl seem perfectly comfortable in Ohio, it has been several years since the band actually played a proper gig in Dayton.

“This will be the first time that we’ll play Dayton since we’ve had the Best In Show album out,” Dupree said. “So it will be the first time that we’ve played ‘Screwdriver’ and ‘Encore’ and those songs that have kind of taken off on their own, with people grabbing a hold of them and making them part of their playlist.”

It isn’t so much that Jackyl don’t want to play Dayton. Rather, their tour routing always seems to land them in Cincinnati, a city that is so close, it makes booking dates in Dayton on the same tour run next to impossible.

“We are excited to be coming back to Dayton and we’re glad it worked out this time,” Dupree said. “We grew up as a band playing what used to be McGuffy’s [now Oddbody’s]. It’s a special place for us since we’ve got such a history there. I don’t think we’ve ever done a show in Dayton that wasn’t just completely off the hook and a blast. People in Dayton rock hard.”

While the band continues to tour, look forward to summer and multiple bike events around the country including the 75th anniversary of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Jackyl also have big plans to write and record a new album.

“We’re always writing and working on new material,” Dupree said. “We’re trying to get that process started now so by the end of the year we can put another record out. We finished up last year by doing 130 shows after the release of the Best In Show album and the response to it and even the one before When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide. Both those records have done well for us.”

For Dupree, the best time to write a new record is on the road. This is the exact opposite for most established acts, who prefer to set a specific time to write and then a specific time to tour.

“People always say, ‘How come a band’s first album stands heads above the rest of the records they make?’ and that is because that first album has songs that are road tested,” Dupree said. “I think that’s the key. We went back on the last two albums and we road tested the songs before we ever laid them down and there is just a certain grease that gets on them when you get them out on the road. If it smells like a rock ‘n’ roll song, tastes like a rock ‘n’ roll song, well that’s probably what it is.”

Like many rock bands these days, Jackyl have their own recording studio, based in Dupree’s home. Currently, Dupree is remodeling the studio and getting it ready for the band’s next recording session. In the past, other artists like Izzy Stradlin, of Guns n’ Roses fame, The Georgia Satellites and even Cee Lo Green have used his studio to record.

To learn more about Jackyl and for a full list of tour dates, please visit rockmerollmejackylmeoff.com.

 

Reader Comments (14)

Great read, Allyson. I always like it when you post some of your longer articles. Thanks so much.
March 1, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHim
Jackyl is one of the best live bands going, right now. The Best In Show cd was phenomenal!
March 1, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterbkallday
Yee-haw! Saw these fine purveyors of Redneck Rawk a few years back at M3. I find their stuff rather boring except for one thing... Dupree has to be THE funniest man in Rock... His songs aren't all that funny but it's his banter in between songs that's the reason, and sorry, hicksterz, the ONLY reason in my mind to take in a Jackyl show... well worth it at least once.
March 2, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMetalboy!
Boring?????? OMG METAL boy, Tesla bores you and now Jackyl? My Metal friend you have 1 to many screws loose! Jackyl is anything but BORING! Just saw them last sat, they blew the roof off the joint from the first chord to the last blast of the Chainsaw! If they are boring whats your definition of exciting?
March 2, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJackT.Ripper
I've never seen jackyl but would like to I have every CD and think they are very entertaining with some great riffs.hopefully they call me around my neck of the woods again.
March 2, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterglamrockerarchie
Let me break it down for ya, Jack...

GOOD: AC/DC, Accept, Priest, Motley Crüe, RATT, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Saxon, Britny Fox, Lizzy Borden, Prett Boy Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Cinderella, Poison, KIX, Wildside, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Dokken, Riot, Great White, WASP, Love/Hate, Dirty Looks, Guns n' Roses, Four Horsemen, Junkyard, Kingdom Come, Megadeth, Whitesnake, Marshall Law, Diamond Head, Roxx Gang, Slave Raider, Life, Sex & Death, Badlands, Babylon A.D., Heaven's Edge, Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, Aña Black, Cobra Dane, Sweet Cheater, K.K. Wilde, Bulletboys, Bruce Dickinson, Quiet Riot, Steeler, Steelheart, Stryper, Johnny Crash, The Beau Nasty, Quireboys, Hard Knox, Impelliteri, Killer Dwarfs, L.A. Guns, Le Mans, Lynch Mob, Motörhead, The Scream, Sgt. Rocks, Mama's Boys, The Rods, Sea Hags, Saints & Sinners, Salty Dog, T.T. Quick, Vamp, WW III...
March 2, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMetalboy!
GOOD (cont'd): Van Halen (with David Lee Roth), Skid Row, Hanoi Rocks, Dangerous Toys, Rock City Angels, Electric Boys, MSG, Type-O-Negative, Loudness, Danzig, Fastway, TUFF, Helix, Heavy Bones, NITRO, Hericane Alice, Faster Pussycat

BAD: TeslUGH!, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Jackyl, Ugly Kid Joe, Trixter, Night Ranger, Y&T, Van Hagar, RUSH, Giant, etc., etc.
March 2, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMetalboy!
There are a few turds mixed in with your Good, compared to Jackyl! Also, some Diamonds in your Bad, but we agree on alot of them, especially DIRTY LOOKS!!!!! Have almost everything they recorded, Ripper cant get enough!
March 3, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJackT.Ripper
Kind of funny when most of the BAD still tours, but a lot of that GOOD is reminiscing to back in the day. :)
March 3, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterGNR
Metal boy, you call Jackyl boring but have the Quireboys listed in your GOOD section, Ripper does enjoy The Quireboys but lord knows they ARE not too exciting, they single handedly lulled the Ripper to sleep on Monster Island. They were equivalent to Mammy Ripper singing a lullaby to a Baby Ripper while slowly rocking his cradle!!!! Good music but Yaaaaawn!
March 3, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJackT.Ripper
Jackyl f'in rocks. End of story. Rock me roll me and Jackyl me off all night long. The year they played Rocklahoma directly before Stryper - I'll love them forever. They need moved to the GOOD list - hell yeah Jack.
March 3, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMEWIZEMGIC
Hahaha!!! That's my Boyz! You guys kill me... I forgot one to stir the pot even more... GOOD: Pantera, 1981 - 1987... BAD: 1987 - 2004

Jack T: appreciate you acknowledging that I got some right. Dude! I was lucky enough to see Dirty Looks TWICE at The Cat Club in NYC, the first time off the 1st album and once off the 2nd... Easily 2 of THE Best Shows I've Ever Seen In My Life! Also, I want you to know I do respect many of the bands I listed as "BAD". And, man, we when you saw Quireboys on Monster Island... I was there, man!

Did you see 'em playin' electric the year before when they closed out the cruise? That was pretty good but not as good as when I saw 'em in Sag Harbor, New York at Bay Street Theater off that first album when Guy Bailey lept from the stage and pummeled a heckler in the audience as the band kept playing and got back on to finish out the performance with nary a scratch on him. Needless to say that's when they were a lot more kick a*s.

p.s. Here's another BAD one for the pile... WINGER
March 4, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMetalboy!
I love love love Jackyl! It's been more than 20 years since I caught them live, but both times I did were awesome: 1 at a little club in Allentown, PA when my buddy and I almost got in a fight with the lead singer from the crappy opening band, and the other at Radio City Music Hall when they opened for Damn Yankees.
March 4, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBob
Metalboy - I'm with you most of the time but tell me you never jammed to a little Easy Come, Easy Go while cruising around town??? Do I Stand Alone today on this? ;-)
March 4, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMEWIZEMGIC

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