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 ROCK ME, ROLL ME, JACKYL ME OFF! Anyone who has been to a Jackyl show has certainly heard that phrase before. Anyone who loves loud rock 'n roll, and hasn't been to a Jackyl show, well... I seriously feel bad for you! Next to AC/DC, Jackyl is the loudest and proudest band you will ever see!
Jackyl is power vocalist/guitarist/songwriter/executive producer, and woodcutter, Jesse James Dupree, guitarist Jeff Worley, bass guitarist Roman Glick, and the man who loves to play in his underwear, Chris Worley on the drums. The energy that flows out of these four Southern hard rocker's is simply amazing!
Jackyl's self-titled debut album slapped the world in the face in 1992 with songs that tore up the charts such as "The Lumberjack," "I Stand Alone," and "When Will It Rain," and a song that you don't hear on the radio for obvious reasons, "She Loves My Cock," which seems to be a crowd favorite at a live Jackyl show. This album went platinum soon after it's release, putting the band on the road with some of their hero's such as Ted.......... Nugent, Kiss, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top.
The band's second kickass release titled, "Push Comes To Shove," came out in 1994 with a couple of huge radio hits titled, "Headed For Destruction," and "Push Comes To Shove." Although all of the songs on this album are gems, a couple of my favorites are "Secret Of The Bottle," "I Could Never Touch You Like You Do," and a great southern hard rock song called "Dixieland."
Jackyl went on to record some great live stuff, and collaborated with AC/DC frontman, Brian Johnson on two occasions, the first being on their 1997 release, titled "Cut The Crap," where Johnson belts out "Locked And Loaded" with Jesse James Dupree. Talk about a power duet!
Brian Johnson teamed up with Jackyl again on their 2002 studio album titled "Relentless," for a song called "kill the Sunshine," which is sure to please any Jackyl or AC/DC fan out there. Speaking of "Relentless," anyone who loves Jackyl, and hasn't picked up this album, I strongly recommend getting it! Go now, don't wait another minute! This album is full of heavy tracks such as "Billy Badass," Curse On You," Mr. Evil, and of course, "Kill the Sunshine." Although I dig all of Jackyl's albums, "Relentless" is in my opinion one of the best Jackyl albums ever recorded.
Jackyl's latest live album and DVD was recorded at the 2004 Sturgis Rally at the Full Throttle Saloon, which is a favorite stop for the band every year. In saying that, I'd also like to say that I had the pleasure of seeing, and certainly hearing Jackyl perform live again at the Rhythm House Cafe in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago, thanks again to our friends at Glam Slam Productions, Sweet Lou Hetzer and his wife, sweet Sue Hetzer, who truly know how to throw a party!
Aside from witnessing another great performance from Jackyl, I had the pleasure of sitting down with frontman Jesse James Dupree, and guitarist Jeff Worley for an exclusive and in depth interview. I'll tell ya right now, these crazy southern boy's don't hold anything back, and if you're offended by what they have to say, my apologies in advance, but if you are offended, you probably shouldn't have fucking read it in the first place! Enjoy! (Photos by Lyn Sou)
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Jesse James Dupree and Jeff Worley, how the hell are you crazy fuckers?
JEFF: We are wonderful man!
JESSIE: As always, we're taking as big a bite out of life's ass as we can!
Welcome to the Rhythm House Cafe here in Bridgeville, PA! I've got a feeling this place is gonna be shakin' tonight! For anyone who hasn't seen a live Jackyl show yet, and may be a little to scared to come on out, tell em' what they can expect from a Jackyl show Jesse.
JESSIE: They can expect to get an ass kickin' rock n' roll show turned up to ten, is what they can expect!
JEFF: Oh yeah man, be scared!
How's it feel guy's to be out here in Pittsburgh tonight?
JESSIE: It's great man! It's been way to damn long since we've been in Pennsylvania, and it's a well known fact that Pennsylvania has some of the most diehard rock n' rollers on the fuckin' planet!
(I had to laugh, during the beginning of this interview. The backstage door got opened a couple of times, and Jesse yelled out for the second time "Shut the fucking door!" It was actually pretty funny, and the look on Sweet Lou's face was priceless, considering he was the culprit on one occasion. It was all in fun of course. Anyway's, moving along, Jesse said...)
JESSIE: Sweet Lou and Pistol Pete won't keep the fucking door shut!
(Again, I feel compelled to write about this as well, because it was so fucking funny. I reached for my Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and Jesse say's "Hey, what're you doin' with my beer!?" I said, "No, it's my beer man!" He says "The hell it is, that's my beer, and if it was yours, it ain't no more!" Of coarse this is all in fun, and I had another icy cold Pabst in front of me in an instant!)
You guy's are road dogs! It seems like you're on the road all the time Jesse. When do you take a break man, and do you ever get tired of being on the road so much?
JESSIE: Hell no man! We're still the same teenagers that were drawing the stage set-ups on the notebooks at school. How many pages did it take you Jeff?
JEFF: It took me about a whole notebook and a bulletin board!
JESSIE: And that was just to get the amplifiers on there, that wasn't including the stage, lights, and the rest of the members of the band. That was just his side of the stage!
JEFF: We can't help it, we love it!
Jeff, I really dig your "Live At The Full Throttle Saloon," cd, but why did you only record ten songs, or was that your entire set?
JESSIE: I don't think Jeff even knows about that! As a matter of fact, you just told Jeff that we have a cd out titled "Live At The Full Throttle Saloon." (Laughs) He just now found out about it, and he's actually been signing em' for the last two years. (Laughs)
(Laughs) You guy's are fucking with me right?
JESSIE: No!
JEFF: No we're not...
JESSIE: That's when it gets to the record company bullshit of things, because for them, it's all about the money and stuff, and if they put more than ten or eleven songs on there, then they have to pay the publishers more money...it's even beyond our control. That becomes a whole other publishing issue and all that...it's just dollars... but we're glad that Sanctuary took the initiative to put out the "Live At The Full Throttle Saloon" cd so that everybody can grab a hold of it. Sturgis is like our New Years Eve! It's turned into being our annual family gathering of about twenty-thousand ridin' mother fuckers, it's off the hook!
JEFF: Now there's more songs on the DVD than the live album, right?
JESSIE: There's still some on the DVD that aren't on the record, and vise-versa, because they just split em' all up. That's really nothing to do with us man.
That's to bad. I know your set is more than ten songs. I just assumed that a live record would be, and should be from start to finish, you know?
JESSIE: Doobie, here's the deal, when we recorded all that stuff, we did all that ourselves, that wasn't even planned to be a DVD, we just wanted to document the Sturgis rally, and we literally grabbed six of our friends, and said, "here's a camera, stand here and shoot something." And when I tell you that, I'm not kidding. One of our buddies had a friend that had a jib, you know the big boom thing that has a camera on the end of it? Well, we paid for his friend to come to Sturgis to operate the jib, and he was the worst jib operator in jib history! (Laughs) And we paid him!
Did you want to add anything Jeff?
JEFF: I'm just upset that we paid anything for that guy!
Of all the places you guy's play Jeff, why did you decide on the Full Throttle Saloon for your live record?
JEFF: It's just a great environment, all the shows are free, you'll have Drowning Pool one night, Thin Lizzy the next night, and Rob Zombie another night...every night there's just all kinds of cool stuff going on. It's just a great time man!
JESSIE: We got acclimated and settled in, and got us a place where we can take over the stage the night before and get ready for stuff, so that was the obvious place to do it.
Jackyl are certainly no strangers to the Sturgis Rally, or to the Full Throttle Saloon. How many years have you guy's been rockin' out over there now Jeff?
JEFF: The Full Throttle is something we've been doing annually since it's been open, about seven years, but we've been playing Sturgis for eleven years now.
Jessie, how was Sturgis 2006 for you this year, and do you guys try and plan your schedule so you can hang out for a few days while you're there performing, or do you pack up and roll?
JESSIE: Oh man, it's a great fucking time every year! We always plan to be out there for three or four days man, it's a lot of fun. I was joking with Jeff, because we went out this last time for like six days, and Jeff never left the property. He literally never stepped foot off of the property! (Laughs) Let's just say there was to much occupying his time.
JEFF: Just to much drinking to do! (Laughs)
So what happens at Sturgis, stays at Sturgis right?
JESSIE: Unfortunately that's not the case, but it's all good! We're grown babies, we do what the hell we do!
JEFF: That's right!
JESSIE: We get into trouble on our own terms.
Do you guy's ride?
JEFF: Jessie and Roman rode behind us the whole summer.
JESSIE: I average close to twenty thousand miles on my motorcycle every year from show to show.
When can Jackyl fans expect another kickass record Jessie?
JESSIE: Just as soon as we can get in there and hammer out some more man. We've actually got some stuff that's in the can, and hopefully we can get that stuff mixed up and out by the first quarter of this coming year.
JEFF: Our minds are always working man.
What's the writing process like for you guys Jeff?
JEFF: We're still trying to figure that part out! (Laughs)
JESSIE: It really hasn't ever changed. We really don't pass to many ideas up, if somebody's got something, we give it a shot...
JEFF: We always let the best songs pick themselves, especially if you don't have any kind of ego or nothing, they'll pick themselves...
JESSIE: That is absolutely one thing that's never happened, I don't think that there's ever been any debate's on what goes on the records.
JEFF: The first record was all the songs that we knew. (Laughs) I bet the first record, when that single came out, "The Lumberjack," there were records being sold in the weirdest parts of Oregon ever, just from Lumberjacks buying our records. That was great.
JESSE: We gave Rush Limbaugh a platinum record because he played it on his environmental report every day.
You've collaborate d with power vocalist Brian Johnson on two occasions. He belts it out on two of your albums, "Cut The Crap," and "Relentless." How did you happen to hook up with Brian?
JEFF: Jessie, you can take this one.
JESSIE: Ah...Brian lives down in Florida, and there was an agent that's down in Florida that used to book a lot of our shows, and he is friends with Brian and his wife, and they were doing a huge get-together of some sort locally down in Sarasota to benefit an old theater that his wife was part of a committee of or something, and she obligated Brian and myself, not even knowing me, to come down and sing at the benefit. I was glad to do it, and that was the first time I had met Brian, and after meeting him, one thing led to another, and next thing I know, he was up to the house...
JEFF: Yeah man, he was at the house...
Wow! Brian Johnson is in the house! That's so fucking cool!
JEFF: Oh man, he cooked us breakfast, and we hung out with him, he's just the greatest!
JESSIE: Yeah, he's the most down to earth guy you'd ever meet man. It put things into perspective because, we travel with bands that totally get caught up in living in a bubble, which is fine, and we've been around people that live in their own private Idaho, which is like Ted, which Ted's always doing what Ted does...
JEFF: We love Ted!
JESSIE: Yeah, we love Ted. But what's crazy is, most everybody's American, and Brian is from England, but yet he's the most like us, you know? I mean that dude is just...I mean, he'll come and just hang, there's no bodyguards, there's no ego or anything like that, he's just the coolest inspiration, that's all I can say, and working with him was better than winning a grammy, and that's a fucking fact!
Brian is known to be pretty particular about music, and doesn't work with any bands, and to actually record two kickass songs with Jackyl, that's saying something right there! How does it make you feel that he takes such a liking to Jackyl?
JESSIE: The thing is, and it boils down to a simple fact, he's not running around screaming or proclaiming us to be the gods of anything, and whereas we definitely know where his place is, he's a rock n' roll legend. The thing about it is, he summed it up one night at dinner, and he just said it off the cuff, and I actually made him write it down and sign it because it was so profound. He just said the reason that most bands are steering away from playing natural shit, is because it's already been done by the good guy's before them! (Laughs) I just thought that was so profound man. For me, that just really hit home, and it's so true, people have been pushed off into extremes, and you have cool little flavors of the day that pop up in genres of music, but it's all an escape getting away from the fact that the reason people are steering clear of just natural rock n' roll is because all of that has already really been done by the masters, and done really, really well. Our influences are the bands that we grew up on, whether it be AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Iron Maiden...especially for Jeff and Roman, because they love the hell outa Maiden! I've got all the respect in the world for Bruce Dickinson, because he's a singing son of a bitch!
Well, that's quite an honor to have Brian Johnson digging your music, let alone writing with you.
JESSIE: We know it's an honor to work with Brian Johnson, you don't have to tell us that!
Ok, but the fact that Brian digs Jackyl so much, is really saying something though!
JESSIE: He just knows that once we get to partying, we don't lay down before he does! (Laughs)
JEFF: I just think it's fucking amazing! We've worked with some amazing bands. Pretty much the guys that we've toured with, give or take some shows, have been the guys that we usually listen to, like ZZ Top and Aerosmith...we've been blessed, and we don't take it for granted, and that's why every single night when we hit the stage, there's sweat flying!
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I've seen you crazy fuckers perform several times, and I've never seen a bad Jackyl show, and that's a fucking fact!
JESSIE: Well thank you Mr. Doobie! People either get it or they don't, and if they don't get it, they can sit at home and talk shit, or they can study for their underwater basket weaving class or whatever! If they do get it, they can come out and join the party, because it's not about coming to see Jackyl, it's about coming out to be part of the show and have a good time. It's just that simple, and anybody that don't get it, is over fucking analyzing it, and they need to take their butt plugs out and breathe for a minute! There's to many critics out there, and that's mainly the people that aren't really working for a living. The people that are putting in fifty or more hours a week because forty don't get it no more, they do get it, and they bust their ass, and when they come down to jam, they want it loud, proud, hard and honest, and that's the son of a bitches that are gonna be standing right up front ready to kick the mother fuckers ass that don't like Jackyl!
(Laughs) That's what I'm talking about right there! So...Jeff, what was it like for you to work with the legendary Brian Johnson?
JEFF: It was a lot of fun man. The thing is, he could be a comedian, he could be a Vegas singer, because he could sing like Frank Sinatra at the drop of a hat...just great! Just like you'd expect, there's not a bad story, he's a natural talent.
JESSIE: Oh yeah, he is a natural talent. For me, as far as working with Brian, I feel that I have gotten the closest experience with him, because he pushes me vocally. He'll stand there and just nudge my ass, and say "Go higher, go higher!" He don't let up, and he truly gets off on it. (laughs) This is a dude that I'd fucking dive straight off the top tier of the arena for, into the concrete, and jump up and run off screaming, just to hear him singing, and for him to get excited and work with me, is a personal experience that's right up there like a damn threesome, you know?
Jessie, do you guy's plan to work with Brian Johnson again in the future?
JESSIE: There are no concrete plans to work with Brian Johnson, but god knows, at the drop of a hat, I'd love to see him and hug his neck. We don't get a chance to hang as much as I'd love to. I wish we were closer neighbors, but I'm not complaining, because he could live all the way over in Europe or something, and he lives just about seven hours from the house, so that ain't bad. I've spent several New Years Eve's with him, we hook up and do stuff like that which is always a blast!
Did Brian Johnson ever make an appearance at any of your gigs, and sing "Locked And Loaded," or "Kill the Sunshine" with you as a surprise guest, and if so, how insane did the crowd go over that?
JESSIE: Several times! One of the biggest thrills was, he was scheduled to show up in Ohio as a surprise, and we had a packed arena in Dayton, Ohio, and nobody knew that he was going to be there. We did our whole show, and for the encore, I introduced Brian Johnson, and the place just came unglued! We did "Back In Black," "Shoot To Thrill," and "Have A Drink On Me." We knew that we were going to have a blast, and that was totally self indulgent excitement for us, but then he sang "I Stand Alone," and I knew he was going to sing it, but it hadn't really hit me until he started to tear into "I Stand Alone," and I was like SHIT!
JEFF: Was that the night that we didn't discuss with him that we were going to play "Shoot To Thrill?"
JESSIE: Yeah, I believe it was!
JEFF: Oh man, I hit those first notes to "Shoot To Thrill," and he looked at me and said "What are you doing to me my son," like he didn't know the lyrics, and he was right on it!
JESSIE: He's an intense dude...
JEFF: The best thing that night, was he told us, "Goddamn, you guys are about as loud as we are!"
That is a fact, I've seen AC/DC six times, and Jackyl a few times, and there is no doubt that you guys are the loudest band next to AC/DC.
JESSIE: Well we like it loud and proud, I can tell you that right now.
I've gotta say Jesse, the track "Mr. Evil," off from your last studio album titled "Relentless," gave me chills! It sounded like Bon Scott himself channeling through you man! How'd you do that!?
JESSIE: We laid that song down, and the guy's all split out, and I stayed in the studio really late that night by myself, no engineer, no nothing, and conjured up those lyrics...
Conjured them up huh? (Laughs)
JESSIE: (Laughs) Yeah, I conjured em' up! I live on some land that used to be old Civil War land, and the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and right before the battle, General Sherman marched down the road that I actually live on when he burned Atlanta, the son of a mother fucker!
JEFF: Jessie lives across the street from the actual battlefield.
JESSIE: The coolest thing about the property is, when I bought the property, they gave me a letter, and asked me not to disturb the Indian rock pile graves that date back like three-thousand years. These are actually on my property, so there's a lot of ghosts, and spiritual vibe on the property just from all that, so it wasn't hard to kinda summons up the inspiration needed to write "Mr Evil." I laid it down and it felt like kind of a surreal experience, because I'd been singing all day, and when the boys came in the next day, I was gonna play them what I had laid down as a demo, which I started making excuses for before they even listened to it, thinking I might have sounded rough or something, because I knew I was out of it, and after I played it, they said, "You're not touching it!" (Laughs) So that was just the demo that I laid down in the middle of the night by myself.
Awesome man! I really like the song, and it really does sound like you're channeling Bon Scott himself.
JESSIE: Thank you. I hope I was, that's the kinda spirit I want!
Jessie, your guitar/chainsaw combo is fucking incredible! Mind telling us a little about that invention, and did you patent it?
JESSIE: I drew it up on a piece of paper and faxed it down to a guy that said he would build it for me down in Florida, but he came after we were watching "The Song Remains the Same," and we were all talking about how badass Jimmy Page was with his double neck guitar, and he had those black, tight pants with the dragon embroidered down the leg. And I thought, man, that is so badass, but instead of a double neck guitar, how about a guitar with a chainsaw built right into it? It was so badass that I didn't even have to have a pair of pants with a dragon embroidered down the leg.
JEFF: The only thing about that thing though, is they worked on it right up till show time. Like a damn race car.
Did you patent it thoug h?
JEFF: I don't think anybody else would want it! (Laughs)
JESSIE: (Laughs) We got it...
I'm curious, how the hell do you keep your guitar tuned with a running chain saw attached to it?
JESSIE: That guitar becomes just like the chainsaw, it can be in any key it damn well wants to be in!
JEFF: (Laughs) We play hard!
Do you play that thing as well Jeff?
JEFF: I don't touch that thing man!
So it isn't just a prop then?
JESSIE: Fuck no, it works!
Seriously though, how does it stay in tune?
JESSIE: It's got a locking nut, as opposed to mine! My nuts are not locking! (Laughs)
I've gotta say Jesse, the whole chainsaw act is brilliant! Back in the day when you first started out, what inspired you to incorporate an actual chainsaw into your music?
JESSIE: One night we were playing this bar, and I went and rented a chainsaw and just destroyed the bar for the sake of making the club owner have a heart attack. This was before we got a record deal, and I had pulled it out that night when we were jamming on some blues, and played a little blues thing with it, and everybody thought it was funny, and my dad said,"You gotta keep doing that," and a couple of weeks later, my dad actually went and bought the chainsaw, and gave me it, and I thought he was crazy, but when you got a chainsaw laying around every night, you're gonna use it, and one thing led to another. It became obvious that it was the definitive instrument for rock n' roll, because it's loud, aggressive, abrasive and stinky. Everything rock should be.
Jessie, I know this is old news, but a few years back when you guy's pulled up on a flatbed truck in front of K-Mart and started rockin out, that took some balls! Who was the mastermind behind that idea, and did you guy's get arrested for that incident?
JESSIE: That was back when Parental Advisory stickers were just coming about, and that particular time it was a bigger issue than people think about now, but at the time it was a big issue that Wal-Mart and K-Mart weren't gonna carry your record because it wasn't censored, and one thing led to another, and we fucking just figured if they can't sell the record there, we'll go play for the K-Mart shoppers. That day resulted in a $250.00 fine.
Who was the mastermind behind this Jeff?
JEFF: We were all the masterminds, and figured it out together, and just did it.
JESSIE: I don't know if it's a mastermind, it's more like who's the deviant fucks that set the damn stuff up on the trailor...(Laughs) Our road crew!
Does K-Mart sell Jackyl cd's now?
JEFF: Hell yeah. As a matter of fact, if the truth be known, we sell more records at Wal-Mart than any other store I think.
I'll ask you this next question Jeff. Jackyl has been on a couple of package tours in the past, is there any in particular that you really liked the most?
JEFF: We only did one package tour, which was "The Rock Never Stops Tour," and we only did that because we're friends with Tesla. The only band that we really gave a damn about was Tesla, because they were our friends.
JESSIE: Yeah, we were label mates at Geffen, but the only reason we did that tour was because they asked us to. We stay clear of the package tours, we've opened up for Aerosmith, Kiss, Ted Nugent, ZZ Top, and we've done a lot of incredible stuff like that... Kid Rock was a lot of fun, and we've done shows where we've had a lot of fun playing with people, but as far as package tours go, we've always as a rule completely steered clear of em'.
Why is that?
JESSIE: Just because we like being in our own private hell.
Do you get asked much to go out on package tours?
JEFF: Yes, we've passed on a lot of em', and I ain’t scared to say this, but nobody wants to play with us. Who would want to?
Why wouldn't anybody want to tour with Jackyl? Are they intimidated by you crazy fuckers or what?
JEFF: They're only intimidated to the fact that the older guys are gonna have to work! That's what Joe Perry said once, "Ya'll make us work when we go out." We're gonna go out there and throw down, and we're not going to hold back because there's some kind of headliners man.
JESSIE: We're not saying that we're the best band, or the best players, but we'll tell you that we are arrogant as a mother fucker when it comes to the fact that nobody can jam any goddamn harder!
So you're competitive then huh?
JESSIE: No, no, we're just saying that people with all the talent sometimes sit back and they forget about the value of shitting on stage and eating it. That makes them have to work harder, because people hear with their eyes, and they see that sweat, and they know it's for real, and it smells like raw meat to a damn hungry dog.
JEFF: We do what we're gonna do regardless...if anyone can't handle that, then fuck em'. I'm just saying, I know I'm not the best guitar player, but I'm gonna go out there and play, and say follow that shit! I've gotta have that attitude or I'm just wasting my time. That's the Jerry Lee Lewis Souther part of us.
Being on the road as much as you are, you're bound to run into some crazy shit sometimes. What's the craziest fucking thing that you've ever witnessed on the road Jeff?
JEFF: I can tell you this, outside of anything sexual, which I'm steering way clear of, I did see a midget get knocked out at Sturgis this year.
Knocked out cold?
JEFF: Knocked out cold! It was totally brilliant, it was awesome! He asked for it, and he got it. Treated as an equal and knocked out within one second. (Laughs)
JESSIE: He was standing taller than that guy, because he was up on the bar! (Laughs)
What were a couple of your favorite Glam-Metal bands from back in the day Jesse?
JESSIE: The New York Dolls. There was really only that one, everybody else did cheap imitations. I think they were truly the first. David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust era as well. There's no doubt that they were the originals...
JEFF: I kinda seen through all that shit at that time to, and still it was AC/DC, Aerosmith and everybody that's still playing. I'm big on being around! New album, new band, big hit, woopty doo, show me that shit in thirty years...or even ten! Most of the guy's I could ask that question about, don't even play no more. If you're not playing, I don't give a shit. Unless you're dead, then you get a free pass!
Jessie, what do you like to do for fun when you do finally get home, and decide to take a break?
JESSIE: Ride my motorcycle, which is kinda what I incorporate into working every year, but mainly, I like to work, I do all kinds of shit...
JEFF: Jessie's a work-aholic, he does all kinds of shit...
JESSIE: I don't sleep.
JEFF: Ask his wife...
JESSIE: I don't, they all bed down sometime generally around midnight or something like that. I'm up till about two or three in the morning, and right back up no later than eight.
JEFF: There is nothing more fun for me than this right here man. This is my fun...to me, home is work. It would take to long to explain what that means, but when I'm on stage I can sleep at night after I play a show.
So you guy's don't go fishing or hunting, or stuff when you're home?
JEFF: You do it, but you're still thinking about the same damn thing, and that is to get on that fucking stage and rock!
JESSIE: Most of the time I look at my wife, and I fuck the hell out of her, and I get to thinking, damn she's good looking, and I chase her around the house. When the kids go to school, I'm knockin out the booty! I'll tackle her as much as she'll let me, and then when she starts getting tired of it, I start getting her drunk, and then I tap that out, and then she's glad to see me leave for a few days.
JEFF: You gotta know, all of our wives after a while want us to leave! Roman's free, but my wife after a while is like, ya'll need to go play, get the hell outa here.
So you guy's are gone a lot then...(Laughs)
JESSIE: Yeah. Each of our wives can only handle us in small doses anyway. They miss us and say they want us home for a minute...
JEFF: And in a minute, you're the asshole again! (laughs)
(Laughs) You guy's are the craziest fuckers I have ever interviewed for sure!
JESSIE: You got that right! We are what we are! You put that down in print for all the GlamMetal readers out there.
Ok. this last question is for you Jessie. I understand you are producing a show on MTV, mind telling us a little about that?
JESSIE: Sure. I just had a guy approach me about being his partner in a television production company, and I was like, "Man, I'm a musician, not a producer" and he said we'd make a great team, so I agreed, and we sat down and developed a show... several shows actually, one of which is called "Two-A-Days." It's really just about the pressure's that young athlete's are under these days, because there's so much money in football, baseball, soccer, and whatever. These kids are under so much pressure at a young age, and we went over to MTV and sold it to them and documented this incredible, fanatical high school football program. It's a nine episode show, and the biggest production that MTV has ever rolled out, it's a four-million dollar production, and the show is a big hit. So it looks like I hit a home run with the television production company Humidity Entertainment, and I've got several other shows in the hopper, and I'm now an executive producer which just goes to show that there is no fairness in this world. They can all kiss my ass, I'll do anything, would you like me to operate on your brain, I'm a brain surgeon to, what the fuck!
You crazy fucker Jessie! What the hell else do you have going on man?
JESSIE: I've got several projects going on. One project I'm doing is with Bruce Willis's company, Cheyenne Enterprises, with him and his partner Arnold Rifkin that I'm producing, which we're trying to find a network home for now, and several other things as well.
Cool! In closing, do you have any parting words for all of the Jackyl fans and friends out there Jeff?
JEFF: I'd like to say that we are not stopping! This is gonna continue, we wanna be like the Rolling Stones, around forever, and go beyond any genre, just us! Turn into just Jackyl so we don't have to compete with any kind of shit. Yeah, that's my deal, be like AC/DC, Stones, and bands that have been around forever...that's my goal. Oh yeah, what's that in Cleveland, that little building that they put shit in?
JESSIE: The Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame?
JEFF: Yeah, I'd love to be in that for some reason, I'm sure we can find some reason besides music, like being to loud or something!
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What's Jessie James Dupree got to say?
JESSIE: I'd like to say God Bless real America! I wish that there was a way, for as fucked up as things are for real America, to have more of a voice in what's going on in the world today, because people are so distracted having to work so long every week, fifty or more hours a week, and having to juggle the responsibilities, rather it be family, or bills, or whatever the case is. I just wish they had a stronger voice in manipulating things in the world's policies, because things would be a lot different, and just knowing what real America is going through now makes me appreciate everybody that comes out to see us every night, and that's why I don't take it for granted, and that's why I can never not go out and pour my fucking soul into every show! God Bless em' all, I love em' I want to see em' and hug their necks, and that's why we go and shake their hands at the end of every night.
Alright guys! Thank's for taking the time to hang with GlamMetal.com TM. Good luck with everything you've got going on man!
JESSIE: Thank you so much!
JEFF: Thanks Doobie. Good luck to you as well man!
There you have it folks! Jackyl's Jessie James Dupree and guitarist Jeff Worley! Talk about two crazy ass rockers who just don't give a fuck! That was a kick ass interview right there!
Anyone who want's to know more about Jackyl, or when they're gonna roll into your town, you can go to www.jackyl.com AND www.myspace.com/jackyl |
