It’s just kind of crazy that I ended up suggesting his name to be the guy that produced our record. “I used to sneak in and watch him play in these bars. "I grew up going to watch him play in Underground Atlanta and the places around here when I was 15 and he was 18. "He's a master at just letting stuff rock," says Dupree. “I don’t want to have to go back to doing it!”įrom the start, it was easy to hear some AC/DC in Jackyl's music, which was recorded with hard-thumping clarity by producer and engineer Brendan O’Brien, a fellow Georgia-area musician who Dupree thought would be the right guy to work on their first album. They’re still committed to going out and doing the work. “I poured concrete for a living, so that’s what drives my ass,” he laughs. He and his band come across as a group that never lost its blue-collar roots. It’s unfortunate that it wasn’t documented better, because it was a hell of a task.”ĭupree tells these stories with a sense of humility. They have Guinness World Records: first, for a marathon 1998 touring run in which the group performed 100 shows in 50 days, and later, for playing 21 shows in a 24-hour period. “We just strapped everything in the back of a tractor trailer rig and hit the road," Dupree recalls.
“That’s a fact.”īut the liner notes also reveal a band that worked hard.
The liner notes detail a series of career highlights that have little to do with the band's music - like the time Dupree entered a Longhorn Steakhouse with a chainsaw to “surprise” a group of radio programmers, a stunt that generated a class-action lawsuit that reportedly cost the band more than $1 million dollars by the time everything was sorted out. “I wish I had a third of the money back that I’ve spent on lawyers,” he says. Jackyl 25, a new anthology that commemorates a quarter-century of raucous fun, gathers songs from the studio, the stage and everywhere in between. There are written complaints to building management from our neighbors there are some tense elevator rides the rest of the week. “We’ve done our share of that over the years,” Dupree laughs when reminded of the incident. It’s just another day on the job for the Georgia band, which was crisscrossing the nation and visiting radio stations. After he left on that particular day, the fallout from the morning’s activities lingered. Inside the station, playing in our newly developed performance space, was Jackyl, with their wild-man leader, Jesse James Dupree, with chainsaw in hand, cranking through another rendition of the fan favorite “The Lumberjack.”
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