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Jackyl's New Music Sure Is Something
Monday, May 30, 2016 at 12:01AM
Jackyl have a new album available for pre-order. It's called ROWYCO (you should be able to figure out what this means) and the first single is "Rally." The music part, especially the guitars, are really good. The chorus... isn't. The repetitive "rally, rally, rally" is a bit much, but the weird tribal chant is what I find most distracting. I'm staying positive for the rest of the album - maybe the other tracks will be better. Or maybe I'm being too hard on the band. After all, new rock music is way better than just about any pop garbage shoved down our throats by mainstream radio stations.
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But, I agree, Allyson, they should lose the "Rally" chorus. I'm sure it will become a crazy popular ritualistic chant for the audiences at their shows since a big part of their appeal is Dupree's repartee with the crowd. However, it is kinda weird and annoying simply because the rest of the song is so awesome.
Who the hell needs what might as well be a "Tusk" sample crapping up such a great song? Leave it to Jackyl to f*ck up a perfectly good song so it'll be sure to wind up in the scrap heap with the rest of their sh*t. That said, there is a way to unf*ck this song and someone should either cover it with the following revisions or these guys should simply do a corrected version...
All that has to happen is to simply remove the "Rally" and "Ooga-Chaka" chants and just let the guitars stand alone.
And then rename the song "Ready To Blow" which comes from the remaining lyrics.
I know, I shoulda been a producer!
p.s. Bob, I think we may have talked about this before: Did you see any other bands at New York area venues back in the day?
Namely, I would kill to be able to go back in time to see Smashed Gladys when they burst on the scene. Their second album, "Social Intercourse", is one of my all time faves! Same goes for Teeze (I've got their albums and a bootleg DVD featuring their videos and clips of a few live shows), as well as Tangier, McCauley-Schenker Group, Heaven's Edge, the latter two among my faves in my CD collection and especially, TT Quick.
Though I did see Accept a couple of years back with TT's former frontman, Mark Tornillo, as the permanent replacement for UDO, I can tell from the TT Quick CDs I have, it would have been unreal to see them live back in the day.
That said, there are a couple of bands we did both see whose performances were beyond compare. Wendy O. Williams at 9:30 Club in D.C., one of THE Best and Most Hilarious Shows I Have Ever Seen. I was also fortunate to see one of absolute faves of all time, Britny Fox three times in their classic line-up.
I also saw The Black Crowes open for Junkyard at The Cat Club. This was also before they were famous and I'm going to guess was around the same time. Their guitarist was a monster ultimately replaced, as rumor has it, because he showed up Rich Robinson on guitar. Interestingly, as I've mentioned here before, Junkyard ultimately blew them off the stage at that show.
I could go on, but I realize now, I wish I had journeyed out to New Jersey beyond The Meadowlands (Jimmy Page and AC/DC) to experience those clubs you frequented.
p.s. This may have been before your time, but did you ever see Trigger?
As for Mark Tornillo, when TT wasn't together, he would show up and sing with different bands just for the hell of it. He had a cover band in the early 90s called Big Richard. Also, if you were hanging out at a Jersey bar late at night, you'd sometimes see him jump on stage with the Edgar Cayce band and belt out some Sabbath. Like I said, really magical times back then.
I do remember Trigger in the 70s because they got played on local rock radio, but I wasn't yet old enough to get into the clubs they played at. That's a band that really had their s**T together and should have been bigger.
I'm guessin' many of the bands you saw, I also saw in places on the same East Coast circuit like the Baltimore area at Hammerjack's, Seagull Inn and Network (RATT, Saxon, KIX, Savatage, Lizzy Borden, Britny Fox, Accept, Poison, Quiet Riot, L.A. Guns, Warrant, Kingdom Come, Vince Neil, Child's Play!), also RFK Stadium (Stones, Aerosmith, the original Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nazareth, Pat Travers and Ted Nugent before he became a complete a*shole) The Bayou (Gn'R's last club date, 999, Bad Brains), 9:30 Club (Wendy O, The Dead Boys, The Dickies!), Painter's Mill Music Fair (AC/DC off Powerage!, Joan Jett) and Capital Centre (Zeppelin in '77!) in D.C. from '75 to '88 or primarily MSG (ZZ Top, The Who, Ozzy, Gn'R!), The Cat Club (Alice In Chains with Layne Staley!, Junkyard, Roxx Gang, White Lion, Quireboys, Black Crowes, Steve Stevens & The Atomic Playboys, Enuff Z'Nuff, Life, Sex & Death) and The Ritz (Sex Pistols, The Damned, Chuck Berry, Gn'R) in NYC and L'Amour (Type O Negative) on Staten Island from '88 to 2001! And The Ramones 14 times divided among every one of those cities, hahaha!!! I also saw excellent Punk Bands other than those listed above such as The Misfits (with Glen Danzig!), The Stranglers, The UK Subs, Circle Jerks and Black Flag (with Henry Rollins!) at various lofts and abandoned clubs or storefronts. I also saw Frank Zappa and later Steeler at The University of Maryland's Cole Field House! Also Boston, J Geils and Cheap Trick at The U.S. Naval Academy! I also saw KIX when they were The Shooz and The Generators at various clubs in the Baltimore/D.C. area. Phew, I left some out either because they suck or I forgot. Bands like Crüe and Priest as well as quite a few others I didn't see 'til later, unfortunately).
You're makin' me eat my heart out even more, Bob, with all your details about TT Quick... The fact that they were too gritty is what we love about 'em... Talk about a "Metal of Honor" -- Too gritty!!! Yes, indeed! A description to be worn with honor! I could tell Turnillo was a killer when I met him during the meet and greet before Accept played Orlando. I requested they play "Midnight Mover" and Wolf turned to Turnillo to ask him if he would care to do it and he said, "Of course!"... Man, they shredded that place, The Firestone, apart!
Thanks again, Bob, and I'm sure I speak for many others here, particularly HIM, as he has expressed it himself (no pun intended), for all the great details you continue to provide us. For this, we are truly grateful as we live for this stuff called METAL, it's subgenres and influences, Classic Rock and Punk.
Huh-uh-uh-lo-oh!!! I saw Van Halen twice at Capital Centre in D.C. (since demolished), once in '78 and once in '81, both times at Point Blank range! I also saw Johnny Winter (I was SO close, I coulda blown him over like a feather!) and Buddy Guy! Buddy Guy was particularly cool because he was wireless and went outside, around the corner and climbed up on the roof of a car in the parking lot cranking a solo the whole time! This gets into the story department because the only people who followed him out there were myself and two girls, one I was dating and one who wound up stealing me from her that night! I'm gonna blame Buddy for that, hahaha!!! The year was 1992.
Now, fast-forward to the end of 1998. Back in those days, *the* concert event of the Winter in San Diego was called the Jingle Ball. We're talking a whole night of live music with about ten different bands. the tickets cost a fortune. Well, it just so happened that Jonny lang was one of the performers at the Jingle Ball, and, as had been promised a year earlier, we got a letter saying that we could claim two free tickets to the Jingle Ball! What an interesting night that was. Rick springfield threw his guitar in the air, and missed it when it came down. Poor Bruce Hornsby had to play on the same day he had found out his Father passed away so his set was a little different than usual. This was also the era of that brief swing revival in the late 90s, so Brian Setzer was there with his big orchestra, and so were the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Steve Poltz, a local san Diego favorite, and a well-known smart ass, cracked up 18,000 people when, right in the middle of a song, suddenly started playing "Jessie's Girl" after Rick springfield had already done it...Classic stuff! the best part of the evening?...We left as soon as Jonny Lang started playing. :)