This Atlanta, Georgia, USA-based band was formed in 1990 by larger-than-life frontman Jesse James Dupree, guitarists Jeff Worley and Jimmy Stiff, bass player Tom Bettini and drummer Chris Worley. The band created an enormous buzz, with a basic AC/DC style that transferred well to the live setting on a heavy touring schedule, and they were quickly signed by John Kalodner to Geffen Records. Jackyl courted controversy from the start, enraging feminists with the ludicrously titled ‘She Loves My Cock’, while Dupree’s onstage antics kept the music press busy. During ‘The Lumberjack’, Dupree soloed on a chainsaw (his father had been so impressed by a club performance with a hired chainsaw that he bought his son a new one) and also regularly indulged his penchant for performing the latter part of the set naked, which resulted in an early departure from a Lynyrd Skynyrd support slot. However, tours with Damn Yankees and, in particular, Aerosmith proved more successful, and their 1992 debut Jackyl achieved platinum status against the grunge-loaded odds. Push Comes To Shove continued in the vein of the debut, and added to the controversy when an advertising hoarding in Nashville was censored (Dupree was displaying his bare buttocks in the band photograph). With their commercial reputation dwindling, the band spent the next few years switching between labels and attempting to resurrect their career. Roman Glick was brought into the line-up at the expense of Bettini and Stiff for 2002’s Relentless.
