Jackyl played for a packed venue on Saturday night, with a sold out show at the Platt Duetsche in Grand Island. The crowd was lining up outside the doors, well before they were set to open at 6PM. At 7PM the concert goers were still piling in one after another, just in time for the opening act to start their set. The opening act was a local band, Exit 312. They played songs that everyone knew and wanted to sing along to, with a set list full of hits from the 80s & 90s.
The crowd was primed and ready once Jackyl took the stage right around 9pm. Jackyl has set two Guinness world records, one for playing 100 concerts in 50 days, and one for performing 21 concerts in a 24-hour period. Throughout the night, Jesse James Dupree gave many shout-outs to Nebraska, and Grand Island, and he claimed it was a “Family Reunion”, and that it was “good to be back”. He shared “this is where it all started” for Jackyl. The band was on the bill all six years of Comstock Rock Festival each summer from 2002 through the summer of 2007.
The concert promoter, Ruben Perez Jr. and his wife Stephanie are the ones to thank for setting up this show, and many of the concert goers agreed that they were very happy with the success of the show. With the overwhelming support of the community who showed up to see Jackyl, Perez Jr. is on the right track to bringing rock music to the Tri-Cities, because the people will come.
SETLIST:
Blast Off
My Moonshine Kicks Your Cocaine’s Ass
Get All Up In It
Encore (It Makes My Bic Dig Her)
Screwdriver
Down On Me
Back Off Brother
We’re An American Band (Grand Funk Railroad cover)
Push Comes To Shove
A Country Boy Can Survive (Hank Williams Jr. cover)
Just Because I’m Drunk
I Stand Alone
When Will It Rain
Dirty Little Mind
Redneck Punk
Suspicious Minds (Mark James cover)
Lumberjack
Concert Report and Photos by Danielle Skorniak