Double Dick Slick

6.08 V1.1

RBN: Let's start by introducing everyone.

Jeff: Jeff Daughtery (vocals)
Jason: Jason Reed (guitar)
Rich: Rich Howell (saxophone)

RBN: Who are the other guys in the band?

Jeff: Zane Turnure (guitar), Matt Eslinger (bass) and Robert Oyer (drums) and sometimes Bobby Rayfield. Jeremiah Williams, he'll play trumpet for us sometimes. Eric Penney will do keyboards from time to time.

RBN: What about the really tall guy who comes out in various costumes?

Jason: Chris Logan.

Jeff: He's definitely part of the show.

Jason: We've always wanted our show to be as theatrical as possible.

RBN: How you would you describe your sound to someone who's never heard it before?

Jeff: Narcotic.

Jason: You have to say, heavy. It's heavy metal music. It's rock and roll, period.

Jeff: Progressive metal. That's kinda what I would call it. Some of it is simple, some of it's real intricate.

RBN: You guys have been around since 1997. That's much longer than the average life span of local bands. What would you say is the primary reason the band has survived?

Jason: We haven't got in a fight that has broke us up as friends yet.

Jeff: We don't hate each other. We like what were doing. We've never gone on tour, we've only recorded one CD. Were the biggest slackers ever so it never got stressful. We've had our on and off periods, we quit for two years before. But we always want to get back together and jam and it's like hell, let's play some shows.

Jason: Me and him (Jeff) are just as addicted to playing in front of people as we are to playing period, or we like performing as much as we like writing music and playing it for ourselves. So we'll always do that till we croak over probably.

Jeff: Since we got Rich and Zane and Robert playing drums and Matt playing with us again. Hell it's just like sparked anew.

Jason: We amuse ourselves. We have so much freaking fun with what we do it doesn't really matter if we're in front of anybody at all or in a club or anything. We love it.

RBN: Has the style changed a lot since you started playing?

Jeff: It's evolved.

Rich: But it still has the element of what it started with.

Jason: It's exactly the same and entirely different. We started off playing different instruments than we all play now. Like, I played bass originally. It all sounds totally different from then. The music is much more technical now. Ten years ago we'd take a loop we heard on the TV or something and write a song to it and it would be like total monotonous music. It didn't even make any sense. Where now we actually write songs.

Jeff: We didn't give a shit. But still some of the lyrics don't mean a fucking thing to anybody that wasn't in that room when that idea came.

"There's so many lines out of our songs that are inside jokes and that goes back to amusing ourselves. We have more fun at practice than we do at shows. We all laugh, there will be parts where we can't make it through them without cracking up."

RBN: How has the local scene changed since then?

Jeff: I'm 32 now, when we started out I was 21. When you're 21 all your friends are 21 and everybody always goes to shows then. Now I tell one of my best buddies, hey we're playing a show theyr'e like, "okay, whatever,I won't be there". They don't plan on going, they're married.

Jason: Yeah, that's one thing that's changed is our fan base. We don't have any of our friends for support anymore. They're all too old to care.

Jeff: We're such slackers we don't try to get new fans. We play our one or two shows a year and don't really give a fuck. We're the biggest slackers you've ever known as far as a band goes and what we should do.

RBN: Did you guys go to Riverbend this year?

Jeff: Yeah.

Jason: We saw the Black Crows the first night and it was horrible.

RBN: What was it like when you played Riverbend?

Jeff: It was awesome, greatest day of my life...

Jason: They gave us like 25, 30 minutes only. We figured we could play six songs. We got into the fourth song and they...

Jeff: They didn't like it.

Jason: It was a great time, the crowd loved us.

Jeff: Yeah, the crowd loved us but the cops hated it and the equipment people didn't enjoy it and the powers that be didn't enjoy it. We raised a little bit of hell, we were pretty fucked up. I was anyway.

Jason: Gene Norman that runs Digisound, he loved us and wanted us to play. It was one of the first years they started expanding into more heavy bands and more local bands. We should have waited two years and not been the first band to break the ice. We jumped in there too soon and no one else was ready for it.

RBN: Didn't you play on Warped Tour?

Jason: We played the Knoxville show in 2000. That was all because our drummer's cousin was one of the truck drivers that drove the stage around, he got us in. We showed up there and they got us a slot in between Green Day and NOFX. They were on the main stage and we were on a little side stage waiting for Green Day to stop playing. As soon as they stopped that was our cue to start.

Jeff: CKY played on the same stage right before us and Jess Margera stood on the side of the stage and watched our set, that was pretty cool.

Jason: As we were playing there was a big ramp for motorcycles in front of us and they were jumping like 300 feet in the air or something crazy. Very fun time, we got kicked out of there too. Our keyboard player had a handgun for some reason...

Jeff: ...and his backpack got stolen.

"We had to tell the people at Warped Tour there was a handgun loose in there."

RBN: Can you tell me about some other memorable shows?

Jason: When we played at The Bay was one of the greatest nights ever because we were total rock stars.

Jeff: I came out in 70's gear then half way through it went and changed into 70's cowboy gear. There was like a mid-set costume change in there, that's rock star. And then the whole place ended up fighting.

Jason: One night we were playing at Father Abraham's. Jeff had decided, that he was in some rare form that night and he was not entering that room. Not going to mingle or talk to anyone that night. He was dressed as Elvis. The whole night everybody was like, "where's Jeff?" and it was the biggest anticipation, "what the hell is wrong with him, why isn't he in here?" We even started the show without him and everybody was cussing and raising hell, it was an uproar. All of a sudden in the middle of this intro, waiting on him to arrive, he busted in the back door, waving this American flag and the whole place went insane.

Jeff: I sat out in the car for three hours.

Jason: And then when we ended the show you left.

Jeff: That's where dressing rooms come in, that way you can stay behind the scenes.

Jason: I remember why you were pissed because you had to get all that gear on. You didn't want anyone to see you until the show so you were pissed and sat in the car the whole fucking night.

Rich: I got one, the Halloween show where the guy got knocked out in the audience and the paramedics came. That drunk guy that was annoying everybody and trying to knock everybody down, somebody ended up kicking him in the head...

Jeff: There was blood was coming out of his ears...

Rich: ...he got knocked the fuck out. The show was stopped and Matt left.

Jeff: He thought that dude was dead so he bolted. [laughter]

Jason: Over half the room left because they were scared to death but for the people that stayed we finished the set.

Jeff: That's not the only time we've had to call 911 in the middle of a show. At K.C. Wings a security guard pegged a dude in the head with a Maglite, about killed him. There were two ambulances, two or three rescue squads, fire trucks, cops everywhere, in the newspaper...

Jason: I got another show highlight, in '97 out in the middle of nowhere there was this big barn party, halloween show that was a big deal. There were hundreds of people there and it was the hippy-fest from hell. We didn't belong, not one bit. We showed up in Spiderman and Green Lantern gear, Tony dressed like a fat woman. We played the most heaviest narcotic show. Everyone there was scared for the rest of the night. We were the most unexpected and unwanted thing they had ever dealt with and we let loose like it was the best night of our lives. We were swinging from rafters, there was hay everywhere, it was fun as could be.

Jeff: I wouldn't even do that nowadays, back when your like 21, it's like "fuck it, were doing it, lets' go play it." We thought we were rock stars. That's all it was.

Jason: We weren't invited back the next year.

Jeff: I tore the IBP ceiling out, that's the greatest I remember...

Jason: They had acoustic ceiling tiles, he tried to swing from it one time and the entire ceiling came down. The next day we had to rebuild it.

Rich: You were telling us about that rumor, an old show at the IBP...

Jeff: Oh yeah, Tony stole the show. He ordered a burger and we had to wait on them to cook the burger, it took so long, he was so slow eating that burger for like a fucking hour. Then we started the set, he was sitting there with his burger sitting on his snare drum.

Rich: His snare drum was his plate, he played with one hand and was eating. [laughter]

Rich: There was one where we were gonna have to start without Jeff at the new Local...

Jason: We had already decided he didn't exist anymore. We were all on stage getting ready to play without him when somebody in the back shouted "here he is," underneath some boxes an' shit, asleep. We drug him on the stage and laid him down and gave him a microphone.

Jeff: That's when I thought I broke my ankle. I'd already puked, passed out. I stood up and collapsed, fucked up...

Jason: I remember looking at you.You had the microphone, you weren't even holding it. It was just laying beside your mouth and you were going "awawawaa."

Jeff: I fell off the front of the stage, onto the monitor. There's been more than one show like that. That one was pretty bad. One time we played at the old Local and I had put these fucked up contact lenses in my eyes, red cat-eye contacts, after the show we all went back to the house and partied. I thought those contact lenses looked pretty cool so I kept them in. Ended up going to sleep then having to go to the emergency room the next day because I'd scratched the shit out of my corneas, about went blind. [laughter]

"They had to peel one off my eye. They gave me more narcotics than anybody ever has in my life."

RBN: Anything you want to add?

Jason: I do, Matt is the godfather of the band. We all listen to him, he tells us what to do. He taught me how to play, he's the godfather.

Jeff: He knew fucked up music when we thought we were showing him what fucked up music was. He's like "that's not fucked up, this is fucked up."

Rich: Jason is one of the most under-rated guitarist, he doesn't get enough recognition. And Jeff is one of the most creative and best writers and vocalists. There really should be more albums with the lyrics printed inside them so you can laugh your ass off and appreciate it. We get to hear it at practice but the fans or people at shows don't get the whole experience.

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