Jackonuts

Our friend and former Bar-B-Que Killers drummer Arthur reminds us today would have been Laura’s 60th birthday. Raise one up in remembrance. So who’s got a good Laura story?

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With all the hype going on about the recent Black Sabbath "Back to the Beginning" farewell show, we thought we'd weigh in with our own bit of "Sabbathness" and the backstory to our name Jackonuts. After playing a couple of parties as a 4 piece (either named "Chopped Combo" or "Condominium") our singer concluded we would be better off as a 3 piece and he left, so the brainstorming for a new name commenced. With our first club date looming we needed a new name fast, so we sat down after practice one day to hammer one out and the stupid ideas started flowing. After several rounds of no, nah, nope we tentatively settled on "Geezer's Butler" but fearing a copyright infringement lawsuit from Sharon the spitballs kept flying. "Chock Full of Nuts", "Nuts" and other nonsense prompted Brooks to recall the name of a song on Black Sabbath Vol. 4 named "Supernaut" but he mistakenly called it Juggernaut which in turn prompted Jeff to blurt out Jackonuts. That made us crack up hard enough we knew we had it. There are multiple spelling variations but the official spelling is Jackonuts. Supernaut>>Juggernaut>>Jackonuts that's the story. We would later become known around Athens for our "Sabbath Medley".
** Bonus points if anyone can name our first singer.

We would be remiss to let 2024 slip by without commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of On You. We can't remember the exact month it was released. Little did we know it would be our last. We struggled to come up with a title for the record and thought about having a contest and let one of our fans come up with the title. The prize was a date with Jeff "on you". That made us laugh hard enough that we scrapped the whole idea and saved someone from a lot of awkwardness and some money. The cover artwork and photo were the brainchild of Patrik Keim (RIP), Deonna Mann and Peter Frey.