The Legend of the Jackers
Recently found: A setlist to prove they saw a million (or maybe just two) faces and rocked them all (or both). Like Santa Claus, Sasquatch, Nessie and the chupacabras**, sometimes a photo must stand as proof.
I think I’ve talked about this before, but my brother and I had a “band” in the 80s (didn’t everyone) called The Jackers. Our hook? We wore jackets. Also, we played plastic badminton rackets as guitars and sang into a Fisher Price radio-tunable microphone. We played our gigs on the staircase landing in our house in Bellevue off Sawyer Brown Road. It was, in a word, awesome.
Like many venues, we apparently didn’t allow photographing or recording of any kind, because we don’t have any pictures of The Jackers in action. I do remember singing Tina Turner’s Private Dancer, though (mainly because of how hilarious that is to me now that I know what that song is about), and I know we covered Starship’s We Built This City.
Things I didn’t remember? We were Star and Shadow.
A candid look at the band during the early Jackers era.
Oh, the good ol’ days…
*Who may have actually been called The Drachets
**Perhaps there will be a reunion tour as Nessie & the Chupacabras?
