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Afghanistan tour, documentary among Jesse Dayton’s many projects
Already juggling more projects than anyone not named “Seacrest,” Austin honky tonker Jesse Dayton has added one more biggie to his to-do list: a week-long USO tour in Afghanistan.
The exact date of departure for Dayton and his band is still getting hammered out but he does know it’ll happen before the end of April and will put him in front of a whole lot of U.S. soldiers trying to keep the peace and fight terrorism in the long-embattled country.
“All the details are getting finalized, but it’s happening some time in the next two months,” Dayton said Friday. “It’s being run through a promoter who set up a (diplomatic) tour of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam that we did a few years ago and we’re really excited to get this chance to go over there and play for the troops.”
Adding to the degree of difficulty in scheduling the Afghanistan trip is Dayton’s increasingly packed calendar, which includes three trips to New Orleans in the coming months to film scenes for “Zombex,” a horror movie he wrote and is set to star musicians such as punk legend Mike Ness and hardcore rapper Scarface.
Also in March, Dayton hopes to use the South By Southwest Film Festival as an occasion to host several showings of his new documentary “The Adventures of Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures,” which looks at the rise of his titular, Rob Zombie-endorsed rockabilly alter ego.
“There’s lots of concert footage and we take people backstage to see how a honky tonk guy like me wound up on this crazy heavy metal tour with Rob Zombie,” Dayton said. “We’re just going to get the doc out there for people to enjoy since I’m so busy setting things up with my movie and going to New Orleans for that.”
Through it all Dayton wants to make as many of his Thursday dates at the Broken Spoke as possible, and get started on “Ghost Soldiers,” the second Captain Clegg record, to satisfy the pent-up demand spawned by the character’s appearance in two recent Zombie movies.
“People are so into it, it’d be silly to not get something new out there for them,” Dayton said. “We’re having fun with this, trying to create something that’s as fun and different as possible.”
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