Recent Updates
Finally! Six months worth of gig photos have been uploaded to our photo section. We have street dances, marathons, stagette parties, birthdays, you name it - make sure to go check them out HERE! Sorry it took so long to get them posted but we've recently had some alien abduction issues that took precedence. We're sure you know what that's like…We know what you're thinking... It's about time, but we finally have a JACKED Facebook page! So get out there and join our group. We'll keep it updated with the latest news and gigs. We want to hear from you and see you guys so check it out here!
JACKED is a band that plays to have fun and it comes across in every show. These formidable musicians play danceable rock favorites from the 70's, 80's, 90's and today hits with unabashed enthusiasm and a stage presence unlike any bar band you have ever seen. It's been said often that these guys are having a little too much fun up there and well... it's true.
JACKED doesn't try to replicate the rock covers they play as much as interpret them. There are no weak links in JACKED, only strong performers with an extreme love of music. Starting their musical training at three years old, playing up to 250 nights per year and having a minimum of 15 years performing live per member is just a small part of why JACKED stands out musically. JACKED brings quality music, an entertaining stage presence and a child-like enthusiasm to every performance.
And if you think they look familiar it's because these guys have all played for years in bars, clubs and arenas with bands such as Bent, Folklords, LED, Halo, Shattered Image, Soviet Reunion, Bleu Inc, Summer Rain, On The Edge, Free Spirit, Buffalo Rose, Dirty Boogie Band, Trick Whisper, Hopie's Turtle, No Tour Intended as well as Tommy V and the Soul Patrol.
The members of JACKED have wrote and recorded original music for independent CD release as well movie soundtracks, performed on live television and played stages of all shapes and sizes. The list of national recording acts the members of JACKED have opened up for include April Wine, Cheap Trick, Limited Warranty, Nazareth, Nelson, Styx and Pat Travers in venues such as the Grandma’s Marathon Big Top Tent, Cabooze, Duluth Arena, Fargodome, Fine Line Music Cafe, First Avenue, Mirage, Moondance Festival, Nor Shor Theatre, Rockin' the Hills in ND.
If your looking for a bar band that knows how to have fun, JACKED is your band. Every song is danceable, all night, every night. JACKED is there to have fun and it shows at every show.
And as always, a huge thank you to everyone who comes out to see JACKED. We love all the dancers as well as those who just sit back and enjoy the tunes. Thanks, and we hope to see (and hear) you soon!!!
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Music News
Gavin Rossdale looking forward to reunite Bush after an eight year hiatus, which brings the count of people excited about this to one [ Fail ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:49:58 EDT
Ozzfest to sell special package tickets that permits you to get married. It's just like a regular wedding, except the doves don't make it alive [ Stupid ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:43:39 EDT
Peter Murphy proves he's still gothy after all these years [ Spiffy ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:18:41 EDT
Katy Perry: I used to want to kiss Megan Fox. Now I just want to kiss Natalie Portman [ Cool ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:17:50 EDT
Former Guns N Roses Drummer Steven Adler is Rockin' Santa Ana, and Axl is playing Stadiums in South America [ Video ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:40:07 EDT
Carol Channing releases new CD, complete with a heartwarming and uplifting duet with 50 Cent [ Interesting ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:54:00 EDT
Happy birthday to one of the greatest musicians of our time, Geddy Lee. From the Exit...Stage Left tour, here's Limelight [ Spiffy ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:03:25 EDT
Chris Robinson is set to clear up 20 years of rumors and legends surrounding the Black Crowes, and instead of writing an autobiography, he's doing it in a series of web chats so it won't be so hard to handle [ Cool ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:48:00 EDT
If you have $20.2M to spare, you could own Ronnie Wood's house which has pool, 19 bathrooms and 7 bedrooms to hide your underage girlfriend in while your wife is visiting [ Cool ] - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:44:00 EDT
The Hooters' video for "And We Danced" is a remarkable gestalt of auditory assault and can't-look-away-it's-so-bad imagery, a perfect storm of suck [ Dumbass ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:25:16 EDT
The coolest rhetorical question you'll hear today [ Video ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:11:19 EDT
Liz Phair surprises many with her self-released sixth album Funstyle, especially because it's a lot better than most give it credit for [ Cool ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:09:17 EDT
Pandora tops 60 million users. Be glad you're not one of those hipster nerds; coming up after these commercial messages, some Red Hot Chili Peppers, a Led Zeppelin classic, and an Eagles triple play [ Cool ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:19 EDT
Hugh Laurie to record an album and mercifully, it won't be House music [ Cool ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:05:05 EDT
Festival organizers cut Joe Elliott's show short, resulting in several arguments between fans and security, but fortunately no one was armed [ Strange ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:42:17 EDT
While Lynch Mob performs in front of a packed house, Don Dokken can be heard weeping into a warm beer [ Video ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:59:39 EDT
Proving once and for all she has no f*cking clue, M.I.A. attacks Lady Gaga and Oprah [ Dumbass ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:59:36 EDT
Madonna wants to embark on a 6-month hip-hop tour. Hip-hop officially surrenders [ Scary ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:04:43 EDT
Rob Zombie takes a swipe at Ozzy Osbourne for swiping all his band members [ Video ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:32:38 EDT
Korn's ninth album is their "returning to their roots" record. Uh-oh [ Fail ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:19:51 EDT
Music producers are valuable to the process. Exhibit A: Band early version of "Love is Like Oxygen" [ Amusing ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:51:24 EDT
Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright would have been 67 today. Here's "Us and Them," featuring Wright on keyboards and vocals [ Cool ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:25:55 EDT
Neil Young to release "Archives Vol 2, 1972-1982" with four unreleased albums, including the much bootlegged "Chrome Dreams" [ Cool ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:07:00 EDT
Kanye West performs at Facebook headquarters. I'm-a let him finish, but Friendster is the best social network of all time. ALL TIME [ Video ] - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:22:28 EDT
Some punk rocker you never heard of has died at 46 after playing a show. Cue the Fark OMG HE WAS AWESOME Obscurity Brigade [ PSA ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:00:13 EDT
Tom Jones beats Eminem on the charts, if he holds out until Sunday he'll best Bob Dylan as oldest male singer to chart a #1 album. So of course, this calls for an Eminem collaboration [ Cool ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:12:39 EDT
According to one Christian evangelist in 1965, the Beatles were part of Global Communism's master plan to hypnotize Americans and subvert their morality through rhythmically hypnotic music [ Obvious ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:24:36 EDT
How great artists got over writer's block. Getting plastered is featured promently [ Interesting ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:51:58 EDT
Obnoxiously smug actress Gwyneth Paltrow is a pretty good country music singer. Which makes another thing for her to be obnoxiously smug about [ Spiffy ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:53:04 EDT
Fan at a rock concert invites concert back to his house, concert accepts [ Amusing ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:25:03 EDT
Damon Albarn admits Gorillaz sucked at Glastonbury, says he's going back to Blur [ Misc ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:40:56 EDT
Kings of Leon fans still annoyed by pigeon incident: "What the f--k happened to real rock stars? The fuggin' Sex Pistols would played extra long in these conditions just because" [ Followup ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:38:04 EDT
The Cars hope that a reunion tour is magic and just what you needed and you'll drive to see them move in stereo for the first time in over twenty years. CANDY-O [ Cool ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:59:48 EDT
Terry Gilliam will be directing Arcade Fire's streaming concert from Madison Square Garden [ Cool ] - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:09:45 EDT
Someone's 15 minutes are up: MIA totally stinks up the joint at a weekend music festival [ Obvious ] - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:49:02 EDT
Queen's Roger Taylor is 61 today. From the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, here is Queen, Joe Elliot, and Slash doing "Tie Your Mother Down" [ Cool ] - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:20:04 EDT
10 songs secretly written about famous people [ Interesting ] - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:02:25 EDT
Puff Diddy owes New York City $1 million for plastering posters of himself all over the city; apparently, putting Diddy's face up in New York is a criminal offense [ Dumbass ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:51:49 EDT
And now for something completely different: Jammin the Blues, circa 1945. Cigarette smoke and Lindy Hop included [ Video ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:03:52 EDT
Flashback time: Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (remember that?) performance of Al Stewart performing "On the Border" [ Video ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:18:53 EDT
While Ronnie Wood admits it's a drag getting old, but the band will not fade away and play a concert for the last time anytime soon. Wild horses, he says, couldn't drag them away from the stage. SHADOOBIE, SHATTERED [ Followup ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:44:03 EDT
Dressed in their Sunday's finest, Akercocke is ready to go for the SHMHC [ Video ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:39:33 EDT
Leona Lewis's broken heart forces her to cancel her planned tour. Guess sometimes you just can't bandage bleedin' love [ Sad ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:29:04 EDT
Happy 52nd birthday to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who's probably glad his birthday is on a Sunday this year [ Spiffy ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:53:54 EDT
The Beatles scored a #1 album on this day in 1964 with A Hard Day's Night. From that album, here is the underrated but incredibly great "Things We Said Today" [ Cool ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:04:45 EDT
Why don't we want the 80s to come back? Because songs like Air Supply's The One That You Love could reach #1, as it did today in 1981 [ Sappy ] - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:16:06 EDT
Jay-Z's got 99 problems but finding a restroom ain't one [ Amusing ] - Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:07:54 EDT
In 1982, Survivor topped the charts and remained there for six weeks with their huge hit "Eye of the Tiger." No matter what you think of Rocky or the 80s, it's still an awesome song [ Cool ] - Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:43:44 EDT
Harry Chapin still has something to say to parents who don't spend enough quality time with their kids [ Obvious ] - Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:55:45 EDT
Despite all his rage, Billy Corgan passes out on the stage during Smashing Pumpkins concert. Later tonight, tonight when commenting on Twitter, he said he felt like he was back in 1979 for a moment [ Strange ] - Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:08:30 EDT
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