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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Morrissey calls the Chinese a "subspecies" because of how they treat animals. In other news, Morrissey has f*cking lost his mind [ Dumbass ] - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:48:27 EDT
Twunts 'N' Glasses [ Dumbass ] - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:40:28 EDT
Documentary looks at decades old rumors of Paul McCartney's death and says fans were right [ Asinine ] - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:29:02 EDT
Rivers Cuomo says music was all the therapy he needed after recovering from a tour bus crash. Clearly, he wasn't listening to Weezer, as he didn't lapse into a coma [ Followup ] - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:18:05 EDT
In honour of Steve Jones's 55th birthday, here are The Sex Pistols with "Anarchy in the U.K" [ Cool ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:49:36 EDT
Raise your glasses, everyone; The Pogues are not splitting up, according to guitarist Chase Chevron [ Followup ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:35:26 EDT
Apropos of nothing, Morrissey poses for the cover of Guardian Weekend with a cat on his head [ Silly ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:30:34 EDT
Today's Fark-ready music headline: "Weezer show has it all- except big crowd" [ Amusing ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:11:30 EDT
Coming soon to a store near you: The Rolling Stones Monopoly. Go directly to jail, do not pass Altamont, do not collect $200 [ Strange ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:03:26 EDT
It was the 3rd of September When mama told me that Papa Was A Rolling Stone [ Cool ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:35:25 EDT
The coolest song you've ever heard: Enter the Ninja. You're welcome [ Video ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:14:22 EDT
Of all the things to be "geeky" about, Tom Waits has gotta be one of the best. Here's a great starting point--and retrospective--for anyone who loves the gravelly voiced poet [ Cool ] - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:52:00 EDT
Quite possibly the worst music review ever written; Breitbart slams Sheryl Crow, accuses her of making "muzak" [ Fail ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:59:14 EDT
Lauryn Hill is close to releasing new album. You've been warned [ Interesting ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:48:27 EDT
Check out this guitar solo. From a gospel chick. In the 50s [ Cool ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:48:24 EDT
Most of the Clash's music videos were no-frills performance clips. The reason was simple: the Clash owned the stage [ Hero ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:41:27 EDT
War! HUNH! Good god, y'all--What is it good for? Suing Pepsi for $10 million [ Amusing ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:17:35 EDT
Despite retiring two years ago, Ministry continue to record new material, and their new best-of collection will feature classic songs and covers of well-known artists, including Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, and...wow, Amy Winehouse's Rehab [ Cool ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:27:00 EDT
Coldplay's Chris Martin unveils secret new chord 'our closest rivals have no idea about'. It's called G [ Stupid ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:48:00 EDT
UK, Finnish, Swedes, mudwrestling at Bloodstock [ Cool ] - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:40:48 EDT
Seen another darned liszt of things that depress you? No need for haydn, you can handel it. Just bach it all off with the Mozart Effect [ Spiffy ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:22:34 EDT
Flaming Lips will play The Soft Bulletin in full at a one-off show in London, featuring special guests Dinosaur Jr [ Cool ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:55:51 EDT
From 1984, it's the very first TV appearance of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Thicke of the Night doing "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" [ Cool ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:45:55 EDT
Paste Magazine will soon fold. Who will tell the children about trendy hipster music? [ Sad ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:25:52 EDT
A long string of cribbed beats and run together pop references, Lady Gaga's"Alejandro" is a song truly made up of nothing [ Fail ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:52:19 EDT
Guess Who's guitar was stolen over the weekend. Go on, Guess Who [ Dumbass ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:17 EDT
Fark you (officially) [ Cool ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:58:32 EDT
Feist is working on her new album in a Parisian mansion. Let's see how many people we can find who care about this...let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4...yeah, that's it [ Silly ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:59:15 EDT
Glen Hansard said he owes his career to Bob Dylan. Hopefully, Bob takes it and never gives it back [ Obvious ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:19 EDT
Pitchfork continues their list of top 200 songs of the 90s, and here we have 51-100, which includes the likes of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and Public Enemy. Rap sucks, guys [ Fail ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:09 EDT
A whole slew of unneeded, unwanted, and useless reissues will be released on what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. Think about it; his solo catalogue was pretty weak compared to Harrison [ PSA ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:34:13 EDT
"Bastard" [ Cool ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:31:22 EDT
Five pin-up princesses of whom subby just can't get enough [ Video ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:37:24 EDT
The Pogues to retire after Christmas, if there's enough whiskey in the world to keep them going till then [ Sad ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:59:00 EDT
New Bob Dylan audio discovered in the attic of Rolling Stone founder Ralph Gleason and will be released on Bootleg Series Volume 9. Eventually, we'll just get his damned answering machine messages released [ Spiffy ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:35:00 EDT
A man wants to have a sex change to look like Lady GaGa. Um, you're going in the wrong direction, dude [ Amusing ] - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:13:00 EDT
Needs no cute intro: it's just Van Morrison (56 today), along with Dr. John and Mick Ronson, on "Cold Wind in August" [ Video ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:58:26 EDT
I don't know what's worse, the fact that someone suckered in hundreds of people with bogus Take That tickets, or that hundreds of people want to see Take That desperately enough [ Fail ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:49:04 EDT
Spain becomes the first country to take U2 to task for their "loud and overlong" music [ Amusing ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:38:42 EDT
Amy Winehouse has invited Pete Doherty to move in with her. I wonder if they've ever seen Sid & Nancy [ Amusing ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:17:54 EDT
Robert Plant admits he's no longer a fan of the hard rock he played with Led Zeppelin, and he perfers to focus on the world/country/blues music he's played for the last several years. And we should be okay with that [ Cool ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:38:10 EDT
Justin Bieber is encouraging his fans to commit a criminal act [ Dumbass ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:30:55 EDT
Gina Schock, hard hitting drummer for The Go-Go's, born this day in 1957. Watch her stick work in "We Got The Beat" (bonus: with the hot, young Belinda Carlisle) [ Video ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:05:22 EDT
Lady Gaga is so afraid of brain tumors she pays someone to hold her phone away from her head during phone calls. Plus if its too close to her head, her tinfoil cap causes interference [ Stupid ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:40:14 EDT
Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize honors Ennio Morricone and his closest contemporary, Bjork. Seriously, Sweden, what the hell? Bjork? [ Strange ] - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:19:00 EDT
The man responsible for the screenplays for Gangs of New York and The Age Of Innocence has his next project: turning Bob Dylan's magnum opus Brownsville Girl into a feature film. Sadly, it won't star Gregory Peck [ Cool ] - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:19:42 EDT
Slash has filed for divorce. In other news, Slash was married [ Sad ] - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:55:43 EDT
Pitchfork has begun counting down the top 200 songs of the 1990s, and...well...what do you expect? It's Pitchfork [ Fail ] - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:54:42 EDT
To your left, Arcade Fire reinvents the music video by integrating personalized Google Street Views. To your Right, people call the video nothing more than a derivative recycling of Mapquest and Bruce Springsteen [ Cool ] - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:59:29 EDT
Yo Gabba Gabba may do wonders for your children, but the soundtrack, which includes MGMT and Weezer, will not [ Obvious ] - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:37:00 EDT
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