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2011-08-29T22:02:00.001-07:00

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Finally, we are almost finished with our 30th anniversary album

2011-05-14T20:55:00.000-07:00

Yes, we were supposed to have it done last year but hey, after 30 years what's 6 months, right? lol. Anyway go to our website to listen to the first two singles Ride The Rocket and Soul Man. We also have two new videos as well. The album will be out on May 31st, 2011, We hope you enjoy it. Many ex-mackers perform on the record including, Tim Scott, John Paruolo, Max Carl, Jim Coile, Lee Thornberg, Tony Braunagle, Rick Shlosser, and John Berry. Our good friends Mike Finnegan and Bill Champlin also sing on the record. http://jackmack.com

2010

2010-10-31T21:29:00.000-07:00

Well, much has happened in our anniversary year 2010, We released our first Christmas single, the Best Of Jack Mack CD and the making of our 30th anniversary record. We have all the tracks for the record tracked and will be overdubbing for the next month. Also we released a single I've Been Loving You Too Long as a duet with Americas Got Talent Winner, Michael Grimm. http://jackmack.com/jackmack/Store.html

I will keep you posted

30th Anniversary CD

2010-05-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

We are about to start recording our 30th Anniversary record temporarly called 10.10.10 for Oct 10, 2010 which is our anniversary. It could also be for 10 musicians, 10 songs and 10 ? hmmmm anyone got any ideas? The record will be chock full of classic Soul covers and some new originals as well. keep you posted

Update for SUmmer 2010

2010-05-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

Over the last few months a lot of things have changed and for the better. As some of you may know, during the past decade Jack Mack did mostly corporate and private gigs. The money was good and we wanted to please the clients so the band slowly became more of a cover band doing songs that many people might know but not necessarily songs we love to play. It kinda took the soul out of the band. Well after 911 and the economy taking a nose dive the corporate thing dried up and we were there we were, not playing as much as we like. A couple months ago our good friend Beachy who is a music producer in LA, came to to us with the idea of going back to where we started, playing one night a week in Hollywood and doing the music we loved. We thought it was perfect timing. We added 4 new members, Terry Landry on Bari Sax, Roy Wiegan on trumpet, Bruce Atkinson on bass and vocals and Robin Swenson on Keys and vocals, We went down to our rehearsal studio for 2 months and re worked many of the songs from our 1080-84 set list. The show is great, the band is killer and we should be on the Sunset strip at the Cat Club June 10th 2010. Look at the website for updates on exact dates and hope to see you there. www.jackmack.com

Jack Mack revamped and back on Sunset Blvd

2010-04-18T01:03:00.000-07:00

Hey Gang, our good friend Beachy and his pal DK decided they wanted to create a Soul night at DK's club, The Cat Club in Hollywood which is a couple doors west of the infamous Whiskey on Sunset Blvd. Beachy called Billy and asked him if we would want play every Thursday night. Bill called me and we decided we would only do it if we revamped the band and added those really cool soul cover songs from our early 80's set list. A few days later, we added amazing bassist and lead vocalist Bruce Atkinson and incredible keyboardist and lead vocalist Robin Swenson. We also decided it was time to go back to 3 horns so we added a really bad cat, Terry Landy on Baritone Sax. Roy Wiegan is on trumpet filling in for Les Lovitt who is out with The Eagles and those are some big shoes to fill, go Roy. We worked on our new show for a month and played our first night last Thursday. We were really pleased with the turn out and are looking to all our friends and fans to come out. Our 2nd night is next Thursday April 22, 2010. The Cat Club is a small bar and we are packed onto a 12x12 stage. The band is burning and the songs are great. so come down and support Soul Night at the Cat Club. If we get a good turn out we are planning to keep doing it. Thanks Andrew

2010-01-05T23:00:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone, Happy New Yesr from us in Jack Mack. We have many great things planned for 2010. To start out on Jan 12th we are releaseing the digital only record, The Best Of Jack Mack, available on ITunes, Amazon and many other online digital download sites. There's a new retrospective Video on our website and our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6YFjdJAFSY. In the next couple months we will be loading tons of footage from the archives, Video from our very firts gig at the Blue Lagoon Slaoon, Club Lingerie, The Late Show and even the Laverne & Shirley Episode. Lots of fun stuff. We have already started to write our 30th anniversary record and will begin recording it in the next few months. Thanks for sticking with us for all these years, it's been fun. Andrew

All I Want For Christmas

2009-11-14T14:35:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody....I just want to take the time to thank all the band members for all of their hard work and awesome talents in bringing this song to life. A special thanks to Bill for the killer arrangement and to Drew for the soulful guitar ...Tim ...love ya brother...glad you made it happen for me and JP.......You da man!...Also want to thank Nick Vincent for laying down a solid groove.......and Melody and Jim for their hospitality at Stagg Studios......Great room!!
We hope all our fans enjoy this Holiday greeting ...which will start us off into a new exciting chapter for Jack Mack And The Heart Attack! Coming soon will be our "Best Of Jack Mack-1980-2009"CD and then later in the year..."10-10-10-" the bands 30 year anniversary CD! Lots of hand clappin', footstompin' behind shakin' music comin' up y'all.....so hang on and........JACK IT UP!!
With love and may God bless,
Mark Campbell

2009-11-14T13:19:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone. Greets from Bill. Hope you can check out our new song-

"All I Want for Christmas" and upcoming Best Of Jack Mack collection.

Spread the word!

2009-11-14T12:27:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce the release of our first Christmas single called " All I Want For Christmas Is You" written by our very own lead singer, Mark Campbell. It will be up live on Itunes right around Thanksgiving 2009 and on other digital download sites as well. This singles is part of our new album, "The Best Of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack" which will be released in digital format on January 12 2010. Go to http://jackmack.com/JM/BestofJackmack.html to read about the new record and link to your favorite site to listen to iWe are now working on the Jack Mack 30th anniversary record entitled, "10.10.10 which will be released on 10/10/2010, (which by the way is our 30th anniversary). Thanks for your continued support, Andrew

website

2009-06-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

Website almost complete

2009-06-01T16:40:00.001-07:00

The new Jack Mack Website is almost finished.

2009-05-21T14:43:00.001-07:00

To all JMATHA fans,

It is with great pride and with all humility that I say...Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm never surprised, but always amazed with the devotion, loyalty,and enthusiasm that you show,whether on line or at a gig , or just talking in an airport. I want you to know that it means the world to us that you are always such wonderful, classy people...and truly, that's why we love doing this.
It is an honor for me to take the stage with this band of world class musicians, and you continually reciprocate with your support.We have big plans for the future, so please..come with us! We have re-vamped the web site and hope you'll visit often!
God Bless. And by all means... JACK IT UP!!

Love,
Mark Campbell

2009-05-21T13:36:00.000-07:00

Jack Mack is working on a new Website, keep you posted