Jamison: Lead Guitar, Vocals; "Joe": Bass, Vocals; Rick: Guitar; Owl: Drums, Vocals.
"Handsome Jack tore the stage apart with a killer set of bluesbased primal hard rock. The group generated incredible excitement, coming across like a cross between the MC5, Wolfmother and the best of White Stripes. The band’s guitarist boasted a killer tone, his Les Paul-through-Marshall combo suggesting an unhinged Jimmy Page. Fantastic."
Jeff Miers - Buffalo News Pop Music Critic
Influences
rock and roll.
Sounds Like
buy our 1st album "Heat Seeker" $10 USD for 11 amazing songs shipped to your front door! What a steal!!
"Heat Seeker" Tracks:
1. Dead Man
2. Love Machine
3. Bad Attitude
4. Blood
5. Evil Woman
6. Heat Seeker
7. Fine Line
8. Big Block
9. Take Me Home
10. Moon Dog
11. Brown Water
Handsome Jack "Faces" T-Shirt - available in YL, S, M,& L
Colors: Red, Brown, & Black
Buffalo’s Handsome Jack are not only keenly recreating the kind of punk-imbibed, sleazoid blooze and 1970s rock and roll that boomingly poured out—along with certain kind of thick, thick smoke—from the shag-carpeted interiors of kustom vans so many years ago. In playing their power-loaded riff rock, they also prove to be real believers and practitioners of the too often lost ethos of that era. That means shrugging off the notion of long gaps between putting out records as well as eagerly packing their guitars and drums like long-haired rock gypsies and taking their grift to the road. Coming in less than year since 2007’s Heatseeker, Handsome Jack has issued a brutally good self-titled follow up. Strewn with precise heavy rock and a collection fist-pumping anthems-to-be, it’s the ongoing story of a real-deal rock band that we’ve been lucky enough to watch grow up in front of us. “Nobody’s Home” is a building, explosive number that shows just how far the quartet has come since their days cutting class as Lockport teens. It’s a snarling salvo of epic proportions where ZZ Top meet Queens of the Stone Age in a dark boogie to the end of the world. “Setting Sun” harks back to Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold”—a qualified kustom van klassic, now that I think of it—but Handsome Jack offer it up with a grimmer, grimier delivery proving a side which the Nuge would detest with bile: punk. The thing with Handsome Jack is that the more you start think they are on a Southern rock streak, the more you realize they are more accurately instead the spiritual children of SST bands like Black Flag and St. Vitus. This album is a kicker.
donny kutzbach
-ARTVOICE June 2008
"With Heatseeker the bombastic four-piece of Handsome Jack brandishes a jagged edge of skuzzy blooze and overdriven garage rock with a lethal threat backed up by a dual-guitar attack. Handsome Jack seem bent not on being the tightest or slickest band but the one who delivers the biggest riffs along with a sinister, snotty sneer and that certain thing which Iggy Pop once called the "shake appeal." Songs like "Love Machine" and "Evil Woman" are not rocket science nor are they out to make a sensitive artist statement. They go for that undeniable animal groove and fist-pumping rock glory. Handsome Jack succeed on Heatseeker because they have figured out to put together the immediacy of MC5's short, sparking fuse with the boogie of early ZZ Top and with enough swagger and latter day garage rock feel. "
ARTVOICE - Buffalo, NY
~Long Live the Riff!
Come on out this Wednesday, August 20th, and help us celerate the re-release of our record "French For Peanut" on 12" Vinyl!! Not to mention it will also be The Failures' Union tour kickoff, and The Brown Book's first show in buffalo. It's all going down at Bon Vivant, a brand new DIY art / music venue in the heart of North Buffalo!
La Cacahouette The Brown Book (instrumental noise rock from rhode island / massachussetts) The Failures' Union Victory Light Black Honey
Wednesday, August 20th at: Bon Vivant (old parker pharmacy) 1862 Hertel Ave - at Parker 8pm doors / Music at 8:30 - $5 donation Beer & Wine will be available for donations.
Yo dudes, great hanging last night. Looking forward to the Bearhunter release. We have a flyer for the show and two new songs up on our page so feel free to use the flyer to spread the word and to use the songs to sex up your babies mommas.
breaker breaker... this here's cuddly bear, you got a copy, jack? what's yer 20? i'm makin a break for the lone-star with 45,000 in the trunk. that coop runnin us across? 10-4, see you back in the empire. hammer down and gawd bless.
Oh, hell yah I made it a point to internet friend you guys! haha.
After I woke up and saw handsome jack written all over my forearm, I was confused at first then remembered the kick ass band that played last night! Well keep doin wat your doin cause u do it well. Hopefully i see u guys play again in the near future!
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