Handsome Jack & The Dirty Pennies at the Bug Jar

Name: Handsome Jack & The Dirty Pennies at the Bug Jar
Start: 2024-11-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Bug Jar

Schedule

Sat Nov 30 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bug Jar | Rochester, NY

Check out Handsome Jack:

Playing a lean, hard-grooving fusion of blues, R&B, and garage rock they call "boogie soul," Handsome Jack are a rock band from Lockport, New York, a city not far from Buffalo. The band logged plenty of miles on their touring van and released a handful of self-released discs before they hooked up with the respected indie label Alive Naturalsound Records, which gave them their first nationwide release with 2014's Do What Comes Naturally, a swaggering exercise in '70s-style blues rock.
Handsome Jack were formed in 2004 by guitarist and singer Jamison Passuite, Joey Verdonselli on bass, Phil Allport on guitar and keyboards, and Steve Sandman on drums. While the founding members were still teenagers when they began playing out, they'd already developed a strong taste for classic rock, boogie, and blues, and by 2008, Handsome Jack had recorded their first self-released album, Heatseeker, and hit the road on their first cross-country tour. In 2009, Sandman left the group and Chad Salmeri took over behind the drums; he made his recorded debut with the band on the EP Prologue, and in 2011 the band released its second full-length album, Super Moon. More touring followed, including dates where the band shared stages with the likes of Blue Cheer, the Sheepdogs, Gov't Mule, J. Geils, and the Hold Steady.
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
In 2014, the band struck a deal with with Alive Naturalsound Records, and went into the studio with Zach Gabbard of Buffalo Killers and Mike Montgomery as producers. Handsome Jack's third full-length album, Do What Comes Naturally, was released in the fall of 2014. After lots more live work, Handsome Jack went through some personnel changes when Phil Allport and Chad Salmeri left the group. Jamison Passuite became Handsome Jack's sole guitarist, and Bennie Hayes signed on to play drums, and this power trio edition of the group cut their second album for Alive Naturalsound, 2018's Everything's Gonna Be Alright.
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$15 at the door, 21+
8pm doors, 930pm music
Opening act:
The Dirty Pennies have continued to evolve since their formation in 2012, where Ryan Klem and Lucas Howe began as a gritty psych influenced blues rock duo, which soon evolved into punk/garage rock territory with the help of then bassist Joe Mungo. Today the group takes a step deeper into the pool of psych rock with the addition of Sean Doohan on bass and Doug Kelley keys/synth. Supporting this paradigm shift are their latest singles, Bee Sting & Head Open which have allowed them to land support slots for Meatbodies & The Schizophonics!