Jack Rundell who has now entered into his 40's has been a guitarist for over 25 years having begun his guitar playing attributes from the early age of 13 years old. Jack has been involved in many musical projects over those years. Bands, Jams, Bar Gigs, Recording Studio Projects. His earlier cover band influences include many such as Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmor, Kim Mitchell starting back to the Max Webster days, early Eric Clampton, Molly Hatchet, Crowbar, and just a whack of others too numerous to mention.

      Jack developed an appreciation for a wide verity of different musical menus early in his playing career and today always has an arsenal of varied music venues to draw from as is evident from his musical repertoire.

      Raised in a family that included a mother who played the fiddle and a father that played guitar in the country music venues. Plus, then you include a host of other relatives who would on many occasions show up on a Sunday afternoon at the family's house, start playing and singing and it was just a natural for Jack to want to do the same.

      Jack developed the ability to start creating his own writings from in the beginnings and learned to play by ear as he observed this aspect of playing from his parents and relatives.

      Wanting to play with his own peer groups then afterwards and flow into their musical interests, he joined in with many basement and garage jams with his friends. Again picking up on different band playing aspects from other musicians.

      He was forever the teen that practiced regimentally every day in the household basement driving to both improve his playing skills, and his parents around the bend.

      Eventually he found his way to the bars and studios. Now he has finally started off in making his own goals a reality as to what he himself wants to do with his music.

      Although its been awhile coming about. He has seen and done enough over the years to know what he wants. So now through the help and efforts of his good friends and his family members, he is determined to aggressively go after his musical goals and account for all that time he has put in. He is bent on pushing hard with the creating and writing his music and seeing this project through.

      Jack has a deep and set 'evasion' towards doing cover tunes and really does much prefer doing the originals instead. So when Jack and "The Shakedown Band" perform, you won't be hearing much in the way of cover tunes. He has carried a lot of materials around inside him over the past years and has made a very heartfelt and personal commitment towards the project of completing those originals. With the aid and support of "The Shakedown Band" members he has the visionary insights and is bent on what it will take for that to become a reality.

      Jack is the main driver behind "The Shakedown Band". However, he will always maintain that everyone can and is… "Only as good as those that are around him". Which is why he will ask his band members to always give and bring forth their very best efforts.

      He will consistently use words and phrases like Passion, Wanting it, Commitment, Ideas, Effort and such words when working with his band members so as to heighten their focus and he personally does not only believe in such words and phrases but eats and lives them in his music life.

      Once he was decided towards putting the materials together into a personal project he headed straight to his good friend, "Brandon Westwater" the band's Drummer.

      Jack has known and played together with Brandon before for a number of years and asked him for his help. Today Jack reflects on Brandon and himself as a true partnership.

      Jack as intended, soon became the creator and writer of 95% of their materials for the band, and when they began recruiting the other band members. He would always ask Brandon for his inputs as to who, what, where and when, as Jack had always felt confident in Brandon's inputs and opinions. Together, they readily shared in Jack's visions and were definitely now on the same page together and a force to achieve their goals. Being a person with a strong sense of commitment once it's made, Jack is not one that will be turned away from his goals too easily.

      He also created the 'Shakedown Band's Newsletter'. The letter is intended to recap and keep a documentation of past, current and future 'Shakedown Band' developments and events while keeping everyone up to speed. He also just simply likes doing the weekly Newsletter for the pure enjoyment of it.

      Last but not lest is that Jack finds great comfort in pursuing his goals while knowing that his family is behind him on it. Thus making it a real possibility to go after what he wants in his music life. His oldest son, 'Jason' affectionately referred to as J-Man by Jack has been a great help in the support and creation of, "The Official Shakedown Web Site" which in turn offers the band an excellent place to display and promote themselves.

"It's a small world yes, but I wouldn't want to paint it all by myself…" - Jack Rundell