Album Notes

The Wayne Gacy Trio came together in Atlanta, Georgia and later relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Now based out of Portland Oregon, they have finished their first release “Rec Room Romance and Crawlspace Love Affairs”. The group plays what the Creative Loafing magazine in Atlanta calls “Murder Rock” and the tracks on the new CD live up to that title.

The group’s music is heavy with a twist of the twisted. The band has developed a sound that is thick and rich, dripping with gruesome and smothered in grizzly. While heavy chord progressions grind away, the snare drum echoes like gunfire. Meanwhile, the bass lines are grabbing you in a sonic chokehold. The guitar solos evoke a creepy intention. The CD also features sound clips of John Wayne Gacy Jr. himself along with other unnerving clips of dark uneasiness. One Northwest music magazine reviewer calls the CD “a sound that brings a beauty to the ugliness”.


The band is fronted by singer and guitarist, Jack Hanley. He took his name from the persona John Wayne Gacy Jr. gave at his trial, as the person who “came out when he was angry”. The other members of the band are Carlos Lee Lucas and Anthony Elwood Toole on guitar, Sean Lynn Woodfield on bass and Scottie Berkowitz on drums. When asked why are there five people in the trio, lead singer Jack replies “it’s a guitar trio with a rhythm section.”