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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Sixx and Rachel Pack - The Dynamic Duo


About Sixx and Rachel Pack


Combined with over 55 years of experience in Design, Printing, Marketing, and Event Promotion; between J. Sixx and Rachel Pack have worked with a host of different individuals, brands and organizations. Combining their event production expertise, they have promoted over 150 concerts, along with countless sporting, fundraising and entertainment events. This is an addition to their design and print, radio, video and internet media. Awarded with a number of prestigious accolades, J. Sixx and Rachel are a dynamic duo.

Now as The Wild Pack is as the name implies, WILD. It is a blues rock band made up of a forever changing cast of musicians, with Sixx and Rachel Pack as founding members and the only two consistent members. Sixx on guitars and vocals and Rachel on bass and vocals.

The band was formed in 2013 after spending almost a lifetime backstage, producing events and most recently blues festivals; Sixx and Rachel Pack decided to form a band to allow them to travel and play music with musicians far and wide, out there in the WILD!



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    The Wild Pack band musician lineup varies by region and country of the performance. The band is comprised of Sixx Pack on guitar, vocals, and harmonica, Rachel Pack on bass, vocals, tambourine and kazoo, Rockin' Ron Rando on drums and vocals during the winter in Mexico and when the band is in Chicago or Great Lakes region. 

    When on tour, the Wild Pack musicians including guitarists, bassists, drummers and percussionist, keyboardists, harmonica players, vocalists, and others all coming together at your event to produce a unique experience with every performance, and always a foot tappin’, beer drinking, booty shakin’, blues rock good time. 


    Sixx Benjamin Pack


    John Sixx Benjamin Pack was always creative and enjoyed chasing his passions, especially music. He promoted his first multiple band festival in 1985, when he was only 19 years old. During his early 20’s he worked with several promoters on concerts for bands such as WASP, Night Ranger and Scorpions and other popular rock bands of the time. At the time, Sixx also managed a handful of bands, securing opening positions in regional concerts, and produced a compilation album.

    In 1986, he moved to Seattle working as a guitar technician, club DJ and and eventually regional club manager for local nightclub chain, during which time, he made a move to publishing, publishing SLAM (Seattle Local Area Music), a music magazine that later became Face-to-Face magazine, a popular music, art and lifestyle magazine of Seattle. Also, publishing Scandalous, a trade magazine for the regional nightclub industry. During this time, he worked with some of the biggest names in the advertising industry including Absolut Vodka, Kenneth Cole and Ray-Ban.

    After eight years, Sixx relocated to Fresno, California with his new daughter to be closer to his family. He became heavily involved in the field of networking and Internet, specifically related to publishing. 1998 he created and hosted IMG2, a media group with a focus on Internet radio and marketing. One of John’s first clients was a local Fox affiliate that owned both the top radio station and television station in the market. During a presentation, John impressed a radio exec so much, he was asked to host a radio program of technology. John accepted, and The Webmaster Show with John Pack was created. In 2000, after surviving Y2K on the air, The Webmaster Show was syndicated nationally, however by the end of 2001 the NASDAQ technology bubble burst, and the Webmaster Show and most of the show's Dot Com and high tech companies went with it.

    Fortunately, during the time Sixx was hosting the Webmaster Show, he had begun publishing a local newspaper, The Fresno Weekly, which was in partnership with the same Fox affiliate, a relationship that was started with the radio. At the same time, he began publishing Ultimate Athlete, a magazine on the yet to be sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts industry, at the time called Ultimate Fighting. Ultimate Athlete magazine became Sixx’s focus with an expansion ina to series of live Ultimate Athlete sporting event promotions in arenas across the United States, which were produced and sold to national rental video distributors.

    In 2001, Sixx met Rachel at a restaurant and popular bar that was adjacent to a live music venue, where Sixx was promoting a concert series for the Fresno Weekly. It was chemistry from the start.  In 2003, Sixx and Rachel were married, not weeks after Sixx had decided to leave Ultimate Athlete magazine and instead travel the United States and produce “Bad Breed TV”, a DVD magazine on Mixed Martial Arts. The DVD series, which was sold to national retailers was produced by the two of them over the next two years. The DVD series took the two of them to gyms, arenas, swamps, and bars in 43 states and some of their exclusive footage on “Entertainment Tonight”. At the end of two years, they landed in Las Vegas.

    After a year, they deciding to move back to the coast. So, they packed up and moved to Ventura California, a short distance from John’s home town of Santa Barbara. For the following two years, John and Rachel became American Sailing Association certified, so that they could charter sailboats. They enjoyed sailing so much, that they combined John’s childhood passion of surfing and their new sailing passion, and began Channel Island Adventures; a surfing charter business. During John’s mid-twenties he worked as a commercial diver, spending a lot of time around and between the Santa Barbara Channel Islands and as far south as Catalina. Their new business took surfers from around the world on multi-day trips to various surf breaks on these islands.

    In 2005, JSixx raced in the Annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race, which is a 125-nautical-mile International Yacht Race that is billed as the largest yacht race in the world. The experience was moving for Sixx, but it also confirmed that he didn’t want to experience anything as grand as that again without Rachel by his side. They decided they wanted to sail around the world, so the planning began. The plan was to sail the world for 5 years, then return to Mexico to build a place a retire early, Rachel would be 36 and Sixx would be 47. On a trip to Baja California that same year, they discovered that not only was real estate in the US booming, but Mexico was also, and that they should consider moving to Mexico sooner than later. That next month on another trip to Baja, they found a near the beach and moved.






    Rachel Alexander Lawrence-Pack


    While Sixx had loved music and made many course changes, Rachel was rather different. She loved fitness, leading her to the position of Vice President of the California State Fresno Kinesiology Club. There, she worked to produce the KPC Fitness Expo for 3 years.  For the remainder of her time before Sixx, she stayed firmly in fitness and worked in many positions including head lifeguard, fitness trainer, aerobics instructor, marketing director, event promoter, technical adviser and talent manager.

    Rachel is a expert at working with people and managing fundraising events, something she learned from her nearly 11 years working for the YMCA. During her time at the YMCA she was responsible for curriculum, volunteers coordination and fitness coordinator managing a staff of 12. After graduating from Fresno State, Rachel pursued her passion as a national fitness competitor in NPC and WFA, competing and placing in Las Vegas, Florida, Alabama and other events around the country; placing in the top 3 many times.

    During this time, became involved in creative media and for four years, Rachel worked for Summit Studios, and was responsible for the DVD production, graphic design and replication of all new DVD titles, and eventually took over the responsibility of distribution management, securing additional national and regional retailers. 


    In 2001, Sixx met Rachel at a restaurant and popular bar that was adjacent to a live music venue, where Sixx was promoting a concert series for the Fresno Weekly. It was chemistry from the start.  In 2003, Sixx and Rachel were married, not weeks after Sixx had decided to leave Ultimate Athlete magazine and instead travel the United States and produce “Bad Breed TV”, a DVD magazine on Mixed Martial Arts. The DVD series, which was sold to national retailers was produced by the two of them over the next two years. The DVD series took the two of them to gyms, arenas, swamps, and bars in 43 states and some of their exclusive footage on “Entertainment Tonight”. At the end of two years, they landed in Las Vegas.


    After a year, they deciding to move back to the coast. So, they packed up and moved to Ventura California, a short distance from John’s home town of Santa Barbara. For the following two years, John and Rachel became American Sailing Association certified, so that they could charter sailboats. They enjoyed sailing so much, that they combined John’s childhood passion of surfing and their new sailing passion, and began Channel Island Adventures; a surfing charter business. During John’s mid-twenties he worked as a commercial diver, spending a lot of time around and between the Santa Barbara Channel Islands and as far south as Catalina. Their new business took surfers from around the world on multi-day trips to various surf breaks on these islands.

    In 2015 they decided they wanted to sail around the world, so the planning began. The plan was to sail the world for 5 years, then return to Mexico to build a place a retire early, Rachel would be 36 and Sixx would be 47. On a trip to Baja California that same year, they discovered that not only was real estate in the US booming, but Mexico was also, and that they should consider moving to Mexico sooner than later. That next month on another trip to Baja, they found a near the beach and moved. And ever since then the Dynamic Duo has been adding new chapters to their life story, now enjoying the life of traveling Blues band "Wild Pack".

    Sixx and Rachel Pack - The Dynamic Duo


    Sixx and Rachel Pack have always been achievers even when they were not together. However, when they became a team, they became quite the dynamic duo. While they came from different backgrounds, their love for media and event production have helped them overcome some of the most difficult obstacles and manage concerts and events efficiently and effectively.

    Together, their media and event management experience is vast and includes projects and rewards such as, but not limited to:

    For more information about our services, or to get in touch, feel free to email us: wildpackband@gmail.com

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