ELECTRIC ROCK: You’ve heard people say “don’t...

ELECTRIC ROCK: You’ve heard people say “don’t give up your day job” to would-be rock stars, but it’s usually directed at those who don’t quite have the mettle for success, not those with a double-CD that earns a four-star review in Rolling Stone.

Jack Logan, whose album “Bulk” recently got that rave notice, is sticking with his day job nonetheless. In fact, he’s having to take a week off from his gig building swimming pool pump motors at a small Doraville, Ga., electronics shop in order to make his L.A. concert debut on Friday at the Mint. But he has no plans to quit.

“The head of our label (Medium Cool) has been real good about not putting any pressure on us to do anything that would screw up our day jobs,” he says.

This doesn’t exactly sound like someone who’s reaching for the ol’ brass ring. But at 35, just having an album out and getting good reviews is more than Logan had ever hoped for. He’d been writing and recording on his own since the late ‘70s, in a rough-hewn style at times reminiscent of the Rolling Stones or the Replacements, never thinking anyone would be interested in releasing the material.

Logan says having an album out has been a very surreal experience. “It’s so abstract,” he says of the Rolling Stone review. “It’s like somebody just pasted it in there and sent it to us as a joke. But it’s real.”