The Gone Jackals

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The Gone Jackals
Origin	San Francisco, California, United States
Genre(s)	Hard Rock Rock 'n' Roll Blues Rock Surf Rock Psychedelic Rock Garage Rock
Years active	1989 - 1999
Associated acts	Keith Gale's Parallel Universe Tower of Power Jefferson Starship The Tubes Missing Man Formation The Bonedrivers
Website	Official website
Members
Keith Karloff Judd Austin Rudy D. Maynard Trey Sabatelli
Former members
Charlie Hunter Mark Berdon Johnny Gale

The Gone Jackals is a hard rock and roll band, based in San Francisco, California. They gained some fame among computer gamers worldwide when they provided parts of the soundtrack to the biker themed adventure-game Full Throttle by LucasArts (some of its songs were also featured on their second album, Bone to Pick). The soundtrack became LucasArts best selling item in their mail order catalog.

In late 2001, Keith Karloff, frontman of the band, started working on a new musical project. Led by his great passion for the old style rock music, he formed The Bonedrivers, a blues rock power trio which has since then toured the U.S.A. and published a highly acclaimed full-length album named Roadhouse Manifesto.

1 History
2 Band members
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] History

The Gone Jackals were founded during the late eighties by multi-instrumentalist Keith Karloff, a talented drummer/guitarist and songwriter who used to play as a solo artist in New York City since the early eighties, under the stage name "Keith Gale".

After moving to San Francisco in 1984, Karloff begun to search for supporting musicians to form a new band. Bassist Rudy Maynard and guitarist virtuoso Charlie Hunter were the first to join him. In addition to them, drummer Mark Berdon came to complete the line-up. Together they formed a band called "Keith Gale's Parallel Universe" and started to play regularly at local clubs. Soon, they signed to Blue/Black Records and released their first EP, a promo cassette named Five Piece Screwdriver Set.

In the subsequent years, Charlie Hunter decided to leave the band and was replaced by rock guitarist Judd Austin. After a while, Mark Berdon left the band too. Drummer Trey Sabatelli came in his place and with the strength of this new line-up, Keith Karloff managed to gave birth to "The Gone Jackals", the final incarnation of the band. It was then that "Keith Gale" decided to change his name to "Keith Karloff".

In 1990, The Gone Jackals released their official debut album, Out and About with the Gone Jackals. The songs were an explosive mix of classical sounds and styles of rock music, and had a moderate success on independent radio stations throughout California, Washington State and San Diego. Following the release of the album, The Gone Jackals began to tour the state from town to town.

Their second full-length album, Bone to Pick, was published in 1995 and is a true rock 'n' roll masterpiece. Its songs were chosen by Peter McConnell, music director of the LucasArts team, to be featured as the soundtrack of the new video game they were working on, the legendary Full Throttle. Keith Karloff also helped McConnell to compose some original tracks for the game. Thanks to Full Throttle, Bone to Pick became the most famous and acclaimed album of the band, even gaining considerable notoriety outside of the United States. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, and its great success induced Blue/Black Records to produce a new run of Out and About with the Gone Jackals, the band's previous album.

In 1998 a third album came out. It was called Blue Pyramid and was the band's most ambitious project. With this album, Karloff consolidated his American-style hard rock attitude while trying to experiment in a few new directions, such as psychedelia. Some of the songs from the album received radio airplay in various national stations, while the band promoted Blue Pyramid with a new tour that brought them from Texas to South Carolina, as well as all over California.

During the year 1999, The Gone Jackals signed to the international record label Raspberry Records, with the intent of publicizing and distributing their music in Europe. Raspberry Records provided to re-release all of their albums, in addition to two previously unreleased singles, the song Faith Healer (which is a cover of the famous Alex Harvey Band's hit) and a re-edited version of No Sign of Rain (an original audio track from Blue Pyramid).