Artist description Four piece hard rockin' biker band from San Francisco. Provided the soundtrack to LucasArts' "FULL THROTTLE" PC game, as well as music for CBS Television's hit series "NASH BRIDGES".

Music Style Hard Rock

Musical Influences Little Richard, MC5, Yardbirds, Mountain

Similar Artists AC/DC, Smithereens, Rolling Stones

Artist History Keith Karloff is the bandleader front man of the G.J.'s. A singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Keith relocated to S.F. from his native N.Y.C. where he had been performing as a solo artist. The first musician to sign on in S.F. with Keith was Rudy D. Maynard, a "bottom feeder" bassist recently arrived from Oil City, LA. Rudy performed on their first release, a cassette E.P. entitled "Five Piece Screwdriver Set" for BLUE/BLACK RECORDS and is on all the G.J.'s subsequent recordings. With a backing band which at one time included Bay Area phenom Charlie Hunter on guitar, performances ensued with such acts as Joe Ely, The Beat Farmers and The Chesterfield Kings.After a period of experimenting with line-ups and instrumentation, everything came together best with Judd Austin on guitar and vocals (formerly with TOWER OF POWER's Ed McGee Group) and Trey Sabatelli (JEFFERSON STARSHIP, THE TUBES) on drums."Out About with THE GONE JACKALS" (ConTon-BLUE/BLACK) released in 1990 was the group's first full length C.D. and their first official recording as THE GONE JACKALS. This C.D. had moderate success on college radio stations and received commercial air play in San Diego, Santa Barbara Olympia, WA. The band expanded it's performing territories to Southern CA, sharing bills with such acts as T.S.O.L. and Fantasy 7 while playing college campuses and their adjacent towns throughout the State.THE GONE JACKALS second full length C.D. "BONE TO PICK" is the featured R-n-R soundtrack to THE LUCAS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP's smash hit inter-active motorcycle P.C. game FULL THROTTLE which has sold hundreds of thousands of units worldwide. "BONE TO PICK" sold out its entire first run of 2K units within two months of its initial release, primarily through mail order via the BLUE/BLACK P.O. Box (listed in the game information) with only a limited amount of "in store" distribution and no air play whatsoever. "BONE TO PICK" was then added to the LUCAS Mail Order Catalog and has since become the #1 selling item in the entire Catalog.BONE TO PICK has also caught the attention of Don Johnson's Music Director, who featured the song "Born Bad" in the "Baby Boy" episode of the hit C.B.S. Television series NASH BRIDGES.Their new C.D. BLUE PYRAMID had a “quiet” release at the SXSW MUSIC MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL where Keith was a featured speaker and The GONE JACKALS performed at the event’s closing party.Within BLUE PYRAMID’s first two weeks of radio promotion (beginning this fall) the first single “No Sign of Rain” has made it on to The GAVIN REPORT’s “Top 40 Up and Coming” chart.

Group Members Keith Karloff- vocals, guitarJudd Austin- guitar, vocalR.D. Maynard- bassTrey Sabatelli

Instruments Guitars, bass, drums, harmonica

Albums "Out & About" (1990), "Bone To Pick" (1995), "Blue Pyramid" (1998)

Press Reviews "SOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR- the best soundtrack I've heard, hands-down" (P.C. Gamer)... "Along the way, you're treated to a terrific soundtrack from biker band GONE JACKALS". (Entertainment Weekly)... "The Gone Jackals' wild rock score is hard enough to melt the ink form the tattoos of real live bikers" (Electronic Musician)... "Have you checked the children? The Gone Jackals may already be lurking in your house! Some of you have probably even been grooving on their hard-nosed, post punk hi-jinx and don't even know it. They've infiltrated some 400,000 households worldwide via the fiber-optic highway to hell (aka your computer) with their last release, "Bone To Pick". That album won the prestigious PC Gamer Magazine's Soundtrack Of The Year Award as the music for LucasArts' hit PC game "Full Throttle". "Business As Usual", from The Gone Jackals' latest release, "Blue Pyramid", sounds as if John Kay from Steppenwolf parked his Harley onstage and joined The Smithereens on "Blood & Roses". "Business As Usual" is an exciting, guitar-driven, pure-rock fest showcasing the raw energy of lead vocalist Keith Karloff." (The ALBUM NETWORK 2/26/99-DESIGNATED HITTER)

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Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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