The Gone Jackals are a hard rock quartet from San Francisco, CA. The leader, Keith Karloff, who is the brother of New York City guitarist Johnny Gale, relocated to San Francisco from New York City, where he had been performing in the 1980s as a solo artist using the name Keith Gale.
In San Francisco, Karloff recruited bassist Rudy D. Maynard, who had come from Los Angeles. The two worked together on a Keith Gale EP called Five Piece Screwdriver Set released on Blue/Black Records.
After a period of fluctuating names, lineups, and instrumentation, Karloff's band solidified wit...