The Gone Jackals

The Gone Jackals was an American rock band formed by frontman Keith Karloff in 1984 and based in San Francisco, California. Originally named "Keith Gale's Parallel Universe", the original lineup consisted of Charlie Hunter, Rudy Maynard and Mark Berdon and played in the local San Francisco club scene. In 1989, after Hunter and Berdon left to pursue other projects, the band was rebranded with the addition of Judd Austin and Trey Sabatelli as "The Gone Jackals", releasing their first album Out and About with the Gone Jackals in 1990.

The band's music generally consists of hard, garage and blues rock. Their next album, Bone to Pick (1995) also incorporated heavy metal. The band collaborated with Peter McConnell of LucasArts to produce the soundtrack to the biker-themed adventure game Full Throttle; tracks from Bone to Pick were adapted for this purpose. Blue Pyramid (1998), their third and final album, included experimentation with psychedelic rock. In addition, the band released two extended plays

The band broke up in 1999, though not before signing up a new label for distributing in Europe. In late 2001, Karloff started working on a new musical project. Led by a passion for the old style rock music, Karloff formed the Bonedrivers, a blues rock power trio which has since then toured the United States and published a locally acclaimed full-length album named Roadhouse Manifesto.