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A Special Message from King’s X’s Jerry Gaskill

The Burning Down

King’s X - Burning Down Boston: Live at The Channel 6.12.91 Promo

Molken Music announced today the availability of this special digital-download-only title to help defray the cost of medical bills incurred by King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill as the result of the heart attack he suffered on Sunday, February 26. Entitled Burning Down Boston: Live at The Channel 6.12.91, the album comes from a soundboard recording of a show on the Faith Hope Love tour and includes the following 14 cuts:

  1. We Are Finding Who We Are
  2. Mission
  3. Far Far Away
  4. We Were Born to Be Loved
  5. It’s Love Intro
  6. It’s Love
  7. I’ll Never Get Tired of You
  8. Visions
  9. Over My Head
  10. Moanjam
  11. The Burning Down
  12. Talk to You (Bonus Track)
  13. Fall on Me (Bonus Track)
  14. Power of Love (Bonus Track)

Head on over to Molken Music and purchase your copy today. All proceeds will go directly to Jerry to help offset his medical care.

Update on Jerry Gaskill

King’s X frontman Doug Pinnick has been tweeting updates on drummer Jerry Gaskill’s condition after having emergency surgery and being hospitalized as the result of a heart attack on Sunday, February 26. Since that time, Gaskill has been sedated and on a ventilator, but he contracted pneumonia and had to have surgery to help him breathe easier after developing another lung issue.

The latest update from Pinnick was this encouraging news just a few hours ago:

Update!! Jerry is much better, he is awake, and getting stronger. Yay!!!

Doug then provided an address for anyone wanting to send cards and get well wishes.

Patient: Jerry Gaskill
Riverview Hospital
1 River Plaza
Red Bank, NJ 07701

Let’s all wish Jerry a speedy recovery and show our support for him, Doug, and Ty.

I have been into music as long as I can remember. I started playing even before The Beatles came to America. And when that happened there was nothing else for me to do. They made it all clear… But the influences continue on till this day. I just learn what I learn when I learn it.
King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill on his influences and how he started playing drums, 2004 interview
There are so many great drummers. But for me I can narrow it down to John Bonham and Buddy Rich. That to me is perfect drumming.
King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill on who he considers to be a great drummer, 2004 interview
It was actually truly, truly amazing to be on this huge stage with all these other incredible acts to follow and go on before us and look out and see an endless sea of people—there was like 300,000 people there—it was amazing. And yet at the same time, it was just the next show on the tour.
Jerry Gaskill on King’s X’s 1994 Woodstock performance, The Paulie Z Show, Ep. 43: “Scholarly Gentlemen” with Jerry Gaskill
I would love for an interviewer to ask me how it feels to have the biggest selling record of all time. That hasn’t happened yet.
King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill on the interview question he would like to be asked, 2004 interview

Give Me A Color, Make It Black Or White

David Cook covers “Dogman” with Jerry Gaskill

King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill joined American Idol winner David Cook on stage for a cover of “Dogman” at NYC’s Irving Plaza in December 2011. The best part of the video? The expression on the face of Cook’s drummer Kyle Peek at about the 2:28 mark as he watches Jerry laying down the beat.

Enjoy!

Jerry Gaskill of King’s X • ©2011 Michelle Murphy Click for high-res photo

Jerry Gaskill of King’s X • ©2011 Michelle Murphy

The apparently-very-difficult-to-photograph Jerry Gaskill of King’s X on the Live Love tour in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France on April 23, 2011 Photo ©2011, arnalle Click for high-res photo

The apparently-very-difficult-to-photograph Jerry Gaskill of King’s X on the Live Love tour in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France on April 23, 2011
Photo ©2011, arnalle

Ah, God That’s Great

Anthrax skin beater Charlie Benante runs down his list of favorite drummers for an upcoming issue of Revolver magazine. To my surprise, the third person he lists is King’s X’s Jerry Gaskill:

He always kind of just makes my head spin a bit. He’ll throw in these kind of syncopated fills that just always get me, you know, it’s like “Ah, God that’s great,” you know. There’s a song on Gretchen Goes to Nebraska where he just lays this pattern down, it’s called “Burning Down,” he just does this pattern for the rest of the song and just the way he does it, he doesn’t push it, he doesn’t pull it—it’s just beautiful. It’s like a drum machine, but it’s not, because it’s human and it’s very Jerry Gaskill.

Who else made the grade? Neil Peart, Alex Van Halen, Lars Ulrich, Dave Lombardo, and Ringo Starr.

Ty Tabor (and an obscured Jerry Gaskill) of King’s X on the Live Love tour in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France on April 23, 2011 Photo ©2011, arnalle Click for high-res photo

Ty Tabor (and an obscured Jerry Gaskill) of King’s X on the Live Love tour in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France on April 23, 2011
Photo ©2011, arnalle

“Jerry Gaskin” CD on eBay Australia

Yes, you too can own the Come Somewhere solo album from King’s X skin-beater Jerry Gaskin [sic]. Details of the auction listing include:

THIS CD HAS BEEN PLAYED LESS THAN 10 TIMES

Guess he couldn’t be bothered to actually read the album cover to get the guy’s name correct.