Jacob's Trouble Museum of Useless Trivia!

Originally chronicled by Jerry Davison in the album "Diggin' Up Bones"
(Alarma Records FLC/D9492 1994; out of print).

The name "Jacob's Trouble" was taken from Jeremiah 30:7: "It will be a time like no other time, a time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved from it." We heard it first in a movie called "Image Of The Beast," a low-budget seventies flick about the end times.
The original title for Door Into Summer was to be "An Idea Of Autumn", a phrase culled from C.S. Lewis' autobiography, Surprised By Joy. It was nixed by the record label, who thought it sounded too morose for a summer release. Other working titles for J.T. records included All God's Children (Knock, Breathe, Shine), Truth Gone Wild! ("...let the truth run wild"), Mercy Jones, Shakespeare and the Monkey, and Candles of Kavalar (Jacob's Trouble).
Jerry once played drums for a tardy Ed McTaggart during a Daniel Amos/ Swirling Eddies sound check at Melodyland. "It was a dream come true," Jerry sobbed happily. "I'll never be the same again."
Jerry also once auditioned to sing for one of Bill Malonee's pre-Vigilantes Of Love bands in 1984. He hasn't divulged the outcome to anyone so you'll have to ask Bill, if he even remembers.
Drummer Ron Cochran was an extra in the Kenny Rogers made-for-TV movie, "Coward of the County". He played saxophone in the marching band during the parade scene.
Few people realize that there was another drummer in Jacob's Trouble other than Jerry and Ron. Matt Goldman was J.T.'s infamous "missing drummer" for approximately six months.
Jacob's Trouble's unusual repertoire of live cover songs included (at one time or another) The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night", the Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville", Paul Revere and the Raiders' "Kicks", U2's "A Celebration", Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me", and KISS's classic "Shout It Out Loud"!