Jerry Gaskill, born Jerry Wayne Gaskill in the United States on December 27, 1957, is an American rock drummer best known as the drummer for the progressive hard rock band King's X. His musical career began at age 4 when his father gave him his first snare drum. After performing in his family band, Jerry and the Knights, and local group Frog Ocean Road, he joined Phil Keaggy's touring band following the unsuccessful Volz project, alongside bassist Doug Pinnick, later meeting guitarist Ty Tabor to form the band that became King's X. He released solo studio albums Come Somewhere in 2004 and Love and Scars in 2015, providing lead vocals, drums, and acoustic guitar, while contributing backing vocal harmonies on King's X studio albums including Gretchen Goes to Nebraska in 1989, which was based in part on a story he had written. He suffered heart attacks in February 2012 and September 2014.
