Episode #29 - Chris Jackson (The Vehicle Birth)

Jams for Man

Chris Jackson liked to play guitar riffs at an early age, from the Peter Gunn theme to Day Tripper, and made a musical career out of them with the rock band The Vehicle Birth and later Cracktorch. He opened the Dharma Coffee House in Fairfax with his friend Christian Yavorsk years before anybody in the area heard of Starbucks in order to have a place that served great coffee like they did in Europe, but also to give high school and college kids a place to hang out and listen to live music and poetry. Dharma hosted bands such as The Dismemberment Plan, Frodus, and the Sun Monkeys along with Jackson's own band, as they competed to be the best group in the area. The Vehicle Birth then moved to Boston to go to college, only releasing three singles and an LP called Tragedy on Crank in 1998. They went on a cross-country tour to support the album in 1999, but broke up on their way back home. Jackson then went on to form Cracktorch, who released the album Tonight the City in 2005 and went on to tour for the next decade. Visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/The-Vehicle-Birth-165595246822653/ for more information on The Vehicle Birth or https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-City-Cracktorch/dp/B001P2TID2 to purchase the album by Cracktorch.