Jude Gold is a graduate of the
University of California, Berkeley. He has performed with
Metallica's
Kirk Hammett, 2 Live Crew,
David Grisman and
The String Cheese Incident. He has also toured with
JGB (featuring
Jerry Garcia Band members
Melvin Seals,
Donny Baldwin, Gloria Jones, and Jackie LaBranch) and
Kristin Chenoweth. He also played with BX3, a group made up of bass players
Stu Hamm,
Jeff Berlin, and
Billy Sheehan. His credits include playing on
Miguel Migs'
Outside the Skyline and
Get Salted Vol. 2, as well as
Hed Kandi's
Beach House; Gold is also mentioned in the liner notes of
Lee Ritenour's
6 String Theory. In October 2012, Gold joined
Jefferson Starship as lead guitarist. He has performed in Europe, Brazil, America, Japan, Mexico, Scandinavia, and Canada with the band Gold played guitar on the Academy Award-nominated documentary,
Daughter from Danang. Gold is a well-known guitar journalist, and the subjects of his writing and interviews include
Steve Lukather,
Third Eye Blind,
Slash,
Brad Paisley and many
Guitar Player magazine "Master Classes" (a popular column of
Guitar Player). Gold has also written for
Relix,
Rumble,
Frets, and
Bass Player magazines. Gold is director of the
Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood. Since 2015, Gold has been the host of a guitar podcast called No Guitar Is Safe where he interviews famous guitarists while they are both playing guitars. ==Credits==