Jim Jacobs

Emerging from Chicago's theatre community, he grew up in a family, attended Taft High School and taught himself guitar after a brief stint of formal lessons, later joining a teenage band that included future guitarist Terry Kath. By the early 1960s he was active in a local playwright collective, appeared in more than fifty regional productions, worked as an advertising copywriter, and landed a min… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources