It was a situation that came up at times in bands. One member would not be as committed to the group or would be more committed to things like school work or a day job. This “conflict of interests” would cause a split between the members. When looking back there are always regrets when this has happened. This was especially true when the member in question was nice guy with an agreeable personality like John.
The name was chosen in the traditional way–the members sat around suggesting various ideas until one stuck. Rob had come up with Jebidiah Stone which he thought was the name of a character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It turned out that his memory had not served him well as the characters first name was something other than Jebidiah. But everyone liked the name, especially in light of other bands that existed with names like Jethro Tull and Ezra Pound.
| Date formed: 1972 |
| Date disbanded: 1975 |
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| Merv Carnahan: Keyboards (1974 - 75) |
| Steve Greenfield: Guitar, vocals (1973) |
| Denny Kettles: Drums (1974 - 75) |
| Jon Purdy: Guitar (1973 - 75) |
| Kent Newman: Drums (1974) |
| John Reynolds: Guitar (1972 - 73) |
| Rich Selhaver: Drums (1972 - 74) |
| Rick Weiss: Guitar, vocals |
| Rob Wolf: Bass |
The original PA was a conglomeration of various pieces. After Steve joined the band the group built some speaker cabinets from plans that he had obtained. The plans were based on the Electro-Voice Voice of the Theatre cabinets which were used primarily in movie theatres. Along with those speakers they had an old Peavey 6 channel mixer that had the big round ‘bakelight’ looking knobs instead of sliding “faders”.
The next move was to Boone, specifically Steve Greenfield’s house. Steve’s mom was supportive also with the band squeezing into Steve’s bedroom for practice. They soon found a property just a bit south of Steve’s in West Boone which they purchased. Everyone except Steve lived there along with the house being the groups practice place. They were able to leave the equipment set up in the living room which made things easy for rehearsals at anytime.
While in the previous places practice was held roughly once a week. With the acquisition of the house in southwest Boone, the group could practice whenever they wanted. Many times the individual members would work on tunes in the afternoon and have a full band practice in the evening. This was due to the fact that Steve had a day job at the time. Partial band rehearsals were held nearly every day, as often as the members wanted. There are tapes of some of these practices in exsistence and may be added here in the future.
Jebidiah Stone performed heavy rock and progressive rock tunes in the covers they chose. “Stairway to Heaven” and “Good Times Bad Times”/Led Zeppelin, “War Pigs” and “Paranoid”/Black Sabbath and “Hot & Nasty”/Black Oak Arkansas along with songs by James Gang, Yes and Grand Funk on the song list. Along with cover tunes Jebidiah Stone also did some original songs.
In the early days they got to the gigs in Rob’s Ford Econoline van along with Rick’s Chevy station wagon. Toward the very end of the bands existence they purchased a straight truck to haul the bands gear. The whole band pitched in to pay for gas and upkeep.
There are no real standout gigs that the members recalled, but they were making 300 to 400 dollars a job which was very good money at that time.
Jebidiah Stone’s demise just sort of happened. There was no one thing specifically that caused the band to fall apart. After Steve left the band, Jon Purdy joined. Jon stayed for a few months, but the drive from his home, which was north quite a distance, to Boone for practice got to be too much. Rich wanted to be back in the Fort Dodge area and was replaced by Kent Newman who stayed for a short time. Denny Kettles was his replacement who stayed for a short time also. His drive from Iowa Falls made him decide to leave the band. The band just lost momentum at this juncture and ceased to be.
