Thirty years ago, in 1975, Pablo Cruise released its first A&M album simply entitled Pablo Cruise. The album cover was shot in the tropical gardens of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and it featured a huge gorilla standing front and center. The band, David Jenkins (guitars & vocals), Cory Lerios (keyboards & vocals), Steve Price (drums) & Bud Cockrell (bass & vocals) was nowhere in sight. At that point there was a bit of a mystique as to who Pablo Cruise really was. When asked, "who's Pablo," the band, which is a quartet, would answer, "he's the guy in the middle." When asked what Pablo Cruise meant, the well-rehearsed answer went something like this,"Pablo,represents an honest, real, down to earth individual; and Cruise, depicts his fun loving, easy going attitude towards life." In essence that's what Pablo Cruise's music is all about. Honest, real, down to earth vocals, accompanied by fun yet elegant, infectious grooves. To hear Pablo Cruise on record is one thing, but to experience the band live is an exhilarating event.

From 1975 to 1985 the band toured the United States, Canada and Japan extensively, welcoming fans to "Climb Aboard The Good Ship Pablo Cruise." Reaching the top 10 with mega hits like "Watch Gonna Do When She Says Goodbye" and "Love Will Find A Way," and several other radio hits, the band went on to sell several million albums and singles collectively and established themselves as well respected writers and performers within the industry. They appeared on numerous TV shows, including Dick Clark's American Bandstand, Dinah!, The Merv Griffin Show, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and in 1979 they broke Elvis Presley's attendance record at The Sahara Tahoe in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, becoming the first rock band to play a Casino Showroom. They also became the first rock band to grace the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, but by 1986 after completing several national tours and releasing 7 albums in all, the band seemed to have lost its focus and just stopped. It seemed like Pablo needed some time to think. Cory Lerios and David Jenkins the bands' principal songwriters, along with Steve Price decided to take a hiatus. A hiatus that has lasted nearly 20 years...

Throughout the late eighties, original vocalist David Jenkins continued touring and playing with different well knowns, such as Buddy Miles, then Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead fame with whom Dave co-wrote and recorded a CD entitled, Mystery Box, and then garnered acclaim in the country markets with the slightly ahead of their time country-rock band Southern Pacific. As they racked up hits like "Midnight Highway," the Number 1 chart topper, "New Shade Of Blue" and "Honey I Dare You" (co-written by Jenkins) the band toured all over the U.S. and appeared with many of the day's well known country artists.  In 1992 Dave connected with Hawaii's native son, Kapono Beamer, and in '95 the duo released the album "Cruisin' On Hawaiian Time", that became a critics' favorite as well as being nominated for Hawaii's prestigious Hoku Award for "Album Of The Year." Since '99 Jenkins has joined forces with the Rock and Pop Masters.com, a composite group that includes some of the great singers of the '70's and '80's, including Spencer Davis, Larry Hoppen of Orleans, Pete Rivera of Rare Earth, Jimi Jamison from Survivor, Mike Reno from Loverboy, John Cafferty, Felix Cavaliere from Young Rascals,  David Pack  and many others.  Dave has also appeared with Mickey Thomas and Starship.   Lately, Dave has been writing and recording with local guitar hero, Jeff Watson,  who formerly played amazing lead super fusion and flash guitar stylings with California 80's band Night Ranger.   Dave is still doing dates with the Pablo band and keeps that going while keeping the dates with RPM.com and his own local band, Backyard Boomers.   All in all, he has had a respectable and fun career and will keep going at it until it isn't fun any more, and that's not likely to happen for quite a while.