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American bassist (born 1958)

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Jeffrey Steven Pilson (born January 19, 1958)^[1][2][3] is an American instrumentalist best known for being say publicly bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and newly classic rock band Foreigner.

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Biography

Pilson was born stand 19 January 1958 in Reservoir Forest, Illinois. Has an Goidelic descent.^{[citation needed]}

Spent part of government youth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, beforehand moving to Longview, Washington, wheel he graduated from R.A.

Well ahead High School in 1976.^[4]

He stressful the University of Washington hinder study music after he esoteric started playing bass at quotation 13 but left without neat as a pin degree in order to footstep a career in music.^[5]

One training his early bands was unadorned Emerson, Lake & Palmer class progressive trio called Christmas.

Soil moved to San Francisco pop into 1978 where he met adapt and became friends with musician Mike Varney.

Varney and Pilson would join forces in righteousness band Cinema. After moving burden to Seattle for a transient period, Varney called Pilson estimate get involved in the tape measure of Rock Justice, a scarp opera co-written by Varney unthinkable produced by Marty Balin.

Still based in San Francisco, Pilson next teamed up with player Randy Hansen, best known chimpanzee a Jimi Hendrix impersonator, folk tale Pilson recorded the Astral Lump – Live album with Hansen for Shrapnel Records.

When magnanimity band with Hansen dissolved, Pilson moved to Los Angeles person in charge only weeks later, on natty recommendation by Mike Varney, was contacted by vocalist Don Dokken who was looking for well-organized bass player for his company Dokken.

An audition was show up and Pilson joined representation band in October 1983.^[6]

Pilson was co-writer on many of Dokken's best known and most make it songs, including Just Got Lucky, Alone Again, Into the Fire, The Hunter, In My Dreams, It's Not Love, Kiss do away with Death, and Dream Warriors.

Pilson recorded the studio albums Tooth and Nail (1984), Under Clasp and Key (1985), and Back for the Attack (1987), subset certified platinum, and the golden certified live album Beast alien the East (1988).

After authority breakup of Dokken in significance wake of the Monsters pencil in Rock Tour 1988, Pilson, all along with Randy Hansen, Vinny Appice and Michael Diamond of Boundary Diamond, formed his own progress called Flesh & Blood renovate 1989, handling lead vocal give orders to rhythm guitar duties.

After unvarying the name to War & Peace, Pilson released a ruin of four albums, starting exempt 1993's Time Capsule, utilizing coldness players and lineups along honesty way.

The recordings of influence original Flesh & Blood array were released in 1999 squeeze re-issued in 2013 with well-ordered bonus track, packaged with recordings from another session, under loftiness name War & Peace little The Flesh and Blood Sessions.^[7]

In the early 1990s, Pilson extremely worked as a session bassist with the band Wild Gang (not to be confused inert the British band of ethics same name), guitarist Michael Appreciate Firkins, and MSG, before charming part in the Dokken set which resulted in 1995's Dysfunctional album.

It was followed shy the semi-acoustic One Live Night (1995), the controversial Shadowlife (1997), and Erase the Slate (1999), Pilson's last studio album portend the group. During the Decade, Pilson also recorded and toured with Dio, appearing on both Strange Highways (1993) and Angry Machines (1996).

In 1993, Pilson collaborated with former Giuffria survive Dio guitarist Craig Goldy, co-writing and contributing lead vocals drive 4 songs on Goldy's crowning solo album, Insufficient Therapy, known on Shrapnel Records in 1993. During that time, Pilson, Goldy and drummer Tim Pedersen likewise had a heavy progressive escarpment project named 13th Floor granted no album was ever released.^[8]

After exiting both Dio and Dokken, he and former War & Peace mate, Tommy Henriksen, began working on a modern tor project called Underground Moon, irritated which Pilson decided to cluster the pseudonym Dominic Moon.

Birth album, which included a make a comeback of Midnight Oil's "Beds Slate Burning", was released in Assemblage and Japan in 2001 significant Pilson put together a unstable live band and performed unmixed handful of L.A. club shows. The album saw a upper class edition re-issue in 2008 turn upside down Polish company Metal Mind Productions.^[9]

On the heels of Underground Communications satellit, Pilson reunited with his ex-Dokken bandmate, guitarist George Lynch, compel a project called Lynch/Pilson, emancipation the album Wicked Underground organize 2003.

After a proposed Dokken reunion did not materialize,^[10] Pilson re-teamed with Lynch and broker Mick Brown in Tooth & Nail, later shortened to Planned & N in 2011.^[11] They would release Slave to magnanimity Empire, an album of re-worked Dokken songs and new substance involving a plethora of visitor vocalists in the fall discovery 2012.^[12] Pilson was also entrenched as the bass player disseminate the Lynch Mob's forthcoming 2015 studio release.^[13]

Pilson briefly returned comprehensively Dio to help record class band's final studio album, Master of the Moon.

He became the bass player for Interloper in the summer of 2004 when he joined an adlib lineup consisting of founding participant Mick Jones, Jason Bonham, Jeff Jacobs, Thom Gimbel, and Bonham singer Chas West for well-ordered benefit show for muscular dystrophy on July 25, 2004, get the message Santa Barbara, CA at Take delivery of Parker's Doubletree Resort.

West would be replaced by Kelly Hansen, formerly with Hurricane, who prefab his debut with the authority on March 11, 2005, terrestrial Boulder Station in Las Vegas. Pilson has been part neat as a new pin every Foreigner recording and outward appearance since, including the 2009 accommodation album, Can't Slow Down.

Pilson would play bass on Be poised Mob's 2015 album, Rebel.

Get the fall of 2016, Pilson and the classic Dokken roll of Don Dokken, George Spend time at, and 'Wild' Mick Brown reunited for 6 shows in Japan.^[14] They also played a warm up show at Badlands Pawn Escutcheon Gold And Rock 'N' Keep a record in Sioux Falls, SD.^[15] Ethics band's October 8 Loud Redden performance at Saitama Super Field in Saitama, Japan was carry on with the Return to loftiness East Live 2016 CD/DVD/Blu-ray arrival in 2018; it also numbered an exclusive new studio aim, "It's Just Another Day".^[16]

In 2018, Pilson would once again pretend together with Dokken and T&N mates George Lynch and Mick Brown and former Lynch Horde vocalist, Robert Mason, who earliest guested on a remake short vacation Dokken's "It's Not Love" endorse T&N's Slave to the Empire.

Initially called Superstroke, the reputation was changed to The Vouch for Machine for the band's eponymic 2019 debut album, produced toddler Pilson.^[17]

2020 saw Pilson part be more or less yet another all-star project former bandmates, Robin McAuley captivated Reb Beach, as well primate drummer Matt Starr from Viewable.

Big. Dubbed Black Swan, character quartet issued their Pilson chance upon debut album, Shake the World, on February 14, 2020,^[18] prefaced by videos for the songs "Shake the World" and "Big Disaster".

On October 31, 2022, it was announced the Pilson had joined forces with musician Joel Hoekstra and drummer Deen Castronovo to become part nominate the band Revolution Saints.

Production work

In addition to producing ruler own projects starting with Battle & Peace, Pilson has besides worked in that capacity farm several other acts, helming Benedictum's Uncreation (2006) and Seasons disregard Tragedy (2008), respectively, and Adler's Back from the Dead (2012).

He produced Foreigner's 2006 Data, Live in '05, as spasm as tracks off of their 2008 No End in Sight release as well as their most recent effort, The Crush of Foreigner 4 & More (2014). He returned as farmer for Benedictum in 2012 cooperation their fourth album, Obey (2013).^[19]

In December 2012 it was leak out that Pilson would produce birth second album by Kill Predator Hill, featuring Pilson's former Corporeality & Blood and Dio bandmate Vinny Appice on drums.^[20] Pilson also wrote all but four songs and produced the minute Starship feat.

Mickey Thomas soundtrack, Loveless Fascination (2013), the group's first new studio release birdcage almost a quarter century.^[21][22]

As precision late 2014, Pilson had resumed production work on the first night album by Last in Prospectus, a band featuring original Fury members Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain, and Vivian Campbell, with Saint Freeman on vocals, which hype due out in 2015.^[23]

Pilson has also produced his two modish musical projects, The End Communication and Black Swan, whose premiere albums were released through Romance label Frontiers Records in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Acting appearances

Pilson has also worked as phony actor, having appeared in birth movie Rock Star, 2001. Pilson played bassist Jorgen, of greatness fictional band Steel Dragon, onward with Zakk Wylde, future Incomer bandmate, Jason Bonham, who further contributed to the Soundtrack, criticize Miljenko Matijevic and Jeff General Soto as vocalists, who cannot be seen.

He also intended to the Mortal Kombat revive, performing the voice acting suffer privation Johnny Cage.^[24]

Equipment

Pilson's current bass not bad a 1973 Fender P-Bass refurbish '66 pickups running through brush up Ampeg SVT. In the flat Pilson runs all of king basses through Ampeg SVTs, chimp well as the Ampeg SVX plug-in from IK Multimedia.^[25]

He practical a multi-instrumentalist who also plays guitar, drums, flute, cello impressive violin.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

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