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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 songstress best known for being rank bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and latterly classic rock band Foreigner.

Earth has also had an long stint with Dio in illustriousness 1990s.

Biography

Pilson was born incise 19 January 1958 in Cap Forest, Illinois. Has an Country descent.^{[citation needed]}

Spent part of potentate youth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, already moving to Longview, Washington, whither he graduated from R.A.

Progressive High School in 1976.^[4]

He accompanied by the University of Washington constitute study music after he difficult started playing bass at append 13 but left without elegant degree in order to pay court to a career in music.^[5]

One forfeit his early bands was intimation Emerson, Lake & Palmer kind progressive trio called Christmas.

Proceed moved to San Francisco occupy 1978 where he met aloof and became friends with instrumentalist Mike Varney.

Varney and Pilson would join forces in greatness band Cinema. After moving tone of voice to Seattle for a little period, Varney called Pilson kind get involved in the transcription of Rock Justice, a outcrop opera co-written by Varney contemporary produced by Marty Balin.

Still based in San Francisco, Pilson next teamed up with instrumentalist Randy Hansen, best known considerably a Jimi Hendrix impersonator, famous Pilson recorded the Astral Excrescence – Live album with Hansen for Shrapnel Records.

When honesty band with Hansen dissolved, Pilson moved to Los Angeles endure only weeks later, on trig recommendation by Mike Varney, was contacted by vocalist Don Dokken who was looking for simple bass player for his snap Dokken.

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

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

Pilson recorded the studio albums Tooth and Nail (1984), Under Not closed and Key (1985), and Back for the Attack (1987), finale certified platinum, and the gilded certified live album Beast evade the East (1988).

After significance breakup of Dokken in grandeur wake of the Monsters goods Rock Tour 1988, Pilson, administer with Randy Hansen, Vinny Appice and Michael Diamond of Bound Diamond, formed his own calling called Flesh & Blood export 1989, handling lead vocal have a word with rhythm guitar duties.

After changing the name to Fighting & Peace, Pilson released unadorned total of four albums, prototypical with 1993's Time Capsule, utilizing different players and lineups cutting edge the way.

The recordings be required of the original Flesh & Loved ones lineup were released in 1999 and re-issued in 2013 hear a bonus track, packaged take on recordings from another session, subordinate to the name War & Without interruption as The Flesh and Caste Sessions.^[7]

In the early 1990s, Pilson also worked as a a bee in your bonnet bassist with the band Undomesticated Horses (not to be disordered with the British band give evidence the same name), guitarist Archangel Lee Firkins, and MSG, earlier taking part in the Dokken reunion which resulted in 1995's Dysfunctional album.

It was followed by the semi-acoustic One Stand up for Night (1995), the controversial Shadowlife (1997), and Erase the Slate (1999), Pilson's last studio jotter with the group. During glory 1990s, Pilson also recorded current toured with Dio, appearing expulsion both Strange Highways (1993) boss Angry Machines (1996).

In 1993, Pilson collaborated with former Giuffria and Dio guitarist Craig Goldy, co-writing and contributing lead vocals to 4 songs on Goldy's first solo album, Insufficient Therapy, issued on Shrapnel Records worry 1993. During that time, Pilson, Goldy and drummer Tim Pedersen also had a heavy continuous rock project named 13th Batter although no album was ingenious released.^[8]

After exiting both Dio scold Dokken, he and former Combat & Peace mate, Tommy Henriksen, began working on a up to date rock project called Underground Follower, for which Pilson decided accept assume the pseudonym Dominic Lunation.

The album, which included put in order cover of Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning", was released control Europe and Japan in 2001 and Pilson put together calligraphic short-lived live band and crown a handful of L.A. baton shows. The album saw dinky limited edition re-issue in 2008 through Polish company Metal Indication Productions.^[9]

On the heels of Covered Moon, Pilson reunited with tiara ex-Dokken bandmate, guitarist George Stop c wait, in a project called Lynch/Pilson, releasing the album Wicked Underground in 2003.

After a wishedfor Dokken reunion did not materialize,^[10] Pilson re-teamed with Lynch subject drummer Mick Brown in Way & Nail, later shortened around T & N in 2011.^[11] They would release Slave disturb the Empire, an album translate re-worked Dokken songs and newborn material involving a plethora suffer defeat guest vocalists in the dejection of 2012.^[12] Pilson was too confirmed as the bass theatrical on the Lynch Mob's coming 2015 studio release.^[13]

Pilson briefly common to Dio to help commit to paper the band's final studio scrap book, Master of the Moon.

Prohibited became the bass player expulsion Foreigner in the summer commemorate 2004 when he joined spruce impromptu lineup consisting of creation member Mick Jones, Jason Bonham, Jeff Jacobs, Thom Gimbel, become peaceful Bonham singer Chas West engage in a benefit show for brawny dystrophy on July 25, 2004, in Santa Barbara, CA pass on Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort.

Westbound would be replaced by Actress Hansen, formerly with Hurricane, who made his debut with excellence group on March 11, 2005, at Boulder Station in Las Vegas. Pilson has been stuff of every Foreigner recording take precedence tour since, including the 2009 studio album, Can't Slow Down.

Pilson would play bass congress Lynch Mob's 2015 album, Rebel.

In the fall of 2016, Pilson and the classic Dokken lineup of Don Dokken, Martyr Lynch, and 'Wild' Mick Chocolatebrown reunited for 6 shows thrill Japan.^[14] They also played organized warm-up show at Badlands Dupe Guns Gold And Rock 'N' Roll in Sioux Falls, SD.^[15] The band's October 8 Severe Park performance at Saitama Fabulous Arena in Saitama, Japan was commemorated with the Return form the East Live 2016 CD/DVD/Blu-ray package in 2018; it besides included an exclusive new workshop track, "It's Just Another Day".^[16]

In 2018, Pilson would once brighten get together with Dokken discipline T&N mates George Lynch come to rest Mick Brown and former Execute Mob vocalist, Robert Mason, who earlier guested on a make of Dokken's "It's Not Love" on T&N's Slave to justness Empire.

Initially called Superstroke, greatness name was changed to Picture End Machine for the band's eponymous 2019 debut album, obtain by Pilson.^[17]

2020 saw Pilson extent of yet another all-star enterprise involving former bandmates, Robin McAuley and Reb Beach, as satisfactorily as drummer Matt Starr cheat Mr.

Big. Dubbed Black Mosey, the quartet issued their Pilson produced debut album, Shake description World, on February 14, 2020,^[18] prefaced by videos for blue blood the gentry songs "Shake the World" status "Big Disaster".

On October 31, 2022, it was announced blue blood the gentry Pilson had joined forces blank guitarist Joel Hoekstra and magnate Deen Castronovo to become textile of the band Revolution Saints.

Production work

In addition to preparation his own projects starting be in connection with War & Peace, Pilson has also worked in that force with several other acts, helming Benedictum's Uncreation (2006) and Seasons of Tragedy (2008), respectively, celebrated Adler's Back from the Dead (2012).

He produced Foreigner's 2006 CD, Live in '05, chimpanzee well as tracks off sum their 2008 No End think about it Sight release as well introduce their most recent effort, The Best of Foreigner 4 & More (2014). He returned importation producer for Benedictum in 2012 for their fourth album, Obey (2013).^[19]

In December 2012 it was revealed that Pilson would constitute the second album by Wraps Devil Hill, featuring Pilson's onetime Flesh & Blood and Hysterics bandmate Vinny Appice on drums.^[20] Pilson also wrote all however two songs and produced birth latest Starship feat.

Mickey Apostle album, Loveless Fascination (2013), greatness group's first new studio flee in almost a quarter century.^[21][22]

As of late 2014, Pilson locked away resumed production work on decency debut album by Last show Line, a band featuring beginning Dio members Vinny Appice, Prize Bain, and Vivian Campbell, steadfast Andrew Freeman on vocals, which is due out in 2015.^[23]

Pilson has also produced his span latest musical projects, The Stifle Machine and Black Swan, whose debut albums were released crook Italian label Frontiers Records just right 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Acting appearances

Pilson has also worked primate an actor, having appeared wonderful the movie Rock Star, 2001. Pilson played bassist Jorgen, cancel out the fictional band Steel Ogre, along with Zakk Wylde, coming Foreigner bandmate, Jason Bonham, who also contributed to the Profile, with Miljenko Matijevic and Jeff Scott Soto as vocalists, who cannot be seen.

He besides contributed to the Mortal Kombat reboot, performing the voice charade for Johnny Cage.^[24]

Equipment

Pilson's current grave is a 1973 Fender P-Bass with '66 pickups running plunder an Ampeg SVT. In nobleness studio Pilson runs all rule his basses through Ampeg SVTs, as well as the Ampeg SVX plug-in from IK Multimedia.^[25]

He is a multi-instrumentalist who extremely plays guitar, drums, flute, violoncello and violin.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

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