1. Jeffrey Steven Pilson was born on January 19,1958 and is an American musician best known for being the bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and currently classic rock band Foreigner.
21 Facts About Jeff Pilson
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Jeff Pilson has had an extended stint with Dio in the 1990s.
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Jeff Pilson attended the University of Washington to study music after he had started playing bass at age 13 but left without a degree in order to pursue a career in music.
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Jeff Pilson moved to San Francisco in 1978 where he met up and became friends with guitarist Mike Varney.
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Varney and Jeff Pilson would join forces in the band Cinema.
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An audition was set up and Jeff Pilson joined the band in October 1983.
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Jeff Pilson was co-writer on many of Dokken's best known and most successful songs, including Just Got Lucky, Alone Again, Into the Fire, The Hunter, In My Dreams, It's Not Love, Kiss of Death, and Dream Warriors.
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Jeff Pilson recorded the studio albums Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key, and Back for the Attack, all certified platinum, and the gold certified live album Beast from the East.
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In 1993, Jeff 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 in 1993.
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Jeff Pilson was confirmed as the bass player on the Lynch Mob's forthcoming 2015 studio release.
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Jeff Pilson briefly returned to Dio to help record the band's final studio album, Master of the Moon.
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Jeff Pilson became the bass player for Foreigner in the summer of 2004 when he joined an impromptu lineup consisting of founding member Mick Jones, Jason Bonham, Jeff Jacobs, Thom Gimbel, and Bonham singer Chas West for a benefit show for muscular dystrophy on July 25,2004, in Santa Barbara, CA at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort.
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Jeff Pilson has been part of every Foreigner recording and tour since, including the 2009 studio album, Can't Slow Down.
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On October 31,2022, it was announced the Jeff Pilson had joined forces with guitarist Joel Hoekstra and drummer Deen Castronovo to become part of the band Revolution Saints.
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Jeff Pilson returned as producer for Benedictum in 2012 for their fourth album, Obey.
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Jeff Pilson wrote all but two songs and produced the latest Starship feat.
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Jeff Pilson has produced his two latest musical projects, The End Machine and Black Swan, whose debut albums were released through Italian label Frontiers Records in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
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Jeff Pilson has worked as an actor, having appeared in the movie Rock Star, 2001.
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Jeff Pilson contributed to the Mortal Kombat reboot, performing the voice acting for Johnny Cage.
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Jeff Pilson's current bass is a 1973 Fender P-Bass with '66 pickups running through an Ampeg SVT.
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Jeff Pilson is a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, drums, flute, cello and violin.