Jeff Pilson
Jeffrey Steven Pilson (born January 19, 1959 in Lake Forest , Illinois ) is an American musician. Pilson became known as a member of the glam metal band Dokken , of which he was a member from 1984 to 2001; but he was also a member of the groups Dio and McAuley Schenker Group ; he is currently the bass player for Foreigner . His main instrument is the bass , but he has repeatedly been active as a singer and also plays guitar and keyboards.
Career
Pilson joined Dokken in 1984 when their original bassist Juan Croucier switched to Ratt , and recorded with the group their most commercially successful albums ( Tooth and Nail , Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack ). After the release of the live album Beast from the East in 1988, the musicians parted ways when Don Dokken broke up the band.
In 1990, Pilson played bass on Michael Lee Firkins' debut album, and in 1991 he recorded the McAuley Schenker Group's album MSG , which was not released until 1992. From 1993 he belonged to the band around Ronnie James Dio , with whom he recorded the albums Strange Highways and Angry Machines .
In 1995, there was a reunion of the group Dokken in the most successful in the 1980s occupation; the band recorded the albums Dysfunctional , the acoustic album One Live Night and the gloomy Shadowlife before guitarist George Lynch left the group in 1998.
In addition to these permanent engagements, there were repeated collaborations with other musicians, especially with George Lynch, with whom Pilson recorded his solo album Sacred Groove and started the project "Lynch / Pilson", and he also recorded several albums with his solo project War & Peace on.
After a guest role in the movie Rock Star , he released his project Underground Moon in 2002 under the pseudonym Dominic Moon. Jeff Pilson has been a member of Foreigner since 2005 .
For the T&N project , Pilson worked again with his fellow musicians from the Dokken era, George Lynch and Mick Brown. The band, which after the departure of Browns now drums Brian Tichy , released their album Slave to the Empire in October 2012. The singer was Robert Mason ( Warrant ).
Pilson worked with him again in 2019, the result was the album The End: Machine, which was produced by Pilson and on which he and Mason again featured George Lynch and Mick Brown.
In 2019, Frontiers Records won the Irish singer Robin McAuley ( McAuley Schenker Group ) for a project that Pilson was commissioned to realize. Pilson put together a band for McAuley that includes McAuley, Pilson ( bass ), Reb Beach ( guitar ), and Matt Starr ( drums ). The band went by the name Black Swan and recorded the album Shake the World , which was released in February 2020.
production
In the meantime, Pilson is also regarded as a renowned producer who, in addition to working on his own projects, has been responsible for all Foreigner's albums released since 2006, but has also been commissioned by other artists. So far, these have included Kill Devil Hill ( Revolution Rise, 2013), Starship ( Loveless Fascination, 2013), Last in Line ( Heavy Crown, II ) and Warrant ( Louder, Harder, Faster, 2017)
Discography
Rock Justice
- Rock Justice (1979)
Dokken
- Tooth and Nail (1984)
- Under Lock and Key (1985)
- Back for the Attack (1987)
- Beast From The East (1988)
- Dysfunctional (1995)
- One Live Night (1995)
- Shadowlife (1997)
- Erase the Slate (1999)
- Live from the Sun (2000)
Michael Lee Firkins
- Michael Lee Firkins (1990)
Wild horses
- Bareback (1991)
- Dead Ahead (2003)
McAuley Schenker Group
- MSG (1992)
Dio
- Strange Highways (1994)
- Angry Machines (1996)
- Master of the Moon (2004)
Lynch / Pilson
- Wicked Underground
War and Peace
- Time Capsule (1993)
- The Fleash and Blood Sessions (1999)
- Light at the End of the Tunnel (2001)
- The Walls Have Eyes (2004)
Power Project
- Dinosaurs (2005)
Underground moon
- Underground Moon (2002)
George Lynch
- Sacred Groove (1993)
Foreigner
- Extended Versions (2006)
- No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (2008)
- Can't Slow Down (2009)
- Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (2018)
- The Juke Box Heroes Tour (2018)
- Double Vision: Then And Now Live.Reloaded (2019)
T&N
- Slave to the Empire (2012)
Black Swan
- Shake the World (2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeff Pilson. In: IMDB. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ↑ George Lynch interview on YouTube , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ “TOOTH AND NAIL: First Official Photo Released” - Blabbermouth.net ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ Magical connection with a happy ending in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, Issue 02.2019, pages 50–53
- ↑ Information about the band at discogs.com , accessed on January 15, 2020
- ↑ The band of misunderstood geniuses in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 02/2020, pages 34–37
- ↑ Production list at discogs.com , accessed February 14, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilson, Jeff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pilson, Jeffrey Steven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lake Forest , Illinois |