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Jeffrey Steven "Jeff" Pilson (born January 19, 1959, Lake Forest, Illinois) is an American multi-instrumentalist best known for his long stint in the band Dokken. He was also a member of Dio for part of the 1990s and has been the bassist for Foreigner since 2004. Although he is known primarily for his work as a bassist, Pilson also plays guitar, cello, keyboards, piano, and mellotron. ==Biography== Jeffrey Steven Pilson was born in Illinois and spent part of his youth in Milwaukee, WI before moving to Longview, WA where he graduated R.A. Long High School in 1976. He 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 his rock'n'roll dream. One of his early bands was an Emerson, Lake & Palmer type progressive trio called Christmas. He moved to San Francisco in 1978 where he met up and became friends with guitarist Mike Varney. Varney and Pilson would join forces in the band Cinema. After moving back to Seattle for a brief period, Varney called Pilson to get involved in the recording of ''Rock Justice'', a rock opera co-written by Varney and produced by Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane. Released in 1980 on EMI Records, ''Rock Justice'' became the first album Pilson played on. Still based in San Francisco, Pilson next teamed up with guitarist Randy Hansen, best known as a Jimi Hendrix impersonator, and Pilson recorded the ''Astral Projection – Live'' album with Hansen for Mike Varney's fledging label Shrapnel Records. When the band with Hansen dissolved, Pilson moved to Los Angeles and only weeks later, on a recommendation by Mike Varney, was contacted by vocalist Don Dokken who was looking for a bass player for his band Dokken. And audition was set up and Pilson joined the band in 1984. Becoming a vital member of the band from the get-go, 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''. Pilson recorded the studio albums ''Tooth and Nail'' (1984), ''Under Lock and Key'' (1985), and ''Back for the Attack'' (1987), all certified platinum, and the gold certified live album ''Beast from the East'' (1988). After the break-up of Dokken in the wake of the Monsters of Rock Tour 1988, Pilson, along with Randy Hansen, Vinny Appice and Michael Diamond of Legs Diamond, formed his own group called Flesh & Blood in 1989, handling lead vocal and rhythm guitar duties. After changing the name to War & Peace, Pilson released a total of four albums, starting with 1993's ''Time Capsule'', utilizing different players and line-ups along the way. Pilson went on to collaborate with War & Peace bassist Tommy Henriksen, now with the Alice Cooper band, under the name Underground Moon choosing the pseudonym Dominic Moon for himself; the project's sole album was released in 2001 in Europe and Japan. In the early 1990s, Pilson also worked as a session bassist with the band Wild Horses (not to be confused with the British band of the same name), guitarist Michael Lee Firkins, and MSG, before taking part in the Dokken reunion which resulted in 1995's ''Dysfunctional'' album. It was followed by the semi-acoustic ''One Live Night'' (1995), the controversial ''Shadowlife'' (1997), and ''Erase the Slate'' (1999), Pilson's last studio album with the group. During the 1990s, Pilson also recorded and toured with Dio, appearing on both ''Strange Highways'' (1994) and ''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 in 1993. During that time, Pilson, Goldy and drummer Tim Pedersen also had a heavy progressive rock project named 13th Floor although no album was ever released. On the heels of Underground Moon, Pilson reunited with his ex-Dokken bandmate, guitarist George Lynch, in a project called Lynch/Pilson, releasing the album ''Wicked Underground'' in 2003. After a proposed Dokken reunion did not materialize, Pilson re-teamed with Lynch and drummer Mick Brown in Tooth & Nail, later shortened to T & N in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=167310 )〕 They would release ''Slave to the Empire'', an album of re-worked Dokken songs and new material involving a plehora of guest vocalists in the fall of 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/t-n-featuring-three-quarters-of-dokken-s-classic-lineup-two-songs-available-for-streaming/ )〕 Pilson was also confirmed as the bass player on the Lynch Mob's forthcoming 2015 studio release. Pilson became the bass player for Foreigner in the summer of 2004 when he asked to join an impromptu line-up 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. West would be replaced by Kelly Hansen, formerly with Hurricane, who made his debut with the group on March 11, 2005 at Boulder Station in Las Vegas. Pilson has been part of every Foreigner recording and tour since, including the 2009 studio album, ''Can't Slow Down''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Pilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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