Jeff Pilson

Jeffrey Steven Jeff Pilson is an American multiinstrumentalist 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.

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 agebut left without a degree in order to pursue his rocknroll dream. One of his early bands was an Emerson, Lake amp 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 cowritten 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.

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