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Jeff Pilson
American bassist (born 1958)
Musical artist
Jeffrey Steven Pilson (born January 19, 1958)[1][2][3] is an American musician best known for being the bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and currently classic rock band Foreigner.
He has also had an extended stint with Dio in the 1990s.
Dokken band members 2016
Biography
Pilson was born on 19 January 1958 in Lake Forest, Illinois. Has an Irish descent.[citation needed]
Spent part of his youth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to Longview, Washington, where he graduated from R.A.
Long High School in 1976.[4]
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 a career in music.[5]
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.