Mark Jeffrey Wilson (born August 1980) is an Australian musician, originally from

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

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Retrieved 25 September 2010 From 2002 to 2012, and since their 2017 comeback, he has played bass guitar for the Melbourne-based rock band, Jet.MacKenzieSpencer et al, (2007
Wilson, Mark
entry. Retrieved 16 February 2010. He was asked to join them by three founding members,

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Chris Cester Christopher James Cester (born 16 September 1981) is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer and founding mainstay drummer and backing vocalist of rock band Jet. As a member of Jet, Cester has won awards as a songwriter from the Australas ...

and

Cameron Muncey Cameron Thane Muncey (born 8 February 1980) is an Australian guitarist and vocalist. He is the mainstay lead guitarist and one of the songwriters of Melbourne-based rock band Jet which formed in 2001.MacKenzieSpencer et al., (2007JETentry. Retri ...

, but initially refused out of loyalty to his then-current group, The CA$inos. Days later he rang up Muncey and the Cesters and agreed to join their group instead. Wilson plays a vintage

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, in either sunburst or white. He also can be seen playing an

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signature bass in the

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video. He always plays with a pick. Wilson also plays piano on some tracks ("Look What You've Done", "Seventeen", "She Holds a Grudge"), and occasional percussion, samples, synthesizer, and harmonica. He sometimes provides backing vocals ("Rollover DJ", "Beat on Repeat", "Times Like This") He co-wrote "Start the Show" with guitarist, Muncey. On 24 October 2007 Chris Cester and Wilson co-wrote and, under the name, The Vice Lords, produced a song, "

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", for the Japanese former duo, Superfly. In 2011 Wilson and Chris Cester formed a side project, DamnDogs as a "doom-disco" band, with Louis Macklin on keyboards (touring member of Jet), and Mitch McIvor (Cester's cousin) on guitar. On 9 August they issued a five-track extended play, ''Strange Behaviour''. In March 2012, Jet disbanded and Wilson had left DamnDogs. In 2016, Wilson returned to playing music, playing bass in

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's backing band, The Alter Egos. Months later, it was announced that Jet would be reuniting in 2017 to open for

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on his Australian tour.

Instruments and equipment

Electric bass

Fender Precision The Fender Precision Bass (often shortened to "P-Bass") is a model of bass guitar, electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stri ...

Jack Casady

Acoustic bass

* Takamine Acoustic Bass

Amplifiers/heads

Ampeg SVT The Ampeg SVT is a bass guitar amplifier designed by Bill Hughes and Roger Cox for Ampeg and introduced in 1969. The SVT is a stand-alone amplifier or "head" as opposed to a "combo" unit comprising amp and speaker(s) in one cabinet, and was capab ...

Classic Amp Head *

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SVT810 Bass Box * Fender TB-1200 Head * Fender Pro Series Bass Amps

References

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