Mark Wilson (musician)

For the American guitarist, see Mark Wilson (journalist and musician). For other people, see Mark Wilson.

Mark Wilson
Performing with Jet in 2004
Background information
Birth name	Mark Andrew Wilson
Born	August 1980 (age 44) Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Indie rock
Occupation	Musician
Instruments	Bass piano harmonica backing vocals percussion synthesiser sampler
Years active	2001–2012 2016–present

Mark Andrew Wilson (born August 1980) is an Australian musician, originally from Geelong.^[1][2] From 2002 to 2012, and since their 2017 comeback, he has played bass guitar for the Melbourne-based rock band, Jet.^[3][4] He was asked to join them by three founding members, Nic Cester, Chris Cester and Cameron Muncey, 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 Fender Precision Bass, in either sunburst or white. He also can be seen playing an Epiphone Jack Casady signature bass in the Are You Gonna Be My Girl 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, "I Spy I Spy", 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.^[5][6] On 9 August they issued a five-track extended play, Strange Behaviour.^[5][6] In March 2012, Jet disbanded and Wilson had left DamnDogs.^[5]

In 2016, Wilson returned to playing music, playing bass in Peter Garrett's backing band, The Alter Egos. Months later, it was announced that Jet would be reuniting in 2017 to open for Bruce Springsteen on his Australian tour.

Instruments and equipment

Electric bass

• Fender Precision
• Epiphone Jack Casady

Acoustic bass

• Takamine Acoustic Bass

Amplifiers/heads

• Ampeg SVT Classic Amp Head
• Ampeg SVT810 Bass Box
• Fender TB-1200 Head
• Fender Pro Series Bass Amps

References

General

• Wilson, MacKenzie. "Jet". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
• Spencer, Chris; Zbig Nowara; Paul McHenry (2002) [1987]. The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Noble Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1.^[7] Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.

Specific

1. "IMC - Jet". Imcmusic.net. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
2. Ready, Jet, go! New album on the way Retrieved 25 September 2010
3. MacKenzie
4. Spencer et al, (2007) Wilson, Mark Archived 11 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine entry. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
5. Welsh, Caitlin (12 April 2012). "Chris Cester: 'You Become Somewhat of a Cliché'". Mess+Noise. Sound Alliance. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
6. Mathieson, Craig (9 July 2011). "Damn Dogs". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
7. "Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry". catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 February 2010.