Mark Wilson (musician)

Mark Wilson
Born	1980 (age 30–31)
Origin	Geelong,[1][2] Victoria, Australia
Genres	Indie, rock
Instruments	Bass, piano, harmonica, backing vocals

Mark Wilson is an Australian bass guitarist, best known as part of the Melbourne-based rock band, Jet.^[3][4]

He was asked to join the group in 2002 by the other three members, Nic Cester, Chris Cester and Cameron Muncey, but initially refused perhaps out of loyalty to The Ca$inos since he was that band's original bassist. Later he rang up Muncey and the Cesters and agreed to join them instead.

Wilson usually plays a vintage Fender Precision in either sunburst or white. He plays with a pick.

Wilson also plays piano (Look what you've done; Seventeen; She holds a Grudge...), percussion, samples, synthesizer and harmonica for the band. He sings some backing vocals (Rollover DJ; Beat On Repeat, Times Like This...)

He co-wrote 'Start The Show' with Guitarist Cameron Muncey.

On 24 October 2007 JET's drummer Chris Cester and Mark Wilson produced a song, under the name "The Vice Lords" for the Japanese former duo Superfly titled "I Spy I Spy". Mark and Chris wrote the music and the lyrics and were both featured in the Video,^[5] playing their instruments.

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. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p559321. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
• Spencer, Chris; Zbig Nowara, Paul McHenry with notes by Ed Nimmervoll (2002) [1987]. The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Noble Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1. ^[6] 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. http://www.imcmusic.net/artists/jet.asp. Retrieved 2011-09-14. 
2. ^ Ready, Jet, go! New album on the way Retrieved 25 September 2010
3. ^ MacKenzie
4. ^ Spencer et al, (2007) Wilson, Mark entry. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
5. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}
6. ^ "Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry". catalogue. National Library of Australia. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2090055. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 

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Date of birth	1980
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