Liam Wilson


Liam Wilson has been the bass player for the band The Dillinger Escape Plan since the autumn of 2000 and is a former bass player of the bands Starkweather. Currently, he is a part of Azusa, a project formed with members of Extol and Sea + Air, as well as John Frum, which features a John Zorn collaborator and ex-member of The Faceless.

Personal life

Concerned about environmental causes, Liam wore a shirt with the homemade message "Stop MTM/VF" on The Dillinger Escape Plan's February 2, 2008 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Liam has been a big advocate for veganism and has appeared in several pro-vegan advertisements for PETA, although in recent years he has distanced himself from the organization and is more flexible about those beliefs because of his yoga, and transcendental meditation practices.
Wilson is capable of playing both finger-style and with a pick, although he used a pick almost exclusively with The Dillinger Escape Plan as he felt it fit the music more.

Other work

Wilson was featured on the cover of Bass Players September 2013 issue, and has also written several columns for the magazine, in which he extols the virtues of Bikram yoga in relation to his bass playing.
Wilson performed with the band Frodus for a few reunion shows in March 2009 as a statement in response to the bank bailouts and the uncovering of corporate corruption in the financial sector.
As of February 2017, Wilson is the bass player for psychedelic death metal band John Frum.
Wilson formed the band Azusa with members of Extol and Sea + Air, with plans of releasing their debut album in November 2018.
In 2020 Wilson was tapped up to perform in one of Devin Townsend's live bands that year.

Equipment

Basses: Zon Sonus Special 4-strings tuned both EADG and BEAD or lower, Fender Jazz Basses, in 2004–2010 he was known to use G&L L-2000 and ASAT; Spector 4-string ; custom First Act
Rig: Ampeg SVT-VR head, Ampeg 8x10 cab, A-Designs REDDI, Sennheiser Wireless Systems.
Effects: Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI or RBI, Aguilar Tone Hammer, Hardwire Polyphonic Tuner. Other effects in his arsenal include Dark Glass B7K/B7K Ultra, Vintage Microtube/Vintage Microtube Ultra/Microtube X, Alpha Omega Ultra pedals as well as the Darkglass/Neural DSP DAW plugin; Hardwire DL-8 and Tube Overdrive; Fuzzrocious Custom Pedal; Dwarf Craft Robot Devil; Ampeg Scrambler DI.
Other: Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky strings or as well as for lower tunings; Dunlop Custom Black Tortex picks with Sri Yantra foil stamp.

Bands

Current
Former

With The Dillinger Escape Plan