Career
Jackson began playing acoustic guitar at age 14, and two years later switched to electric guitar and bass guitar. He also experimented with singing and drums.
Jackson met drummer Scott Rockenfield in late 1979 and joined Rockenfield's band Cross+Fire in 1980. The band's name later was changed to The Mob, and in 1982 to Queensrÿche.
During the mid-1980s, Jackson was an endorsee of Kramer basses until Kramer bought out Spector basses. Two main Kramer Spector NS-2 basses, one black and one white, became his primary instruments throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, although the Black Spector was stolen in the mid-'90s. After a short stint endorsing Fernandes basses during Queensryche's "Promised Land" tour from 1994 to 1996, in the late 1990s Jackson endorsed master luthier Michael Lull, who had done all of the repair and upkeep work on Queensryche's guitars and basses due to their both living in the Greater Seattle area. Since the late 1990s Jackson has used both Mike Lull "Modern" 4-string & "Modern/Vintage" 5-string Jazz Bass-style as well as modern-era Spector "ReBop" bolt-on and "EuroLX" neck-through 4 & 5-string basses.
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