Eddie Jackson — born in the United States on 29 January 1961 — is Queensrÿche's founding bassist and, alongside Michael Wilton, the only member present throughout the band's entire history. His function is structural and often underrated. Queensrÿche's repertoire is built on open arrangements, with deliberate room for the voice and for layers of guitar that move away from conventional heavy metal. Someone has to keep the harmony firm underneath all that, and on a record like Operation: Mindcrime (1988) — a continuous narrative with changes of tempo and atmosphere in every track — that is the work that keeps the piece from coming apart between one scene and the next. His style is melodic without being ostentatious: the lines move, but never contest the foreground. He crossed four decades of troubled corporate history — Chris DeGarmo's departure in 1997, the legal rupture with Geoff Tate in 2012, Scott Rockenfield's withdrawal — remaining in every line-up. With Wilton, he is what guarantees the band is still the same band.
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