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Quote There are many great prog guitarists, and just as many great prog keyboardists. Who can you think of is extraordinarily talented on both? I'm not talking about those who can just "hold their own" when they switch between porn one and the other while doing a solo album, but someone who is downright virtuosic on both. Here's four names to start with - I'm sure you can think of others:

1. Trevor Rabin
2. Anthony Phillips
3. Kerry Livgren
4. Roger Hodgson


The first two people I think of are Howard Leese and Peter Tork.


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I would think that Mike Oldfield is...but because he has his own style it's difficult to make comparisons or say that he reaches a certain level of playing on both...He's definitely great at composing for keyboard and guitar.
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The top folks to me would be:

Matt Bellamy
Kerry Livgen
Francis Monkman
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Steve Winwood for me
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The many shades of Rob Reed, including Magenta and Cyan. He's the Mike Oldfield of Neo Prog!
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In the realm of guitarists who are also multi-instrumentalists, Ralph Towner merits an honorable mention. For instance, he skillfully plays every sound you hear:
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mike Oldfield!
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I am HUGELY embarrassed for not thinking of Mike Oldfield - my only excuse is I haven't been listening to his albums lately. That will change! 
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Francis Monkman? As a keyboardist his skills were up there with Wakeman, Emerson, Lord, Wright etc... he was none too shabby on lead guitar either as Curved Air's first three albums testify.

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Mike Oldfield!
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The canadian Dean Watson is also very talented on both.
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I'm suprised nobody mentioned the Wizard here yet!
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Check out these awesome acoustic covers of TesseracT and James Labrie songs, with some killer piano skills from the progressive metal guitarist David Maxim Micic!






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The artist who goes by the name "The Psychedelic Ensemble".
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Hi,

I think Edgar Froese deserves the top kudos here, mainly as he solo'd with both a lot. And while some did it as well, I thin that this one was special since he was also the main composer and designer for almost all music by TD ... and that's not to take anything away from any of the others or the talents with him, since folks like Chris Franke, had devised how to do sequencers manually in the early days of TD ... you don't think that takes massive know how and talent, in those days?
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Steve Hillage comes to mind. OMG, I love his work on synths!
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:


Steve Winwood.

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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:


Robert Fripp can play ballads on the piano to accompany his singing.
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Not sure I want to hear Frippy do either.
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Brian Ellis formerly from Astra and now Birth is very good at both.
Shawn Lane was off the charts good.
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Although Pete Townshend is not a prog-rock guitarist, he does have some really proggy pieces in his catalogue where he plays synths in a very exciting and magnificent way.
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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

The late Shawn Lane. Called "the fastest electric guitarist" by many guitar players, he actually started playing piano as a kid and was also a virtuoso of keyboards. Too bad he passed away so young.


No doubt. He was an amazing musician.
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