Phenomenally talented on BOTH guitar and keyboards

Dave Bainbridge of lifesigns and previously of Iona

Easy Money wrote: Phenomenally talented on both: David Sancious is very very good on both. Not phenomenal on both but still quite good on both, or phenomenal on one and okay on the other: Prince Steve Winwood Paul McCartney Peter Tork I think John McLaughlin plays piano too. Robert Fripp can play ballads on the piano to accompany his singing. Keith Jarret played guitar on one of his albums but I don't know how good it was.

Looks like I missed this. David, a verified keyboard virtuoso, was described as having mastered the guitar "in weeks" when he picked it up in the '70s while still part of the E Street Band.

David is currently collaborating with Living Colour's drummer extraordinaire Will Calhoun. They call themselves Open Secret.

Prince was defintely a guitar and keyboard phenom early on. As he was also a singer and songwriter, his success was practically ordained.

As enigmatic as he was charismatic, Carmine Appice described a young Prince barely out of his teens as very shy and soft-spoken. When Carmine went to see Prince in concert, he couldn't believe it was the same guy: "This is the same dude, wearing women's underwear and humpin' the floor!?"

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: ^ Look at Easy Money's post (the fifth one down) he mentions Prince, Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney and Peter Tork. Are any of them prog? Not solo they weren't.

Edited by Cristi - June 08 2024 at 16:02

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Cristi wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Cristi wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Eddie Van Halen Two pages in and no one mentioned Eddie Valen yet (until just now)? All you have to do is listen to the keyboard solo on "Jump" to know he was talented on both (although of course mostly just stuck to guitars). I think any musician who knows how to read music should be able to play both. Maybe because Van Halen is not a prog band. This is still the prog lounge.  Well it doesn't say "prog musician."  It's the prog lounge, it's in the title of the section of the forum. I thought it was obvious.   Well, excuse me!!!! Are you going to put me in prog jail now or something?

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Cristi wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Eddie Van Halen Two pages in and no one mentioned Eddie Valen yet (until just now)? All you have to do is listen to the keyboard solo on "Jump" to know he was talented on both (although of course mostly just stuck to guitars). I think any musician who knows how to read music should be able to play both. Maybe because Van Halen is not a prog band. This is still the prog lounge.  Well it doesn't say "prog musician."

Cristi wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Eddie Van Halen Two pages in and no one mentioned Eddie Valen yet (until just now)? All you have to do is listen to the keyboard solo on "Jump" to know he was talented on both (although of course mostly just stuck to guitars). I think any musician who knows how to read music should be able to play both. Maybe because Van Halen is not a prog band. This is still the prog lounge.

Mike Oldfield

ProgSynonym wrote: 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:

Ralph Towner is a beast!

Rachel Flowers hasn't been mentioned. Phenomenal talent on both keyboards and guitar.

Already mentioned, the late Shawn Lane as well as Trevor Rabin and Mike Keneally came immediately to mind as musicians who are very talented on both instruments.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Trevor Rabin was the first one I thought of.  If you make it keys and bass I would say Geddy Lee. I'll have to think of others.