I’m curious to know. There’s obviously alot of Bass / Guitar players. How about odd combinations like Bass and Trumpet?
Bass and Trumpet/French Horn: John Entwistle.
John Entwistle, I particulary remember the french horn on Tommy.
Bastard, took too long to compose my response!
IIRC Prince is pretty versatile.
Paul Schaffer (spelling may be off)–the band leader for the Letterman show, plays drums and piano/keyboard. May play other instruments as well…
OK speaking of The Who, Pete Townshend also played the classic synthesizer riffs on *Baba O’Reilly *and Won’t get Fooled Again.
Dave Grohl rose to fame as the drummer for Nirvana and has played guitar in the Foo Fighters for the last decade plus.
Brian Jones played a little bit of everything of various Stones albums.
Paul McCartney plays bass and regular guitar, and also plays the piano. And also apparently the mandolin and ukulele, according to Wikipedia.
Van Morrison, Neil Young and Bob Dylan all play guitar, harmonica and piano/keyboards during thier concerts----Morrison also blows sax on occasion…
(recently, Dylan has not played much guitar live, due to arthritis in his fingers)
Hey, the “Bass and Trumpet” was too big a softball for me to pass up!
On the liner notes for Who Came First (tongue firmly implanted in cheek), he noted that he did “…all instruments, vocals, recording, engineering, mixing, synthesisers, in fact everything except making the tea, in one gynormous ego trip.”
Geddy Lee - at the same time!
Bruce Springsteen as well.
With such a wide open question, there’s a huge number of answers. I’m sure the percentage of musicians that do this is large. There are some artists who take turns playing most or all the instruments in a song in the studio (probably with a little help) and only have a band for concerts. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails does this to a large extent.
And drums. And recorder (on “The Fool On the Hill”).
“One-man-band”-type multi-instrumentalists, who have recorded songs or albums on which they play all or most of the instruments, aren’t all that rare; we could probably compile a substantial list.
From earlier times, Mozart was primarily a keyboard player, but he also played the violin.
Brian Jones, a founder of the Rolling Stones, was known for playing multiple instruments. He played the following on their records: guitar, slide guitar, sitar, organ, marimba, recorder, saxophone, Appalachian dulcimer, accordion, saxophone, oboe, harpsichord, Mellotron, and autoharp.
It was often said that he seemed to be able to just pick up nearly any instrument, start fooling around with it, and in a few hours be able to play it.
On the best Peruvian group Frágil (nod to Yes’s Fragile) you see these guys playing live:
Octavio Castillo: Keyboards, flute, and steel guitar (plus lead guitar on another group)
César bustamante: Bass and keyboards (even both Geddy-Lee-style) plus guitar on records.
The lead singer also plays guitar on some song and bass on a couple.
Argetinian musician Charly García: guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, violin.
Both Jimmy Dorsey and Woody Herman played clarinet and saxophone.
Flea plays bass and trumpet.
He also played drums on Back in the USSR and on his first solo album.
Mike Oldfield played everything (except drums) on Tubular Bells and Tubular Bells 2. When he was 19 or so (for TB 1).