Bass players that can play keyboard?

[brianrost]

Felix Pappalardi

Steve Knight played organ in Mountain but was a jazz bassist both before and after.

Here at TB Steve Winwood might be considered a keyboard player who plays some bass, with Traffic he played keys and guitar live and in the studio also played a lot of bass guitar and even drums and continued to do so in his solo career, adding mandolin to his instrumental palette. I have seen at least one photo of him playing bass in the studio, but can't find it right now on teh interwebz.

Here's an except from an article in Vintage Guitar. David Hood is the bassist in the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi recorded his first solo record in Muscle Shoals and convinced Winwood to hire them. Traffic literally block booked the Muscle Shoals studio for the duration of a world tour so Hood and drummer Roger Hawkins could go on tour.

Winwood mentioned playing bass "after a fashion" – a typically modest assessment considering the groove he cops on "Empty Pages" from Barleycorn, as one example.

David Hood is quick to point out, "Steve is a great bass player." Probably best known as the bassist on the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There," he reveals, "I think Steve played the bass parts on most of the things Traffic did, so I had to copy his parts. And it was always a challenge to get it to feel like he had, because he thinks a little differently than a regular bass player. But I would always try real hard to get the feel that he had, and it was always rewarding when I got it. He didn't tell me what to play, but what was on the songs they'd recorded – that was where I would start, and base my part on. On Shootout At The Fantasy Factory, I just played what I wanted to play, because those were my parts.

 

[JRA]

Et moi, mais mal

Moi aussi mal.

n'importe quel singe peut le faire!

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Me.

Me too. Well, I used to. I actually played keys for a band after the keyboard player quit, I would play bass on a few songs, back to keys.

 

[ajkula66]

Chris Stainton.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Pretty much anybody who went to music school

Apparently I am the exception to that rule.

 

[Michedelic]

John Cale's primary role in the Velvets was bass, with viola and keys as secondary instruments, but throughout his solo career his keyboard skills have been the main focus. Still, he's continued to add his own bass playing to his recordings, as well as guitar.

 

[PolkaHero]

Daryl "The Captain" Dragon