I don't really have anything to contribute to this subject.
I just like it when someone posts a bunch of the same emoticons in succession & then that post gets quoted a couple of times. Sometimes it makes the thread page look kinda cool.

Illustrator said:

Oh,
and as it is evident by this post,
I'm only two years old.

Illustrator said:

Seriously, you must be a professional comedian, am I right?

There are seven billion myspace acts who play all their instruments these days. It's not a rare thing anymore, and had more to do with how recording projects were organized in the past.

novabrkr said:

True, even I do it.

I guess the interesting part is finding out who is able to create good music by themselves, or finding out certain musicians do even more than you knew, like how Stevie Wonder or Paul McCartney play drums on many classic recordings.

But you're right, it's probably more common that famous artists play more than one instrument. Kurt Cobain & Steven Tyler played drums. Jimi Hendrix played keyboards & drums & bass (who knows how well). I even saw Wayne Newton play guitar, and pretty well!

JOHNNY "GUITAR" WATSON
(except for drums & horns, but he DID chart his horns)

DJ QUIK
(except for guitar & bass)

BOOTSY
(look at his credits-he could and DID play everything right along w/the Rubber Band & P-Funk except horns)

purplesweat said:

I wish.
No,
I'm just a plain ol', lowly illustrator.

Hendrix was apparently just as good a bass player as any of his own bassists.

Raphael Saadiq
Van Hunt
Roger Troutman
Peven Everett
And yeah Andre 3000 does play a number of instruments on record not on a Hendrixian level but enough to make a good song.

Another fine instrumentalist....



Vibes master, Mr.Roy Ayers.

Illustrator said:

baroque said:

Mana!

Lenny kravitz

Bowie is credited on Heathen with playing "keyboards, guitars, sax, stylophone, backing vocal, drums"

krayzie said:

Wrong.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

yeah he barely played anything

NDRU said:

Bowie on drums? That's a first.
Bowie ALWAYS has Multiple musicians on his albums but he does play a few instruments

fcukthepolice said:

yeah that album is no different , but I was surprised to see him credited w/drums, too.

I Remember seeing a interview with Andre 3000, and he even said, there are so many instruments he wished he learnt, guitar being one of them... So im pretty sure he doesn't play most/all of the instruments on love/below

NDRU said:

bowie played most of the instruments on his "buddha of suburbia" album as well. i think there was only one other musician involved in the core recording of that album, and very few other people appeared on it at all.

andykeen said:

But...he plays guitar He plays it in the Hey Ya and Prototype videos and on stage....

Has anyone actually SEEN D'angelo play a guitar?

purplesweat said:

Yeah he's been taking lessons for a few years now. He wrote prototype on the guitar and hey ya on acoustic guitar

Andre is a genius rapper; limited on instruments but he's a good producer.

purplesweat said:

yeah, you can see that in the video.....

sosgemini said:

Co sign

NDRU..I saw Wayne Newton play acoustic guitar one night on Letterman and he was blazing. Never knew he had it in him.

MattyJam said:

Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...tdHUvdVqRo

toots said:

but to be fair, they're two people! The Jimi Hendrix Experience was only three, and they did it too!

SPYZFAN1 said:

that's where I saw it, too!

NWF said:

Nice video.

Has anyone heard D'angelo play guitar live?