I'd say! He did it even better by doing less! :bowdown:

if we are talking pop and rock.....stevie wonder has to get a mention...a brilliant multi instrumentalist but....there is only one man in popular music who kills on every instrument you can think of....someone who plays and sings and does almost everything on his recorded work....its prince ....no one comes near him for sheer god given talent....

I think that both John and Paul went on to make fantastic solo music. People make the mistake of wanting them to still be The Beatles, when they are not the Beatles when they are not collaborating. I love both of thier solo works. Especially Paul's Ram, and John's Imagine. ;)

Didn't read through all 12 pages. Has anyone mentioned Roger Waters? Driving creative force behind one of the best bands of all time, basically invented genre of progressive rock as well as composing (with some help from Gilmour) some of the greatest albums of all time. I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, but try taking some sort of hallucinogen and listening to Dark Side of the Moon and tell me it doesn't blow your mind. Plus, now he's writing operas. Not a flashy bass player, but what he did in terms of experimenting with song structure, tempo, soundscapes etc. in a rock setting was pretty amazing

I saw some people mention Zappa too. He's incredible. So was Lowell George. Jeff Beck is pretty good at the guitar as well, and has done stuff in a lot of different genres. Mozart was ok too

Lauryn Hill!!!!!

Has anyone mentioned Zorn? I mean, I think he's explored every single compositional style known to man, and may be a bit too avant-garde, and hit and miss for some people's taste. But when it comes to eclecticism, he's very comparable to Zappa, and in his own way just as boundary pushing, if not more.

Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven. Unless you mean the best instrumentalist ever.

I guess i'll have to go with prince since he can play 27 instruments.

My choice is Willie Dixon; vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer; proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar. He was an important link between the blues and rock and roll and his songs were covered by some of the biggest artist of recent times.

He played bass on Chuck Berry's early hits - they both recorded for Chess Records. His songs were covered by Cream, Led Zeppelin, & the Rolling Stones.