Linda Sturgeon - Keyboardist + Musician in Phoenix, OR

ABOUT

lindasturgeons at g mail dot com. My most recent photo was taken in my studio (the image with the Taj Mahal tapestry), 8-24-2018. The rest are live gigs.

Played with Sound Stage Review summer 2019. See videos on the page (top right first row & first and second one in 2nd row) and I have a page at Linda Sturgeon Keyboardist on with more videos and upcoming shows, etc. Here are a few of the bands I've been part of in the past six years:
View on Facebbook: GypsyGillis LucidDreamerBand
DeluxeSouthernOregon

I only have 4 rough recordings of my singing - working on getting recordings up soon of duo (LOL, I'm no recorder but did the best I could with my computer with one take, no dubs) at sound cloud /user999222909. The songs can be heard above at the top of this profile.

Besides being a highly skilled keyboardist (and for duo work I carry the bass part, horns, and all the rest except the lead guitar work - but have excellent real guitar sounds as well to double up - able to do any songs), I have a smooth transition 3 octave range voice from deep contralto through mezzo soprano to soprano: Gimme Shelter - Lisa Fischer hitting 2 octaves above middle C# I'm lucky I can do those high notes like she does -- Blondie "Call Me", Benetar "Love is a battefield", Stefani "It's My Life", Heart (Ann Wilson) "Alone", etc. And cover a lot of male voice tunes such as "Kashmir" Led Zeppelin, "Roll with it baby" Stevie Winwood", etc.

I have a page at Linda Sturgeon Keyboardist on with more videos and upcoming shows, etc.

Screen name:

Linda Sturgeon - Keyboardist

Member since:

Sep 09 2015

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

25

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Here's current set list of songs I'm playing, followed by about another 250 songs I know (and this is just a start - I think probably know about another 100 - I learn songs very quickly and play easily by ear 'on the fly' as well as improvisational):

Do It Again - Steely Dan
Alone - Heart
Lights
Call Me
Whipping Post
Beginnings - Chicago
It's My Life - No Doubt
Love is a Battlefield - Benetar
Money
Comfortably Numb
Stray Cat Strut
Rehab
Roll with it Baby
Hush
Against the Wind
Bound to YOu
Letter
Workin for a Living
Black Magic Woman - Oye Como Va
Fly Like an Eagle
Riders on the Storm (and all Doors songs)
Locomotive Breath
Grape Vine
Kashmir
Synchronicity
Cinnamon Girl
Gimme Some Lovin'
Higher Ground
Honky Tonk Woman
Bitch
On Way or Another
Low Rider
Running down a Dream
Vehicle
Chameleon
Wicked Game
Just What I Needed
Land Down Under
On the Dark Side
Pictures of Home
Love is a Drug Radar Love
Carry on Wayward Son

Here's the extended list:
A
• Aerosmith, “Dream On” “Sweet Emotion” “Walk This Way”
• AC/DC, “Dirty Deeds” “Highway To Hell” “You Shook Me All Night Long”
• The Allman Brothers Band, “Midnight Rider” “Melissa” “One Way Out” “Ramblin' Man” “Whipping Post”
• Aguilera, Christina, “Bound to You”
• The Animals, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
B
• Bad Company, “Feel Like Making Love” “Smoke on the Water”
• The Beatles, “Back in the USSR” “Come Together” “Get Back” “I am the walrus” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road”
• Benatar, Pat, “Heartbreaker” “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” “Love is a Battlefield”
• Black Crows, “Hard to Handle”
• Blind Faith, “Can’t Find My Way Home”
• Blondie, “Call Me”
• Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
• Boston, “Foreplay Longtime” “More Than a Feeling”
• The Beau Brummels, “Laugh Laugh”
• BTO, “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet” “Takin Care of Business”
• Solomon Burke, “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
• The Byrds, “Eight Miles High”
C
• Cafferty, John, “On the Dark Side”
• Cars, “Good Times Roll” “Just What I Needed” “Let’s Go” “My Best Friend’s Girl”
• CCR, “Born on the Bayou/Suzie Q” “Who'll Stop The Rain” “Run Through The Jungle”
• The Champs, “Tequila”
• Chicago, “Only the Beginning” “I’m a Man”
• Eric Clapton, “After Midnight” “Badge” “Cocaine” “Pretending” “Wonderful Tonight”
• Joe Cocker, “Feelin Alright” “With a Little Help From My Friends” “Ticket for an Airplane” “With a Little Help From My Friends”
• Collins, Phil, “That’s All” “I Can Hear it Coming in the Air Tonight” “I Don’t care anymore”
• Elvis Costello, “Pump It Up”
• Cream, “Crossroads” “Strange Brew” “Sunshine of Your Love”
D
• Spencer Davis Group, “Gimme Some Lovin'”
• Deep Purple, “Hush” “Knocking at Your Backdoor” “Promises of Home” “Smoke on the Water”
• Rick Derringer, “Rock 'n Roll Hootchie Koo”
• Devo, “Whip It”
• Derek And The Dominos, “Layla”
• Dire Straits, “Sultans of Swing” “Money for Nothin’” “Skateaway” “Walk of Lfe”
• The Doors, “Break on Through to the Other Side” “Hello, I Love You” “L.A. Woman” “Light My Fire” “Love Her Madly” “Love Me Two Times” “Riders on the Storm”
• Duran Duran, “Hungry Like the Wolf”
• Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”
• Doobie Brothers, “Long Train Running”
E
• The Eagles, “Already Gone” “Hotel California” “Take It Easy” “Witchy Woman”
• ELO, “Evil Woman”
• Eurythmics, "Like a Ball & Chain" “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” "Would I Lie to You Baby"
• ELP, “Lucky Man”

F
• Fleetwood Mac, “Don’t Stop” “Go Your Own Way” “Leather and Lace” “Rhiannon” “Say You Love Me” “You Make Lovin' Fun”
• Foghat, “Slowride”
• Foreigner, “Cold as Ice”
• Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools”
• Free, “All Right Now”
G
• Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer” “Solsbury Hill” “In Your Eyes”
• Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
• George Satellites, “Keep Your Hands to Yourself”
• Golden Earring, “Radar Love”
• Grand Funk Railroad, “Some Kind of Wonderful” “We're an American Band”
• Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey”
• Guns and Roses, “Sweet Child of Mine”
H
• Hancock, Herbie, “Chameleon”
• Heart, “Alone”, “Crazy on You”, “Barracuda” “Magic Man”
• Jimi Hendrix, “All Along the Watchtower”
• Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”
• Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
• Henley, Don, “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” “ Boys of Summer” “Dirty Laundry”
• Hollies, “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress”
I
• Ides of March, “Vehicle”
• Idol, Billy, “Rebel Yell” “White Wedding”
• Isaak, Chris, “Wicked Game”
J
• Jefferson Airplane, “Somebody to Love” “White Rabbit”
• Jethro Tull, “Aqualung”, "Locomotive Breath"
• Journey, “Lights” “Wheel in the Sky”
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”
K
• Kansas, “Carry On Wayward Son” “Dust in the Wind”
• The Kinks, “Lola” “You Really Got Me”
L
• Led Zeppelin, “Babe I’m Going To Leave You” “Hey Hey What Can I Do” “Whole Lotta Love”, "Kashmir" “Ramble On”
• John Lennon, “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)”
M
• Mann, Manfred, “Blinded By The Light”
• Marshall Tucker Band, “Can’t You See”
• Men At Work, “Land Down Under”
• Midnight Oil, “Beds Are Burning”
• Steve Miller Band, “Abracadabra” “Fly Like an Eagle” “Jet Airliner” “Jungle Love” “Rock'n Me” “Swing Town”
• Moody Blues, “Tuesday Afternoon” “Question” “I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band” “In Your Wildest Dreams” “Nights in White Satin” “The Story In Your Eyes”
• Money, Eddie, “Two Tickets to Paradise”
• Van Morrison, “Brown Eyed Girl” “Wild Night”
• Van Morrison, “Moondance”
N
•
O
• Roy Orbison, “Oh, Pretty Woman”
• Osborne, Ozzie, “Crazy Train”
P
• Palmer, Robert, “Bad Case of Lovin You” “Addicted to Love”
• Petty, Tom, “Breakdown” “Mary Jane's Last Dance” “Stop Dragging My Heart Around” “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
• Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” "Comfortably Numb" “Money” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” “Wish You Were Here”
• The Police, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” “Every Breath You Take” “Roxanne” "Synchronicity 2"
• Pretenders, “Back on the Chaingang” “Middle of The Road”
• Prince, “Little Red Corvette” “When Doves Cry”
• Procol Harum, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
Q
• Queen, “We Will Rock You” “This Thing Called Love”
• Quicksilver Messenger Service, “Who Do You Love”
R
• Reed, Lou, “Walk on the Wild Side”
• R.E.M., “Losing My Religion”
• The Young Rascals, “Good Lovin'”
• Little Richard, “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
• The Rolling Stones, "Bitch" “Honky Tonk Women” "Gimme Shelter" “Monkey Man” “Start Me Up” “Street Fighting Man” “Sympathy for the Devil” “Under My Thumb”
• Romantics, “What I Like About You”
• Roxy Music, “Love Is the Drug”
• Run-D.M.C., “Walk This Way”
• Rush, "Limelight" “The Spirit of Radio” “Tom Sawyer” “Subdivision”
S
• Santana, “Black Magic Woman/Oye Como Va"” “Evil Ways”
• Scorpions, “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
• Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, “Against the Wind” “Hollywood Nights” “Fire Down Below” “Night Moves” “Traveling Man” “Turn the Page”
• Skynyrd, Lynyrd, “Gimme Three Steps” “They Call Me the Breeze”
• Sir Douglas Quintet, “She's About a Mover”
• Bruce Springsteen, “Dancing in the Dark” “Born To Run” “Hungry Heart” “Tunnel of Love”
• The Standells, “Dirty Water”
• Steely Dan, "Do it Again” “Rikki Don’t’ Lose That Number”
• Stefani, Gwen, “It’s My Life”
• Steppenwolf, “Born to be Wild” “Magic Carpet Ride”
• Stray Cats, “Stray Cat Strut”
• Super Tramp, “Give a Little Bit” “Take the Long Way Home” “Logical Song”
T
• Ten Years After, “I'd Love to Change the World”
• Thirty-Eight-Special, “Hold on Loosely”
• Thorogood, George, “Who Do You Love” “Bad to the Bone”
• T. Rex, “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”
• Traffic, “Dear Mr. Fantasy” “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”
U
• U2, “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” “Mysterious Ways” “With Or Without You”
V
• Van Halen, “Jamie's Cryin'” “Jump” “You Really Got Me Now” “Runnin' With the Devil”
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Cold Shot” “Little Wing” “Pride and Joy” “The Sky is Crying”
W
• Walsh, Joe, “Life’s Been Good to Me” “Rocky Mountain Way”
• War, “Low Rider”
• Winwood, Stevie, “Roll With It Baby”
• The Who, “American Woman” “Behind Blue Eyes” “Let My Love Open The Door” “Magic Bus” “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
• Big Joe Williams, “Baby Please Don't Go”
• Winehouse, Amy, “Rehab”
• Winter Group, Edgar, “Frankenstein”
• Stevie Wonder, “Higher Ground"
X
•
Y
• The Yardbirds, “For Your Love” “Shapes of Things”
• Yes, “I’ve Seen All Good People” “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
• Neil Young, “Cinnamon Girl” “Heart of Gold” “My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”
• Youngbloads, “Get Together”
Z
• Zevon, Warren, “Werewolves of London”

Instrument experience:

Keyboard:

Expert

Piano:

Expert

Vocalist:

Advanced

Other Percussion:

Advanced

EQUIPMENT

4 boards: Korg Kronos ll 88 key flagship board of them all, MOX6 Yamaha (programmable sounds), Korg W01, and additional Yamaha. 2 QSCs 12.2" (mains) and Yamaha MG16XU 16-Channel Mixer, monitors. USB DAW recording.

MUSIC