associated_acts background instrument birth_date article_title name occupation
montrose sammy hagar night ranger alliance gamma non_vocal_instrumentalist bass guitar keyboards 16 july 1949 alan fitzgerald
 alan fitzgerald musician
alan fitzgerald

francis alan fitzgerald -lrb- born july 16 , 1949 -rrb- is an american musician -lrb- both a bassist and a keyboardist -rrb- , was a member of several u.s. bands .
he played as a bassist in the bands montrose and gamma , both of which also featured guitarist ronnie montrose .
he played keyboards for sammy hagar as a solo artist .
in the 1980s , he was the keyboardist for night ranger .
he also played keyboards offstage for van halen in the early 1990s and the 2004 and 2012 tours .
his father , george fitzgerald , was a jazz musician and music teacher in salisbury , md. .
his younger brother , mark , played bass on the charlie daniels band album `` fire on the mountain '' .
