Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood
Colin Charles Greenwood, is an English musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Radiohead. He also plays keyboards and synthesisers and works on sampling on the electronic side of Radiohead. He is the older brother of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 June 1969
british-musician
You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.
british-musician reclusive
I think that we're not reclusive at all.
british-musician
We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
moving guitar tone
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
guitarist
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
modern composition
I don't listen to much modern composition.
internet fascinating
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
nice different albums
It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.
mistake errors cardinals
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
years two important
Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
steps kind
We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
nice mean successful
I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?
rocks people band
The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.