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 few michael takes
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
british-musician cents dollars evenings jam playing records
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
british-musician
We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
guitar machines computer
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
moving guitar tone
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
thinking long problem
I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.
guitarist
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
thinking good-things
I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
play people together
To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
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.
tools musician groups
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.