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
We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
british-musician definitely last looking rather thom voices
On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front.
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.
mistake errors cardinals
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
mother play singing
Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.
hate pages junk
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
kids guitar texture
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
piano next lessons
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
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.
modern composition
I don't listen to much modern composition.
long records release
It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
internet fascinating
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.