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
tools musician groups
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
people bills bass
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
brother musical concerts
I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
always-trying trying succeed
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
apology where-you-come apologizing
There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
inspiration kids soundtracks
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
way nostalgic should
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
passion people able
That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.
thinking innovation old-and-new
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
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.
important limits
Limits are very important.
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.
editing looks bass
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
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?