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
issues people focus
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
play people together
To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
play alcohol pressure
I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
people want radiohead
With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.
steps kind
We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
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.
years two important
Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
passion men domestic-violence
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.
moving guitar tone
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
emotional important kind
As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
jobs responsibility social
It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
gun use half
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.
guitar machines computer
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
ghost head itself kept keyboard notes played record recording stuck
We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.