Colin Greenwood
| Colin Greenwood | |
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Colin Greenwood, Bonnaroo, 17 June 2006
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Colin Charles Greenwood |
| Born |
26 June 1969 Oxford, England |
| Genres | Alternative rock, art rock, electronic, film score |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bassist, composer |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, Synthesizer, Percussion |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Associated acts | Radiohead, James Lavino, Mark Linkous |
| Website | www |
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Fender Precision Bass Fender Jazz Bass Music Man Sterling |
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Colin Charles Greenwood (born 26 June 1969) 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.
Greenwood's father served in the British army, lived in Germany as a child for enough time to become fluent in the language. The family historically had ties to both the British Communist Party and the Fabian Society. He credited his older sister, Susan, with greatly influencing his and his brother Jonny Greenwood's taste in music as an adolescent: "She’s responsible for our precocious love of miserable music. The Fall, Magazine, Joy Division. We were ostracised at school because everyone else was into Iron Maiden.”
When Greenwood was 12 years old, he met his future bandmate Thom Yorke at Abingdon School, an independent school for boys in Oxford. Their other future bandmates Ed O'Brien, who Greenwood met during a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury, and Phil Selway also attended the school. When Greenwood was 15 years old he bought his first guitar, studying classical guitar with his teacher Terence Gilmore-James, who introduced him and the other future members of Radiohead to jazz, film scores, postwar avant-garde music, and 20th-century classical music. Greenwood said: "When we started, it was very important that we got support from him, because we weren't getting any from the headmaster. You know, the man once sent us a bill, charging us for the use of school property, because we practiced in one of the music rooms on a Sunday."
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