Colin Greenwood
English bassist in Radiohead
Colin Greenwood's Bass Guitars
Here, Colin Greenwood can be seen using a Fender Precision Bass for the Radiohead song, "Myxomatosis".
"Music Man Sterling No1 (Traded): Colin’s main bass in the early 90’s, used on Pablo Honey and The Bends. He traded it in May 1996 for Vintage White Precision Bass."
(From this article: http://www.a2athot.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:greenwood,-colin-radiohead,-james-lavino,-mark-linkous-gear-rig-setup-infos&catid=13&Itemid=124)
" Colin had Aria bass but most tracks done on Fender Mustang 1972 and Ampeg SVT..."
Listed in this March 29, 2019 Bass Magazine article.
Basses Touring: 1963, 1972 & 1976 Fender Precision Basses; new additions: Sadowsky NYC Bass, Lakland Donald Duck Dunn Bass; home basses: 1962 Fender Jazz Bass, Sadowsky Metro Bass, South Korean student upright, Ned Steinberger electric upright
Rig Ampeg SVT-VR, Ampeg SVT 810, Ampeg B-15RW, Ashdown ABM 300 EVO II, Ashdown 410H & 115 cabinets
Pedals Lovetone Big Cheese, Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver
Synth Novation Bass Synth, Roland PC-500
Picks Dunlop Tortex
"Used on ‘The Headmaster Ritual’ on the ‘Thumbs Down’ webcast and during performances of ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place'."
In this music video for the song "Stop whispering", Colin can be seen using a Epiphone Les Paul Special Bass. This can be seen most prominently @ 1:49
Featured in this July 3, 2018 Facebook post by Lakland.
Had a really nice AM visit with Colin Greenwood from Radiohead. He picked up his new USA Series 44-64 Custom and is pretty stoked. Looking forward to seeing them play Friday!
Interview with Colin Greenwood by Jon D'Auria on March 29, 2019 for Bass Magazine Colin Greenwood explained how he got started with the bass. "When I realized the guitar spots had been taken in our band, my mum got me a black Westone DX Spectrum. I loved that bass. It was very black. I think it ended up for a while being the door prop to the old management office. I had an old Toshiba radio cassette player, and I would listen to Joy Division, Otis Redding, Cocteau Twins, Booker T., James Brown, and anything my older sister passed on: Magazine, The Fall, Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive, and I’d play along with everything. But for bassists, it was Dunn, James Brown’s players, Peter Hook, and lots of Lee “Scratch” Perry."
You can see Colin using this bass in the Jigsaw Falling Into Place music video (behind the scenes) https://youtu.be/WQ_GwPYk_WU at around 8:03. It appears to be black and it has Jazz Bass single coil pickups
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