Colin Greenwood says Radiohead want to book more shows

Colin Greenwood says Radiohead want to book some shows, if everyone's schedules line up, somewhere, someplace, sometime². He was the guest on Rockonteurs, the podcast hosted by Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt, in an episode released on 26 April.

For a long time he was not allowed a pedalboard. I wasn't allowed one for a very long time, 'cos, you know, in front of 30,000 people and a quiet song, I might tread on the distortion pedal [at] the wrong time, whatever.² He has one now, he whispered.

He plays a Fender Precision bass through an Ampeg valve amp and wants nothing more. His brother Jonny Greenwood is a purist too, one guitar and one amp, though he runs Max/MSP, the music programming software, on his computer. At Radiohead's O2 shows in London about 20 old guitars were kept under the stage. Colin took them for Ed O'Brien's and Thom Yorke's until Ed's guitar tech, Adam Cummings, told him they were all Ed's. For a wrong note he passes on advice from Johnny Marr, or possibly Ed: glare at the tech, or play it twice, the jazz way.

Songs such as “Pyramid Song” come down to feel, he said. Everyone carries a different tempo inside them, and Thom's is fast. Thom's always just before the 1.²

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