Artist: Jonny Greenwood
Genre(s):
Reggae
Discography:
Ether BBC
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Although most people's initial musical exposure to Jonny Greenwood came via his staggeringly ill-shapen guitar crunches on Radiohead's breakthrough single "Creep," Greenwood (non to be bemused with his older brother/bass-playing bandmate Colin Greenwood) could be more than fittingly described as Radiohead's jack of all trades -- a multi-instrumentalist world Health Organization is as comfy playing marimba, sampler, or keyboards (to name just a few) as his unambiguously angular guitar lines. Along with Thom Yorke's inimitable vocals, Jonny Greenwood's spacious array of unconventional sonic textures helped to define Radiohead's typical sound and force the boundaries of their euphony into strange and by all odds non-rock directions.
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood was born on November 5, 1971, in Oxford, England. Along with his brother Colin, Greenwood attended Abingdon School good Oxford; it was here that the old Colin first-class honours degree came into contact with class fellow Thom Yorke. Before longsighted, the duo was performing euphony together in a project dubbed TNT. Guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Phil Selway were before long admitted into the sheep pen, and the new band adopted the byname On a Friday (in point of reference to the day of the calendar week they would routinely have together and practice). Jonny Greenwood, wHO was a duo of years jr. than the early little Joe, repeatedly asked to dally with the grouping; he was finally invited to play harmonica with On a Friday at a 1987 gig at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. This proved to be his installation into the lot; he later took over keyboard duties for the chemical group earlier finally switch into the role of lead guitar player.
However, On a Friday was placed on an extended hiatus when the four old members went cancelled to college in the fall of 1987. A couple of old age later, Greenwood himself went on to study music at Oxford. By the summer of 1991, though, his bandmates had gradational from college and reunited the group, prompting him to entrust school (subsequently only a year) so that he could commit to On a Friday on a full-time ground.
The reformed quintette cursorily got to influence, recording and cathartic a series of demo tapes and gigging steady in the sphere. It wasn't long earlier the major labels came knocking, and On a Friday soon had a record plow with EMI. Their modern mark quickly pointed out (non unjustly) that the band's diagnose was slightly unmanageable; the band concurred, and Radiohead was selected as their new name, taken from the title of a Talking Heads sung.
In previous 1992, Radiohead exploded in America with their unmarried "Creep"; featuring Greenwood's jarringly percussive, softened guitar bursts (which queerly provided the song's hook), "Weirdo" was widely embraced by MTV and alternative wireless, wHO order the song into sonorous rotation. Although follow-up singles from their album Pablo Honey were released, Radiohead could not escape the one-hit wonder stigma until the release of The Bends in 1995. An awful artistic leap over their kickoff record album, The Bends contained plenty of Jonny Greenwood guitar pyrotechnics ("Just," "My Iron Lung"), only besides revealed an assured, mature side of the mathematical group that was previously unknown ("Street Spirit," "Juke Plastic Trees").
Round this clock time, Greenwood's physically aggressive style of performing guitar began to take a toll on his right radiocarpal joint. To relieve the pain and deter the onrush of carpal bone tunnel syndrome, he was fitted with a radiocarpal joint brace to put up support to the joint. The pair soon became a trademark of sorts for Greenwood, and he continued to wear it out of subroutine long afterward the quick menace of wound was departed.
After The Bends, Greenwood began to show signs that he was maturation uninventive with using the guitar as his primary means of expression. Said the guitarist, "There's only 12 power chords, and I think we've had about 20 years of them, so peradventure it's time to go on." Greenwood took this view so far as to (half-jokingly) matter a cue to on-line Radiohead fans, request them to send him any interesting chord progressions that they could devise.
Notwithstanding, when Radiohead released the massively successful OK Computer in 1997, the guitar knead was taken to new high. Beginning immediately with the opening unkeyed "Airbag" riff, Greenwood redefined what a guitar could good like, whether it was the distant, chiming gull-cries of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (which succeeds admirably in its attempt to recreate Miles Davis' Bitches Brew trumpet tone) or the digital meltdown near the end of "Paranoid Android."
On the ensuing North American term of enlistment, withal, Greenwood's dissatisfaction with playing strictly guitar-oriented music reached its zenith -- a tone that was carried all over into the recording studio following the tour's culmination. The release of Kid A in 2000 and its counterpart Amnesiac the following year clear reflected this; Radiohead's trademark guitars had vanished from all just a handful of their songs, replaced or else with layers of synthesizers, keyboards, and samplers. And although Radiohead's 2003 release, Hail to the Thief, featured more than guitars than either of the group's previous deuce albums, Jonny Greenwood's debut solo album, Bodysong (released afterward that year), was a mostly guitarless social occasion, proving once once more that Greenwood motivation non be shackled to the confines of the electric guitar to compose original, remindful music.
