Jonny Greenwood

Jonathan "Jonny" Richard Guy Greenwood (born November 5, 1971) is a member of Radiohead. He is also the brother of fellow band member Colin Greenwood. Jonny is

Jonathan "Jonny" Richard Guy Greenwood (born November 5, 1971) is a member of Radiohead. He is also the brother of fellow band member Colin Greenwood. Jonny is often credited as the second major artist in Radiohead. He is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, capable of playing lead ('abusive') guitar, organ, synthesizer, piano, xylo, harmonica and other instruments which he has never recorded. Jonny's original contributions to Radiohead include the slow rock song "the Tourist" and the Beatlesque avalanche "A Wolf at the Door" – two closers respectively of OK Computer and Hail to the Thief. Thom Yorke has noted that the track "Just" from The Bends was, "a competition by me and Jonny to get as many chords as possible into a song".

Jonny had classical training in music and has adept knowledge of music theory. Because of this Thom would often write the "bones" of a song and Jonny would be one of the most important influences in fleshing it out so that it works as a piece of music. He is considered one of the finest modern musicians of his time "breaking the boundaries" of music, however he feels differently - "Many people view me as this extremely talented musician, one guy said I 'bend the walls or music as it is known'. I have to say I don't agree with them, there are other guitarists who I look up to, who I believe have undeniably more versatility than I do. I have a large effects board which is very useful and can be utilised in various combinations but when there are people like Tom Morello out there creating similar stuff with about four pedals it's almost impossible to even put us in the same league...I believe."