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Personal life
Ed was originally invited into the band by Thom Yorke because of his resemblance to Morrissey. He is often considered the most photogenic rock star of the band, and the most gregarious with the public. However, promotional material has never shifted the emphasis on Yorke and Greenwood to him, and neither the band nor their labels have attempted to use Ed as a selling point. He is easily the tallest member of the band, at 6' 5" (no other band members exceed 6 feet tall). Ed has a girlfriend named Susan and a son, Salvador, who was born in January 2004 and daughter, who was born early 2006.
Ed is known to smoke marijuana recreationally, and is a supporter of the campaign for cannabis reclassification. Despite the "no-drugs-during-sessions"-policy of the band, Ed has said that he recorded songs during Pablo Honey and The Bends while stoned. In Meeting People Is Easy documentary, Ed was seen rolling a spliff. At the BRIT Awards in 2001, Ed talked openly about how he had used hallucinogenic mushrooms. Ed and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood claimed they had been under the influence of mushrooms while attending the 2001 Grammy awards.
Radiohead work
Ed is known for his large collection of effects pedals, which are important in creating Radiohead's distinct sound. Even on tracks that do not feature any guitar work, his pedals are put to use for other purposes, such as altering Thom Yorke's vocals (Along with Greenwood on the Korg Kaoss Pad). Though he served primarily as a rhythm guitarist on the earlier albums, Radiohead's migration beyond alternative rock instrumentation often saw fellow guitarist Jonny Greenwood called on to play keyboards, the modular synthesizer, or the Ondes Martenot, moving Ed to the forefront as Radiohead's chief guitarist. He is a self-taught guitarist, but took drum lessons and is an accomplished drummer, though his only drum works for Radiohead to date have been the auxiliary drums on Hail to the Thief track "There There", a task he shared with Jonny Greenwood, and an additional drum piece on the b-side "Pearly*".
Although all members of the band are credited equally for all songs, Ed is not usually involved in songwriting, apart from few notable exceptions, such as the opening riff on "Go To Sleep", which he wrote. He also created the riff that makes up the closing song on "Climbing Up The Walls", , "Street Spirit (Fade Out)." He mainly helps to expand on the musical framework created by Thom Yorke, and is known for his contributions to "Karma Police" (he created the effect that closes the song), "Lucky" (he created the effect that opens the song, and his backing vocals during the chorus are an integral part of the track) and "Treefingers" (his guitar chords were processed electronically to sound like ambient music). He also plays lead guitar on many of the post-The Bends songs including "Climbing Up The Walls", "No Surprises", "How to Disappear Completely", "Scatterbrain", and the fan favourite b-side and live staple, "Talk Show Host". For an in-depth look into Ed's playing on OK Computer, if you listen to the album with earphones, Ed's parts come out of the left earphone and Jonny's parts come out of the right earphone on all but the first and last songs. Other parts come out of both. This is presumably to mimic their on-stage set-up.
Work outside of Radiohead
Ed made contributions to a soundtrack project for the BBC drama series Eureka Street before recording Kid A. During sessions of Kid A and Amnesiac, Ed kept his fans up to date with an open diary posted on the band's website, providing the most in depth look at how those experimental albums were recorded. His most recent collaboration outside of Radiohead involved some guitar work on album of Asian Dub Foundation. He played on "1000 Mirrors" (with Sinéad O'Connor), "Blowback" and "Enemy of the enemy". He also played live with Neil Finn and various others in Seven Worlds Collide.
Ed and band mate Phil Selway had programming lessons with producer/engineer Phelan Kane at Tech Music Schools in London back in 2001.
Links- StringsReunited.com : Includes a regular blog by Plank, Radiohead technician, giving technical information.
- EdQuarters. : Unofficial fansite including pictures and a message board.
Equipment
Guitars
- Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster (black)(2)
- Fender Stratocaster (white)
- Rickenbacker 360 (2)
- Gibson ES (2)
- Fender Telecaster
- Fernandes Native Pro
- "Plank" guitar (custom built to Ed's specifications)
- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop
- Variax 700
Effects
- Digitech Whammy IV
- Akai Headrush
- Line 6 Dl-4 Delay
- BOSS DD-5 Digital Delay (4)
- BOSS GE-7 Equalizer
- Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
- Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
- BOSS PN-2 Tremolo/Pan
- BOSS RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
- BOSS LS-2 Line Selector
- Crowther Hotcake
- MXR Dynacomp
- Lovetone Ring Stinger
- Lovetone Meatball
- MXR Micro Amp
- BOSS TU-2 Tuner
- Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
- BOSS FS-5U
- Dunlop Stereo Tremolo
- Mesa Boogie Amp Footswitch
- BOSS FV-300H
- Roland Space Echo (used pre-OK Computer)
- Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
- Roger Linn Adrenalinn
- Pod PRO
These are pedals that have been identified over the years, Not all of these pedals may be used at one time. In 2006 a MIDI Controller possibly to rack Effects took the place of many Delays.
Amplifiers
- VOX AC30 (2) (used for clean tones) most Modulation/Delay Pedals are used on this.
- Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Trem-O-Verb (2) (used for the distorted tones)
- VETTA II
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