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Peter "Hooky" Hook (born February 13, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English bass player. He was a co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s. Following the death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band reformed as New Order, and Hook has played the bass with them throughout their career. He has also recorded two albums each with the bands Revenge and Monaco (both as bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1128x1496, 283 KB) Image of Peter Hook taken at a New Order gig in Manchester Nov 05 by James Sheridan. ...
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Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ...
New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ...
Revenge was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook (vocals, bass, keyboards). ...
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Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ...
Bernard Barney Sumner (born Bernard Dicken, 4 January 1956 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England) was the guitarist and keyboardist with Joy Division. ...
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New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ...
Revenge was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook (vocals, bass, keyboards). ...
Playing style
As bassist for Joy Division, Hook was described as "a bass player who thought he was playing lead guitar"[citation needed] (similar statements have been made about The Who's John Entwistle and Yes's Chris Squire). He has developed a unique melodic style, achieved by leaving the bass and treble up on his bass guitars, but not the mid-range. This unusual approach was largely influenced, Hook reports, by the inexpensive, second-hand, low-quality equipment he played early in his career; with such shoddy gear he was only able to hear his amplifier clearly when he played higher pitched notes.[citation needed] With New Order's ever increasing use of sequenced synthesized bass, especially throughout most of 1989's Technique and 1993's Republic, Hook's bass playing became ever more melodic and rhythmic, often exploiting the baritone guitar range of his basses. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
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Hook's playing position is also unusual. He tends to wear his bass hanging down around knee-level, with an extra-long strap, and then staggers around the stage while playing. Hook has admitted to adopting the style after seeing all of his favourite players, such as Paul Simonon from The Clash, wear their bass guitars low.[citation needed] Hook's low-slung style was also adopted by Nicky Wire of The Manic Street Preachers and Simon Gallup from The Cure, with whom Joy Division performed as support band at the legendary Marquee Club in 1979. Paul Simonon (born December 15, 1955 in Brixton, London, England) is best known as the bass guitar player for punk rock band The Clash. ...
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Hook has also contributed backing vocals on numerous Joy Division songs, sings co-lead with Ian Curtis on Joy Division's Interzone from the 1979 LP Unknown Pleasures, and sings lead on two New Order songs (Dreams Never End and Doubts Even Here from the 1981 LP Movement). Unknown Pleasures is the first album by Joy Division, released in 1979. ...
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Equipment
Basses - Gibson EBO copy - Hook's first bass, bought at Mazel's Music Shop in Manchester in 1976 and used live with Warsaw 1977 (there are photos of him playing it at a 1977 gig at Rafters, Manchester) and on the 18/7/77 Warsaw demos.
- Hondo Rickenbacker 4001 bass copy - Used on Joy Division's 1978-1980 recordings and used live with Joy Division 1978-1980. Possibly damaged during a gig at The Factory, Manchester 28/9/79 but there are photos of Hook playing it on the January 1980 European Tour.
- Yamaha BB1200 - Basically a neck-through Precision bass. Used on Joy Division's Closer LP and every New Order album.
- Shergold Marathon six-string bass - Has a 30" scale putting it between normal bass (34") and guitar (around 25").
- Eccleshall bass - Based on a Gibson ES-335, main live bass. He wanted a hollowbody with Yamaha electronics, so Chris Eccleshall took the active electronics from a BB1200 and built a full-scale neck-through bass with 24 frets.
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Amplification and effects Hook first plugs into an Alembic F2-B valve [tube] preamp, which goes to an Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory chorus pedal, a Line 6 Echo Park delay pedal, then to a Crown DC-300A valve power amp. At one point he had six Crowns, but they kept going down all the time. He used to use a Roland SIP-301 preamp as well. He uses two 15" Gauss 5460 speakers, which add distortion. Alembic Dragons Breath Custom Bass Guitar Alembic was founded in 1969 and is a manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps. ...
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With Revenge and Monaco, he updated his setup to an Ampeg SVT, turned all the way up to maximum volume live. Revenge was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook (vocals, bass, keyboards). ...
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Other work In the late 1980s, Hook also worked as a producer for bands such as Inspiral Carpets and The Stone Roses. In 2003 he contributed his distinctive bass to a number of tracks on Hybrid's album Morning Sci-Fi, including the single "True to Form". The Inspiral Carpets is an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert in 1986. ...
The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ...
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New Order have broken up more than once, and Hook has been involved with other projects. He has recorded two albums each with the bands Revenge and Monaco (both as bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist) with David Potts, the latter of which scored a club and alternative-radio hit What Do You Want From Me? in 1997. On 4 May 2007, Hook announced on Xfm that he and New Order singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner were no longer working together, effectively spelling the end for the band; the band later denied disbanding[1]. He is currently working on a new band project called Freebass with bass players Mani (ex-The Stone Roses) and Andy Rourke (ex-The Smiths). Revenge was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook (vocals, bass, keyboards). ...
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New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ...
Bernard Barney Sumner (born Bernard Dicken, 4 January 1956 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England) was the guitarist and keyboardist with Joy Division. ...
Freebass is a band currently under construction. The group curently comprises three bass players: Andy Rourke (of The Smiths fame), Peter Hook (from New Order) and Gary Mounfield (formerly of The Stone Roses and currently in Primal Scream). ...
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The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ...
Andy Rourke (born 17 January 1964) is a bass guitarist and guitar player from Manchester, England. ...
The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. ...
Since 2002, Peter Hook has begun doing DJ sets. Inspired by Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets, he started with the Return To New York nights in London, which he enjoyed so much that he is travelling the world to perform as a DJ. He plays a lot of New Order, Joy Division and Monaco songs in his sets, which have garnered scorn for consisting merely of Hook putting on a pre-mixed CD and playing with the mixer's equalizer. The Inspiral Carpets is an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert in 1986. ...
Trivia - He is usually referred to by his nickname (taken from his surname) by the rest of the band and fans.
- He is well known for writing messages on his amps during tours.
- In the 2007 film, Control: The Ian Curtis Film Hook will be played by actor Joe Anderson.
- In Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film "24 Hour Party People", the part of Peter Hook was played by The Royle Family actor Ralf Little. Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder stated it was an odd choice because "Hooky is about 40 stone, and Ralf's about 4 stone !!"
- He bought one of The Who's John Entwistle's bass guitars when Entwistle's son Christopher sold them.
- He selected 4 songs for the tribute album Community 2: A NewOrderOnline Tribute in 2006.
Joe Anderson (born c 1981) is a British actor. ...
Winterbottom at the Toronto International Film Festival. ...
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchesters popular music community from 1977 to 1997, and specifically about Factory Records. ...
The Royle Family is a popular BBC television situation comedy (sitcom) that ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. ...
Ralf Little (born 8 February 1981 in Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English actor, working mainly on television. ...
Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. ...
Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ...
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John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for rock band The Who. ...
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