About
I founded The Grassy Knoll (a music project) in 1993. My first album was released by Nettwerk and was soon picked up by Polygram/Verve/Antilles. There have been five albums released to date. I also earned an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently work as the Senior Creative Editor for inthemo.com.
The function of this blog is twofold. One is to stay up to date with all things Grassy Knoll and the other is to celebrate the creative world of music, photography, design etc…
Please feel free to contribute by leaving comments, submitting work, sharing this blog and the grassy knoll music with others.
Thanks for checking it out.
Bob Green
REVIEWS:
The Grassy Knoll says more through sound and music than other groups might say in a 40 page manifesto… this is radical stuff that changes everything.
- CMJ
“III” may prove to be one of the most groundbreaking and futuristic albums of the year.
- Ezra Gale, Salon
If Tricky is the supposed master of trip-hop…then the Grassy Knoll is the lesser known, even more inventive little brother
- The Oregonian
“III” is the true audiophile’s wet dream. I’ll recommend this CD to anybody, all ages, all backgrounds. If you don’t “get” the Grassy Knoll, you don’t “get” anything.
- Charles D.J. Deppner, Ink 19
The Grassy Knoll aren’t playing what fusion jazz sounded like in the early ’70s but what it should sound like now: bristling with broken hip-hop breaks, Money Mark- like Hammond B-3 fills, dark ambient, post-rock (particularly Cul du Sac), heavy noise, and lo-fi distortion crackles.
- Brent S. Sirota, Pitchfork
The key is meaning, man. Ten years ago, the Grassy Knoll’s majestic sample feasts made the so-called pioneers of trip-hop look like shallow actors in need of a subtext. A decade later, his avant-video artistry makes most VJs look like kids with Spirographs.
- James Rotondi, Editor-in-Chief, Guitar World’s Bass Guitar Magazine
It’s the self-consciousness of Green’s studio techniques that make the strongest musical impression — the layering of melodies, the haloing of fragments, the shifting postproduction arrangements, the additions of telling samples.
- Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com