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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 played the bass with them throughout their career until his departure in 2007. Hook lives with his wife, Julie, and their family in Alderley Edge , Cheshire . He has also recorded two albums each with the bands Revenge and Monaco (both as bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist). PLAYING STYLE As bassist for Joy Division, Hook was described as "a bass player who thought he was playing lead guitar" (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. 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 Rhythm ic, often exploiting the Baritone guitar range of his basses. 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. 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 . 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 ''). EQUIPMENT Basses
Amplification and effects Hook first plugs into an Alembic F2-B valve {Link without Title} 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. With Revenge and Monaco , he updated his setup to an Ampeg SVT, turned all the way up to maximum volume live. {Link without Title} 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". 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 disbanding1. 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 ). 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. TRIVIA
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