Noel Redding
Noel Redding
Noel David Reddingwas an English rock bassist and guitarist best known for his work as bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth25 December 1945
school age violin
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
different drummer hendrix
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
taken violin mates
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
fame know-how knows
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
gone seventeen
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
documentaries
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
bass solo
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
thinking firsts band
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
song writing mattresses
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
animal broken promise
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
people bass hendrix
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.