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
joining mattress people played song
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
song writing mattresses
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
brian drop hang home rolls week
Well I used to hang out with Brian at the Speakeasy and he used to take me home in his Rolls and drop me off at my '6 a week flat.
bass enjoyed playing
No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.
took
I took a lot of LSD over many years.
record rehearsing setting
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.
favourite jeff
My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.
I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
again credit
There were times when Jimi showed me little licks but there again I showed him licks as well, on his songs, which I never got credit for.
brain catalyst situation stuff
The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it's the subconscious that comes out.
Keep on playing the Experience!
stars sleep days-off
We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
crazy glasses hair
Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!