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
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.
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.
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.
Keep on playing the Experience!
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!
school age violin
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.