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Noel Redding
English
Musician
About the author
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
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.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Sleep
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#First
#Strangers
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#People
#Writing
#Song
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Day
#First
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!
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Sound
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Writing
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Now
#People
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Fame
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Lady
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Age
#School
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!
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#People
#Thought
#Hair
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
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.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Experience
#Animals
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#Old
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
Noel Redding,
English
Musician
#First