Noel David Redding (25 December 1945 – 11 May 2003) was an English rock bassist and guitarist best known for his work as bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Read full biography of Noel Redding →
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.
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... →
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... →