Noel Redding Quotes

• I still say keep away from LSD.

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• 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!

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• Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

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• Well, I’d had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

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• 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.

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• The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

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• The Fat Mattress consisted of people I’d played with before joining the ‘Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

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• On Ain’t No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

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• My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

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• 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!

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• I’d gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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• I wouldn’t know how I would have coped with The Beatles’ sort of fame.

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• I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

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• I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

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• I took a lot of LSD over many years.

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• I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn’t advise anyone to do it.

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• 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.

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• Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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• But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

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• At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

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Noel Redding (20)

Birth:	25th December, 1945
Death:	11th May, 2003
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bassist, Guitarist, Singer

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