Noel Redding Quotes

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

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

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Keep on playing the Experience!

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

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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