NOEL REDDING: The bassist from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, what happened to him?

JK writes ...

Noel Redding, originally a guitarist, always wanted to do his own thing. He was a good musician, but didn’t have the originality of someone like Jimi Hendrix. Even while, he was still in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, he formed his own band Fat Mattress, who opened some shows for the Experience. When Noel left the Experience after the Electric Ladyland album, he continued to play with Fat Mattress, but they never gained musch popularity. In the late ‘70s, Noel made a few albums with his group the Noel Redding Band, but these did not make much of an impact either, and that’s the last I heard of him. He was talented enough to be a valuable sideman to somebody with more of an artistic vision (like Hendrix), but he didn’t posess that elusive quaity to be a star on his own. I think he passed away sometime in the last 10 years.

CM writes ...

Noel Redding was a strange character he used to be guitarist in his first band but he was unsatisfied being the bass player in the experience ,Sotheby’s used to be some frictions with jimi in the band he was pushing to have more space in the experience when you hear his only song in axisbold as love named little mis strange you understand the depth of his stupidity so for the recording of electric lady land jimi ask jack casady to play bass when he jimi can’t play the bass ,Noel Redding went out to form a band called fat mattress and god knows what becomes of him so that’s why jimi called his old partner from the army bill cox to ply in the band

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