Noel Redding Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Keep on playing the Experience! — Noel Redding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. — Noel Redding

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

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix. — Noel Redding

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

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. — 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. — Noel Redding

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

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