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English musician

Noel Redding
Redding with the Jimi Hendrix Feel in 1967
Background information
Nativity name	David Noel Redding
Born	(1945-12-25)25 December 1945 Folkestone, Kent, England
Died	11 May 2003(2003-05-11) (aged 57) Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland
Genres	Rock
Instruments	Bass guitar guitar vocals
Years active	1963–2003
Associated acts	The Jimi Hendrix Feel Fat Mattress Road the Noel Redding Band Mountain

Musical artist

David Noel Redding (25 Dec 1945 – 11 May 2003) was an English language rock musician, all-time known as the bass role player for the Jimi Hendrix Feel and guitarist/singer for Fat Mattress.

Following his departure from the Experience in 1969 and the dissolution of Fat Mattress in 1970, Redding formed the short-lived group Road in the Usa, which released the self-titled album Road before he re-located to Clonakilty, Ireland, in 1972. There he formed the Noel Redding Ring with one-time Sparse Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell, with whom he released two albums. Although by the 1980s Redding had largely removed himself from the music business concern, he would later perform effectually his new hometown with wife Ballad Appleby.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1992.^[ane]

Biography [edit]

Background [edit]

Redding was built-in at the Imperial Victoria Hospital in Folkestone, Kent, to Bromley-born Margaret (née Berggren) and Horace Albert Redding.^{[2] [3] [4] [five]} He grew up on Cliff Road, Seabrook, where his female parent ran a guest house, with his mother, his Swedish-born grandmother, his brother Anthony, and his sister Vicki. He attended St Leonards Primary school in Hythe, and the Harvey Grammar Schoolhouse in Folkestone.^{[half dozen] [7]} At the age of nine he played violin at schoolhouse, so mandolin and guitar. His showtime public appearances were at the Hythe Youth Club, and at his school.

At 17 Redding became a professional musician and toured clubs in Scotland and Germany with Neil Landon and the Burnettes (formed in late 1962) and the Loving Kind (formed in November 1965). In addition, the Lone Ones reunited in September 1964, and Redding remained with them a year earlier taking his exit.^[8]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience [edit]

Upon his arrival in England in September 1966, Jimi Hendrix and his producer/manager Chas Chandler set virtually finding bankroll musicians. Although Redding had played guitar upwardly to that indicate, he switched to bass guitar and became the second fellow member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience,^[9] followed shortly by drummer Mitch Mitchell, to form a power trio. With the group, he recorded three landmark albums: Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland. Redding also wrote and sang pb on two songs, "Little Miss Strange" and "She's And then Fine". His playing style was distinguished by the use of a pick, a mid-range "trebly" sound, and in later years the apply of fuzz and baloney furnishings through overdriven Sunn amps. For the bass line in "Ruby Firm", Redding played the bass strings on a normal 6-string guitar.^[10]

Past 1969, Hendrix was performing and recording with a number of different musicians. Without consulting Redding, Hendrix announced that he intended to expand the grouping. Redding responded by quitting the Feel during the American tour on 29 June 1969, and returned to England.^[10] However, when Hendrix's attempts to form a new group were unsuccessful, his manager, Michael Jeffery, tried to reunite the Experience in early on 1970. The three were interviewed by Rolling Rock magazine to announce the reformation, just ultimately Redding was passed over in favor of bassist Billy Cox, who had performed with Hendrix at Woodstock and on the Ring of Gypsys album with Buddy Miles.^[x]

Fat Mattress [edit]

In 1968, Redding formed the group Fat Mattress with another Kent musician, Neil Landon. The band likewise included Jim Leverton on bass and keyboards and Eric Dillon on drums. Redding played guitar and vocals, and a fundamental part of the Fatty Mattress sound was the song harmonies between him, Landon and Leverton. The band initially toured in back up of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, requiring Redding to play two full sets each nighttime. He left Fatty Mattress after only ane album with them, though some of his compositions would appear on their second album.^[eleven]

Subsequently years [edit]

Redding soon went on to other projects. While living in Los Angeles, he formed Route,^[12] a three-piece in the same psychedelic hard rock vein as the Experience, with Rod Richards (ex-Rare Earth) on guitar and Les Sampson on drums, and Redding switching back to bass. They released 1 anthology, Road (1972), with the three members taking turns on pb vocals.

Redding moved to Ireland in 1972. He formed the Noel Redding Band with Eric Bell (from Sparse Lizzy), Dave Clarke, Les Sampson, and Robbie Walsh. Despite the band's name, Redding shared songwriting and lead song duties equally with Clarke. They released two albums for RCA, 3 tours of holland, two tours of England, 1 tour of Ireland, and a 10-week tour in the US. The band dissolved after a dispute with their management company. Tracks recorded for a third unreleased anthology were later released equally The Missing Album on Mouse Records.

In his book Are You Experienced?, co-authored with his wife Carol Appleby, he spoke openly about his disappointment in his being cut off from the profits of the continued auction of the Hendrix recordings. He had signed away his royalties in 1974, and in 1980 sold the bass guitar he used with the Experience to a collector. Redding had received $100,000 as a 1-off payment after he had been told that at that place would exist no more releases of Jimi Hendrix Experience material. This was before the appearance of CDs and DVDs.^[13]

In 1990, Redding and Appleby were involved in a car crash returning abode from a concert in Glounthaune. Appleby was left encephalon dead by the accident, with Redding later stating that "she was in intensive care on life support and afterwards four days I had to make the terrible decision of shutting down the automobile". They had been together for seventeen years and, just two days prior to the accident, Appleby had finished helping Redding co-write his autobiography.^[14]

In 1997, Fender produced the Noel Redding Signature Jazz bass in a signed limited edition of yard. Premiered at the NAMM Show in Jan 1997, the bass was based on the 1964 Jazz bass which Redding used throughout his time with the Experience. Redding tracked down the person to whom he had sold the bass some years prior, who agreed to allow Fender to inspect it. Redding stating that "Fender got the original bass from him, copied it, and sent me a prototype, and it was exactly the same as my original bass; they did a brilliant chore".^[15]

Afterward meeting San Francisco musician and songwriter Keith Dion in London during the awarding of an English Heritage Bluish Plaque Honor in 1997, Redding performed several tours beyond the The states with Dion's ring "3:05 AM". Recordings from these tours were released on the UK and European releases "West Cork Tuning" and "Stone Free". Video footage from these tours was shown in May 2014 during the now annual Noel Redding Tribute Festival held in Clonakilty each year. Positive feedback was likewise received from the Irish Cultural Minister and the caput of the Irish Motion picture Board.^[16]

In 2002, a live anthology Live From Bunkr· Prague was released.^[17] Predominantly fabricated up of Experience material, the concert was recorded in 1995 in the Czech Democracy with guitarist and singer Anthony Krizan of the Spin Doctors, rhythm guitarist Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group and drummer Frankie LaRocka. The ring rehearsed for a mere 45 minutes earlier performing. Vaclav Havel, the then President of the Czech Democracy watched from the side of the phase.^[eighteen]

Redding's last performance was in Clonakilty at De Barras pub, where he had held the Fri dark residency for near 20 years, performing with some of the local musicians who appeared on his terminal album Cheers, Goodnight and Good Luck including Steve Pawsey, Jeff Ward, Jim O'Neil, Eric Bong and Les Sampson.^{[ citation needed ]}

Death [edit]

Redding was plant dead in his home in Clonakilty on eleven May 2003, three weeks after the death of his mother.^[19] A postmortem was carried out on 13 May at Cork University Hospital in Wilton, Cork. The report concluded that Redding died from "shock haemorrhage due to oesophageal varices in reaction to cirrhosis of the liver".^[20] He was 57 years former; he was survived past a brother, a sister, and a son, Nicolas Noel Redding, by his former wife, Danish-born Susanne.^[13]

Legacy [edit]

In the village of Ardfield, local people erected a plaque to Redding'south memory.^[21] His and then partner, the United states-born Deborah McNaughton, had returned to America where she died from breast cancer nine months afterwards Redding's death.^[22]

Three months prior to his death, Redding had threatened to sue Experience Hendrix, LLC, the company that manages the Hendrix catalogue, for £3.26 million in lost earnings. The estate rejected his claim^[23] and went on to release a posthumous compilation album entitled The Feel Sessions in 2004. Along with unreleased takes of Redding-penned Experience album tracks "She's So Fine" and "Lilliputian Miss Strange", the anthology independent unreleased songs recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which Redding had written whilst with the band. Most of the tracks are outtakes from the Axis: Bold As Beloved and Electric Ladyland albums, and feature Redding on guitar with Hendrix on bass. It also featured a live version of Hendrix'due south "Red House" with Redding on rhythm guitar. Notably the album features the song "Dream", but omits the other Redding-penned song "Trip the light fantastic toe" which was recorded during the same session on which Hendrix participated on bass. Written past Redding for drummer Mitch Mitchell to sing, Hendrix would later have Redding's guitar riff and use it for his own song "Ezy Rider", which was first released on the posthumous album The Cry of Beloved.^[24]

A boondocks foursquare in Redding'southward hometown of Folkestone was renamed "Noel'due south Thousand" as a memorial, described as being "a public 'Theatre in a Square' which promotes commerce, the arts, entertainment, too as the best of British seaside living within a vibrant and safe creative community".^[25]

In 2013, an fine art exhibition was organised to mark the 10th ceremony of Redding's expiry. It was opened by his blood brother Anthony.^[6]

Discography [edit]

The Loving Kind

• "Adventitious Love" / "Nothing Tin Change This Love" (Piccadilly 7N 35299) 1966
• "Beloved the Things You Do" / "Care for Me Nice" (Piccadilly 7N 35318) 1966
• "Own't That Peculiar" / "With Rhyme and Reason" (Piccadilly 7N 35342) 1966

The Jimi Hendrix Feel

For a more than complete list of Redding'southward recordings with Hendrix, see Jimi Hendrix discography and Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography.

• Are Yous Experienced (1967)
• Axis: Bold equally Dearest (1967)
• Electric Ladyland (1968)

Fat Mattress

• Fat Mattress (1969)
• Fat Mattress II (1970)
• "Naturally" / "Iridescent Butterfly" (1969)
• "Magic Lanterns" / "Bright New Way" (1969)
• "Highway" / "Black Sheep of the Family" (1970, co-wrote the A-side only, no performance)

Route

• Road (1972)

Randy California

• Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabled) Twirly Birds (1972, appears pseudonymously on 3 songs)

Noel Redding Band (besides known equally the Clonakilty Cowboys)

• Clonakilty Cowboys (1975)
• Blowin' (1976)
• The Missing Anthology (1995)
• "Roller Coaster Kids" / "Snowstorm"
• "Take Information technology Easy" / "Back on the Road Once more"

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends

• Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends (1970)

British Invasion All-Stars

• British Invasion All-Stars (2001)

305 AM and Keith Dion

• West Cork Tuning (2001)
• West Coast Experience (2002)
• Stone Gratis (2003)
• On Tour with 305 AM (2003)
• West Cork Tuning Palatial Edition (2003)

Noel Redding and Friends

• Alive From Bunkr· Prague (2002)^{[18] [17]}
• Thank You lot, Goodnight and Gud' Luck (2009)

Yardbirds Experience

• Family unit Tree: Birds of a Feather (2006)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Jimi Hendrix Experience | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame".
2. ^ Noel Redding Bassist with Jimi Hendrix Archived 28 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine www.independent.co.uk
3. ^ "Results for England & Wales Marriages 1837-2008". Archived from the original on x January 2017. Retrieved nine January 2017.
4. ^ "Results for England & Wales Marriages 1837-2008". Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
5. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:x.1093/ref:odnb/89997. ISBN9780198614111. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. ^ ^{a b} "Hendrix bassist". Kentonline.co.uk. 3 May 2013.
7. ^ Are You Experienced?: The Within Story of the Jimi Hendrix Feel: Amazon.co.uk: Redding, Noel: 9780306806810: Books. 22 March 1996.
8. ^ Melhuish, Martin (1986). The Supertramp Book. Toronto, Canada: Omnibus Press. p. xix. ISBN0-9691272-2-7.
9. ^ Redding, Noel (1996). Are You Experienced – The Inside Story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Da Capo Press. p. 132. ISBN978-0306806810.
10. ^ ^{a b c} Shapiro H, Glebbeek C (1991). Jimi Hendrix: Electrical Gypsy, William Heinemann Ltd
11. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Fat Mattress – Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 31 May 2010.
12. ^ "Route — Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic . Retrieved 31 May 2010.
13. ^ ^{a b} "Hendrix bassist dies". News.bbc.co.united kingdom. 13 May 2003.
14. ^ "I found new love, simply I still recollect of my tragic Carol all the time; NOEL REDDING ON HIS HEARTACHE Later PARTNER'S CRASH DEATH. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com.
15. ^ "Noel Redding". Vintageguitar.com. 23 May 2003.
16. ^ "Clonakilty pub to unveil never before released Redding & Hendrix photos". Irishexaminer.com. 5 May 2014.
17. ^ ^{a b} Noel Redding: Live from Bunk R· Prague – Review, allmusic.com
18. ^ ^{a b} "Redding Honors Hendrix On New Live Set". Billboard.com. 17 June 2002.
19. ^ "Hendrix bassist dies". BBC News. 13 May 2003. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
20. ^ UniVibes, Effect 46, Dec 2003
21. ^ "Noel Redding 25th Dec. 1945 - 11th May 2003 musician lived in Ardfield 1973 - 2003". Openplaques.org. Retrieved iii Feb 2014.
22. ^ Healy, Shay (1 June 2008). "I get a sudden strange ripple across my lower back and it feels like half my leg has shagged off, unannounced". Irish Independent . Retrieved 7 January 2022.
23. ^ "Obituary: Noel Redding". The Guardian. xv May 2003.
24. ^ Jucha, Gary J. (ane February 2013). Jimi Hendrix FAQ: All That'south Left to Know About the Voodoo Child. ISBN9781617135668.
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Sources [edit]

• Obituary from Billboard.com

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Redding

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