Noel Redding

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

— Noel Redding

#mandolin #nine #onto #playing #school

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

— Noel Redding

#hendrix #i #now #people #playing

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

— Noel Redding

#different #drummers #hendrix #met #mitch

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

#audition #broken #came #eric #experience

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

— Noel Redding

#anyone #i #mushroom #natural #ok

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

— Noel Redding

#best #did #had #i #likewise

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

— Noel Redding

#first #guy #hendrix #i #join

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

— Noel Redding

#coped #fame #how #i #know

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. ↗

— Noel Redding

#gone #i #professional #seventeen

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

#got #knowing #once #point #record