Noel Redding Died

robj · Post by **robj** » Tue May 13, 2003 7:15 am

Noel was of course the bass player in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/13/redding.dedad.reut/index.html

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Tue May 13, 2003 1:20 pm

As I heard it, Noel was a guitar player, who switched to bass purely to be accepted in Jimi's band. On "Red House", there is no actual bass guitar on the track, he is playing a low rythm guitar. Sad to see him go.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri May 23, 2003 9:06 am

Yeah, he was a guitar player, I always play Red House the way he played it but on my bass, (quite a stretch) I thought that was what he did, it sounds kind of deep (in tone) to be a guitar. I haven't heard the song for a long time though.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri May 23, 2003 2:15 pm

From the "Are You Experienced" CD re issue: (Jimi says) "Noel plays a $5 guitar that he bought...which is held together with bit of sticky tape..." And Noel says: "I actually played a guitar on the original Polydor recording of Red House...there's no bass on the original recording. Hendrix said, 'We're gonna do do a blues in B' and I said show it to me on guitar, because I liked to play along on rhythm to familiarize myself with a sequence. We ended up just recording that."