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.

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• Noel Redding:

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

• Noel Redding:

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

• Noel Redding:

  Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

• Noel Redding:

  Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then,

• Noel Redding:

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

• Noel Redding:

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

• Noel Redding:

  It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got t

• Noel Redding:

  We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix becam

• Noel Redding:

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

• Noel Redding:

  The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put