Noel David Reddingwas an English rock bassist and guitarist best known for his work as bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience... (wikipedia)
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
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.
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!
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.
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.
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!
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.
Well I used to hang out with Brian at the Speakeasy and he used to take me home in his Rolls and drop me off at my '6 a week flat.
There were times when Jimi showed me little licks but there again I showed him licks as well, on his songs, which I never got credit for.
I took a lot of LSD over many years.
Keep on playing the Experience!
The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it's the subconscious that comes out.