Goodbye Noel

[Fusion2]

Noel Redding bass player of the Jimi Hendrix group passed away in Irland yesterday 5-12, he was a pioneer in rock/metal music era... a legend among bassist that will be surely missed... here's to Noel, rock on...

 

[MegaDrummer]

Jimi was a mind blowing guitarist, but if not for the driving bass of Noel Redding and jazz based drums of Mitch Mitchell, I wonder if we would have the rock we have today.

When Jimi played with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, I always thought that something was missing.

I heard Noel started out as a guitarist and always resented being pushed into bass by Chaz Chandler. I wonder what his solo stuff sounded like. He did some stuff in the 70s....

"Fly on my sweet angel, tomorrow I'll be by your side...."

 

[Fusion2]

indeed, i saw the group in MD in 68, i was all of 15 at the time, words couldn't describe it, you'd had to have been there, the sound and power were overwelming to say the least, for back then anyway... heh, no ID required or i looked older than i was, humm it may have been 16yrs to get in back then...those were the days, foggy now...

i've played purple haze at more sock hops/coffie houses/high schools dances than i care to admit, along with "Fire"...

i won't forget, this is most likely long before many here started into the muzak scene...

 

[Wrangler]

Anyone know how he died??

I saw him play live at the Bottom Line in NYC back in the mid 90's.
He was one of many at a Danny Gatton Tribute show. He was teamed up with Corky Laing.
And yes, he was still playing bass.

 

[Fusion2]

donno, but they say life's hard on the road and being he was part of the drug era along with Jimi, one can wonder... i expect he did his share of everything...

smoke, drink, drugs, sex and long work hours... the mix is enough to kill anyone if you tread there long enough...

that should scare a few here... myself included..

 

[Garry Sharp]

Saw him interviewed on TV a year or two ago on a Hendrix doc. He wasn't quite, er, all there - and was very bitter.

 

[MegaDrummer]

Maryland...

indeed, i saw the group in MD in 68, i was all of 15 at the time, words couldn't describe it, you'd had to have been there, the sound and power were overwelming to say the least, for back then anyway... heh, no ID required or i looked older than i was, humm it may have been 16yrs to get in back then...those were the days, foggy now...

i've played purple haze at more sock hops/coffie houses/high schools dances than i care to admit, along with "Fire"...

i won't forget, this is most likely long before many here started into the muzak scene...

Hey, where in MD did you see the Experience? I'm a life long Marylander and think it would be neat if I could glance over at the building when driving by and know Jimi played there. If it's still there. I know they played a lot of college campus gigs back then. 3 bucks a ticket!

I would've been six in 68 when you saw them.

 

[Fusion2]

humm, it's been 25 years since i was near DC last, it's the civic center in Largo i believe, or the Baltimore civic center, must have been Baltimore, don't think Largo was built in 68... still foggy

it was Baltimore, i wanted to go to woodstock but mum dropped the hammer on that, to far, it's to far... sigh.

i did see the two guys on the woodstock movie i was suppose to go with though, in mud up to there arses maybe it was an omen...

drugs, rain, mud and a sea of people....indeed...

Hendrix trashed his amps and the drum set, most awsome thing i'd ever seen at my age, burnt his strat... it blew our minds watching him, Eric Claption was the second act, Cream i believe it was...

He tried to match Hendrix in the equipment destruction dept but fell shy of it, still hell of a guitarist...

 

[MegaDrummer]

WOW!!!

Hendrix AND Cream? Now that's a fantasy show. If you had seen Jimi one year earlier, you would have seen a much different headliner. The Monkeys. Go figure.

It must have been Baltimore Civic Center because the Capital Center was built in the early 70s. Back before corporate sponsors started buying the naming rights to stadiums and arenas. I drive by the Civic Center at least once a week. Only ever seen the Grateful Dead there. All other local shows have been closer to DC.

Thanks for taking me along on your trip down memory lane!

http://megadrummer.curvedspaces.com

 

[Fusion2]

i saw Jonny Winters, Rush, Leslie West (Mountain) Yes, Led Zep, Pink Floyd and a few more at Largo... oh yeah, James Gang, humm, er... foggy again sorry... i still have all the ticket stubs though...

Long Long ago tis was... never did see the Monkeys, not my style

 

[Fusion2]

i frequented a club in DC, Georgetown, right off of M street under the whitehurst freeway, the bayou it was, Caught Rick Derringer there a few times and a few other great bands...

and all the other locial dives in Northern Va and MD, humm not much to recall about them execpt the girls

life was good then, wild but good... wish i could remember leaving there half the time to much tequela...

yup, woke up a few times with strange ladies in the bed, sheesh, i thought it was only in the movies nope, wrong there...

it was wacky back then, but we had a ball all the time... knock on wood...

 

[MegaDrummer]

Yeah, too many shows to remember...

And venues. Louie's Rock City in VA is one that your thoughts jogged outta my memory. Especially the part about waking up next to what's her name.

Between The Cap Center and Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, I saw every major rock act out there. Except Zeppelin. I had tickets to the "In Through The Out Door" tour, but it got canceled due to Bonham's death. I was bummed for years. I thought I would never see Zeppelin, and to fill the void saw The Firm twice and Robert Plant four times.

Then like a miracle, the "Unleaded" tour came in 96. Then even better, in 98 Page/Plant came to the MCI Center (MCI replaced the Largo Capital Center which they just imploded) located in the heart of downtown DC. This tour was without the Indian Orchestra and may as well been called Led Zeppelin. Over two and a half hours of Zepp tunes.

And here's the best, fantasy fulfilled part. I won FRONT ROW/CENTER seats from DC101 the rock radio station. We were close enough to see the nose hairs of Robert Plant! They did songs they said they would never do live again like Whole Lotta Love. Page brought the bow out, and that feed back thing with the big chrome antenna he uses.

All the depression that I had suffered was replaced 100 fold with great joy. I was high for months! I only had to wait 18 years. But it was worth it. I hear rumor of a new tour possible, this time with John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham on drums. Might depend on sales of the double DVD set being released this May 27th. I'm getting mine!

Anyway, back to Jimi. I have a collection of videos and DVDs of Jimi live. When you crank up the home theater, it's almost like being there.

At least you got to be, first hand. Everyone I talk to that saw him says the same thing. Never seen anything like it before, or since. Makes me wish for that time machine....

 

[MegaDrummer]

Page/Plant set list....

Page & Plant kicked off their US tour this week in Pensacola, Florida and from all accounts they have surpassed even themselves. The Pensacola News Journal wrote "One of the most impressive arsenals in rock history, former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page reached back effortlessly into the Zeppelin catalog, as well as debuted live performances from the duo's new album WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE." The second show in Tampa, Florida was a true rock 'n' roll extravaganza, and Page & Plant treated the audience to a slew of Led Zeppelin tracks and four new songs off of WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE. The set list is as follows:

Wanton Song
Bring It On Home
Heartbreaker
Ramble On
Walking Into Clarksdale
No Quarter
When I Was A Child
California
Tangerine
Gallows Pole
Burning Up
Babe I'm Gonna Leave
How Many More Times
Most High
Whole Lotta Love

****

(Encore)
Thank You
Rock & Roll

(Then for days I was Dazed & Confused!)

 

[Fusion2]

FLASH BACK!!!........LOL

correct you are, man, i gotta go deja vooo for a while now slap on some o'l tunes and chill back a few years...

thanks for the memories Mega, i'll bet you do rock, you know to much not to

 

[BrettB]

Nobody seems to know how the poor bloke died... RIP my man..

I always had this sympathy for Noel. He seemed very bitter man though, I guess he felt misunderstood and underestimated...

 

[Fusion2]

i fought through a hoard of people at largo (festival seating) to the barricades and bouncers to see Jonny Winters play with 5 finger picks, he was blind as a bat then unfortunately, he still never missed a lick...

i went to one other concert with festival seating and damn near got trampled to death fighting to get to the front, zipola, never again...

there were a sea of people and they were swaying back and forth and like packed sardines, awful it was, damn near passed out, never did make it to the front, bla, went home and thought about it then got scared it was a mega jam with 6 or 7 bands, REO, Mountain, James gang, er? Zzzz? foggy again, didn't last the whole concert, people were fuked up after 5-6hrs of it, puking, fighting, etc etc...

bet they never sponsered another concert like that again, and i never went to a gig without a seating arangement again either..

thanks again for the deja

 

[Fusion2]

DC101 Grease, as in Nino? i believe so, if you were lucky enough, spit coffie through my nose going to work a few times listening to him in the car... funny bastard he is... he's got a web site, do a google for the grease man, funny sheit indeed...

 

[Fusion2]

>Nobody seems to know how the poor bloke died... RIP my man..

could have been the industries doing, or a wife, or money, no telling, there's alot that can make one bitter today, maybe he just had a bad burrito day and is arse was on fire naw, but i can feel for someone with the flames, ain't to fun, heh...

lets hope he felt/was high as a kite on his departure anyway...