Playing bass with Jimi Hendrix: Noel Redding & Billy Cox – Bass Habits – Ep 56
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NOEL REDDING…
thank youb for this great perspective, i was always switchibg from bass to guitar with my brother, in our bands, i played guitar on songs that i wrote on guitar, and i played bass on songs i wrote on on the bass, my brother was really a great guitarist and bass player. later after we split, i became a very good guitar player like my brother. been a fan of jimi since 1971,,,,,,cheers to you and all from italy,,robert
I love Noel's bass playing, and i think he was a huge part of the reason Jimi was generating ao many hits at the time. I also love that he was a pick player, and for a guitarist-turned-bassist, he sure knew what he was doing.
My opinion that Billy Cox was a much better bass player for Jimmy’s style and sounds if you listen, but you did not mention what was played on the band of Gypsies live album such as machine gun and everything else on that is an incredible album. Even Miles Davis felt the same way and was quoted and giving the record to Credit to serve with him and Buddy Miles.
Great work Paul! Fantastic.
But on many of these tracks jimi Hendrix was playing the bass. He often did the final bass track
Love the bass parts, but i love playing Spanish castle magic.
I gotta try that Cox Box
Noel's warm loud bass tone in live performances was really the anchor of the band's sound when Jimi and Mitch would often go off on tangents. He was also the guy who would challenge Jimi's sometimes odd studio behavior. I don't think it's a coincidence The Experience unraveled quite quickly after Noel left.
I usually LISTEN to this video while driving, like a podcast. But today I am watching it again (I'm fascinated by Billy Cox…. I was not aware Jimi changed bassists until watching this video earlier this year!! ????????).
Anyway, in WATCHING it today I noticed the subtle Double Dragon reference ????. LOVE that! I'm a big retro games player/fan❤????????
Good work all round dude! ????
Mitch favored Jimi on bass in the studio and he liked Billy Cox’s heavier style. I don’t think Mitch was crazy about Noel’s bass playing. Noel though, dud have his qualities as a bass player. I think he could have been a great second songwriter in the band as “Little Miss Strange” was such a cool tune.
Billy Cox said that Hendrix called him from England and wanted him to be the bass player in the Experience. This was before Noel was chosen. Billy said it might not go over so great having 2 black guys in the band so he declined.
Did Jimi's bass players tune down to Eb as well as Jimi?
Live hendrix was a nightmare…studio fabulous.
I think Noel was a better fit with Mitch's loose, yet busy playing style. Billy's solid groove was paired perfectly with Buddy Miles' funky playing IMO. The degree in which they were locked in together was impressive to say the least. I never sensed that same musical communication between Billy and Mitch.
Noel played on the vast majority of Hendrix' best tracks, so he must have been doing something right.
Billy is probably my favourite bassist of all time. His playing, fluidity and creativity on tracks like "Dolly Dagger", "Room Full of Mirrors" or "Freedom" – to name but a few – is unsurpassable. That's just my opinion, of course. I mean no offence to Noel. His performances on the re-recorded version of "Stone Free" or even "Highway Chile" show that he was proficient. However, whenever I listen to those basslines, I can almost hear where Billy would have improved on them, added a run or so on. What a shame that Billy was otherwise indisposed when Jimi called him in 1966 from London!
Thanks , I Am A Kinda Coxfan. Have 1.5 meters Jimi H, on Vinyl, My Left Thumb Broke Twice, THEY Tell Me ALWAYS To By A McCartneyBass, I, For One, Care LESS ForThem. Advice,please Regards From Dag
I think most fans know that Jimmy played the bass part on most all of his records .
Both excellent bassists, imho.
" ok, Mr.Jimi, ill play bass…i guess."
Excellent commentary job well done my friend.
When you hear round wound bass with a pick it is Redding, when you hear flat wound bass with a pick it is Hendrix playing bass on many Axis and Electric Ladyland songs when you hear flat wound bass with fingers it is Billy Cox.
It’s debatable as whether a more proficient professional UK bassist would have suited Jimi upon his arrival to The UK in 1966…
Noel was willing to learn and do exactly what Jimi asked for when they started…he correctly sussed Jimi had something extraordinary whereas a more experienced (ha!) bassist might have hesitated or wilfully refused to go along with Jimi’s flights of fantastic innovation…
Obviously when the insanity of Jimi as a superstar got to be too much, Noel had to leave… just like Chas had to leave but…
at the same time
it’s great that Jimi could call upon his old friend Billy to groove with him and Mitch…
or Buddy Miles…
It’s just too bad that the superstar insanity destroyed Jimi so quickly
Noel is the era of Hendrix I first grew up with, having the first three albums. I really dig that era more because it was the first one for me. But i'm a drummer first Mitch Mitchell is a really great drummer
Cox was more funk/motown and excellent, therefore giving a soulful feeling to the songs he played on. Redding was more straight ahead rock. I think Redding probably gave more "room" for Hendrix to move around which was more suited to Jimi's psychedelic visions. Cox was part of the structure of the song.
Cox & Hendrix.
Is there a Jack Bruce video?
I recall Noel tossing his bass guitar down and walking off stage toward the end of the closing song at Denver Pop Festival June 29 1969. I was about 6 feet to Jimi's right. Mitch kept playing while Jimi was playing lead on the higher register of his guitar , unforgettable since a cast iron tweeter horn was aimed at my left ear.
If you want to know who did what in studio then talk to Eddie Kramer. It is known that Jimi did numerous bass tracks as Noel would spend an hour or so there and then go to a "pub" while Jimi would spend hours in studio and would invite most anyone to play and some appeared on their own such as a drunk Brian Jones who play keyboard for about 13 seconds before Jimi hollered "Stop" which was the recording session for "All Along The Watchtower".
I was interviewed years after about Denver Pop Festival's Jimi Hendrix Experience final show and you can find it in archives of my website here https://web.archive.org/web/20060621060635/http://www.bobwyman.com/hendrix.html
Jimi's next gig was Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Noel Redding's career in music seemed to end at that point as did his income from working for Hendrix but that is a musicians lot in life, they rarely pay attention to the financial end of things which leaves most in debt and struggling for the rest of their life to make ends meet. I am sure he had offers that he turned down while hoping to cash in from his past. Possibly offers did not meet his expectations but I have heard or read he lived a good life anyone one of us would have enjoyed. Mitch already had a career in entertainment from a young age and I never saw or heard of him complaining. Please note that the bass line on Hey Joe was the bass line a group called The Leaves used in their version and release of that song before Jimi was a name. And a claim by this video about stereo mix of bass being in the center is incorrect as bass frequency is low and coming out on stereo speaker is hard for the human ear to detect where it originates. Portable stereos that have high frequency speakers usually have one for low freqs plus these systems can be played at a higher volume than one would suspect at first glance. The bass speaker can be placed anywhere and the user can decide where it is best.
Besides noel really preferred play the guitar than the bass
As far as bass i like billy cox now on drums i prefered mitch Mitchell
Playing in a Jimi Tribute band I like Billy Cox’s bass lines, they have more of a soulful groove, Noel is more straight forward, both are fine but I dig Billy more