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Which flats did Noel Redding use?

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Worrying about what brand of flatwound strings Noel Redding used has to be THE least important thing possible for a Hendrix cover band. For one thing, flats are flats are flats pretty much. For another, who but you is even going to know anyway?

Bass, amp, cab/s, playing style, getting the parts right, and even the "look" are all far more important. This is getting into "no brown m&m's" levels. Sure, if you have EVERYTHING ELSE sorted out already, go ahead and worry about the brand of flats he was using (apparently only while he didn't have his own bass).

By the way, Hendrix played a lot of bass parts himself in the studio. Are you going to have the guitarist double up on those songs when you play out?
 
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jungleheat said:
Worrying about what brand of flatwound strings Noel Redding used has to be THE least important thing possible for a Hendrix cover band. For one thing, flats are flats are flats pretty much. For another, who but you is even going to know anyway?

Bass, amp, cab/s, playing style, getting the parts right, and even the "look" are all far more important. This is getting into "no brown m&m's" levels. Sure, if you have EVERYTHING ELSE sorted out already, go ahead and worry about the brand of flats he was using (apparently only while he didn't have his own bass).

By the way, Hendrix played a lot of bass parts himself in the studio. Are you going to have the guitarist double up on those songs when you play out?
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Hendrix played bass on roughly half of the "Electric Ladyland" album. That's significant, especially since many consider that album to be his magnum opus. However, Noel Redding played all the bass on the first two albums as well as on some important songs on "Electric Ladyland."
 
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if the bandleader is a "stickler for details," then he wants *this* to be your rig:

Noelpic6.jpg
 
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Sorry to revive this old thread guys, but I was just wondering the same thing.

I always assumed I was hearing a JB on Are You Experienced? Particularly Wind Cries Mary. It sounds like an extension of the Stratocaster, in the same pickup position. (Bridge-Middle, I believe.) I never knew he played EB on the first album, I find that a bit surprising.

Have any of you seen this really great video of them playing it on Stockholm TV on 5/24/67? Redding is on a JB. Of course, the video isn't sharp enough to determine if he's playing flats or rounds. I have a sharper copy on my computer, but I still can't quite say, nor can I verify Jimi's pickup position. But this recording, aside from being tuned flat, sounds a hell of a lot like the record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsVs0Zhb4bQ

I love their early period.
 
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lunarpollen said:
I'm beginning to think that the "tapewounds" referred to by Entwistle on "My Generation" were just LaBella flatwounds. It seems "tapewound" was another way of saying "flatwound" or "ribbonwound" back then (maybe a U.K. thing?)... Townshend referred to the strings on his Rickenbacker 12-string as "tapewounds," and they were most definitely flatwounds (I believe made by Pyramid for Rickenbacker).
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I know it is an old thread but have first hand experience of this.

Yes back then in the UK anything not round wound was referred to as tapewound.

I bought a beat up 62P in about 1969 and was told by the store assistant that it had it's original tapewounds on and I was strongly advised to buy roundwounds. They certainly looked like they had not been cleaned (or even wiped) for 7 years, they were covered in black "crud". You felt that you needed to wash your hands after playing it.

IIRC I put a set of Rotosound "John Entwhistles" on although that may have been the second set I bought a year or two later.
 

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