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Which flats did Noel Redding use?

#41
I think a Hendrix tribute band would be the most difficult thing to do. Who do you please? The people who've only heard the studio cuts or the people who have heard live recordings? Do you keep it simple and replicate Hendrix's 1968-69 live set or do you try and capture the album sounds?

If you listen to the end of Wild Thing from Monterey (where Jimi is trashing his strat) you hear Noel run up and down blues scales with a really trebly tone that suggests roundwounds to me.
 
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Meddle said:
I think a Hendrix tribute band would be the most difficult thing to do. Who do you please? The people who've only heard the studio cuts or the people who have heard live recordings? Do you keep it simple and replicate Hendrix's 1968-69 live set or do you try and capture the album sounds?

If you listen to the end of Wild Thing from Monterey (where Jimi is trashing his strat) you hear Noel run up and down blues scales with a really trebly tone that suggests roundwounds to me.
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Was he using plectrum or fingers? :hmm:
 
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Meddle said:
I think a Hendrix tribute band would be the most difficult thing to do. Who do you please? The people who've only heard the studio cuts or the people who have heard live recordings? Do you keep it simple and replicate Hendrix's 1968-69 live set or do you try and capture the album sounds?
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Live sound, of course!
 
#45
Resurrecting this to add some stuff. I think that I started this thread.
I have played off and on in a Hendrix cover band for years now. We try to play studio stuff note for note like the album. BOG stuff and other live covers have more room to jam.
I use a sunburst jazz bass when I play the Hendrix stuff. I used to have a full Marshall stack, but there are hardly any venues left where that works.
I would rock the 'fro if anyone ever asked me to! Thanks to the nice comments. I had forgotten about this thread for a bit.
 
#49
In a really old Guitar Player magazine with an interview, before Bass Player magazine split off, I recall that Noel Redding said in later years, wherever he went, he would rent a Jazz Bass, and take his own strings. I believe they were Rotosound Swingbass.

OK - "stickler" for details - remember that the live details were usually different than the studio details. What does the OP's band want: the record, or what they should be looking for, the live version, since the band is going to play live? If studio, it is an exercise in futility in getting about a half dozen different instruments and amps, and remember that Jimi himself played bass on some of the tracks. On the other hand, for live it was a '64 Jazz Bass with the covers off, Rotosound Swingbass, played with a pick since Redding started as a guitar player, and Sunn amps and cabs, cranked.

Check out this article on his instruments:
http://www.univibes.com/noelreddinggear.html

And check out this article on his amps:
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Complete with the quote, "With Hendrix, the settings always remained in one position: full up."

The guitar player in the OP's band might like this article:
http://www.guitarworld.com/interview-roger-mayer-secrets-jimi-hendrixs-guitar-setup

And, for amps - will the rest of the OP's bandmates help him with the stack of Sunn amps and cabs?
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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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NOT Pyramid. Back in the day, Rickenbacker used strings which were made by Maxima. And yes, "tape" referred to the flat ribbon wrap, not nylon. Hofner may have used Pyramid; at least that is the company propaganda.
 
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I respectfully disagree. They have always been two separate companies. They may have subcontracted to each other at various times, but they are completely different companies.
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N.F.A. said:
Okay, so here is what I have found out. For the first album Redding didn't even own a bass. He borrowed Chas Chandler's Gibson EB2 from Oct. 66 until Feb. 67. They had recorded the first album by then. So, I guess the real question is which flats did Chandler use? It turns out that Chas wrote most of the bass parts for the first album too. Cool with me. Some of his bass lines with the Animals are the best lines ever, IMO.
So, when you read Redding say he only played Rotosounds, he is referring to the time after Are You Experienced came out.
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Not doubting you here (although I've never heard this before), but I recall hearing that Hendrix was pretty specific about the bass lines on his own tunes. I'm betting he had more to do with the bass parts that ended up on AYE than Chas. Wasn't the fact that Hendrix told Noel what to play one of the things that annoyed him and maybe was a factor as to why he left the band?
 

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