Noel Redding

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

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.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.