The indignity of it all

[Dave W]

 

No Room on Setlist for Song Bassist Wrote; Next Time for Sure Though

[Pilgrim]

[uwe]

Root notes and fifths only, don't move too much either!

[westen44]

Noel Redding was able to get "Little Miss Strange" and "She's So Fine" in, though.  It can be done.  Rinus Gerritsen got in "Distant Love" on Golden Earring's "Keeper of the Flame" album.  Nevertheless, it's better to be a major songwriting presence in the band in the first place like Sting, Paul McCartney or Jack Bruce. 

[Rob]

"She walks with a bell clock round her neck so all the hippies thing she's in with time.
Shudda passed NR."

[westen44]

"She walks with a bell clock round her neck so all the hippies thing she's in with time.
Shudda passed NR."

Noel Redding was not a lyricist at all.  Listen to some of the lyrics on songs he wrote for the Road album.  They're even worse than the songs he did for Hendrix.  Like on this one.  On the other hand. as far as trippy early 70s songs go, it's not all that bad of a song.  Just don't expect Kantian abstract thought in the lyrics.   In my opinion, lyrically this is his worst song, though.  Those songs on "Axis:  Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland" fit in as far as I'm concerned.  Just the fact that Hendrix was playing guitar on them gave them some appeal.  Plus, even even if you're just an average bassist, playing with Hendrix is going to cause you to up your game, whether consciously or not.