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FAT MATTRESS

Fat Mattress are primarily known as the just-post-Jimi Hendrix Experience band of Noel Redding, putting out a 

couple of albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Jimi Hendrix connection was probably responsible 

for gaining Fat Mattress much of whatever attention they managed to attract. It might have been a double-edged 

sword, however, as Fat Mattress' music wasn't at all similar to what Redding had played with Hendrix, 

being in far lighter folk-rock, psychedelic, and early prog rock styles, and integrating plenty of vocal harmonies. 

Too, Redding wasn't a dominant figure in the band, though he was an important one; Fat Mattress was a true 

group effort, with fellow members Neil Landon and Jim Leverton writing about as much of their material as Redding did.

Fat Mattress formed in late 1968 shortly before Redding's ultimate departure from Hendrix's band. Redding had been 

frustrated to an extent in the Experience, playing bass although he had more experience as a guitarist, and barely 

being allowed to write anything on their records. Fat Mattress would open up more opportunities for him to both 

play guitar (and sing), and to record more original material. The rest of the band were, like Redding, from 

Folkestone in England. Singer Landon had done a stint in the Ivy League, and multi-instrumentalist Leverton 

had been in the backing band of Engelbert Humperdinck, where he met Fat Mattress' drummer, Eric Dillon

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Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: POLYDOR -  RED LABEL - BLACK TEXT (rim in white)

Catalog on cover: 583 056

     Catalog on labels: 583056 A / 583056 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): 583056 B? ?  A ? 2  11  7

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): 583056 A? ?  B ? 2  11  7

On labels: rim text reads "All rights.......prohibited"

Made in England

Copyright Control

ST33(circled)

? 1969

Produced by Fat Mattress

Engineer: George Chkiantz

On Inside Bottom Right Panel: Produced by the Fat Mattress

Photography Gered Mankowitz

tracklisting

Side A: ALL NIGHT DRINKER* - I DON'T MIND - BRIGHT NEW WAY

PETROL PUMP ASSISTANT - MR. MOONSHINE

*Chris Wood flute

Side B: MAGIC FOREST - SHE CAME IN THE MORNING - EVERYTHING'S BLUE

WALKING THROUGH A GARDEN - HOW CAN I LIVE

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RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Fat Mattress' first album must have come as a surprise to fans expecting something at least somewhat related to the former activities of its most famous member, ex-Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding. But Fat Mattress doesn't sound at all like Jimi Hendrix (and, for that matter, Redding plays guitar on the album, not bass). Instead, it's pleasant late-'60s psychedelia with a far lighter touch than the hard bluesy psychedelic rock Redding played with Hendrix. From the sound of things, Redding (who had a hand in writing much of the material) and his new cohorts were doing some heavy listening to California psychedelic rock and folk-rock, as this is far breezier and more oriented toward harmony vocals. It's often like an amalgam of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, and Love, with some passing nods to British psychedelia by Traffic (whose Chris Wood plays flute on "All Night Drinker"), the Move, and the Small Faces; there's even a bit of a Monkees-go-spacy feel to "I Don't Mind."...(AllMusic)