Origin: London, England
Fat Mattress is most noted for including Noel Redding (guitar, vocals) who was the bassist of the hugely successful Jimi Hendrix Experience . Other original members included frontman Neil Landon (lead vocals), Jim Leverton (bass, harpsichord, organ, vocals) and Eric Dillon (drums, tuned percussion). The London based band actually formed in the fall of 1968, way before the formal breakup of the Experience in June, 1969 (Fat Mattress also opened for the Experience on multiple occasions). Redding had been somewhat frustrated with the Experience in that he was only able to contribute a few of his …