Three CD set. Complete anthology of Noel Redding's post-Jimi Hendrix Experience band. Comprises their three albums (one unreleased at the time), non-album single tracks, out- takes, radio and TV sessions as well as the first-ever reissue of the alternative US-only mix of their debut LP. Primarily a songwriting vehicle for former Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding, Fat Mattress were launched in a blaze of publicity in the summer of 1969. With Redding (now reverting to his preferred instrument of guitar) joined by former Flower Pot Men singer Neil Landon and ex-Engelbert Humperdinck touring band members Jim Leverton and Eric Dillon, Fat Mattress recorded a fine debut album (actually cut in December 1968) that charted in America. Unfortunately, Redding quit the band midway through a volatile US tour, the rump of the band going on to release a second album without him before he returned to the line-up for a third Fat Mattress LP. But a disagreement with manager Chas Chandler meant that the third album failed to gain a release at the time, and Fat Mattress split again, this time permanently. The final word on a talented but star-crossed band, How Can I Live? assembles everything that they recorded during their brief existence, including BBC radio and German TV sessions as well as the first-ever reissue in any format of the American mix of that impressive debut album.

Track List

1. All Night Drinker
2. I Don't Mind
3. Bright New Way
4. Petrol Pump Assistant
5. Mr. Moonshine
6. Magic Forest
7. She Came In The Morning
8. Everything's Blue
9. Walking Through A Garden
10. How Can I Live?
11. Little Girl In White
12. Eric The Red
13. Naturally (Single Mix Stereo)
14. Iridescent Butterfly
15. (Non-Album Single Stereo) 15 Magic Forest (Single Mix Mono)
16. All Night Drinker
17. I Don't Mind
18. Bright New Way
19. Petrol Pump Assistant
20. Mr. Moonshine
21. Magic Forest
22. She Came In The Morning
23. Everything's Blue
24. Walking Through A Garden
25. How Can I Live
26. Naturally (Tv Performance)
27. Mr. Moonshine (Tv Performance)
28. Magic Forest (TvPerformance)
29. Happy My Love (Radio Session)
30. Mr. Moonshine (Radio Session)
31. Naturally (Radio Session)
32. The Storm
33. Anyway You Want
34. Leafy Lanes
35. Naturally
36. Roamin'
37. Happy My Love
38. Childhood Dream
39. She
40. Highway
41. At The Ball
42. People
43. Hall Of Kings
44. Black Sheep Of The Family
45. Margarita
46. Cold Wall Of Stone
47. Long Red
48. Words
49. The River
50. Future Days
51. Which Way To Go

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