A newly resurfaced account of Noel Redding, bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, details the financial and personal struggles he faced in the decades after Hendrix's death in 1970. Though celebrated for co-creating the band's iconic sound on tracks like "Purple Haze" and "All Along the Watchtower", Redding spent years fighting the Hendrix estate for royalties he believed he was owed, a battle that took a heavy toll on his finances and wellbeing.

In 1973, low on money after a drug bust and divorce, Redding was hopeful his case would be bolstered by testimony from the Experience's former manager, Michael Jeffrey, but Jeffrey died in a plane crash before he could testify. With his key witness gone, Redding's lawyers pressed him to accept a flat $100,000 settlement, relinquishing all future rights, a deal he came to regret bitterly as Hendrix's catalogue generated vast posthumous earnings. He later relocated to rural Ireland and, in 1980, sold his iconic Fender Jazz Bass for just $16,000; two decades on, he encountered the same instrument on display at Seattle's Experience Music Project, having been acquired by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.