Former bass guitarist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience Noel Redding has died at the age of 57.
Mr Redding had been living in West Cork for a number of years.
"Noel passed away. Noel Redding Born 25th December 1945, Died 11th May 2003," manager Ian Grant said on his website, www.trackrecords.co.uk.
"Noel reunites with Jimi and his mother Margaret who died only a few weeks ago," he wrote. He gave no details of the circumstances of Mr Redding's death.
Experience Hendrix, the company that looks after the guitarist's catalogue, also confirmed his death on its website, www.jimi-hendrix.com.
Mr Redding, along with drummer Mitch Mitchell, backed Hendrix on the 1967 debut album Are You Experienced, an instant classic that introduced Hendrix as a singer, composer and virtuoso of the electric guitar.
With songs like Purple Haze, Hey Joeand The Wind Cries Mary, and a sound that mixed hard rock with blues and soul, it was one of the most influential albums in a year that saw such classics as the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The trio recorded several more landmark albums until Hendrix dissolved it shortly before his death in 1970.
