We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.