The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
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.