I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
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.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.