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.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.