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!
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.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
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!