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

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.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

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.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.