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.

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

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.

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.