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

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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

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

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

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