I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
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.
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!