Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

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

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

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

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

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