At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
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!
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
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.
I still say keep away from LSD.
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
I think the affects of drugs seemed to differ with who was taking what and when.
I took a lot of LSD over many years.
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
I went onto the Mandolin at about twelve years old and then I went on to the guitar when I was about fourteen years old.
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.
No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
So it's all a good memory basically.
The ending of Foxy Lady was mine.
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it's the subconscious that comes out.
The whole scene wasn't that crazy.
There were times when Jimi showed me little licks but there again I showed him licks as well, on his songs, which I never got credit for.
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 used to hang out with Brian at the Speakeasy and he used to take me home in his Rolls and drop me off at my '6 a week flat.
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.
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