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

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

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

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

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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.

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The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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