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

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.

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

I’d gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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

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

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!

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

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...

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

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.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

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.

No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.

I still say keep away from LSD.

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

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

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

I took a lot of LSD over many years.

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

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

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.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

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.