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" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "
School
Age
Nine
" But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. "
Bass
Playing
Why
" 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! "
Hair
Thought
Crazy
" Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. "
Drummers
Different
Before
" 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. "
Experience
Broken
Animals
" I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. "
Professional
Gone
Seventeen
" I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it. "
Natural
Mushroom
OK
" I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise. "
Best
Violin
Up
" 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! "
Sometimes
Knowing
Us
" I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix. "
Band
Guy
Hendrix
" I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame. "
Beatles
Would
Sort
" My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me. "
Doing
Lady
Me
" My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well. "
Jeff
Others
Personal
" On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo. "
Up
Came
Solo
" The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation. "
Writing
Experience
People
" The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small! "
Small
Strangers
Think
" 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. "
Days
Down
Like
" Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. "
Writing
Fat
Had
" Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically. "
Well
Three
Through
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