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“He said, ‘Put it away and get a proper guitar!’ So it went by the wayside”: Andy Fairweather Low had a guitar specially bought for him in America, then brought back across the Atlantic – but Eric Clapton wouldn't let him use it onstage

“I was drawn to it immediately,” the journeyman player says of the guitar in question. “It's got colors and knobs and bits of Lego”

“One night after the Albert Hall he said, ‘Put it away and get a proper guitar!’”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton and how Slowhand was unimpressed by his oddball Teisco

“One night after the Albert Hall he said, ‘Put it away and get a proper guitar!’”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton and how Slowhand was unimpressed by his oddball Teisco

Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so much...

“I get a call, ‘Hello, Andy, it’s Roger Waters.’ Who? I hadn’t paid attention to their names”: Andy Fairweather Low was personally recruited by the Pink Floyd legend – but didn’t know who he was when he came calling

“I get a call, ‘Hello, Andy, it’s Roger Waters.’ Who? I hadn’t paid attention to their names”: Andy Fairweather Low was personally recruited by the Pink Floyd legend – but didn’t know who he was when he came calling

In the 1980s, the rhythm guitar hero was sounded out by Waters for a new band, but there was a clumsy first introduction…

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Celebrating 50 Years Of Rush: an exclusive new interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Styx, Joe Satriani, The Doors, DeWolff, Sweet, Mark Tremonti, Metallica, Andy Fairweather Low, Tom Morello, Brothers Osborne, The Struts and more

“The interviewer asked Joe Satriani, ‘Why Andy Fairweather Low?’ And that’s exactly the question I would’ve asked, too”: He's played with Eric Clapton, George Harrison and David Gilmour, but now, this rhythm guitar hero is ready to take center stage

‘The Invisible Bluesman’ on why he probably won’t write any more songs, the ignored art of rhythm guitar, why he always thinks, ‘Why me?’ – and trying to persuade an amp expert to build a deliberately inefficient model

“Clapton’s manager says, ‘George Harrison wants you to do the tour and play all the slide parts – he doesn’t want to do it’”: When rhythm guitar hero Andy Fairweather Low was recruited by a Beatle to play slide – even though he’d never played slide before

Harrison and Fairweather Low had a mutual love for Ry Cooder’s slide guitar playing, and the Beatle convinced the Eric Clapton rhythm guitarist to develop his own slide chops for a Japanese tour

“Their albums hadn’t accomplished much. I went to see them and liked them, especially the new songs… I then witnessed their break-up”: How manager Dave Margereson rebuilt Supertramp and helped them deliver a set of classic prog albums

With an approach based on belief and cameraderie, the self-described captain of the band’s pirate ship steered them from failing pop group to hit records including Crime Of The Century and Breakfast In America

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A rebuilt Wall, Madonna's producer and an American academic: How Roger Waters saved himself

A rebuilt Wall, Madonna's producer and an American academic: How Roger Waters saved himself

At the start of the 90s, Roger Waters was up against it. An epic concert of The Wall in Berlin was the first brick in rebuilding his career, followed by his third solo album, Amused To Death

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: 11 of our favourite performances from past years

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: 11 of our favourite performances from past years

The 2023 line-up is phenomenal and features past artists that helped set the standard including John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr and Vince Gill

Andy Fairweather Low continues as the master of nonsense titles on Flang Dang

Andy Fairweather Low continues as the master of nonsense titles on Flang Dang

High-pitched hitmaker and guitar sideman Andy Fairweather Low releases first solo studio album in a decade

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