“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

Andy Fairweather Low (left) leans into a note as he plays a solo on his black hollowbody electric; Eric Clapton (right) plays his Black Strat live in the early '90s.

Here’s a thought experiment. Picture the scene: Eric Clapton calls, he needs you as his sideman, which electric guitars from your collection do you take? For context, this is the early ‘90s. We’re in Clapton’s Fender Stratocaster era.

Well, the legendary Andy Fairweather Low got that call for real, and he took a guitar straight out of left-field, a Teisco Spectrum V – a full-stereo oddball electric with “bits of LEGO”. But in a recent interview for Guitarist magazine’s YouTube channel, Low admits that it didn’t go too well.