<\/p>\n Soon after their split in late 1969, he embarked on a prolific solo career. But it\u2019s his work with Waters and Clapton \u2014 where Low featured on both recordings and tours\u2014that etched his guitar-playing reputation into stone.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n We tapped him for memories of his time with some of rock\u2019s biggest artists, including Clapton, Waters, Hendrix, Pete Townshend and former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.<\/p>\n \n Andy Fairweather Low photographed at his home in Cardiff, Wales, August 30, 2013. (Image credit: Joby Sessions\/Guitarist Magazine)Jimi Hendrix<\/p>\n \u201cIn November 1967, Amen Corner were on a U.K. package tour with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, the Move, the Nice, Eire Apparent and the Outer Limits. [Northern Ireland\u2019s Eire Apparent featured future Spooky Tooth\/Wings guitarist Henry McCullough and were noted for having Hendrix produce and play on their only album].<\/p>\n \u201cThe shows were sometimes a bit lively and a bit out there, and the places we played were concrete town halls. In Sheffield, Jimi ended the set by smashing up the drums. Then in Newcastle, he sent his Flying V into the Marshall cab and proceeded to smash it.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently, Jimi liked our group. Kathy Etchingham, his girlfriend at the time, was asked what Jimi thought of the other acts on the bill, like Pink Floyd and the Nice. She said, \u2018Well, actually Jimi didn\u2019t really think too much about anything, but he did think that Amen Corner were all right.\u2019<\/p>\n \n Jimi Hendrix performing soundcheck at London\u2018s Saville Theatre in 1967. (Image credit: Alamy)<\/p>\n \u201cA couple of years later, I was in New York and Jimi asked me to come down to the studio to do some backing vocals on a new version of \u2018Stone Free.\u2019 [The April 1969 sessions produced a finished track that was first released on the 1975 album Crash Landing.]<\/p>\n \u201c[Engineer] Eddie Kramer was there taking care of everything, and my friend Roger Chapman was there as well. We both ended up putting backing vocals to the song. But in my humble opinion, the original \u2018Stone Free\u2019 was absolutely the best version.\u201d<\/p>\n Bill Wyman<\/p>\n \u201cThe first time I saw Bill was with the Rolling Stones, at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales, on February 28, 1964. That was the night that changed my whole life. That\u2019s when I knew I wanted to be a guitar player.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cBut my association with Bill began during the ARMS Charity Concerts in 1983. [The star-studded shows featuring Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and many others supported Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis and were created by ex-Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, who had MS.]. That\u2019s when our friendship really began. Because the tour was to raise money for Ronnie Lane, Bill then came up with the idea of putting an album together to raise even more money for the cause to help people with multiple sclerosis. So he put together the Willie & the Poor Boys album, and I got involved in that.<\/p>\n \n Andy Fairweather Low (left) performs an ARMS charity concert with Kenney Jones (drums), Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts (drums), Bill Wyman and Jeff Beck, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, September 20, 1983. (Image credit: Michael Putland\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we\u2019re making it, Bill had to go off to do some work with the Stones in Paris. He asked if I would produce a pair of songs for the album featuring Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers<\/a> while he was away. So I put a band together, with Jimmy Page on guitar, Paul on vocals and me on bass<\/a>, and we did \u2018Slippin\u2019 and Slidin\u2019\u2019 and \u2018These Arms of Mine.\u2019 They turned out really well.<\/p>\n \u201cSoon afterward, Bill and I were in a taxi on the way to do a breakfast TV show when he told me, \u2018They\u2019ve agreed to do a video for \u201cThese Arms of Mine,\u201d but they don\u2019t want you in it.\u2019 The double whammy was when Bill\u2019s manager asked to have Bill credited for my bass playing because he was known as a bassist.\u201d<\/p>\n Pete Townshend<\/p>\n \u201cThe first time I saw Pete was with the Who in 1965, and I might add, there weren\u2019t many people there either. But god, the energy!<\/p>\n \u201cI was staying at [producer] Glyn Johns\u2019 house while he was working on the Who\u2019s Who Are You album and Pete said, \u2018Tell Andy to come in to do some backing vocals.\u2019 So I did and ended up singing on \u2018Who Are You,\u2019 and five other songs too.<\/p>\n \u201cOn that album Pete was plugging his guitar directly into the board. [Townshend had a preamp that he plugged into a compressor and straight into the mixing console, and which he says he \u201cused a lot on Who Are You.\u201d<\/a>] Plugging into the board is generally a shit sound, but when Pete plugged in and banged an A chord\u2026 My god, the attack! You could cut metal with it. Nobody plays an A chord like Pete.\u201d<\/p>\n Roger Waters<\/p>\n \u201cMy first encounter with Roger was on that November 1967 U.K. package tour with Jimi Hendrix. We had an issue. Our manager at the time was Ron King, who was an associate of the Krays [the famed British organized-crime kingpins Ronnie and Reggie Kray]. Roger had shouted at me \u2014 mind you I was still only a teenager \u2014 for touching a Leslie speaker. Ron heard it and told Roger, \u2018If you do that again, I\u2019ll break your fucking legs!\u2019 Ron was connected. He meant it.<\/p>\n \u201cI never understood the Floyd back then at all. I kept thinking to myself, Where\u2019s the backbeat? Their first song in their short set on that tour was \u2018Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,\u2019 and the song absolutely baffled me. The irony is that it became my favorite song to play when I was in Roger\u2019s band later on.<\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s how that happened: Eric Clapton had been in Roger\u2019s band for his Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking album and tour. Afterward, when Roger made his Radio K.A.O.S. album, he reached out to me: \u2018Roger Waters here, we\u2019d like you to come up and see if we get on.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThe night before I went to his studio, I had been working with Bill Wyman and had drunk at least a liter of a red wine. I woke up at 9:00 a.m., not feeling great. I rushed to the studio and Roger asked me to play on a track. And we didn\u2019t just \u2018get on\u2019\u2014we really got on!<\/p>\n \n Roger Waters performs on the Radio K.A.O.S. tour, September 9, 1987. (Image credit: Paul Natkin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cSoon afterward I went to work for Roger \u2014 for 24 years! He likes to laugh, and I like working with people who can laugh. I know what you\u2019re thinking about Roger<\/a>, but take it from me: I was there for 24 fabulous years. I wouldn\u2019t have stayed if it wasn\u2019t. 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