After dialling into George’s workshop, a quick ‘How are you?’ evokes: “I’m extremely busy! We’ve got about seven different projects going on at the minute. That’s kind of okay, but I’m 73 now,” he says with a laugh. Once again, we’re thinking, ‘Where have those years gone?’, but it’s that distant past that informs the design of this latest Lowden electric, the GL-J.
“In terms of playing, both the original GL-10 and this new GL-J are just as accessible up in the higher positions, so it wasn’t to do with the accessibility,” George explains. “It was really the fact that when I was a teenager I was very much a fan of Cream and Peter Green and plenty of other players, but my dream guitar, which I couldn’t afford, was…
