It always starts the same way, with a road-scuffed Fender Stratocaster and a revvedupMarshall amplifier, those skilful fingers exploring the fretboard until a riff sticks anda new song ignites. And from the cultural flashpoint of Sixties London with ProcolHarum, through 1974’s stadium- filling Bridge Of Sighs, right up to this year’sacclaimed Come And Find Me, it’s these addictive moments of creation that have keptthe guitarist vital, relevant and contemporary while his peers trade on past glories.Some people say I’m driven, but I think it’s just the love of doing it, reflects Trower ofa multi- million- selling solo catalogue fast approaching thirty releases (and that’sbefore you compute his collaborations with everyone from Jack Bruce to Bryan Ferry).I play guitar every day and just through messing around, ideas happen. I can never
feel the songs coming. But all of a sudden, you get a sliver of an idea and you think,
‘Oh, what’s this…?’
