JIM MORRIS

As an aspiring classical guitarist and music student, Balaam And The Angel’s Jim Morris was smitten by ELP’s blend of the old and new.

JM

“ELP’s Pictures At An Exhibition was an important album in my teenage years. My brothers and I used to club our pocket money to buy albums and this record came in as a result of [drummer sibling] Des’s interest in it. It’s a fantastic piece of music; it was that combination of being a rock band making a noise while doing an interpretation of classical music. That virtuosity was a fantastic thing for me to see and to aspire to at the time. I started out studying classical guitar and I went to the London College Of Music to do a classical music degree. The importance of the album came back later. Balaam were doing a gig at the Hammersmith Clarendon Ballroom around 1984, and because we’d been using some brass…

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