aware of Emerson, Lake & Palmer at school when I was about 15 or 16. I went to see ELP play in Glasgow and watched your man Keith Emerson pull his Hammond organ all over himself and sticking knives into the keyboards and whatever. The thing is, we had this music teacher at school and by Modest Mussorgsky, especially . And being familiar with that music, it was really interesting to see it being performed that way on Hammond organs and stuff. That really floated my boat and it was great to hear some stuff that was different because before then, I was into Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but this was so different. Greg Lake had an effect on my later playing. I first picked up a guitar around that time and I was like a sponge soaking everything up.
