I'm doing good, just track sounding great on the radio. Hey listen,
man, thank you for coming on. It's been going back and forth with
your publicist for a while now, but I'm great. I'm grateful to have
you. I'm a super fan. I'll try not to fan boy you too
much, but I got to ask you this. This new record, hell
Fire and Damnation. The story I get on this is the title comes from
a saying that you heard quite frequently in your youth. Is there truth to
that? Yeah? My father used to say, my dad here big you
know it was Yeah, he used to say all the time I got into
trouble, it'd be like health, fid damnation. Where we've been doing now?
So instead of stuck in my head, you on. And I wanted
to do a song about good and evil, you know, the fight between
good and evil. So it seemed to fit really well with the song we
were writing. Dwight just mentioned to you about Arizona, so he flew out
to Arizona and one of his friends recorded this audio from from that night.
This is fanboy. You're on stage asking what they want to hear? Here
we go, right, you want to listen two songs that what was right
back and win that. Okay, stopping stop embarrassing me? In from bev
Byford. Man, I'm in radio for thirty years, thirty years, I
finally land the interview of my dreams with v Vifford and you embarrass me.
Man, Hey, be you know what, No, no, no,
Beth Byford, I'm unapologetic. And by the way, I'm stone cold sober
in that audio clip. That's how excited. That's how excited I get at
the at a sack the show. And if you've ever seen Saxon come out
this uh this Sunday night. But I gotta tell you, man, the
energy is off the charts. When you guys take the stage and stone coats
over, I'm yelling and screaming. I'm front row at the barricade there.
You guys just bring so so much energy to the stage is incredible. Yeah,
we'll give it undred percent that we're not you know, so you gotta
do that, you know, you gotta you gotta keep fit, you gotta
go for it. If you're gonna go for it, men, as we'll
go for an hundred percent. There's no point doing ninety percent. You know,
we don't. We don't do the ninety percent. We do one hundred
percent. So yeah, we have good fun and try, you know,
the our audience that we you know, we try to include the audience in
the stage, you know, on the set list, we ask them what
you want to hear. You know. It's a great fun really And by
the way, that's a good point. I'm glad you brought that up.
Bib Bifert from a Saxon is our guest. If you have if you've never
seen Saxon, do not miss this opportunity. I doubt they'll be back to
Louisville again because I want to talk about the last time you all beat We're
here in just a second. It's a hell of a show. You'll be
a you become a fan instantly. But I want to talk about you say
you get the fans involved. I was a one show and you picked up
the set list and you said, you know it was Nashville. You picked
up the set list, you're ripping in half and there's your set list and
you just did request. Is that taxing when you do something like that,
does the band pissed off at you? Or is it? No? It's
pretty good. I mean they're great boys. The band you know they're yeah,
they're for it. Really. You know, most of the songs that
most of the songs that people request, we can play. You know,
we have a we have a massive repertoire. You sometimes get some obscure track
that you know we haven't played for like, you know, thirty years or
something, and you know, sometimes I have to cough and say, we
can't play that one. So, but not not very often. Usually usually
we'll have a go at it, you know, because we're not we're a
live band. You know, there's no no click tracks, some things running,
so we can pretty much do what we want really, So each concert
is different for Saxon, you know, it's it's a different textperience every night.
Well, I've only heard Ride Like the Win, your version of Ryde
Like the Wind one time. And I've seen Saxon so many times. The
wife and I we fly across the country to see you all. But I
want to talk about my very first Saxon show. It was a brilliant triple
bill. Here's the bill. It's Saxon, it's Iron Maiden, and it's
Fast Way. It's at Louisville Gardens in nineteen eighty three. And then Saxon
missed the stage and you play this song. Dave hit this song real quick,
Beth. I hear this song and I'm staring at the stage and I'm
saying, who the hell are these guys. The very next day, the
very next day, I cut school. I go to Phoenix Records on Dixie
Highway and I purchased The Power and the Glory, And the very next day,
Dan and Leather, I've been fan since nineteen eighty three, just from
that very first performance. Yeah, do you remember the show, because here's
here's there's no way you're gonna remember this. But some for some whatever reason,
Saxon comes out when Iron Maiden is on the stage and there's a pie
fight. Does that ring a bell at all? Oh? Yeah, it
was the last show. It was the last show the tour, and yeah,
we were just doing stupid things to each other. I think Maiden came
out on our show, and I think they all dressed like Adol Fitler.
Yes, yeah, it was, you know, pretty much last day of
the tour, goofing around. Really, it's good for I think. I
think I it's Adrian Smith on the face with a with a peek on pie.
Our guests Our guest is beff Byford. If you've never seen Saxon,
I'm pleading with you go see this band Sunday night. You won't regret.
It's a great double bill Saxon with your Raya Heap Mercury ball Room this Sunday.
But Sacks but Beth, I'd be remissed. And these are extremely late,
but sincere condolences. I wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss of
your dear friend Lemmy from Motorhead, because there was so many great tours with
saxs and and Motorhead. So I wanted to say I'm sorry because I know
you and Limmy you were close, very personally close. Yeah, we're very
close, good mates and uh you know we used to hang out together quite
a bit and uh you know you sang on a few of our songs and
you know, it was it was it was a you know, it was
a rock rock and rock etgend Lemmy, and you know, everybody that knew
him sort of liked him. It was a nice guy. You know,
he got this image of like, you know, the hell raising rebel,
you know, but actually it was a pretty well read, uh you know,
really interesting guy. Really to talk to and a lot of the similarities
between I think at least there's similarities between Ween, Motorhead and Sacks and plenty
of similarities. But one of them I think is you get history lessons out
of songs. I mean, you know, Dallas one PM with you guys,
and Lemmy was a Motorhead. I mean, Lemmy was a history buff.
But a lot of your songs are historical tunes, right, Yeah,
yeah, I mean let me we're always you know, we're into history and
we you know, we talked about history quite a lot. It was,
it was really into it. So yeah, I mean we're storytellers and that's
what we you know, that's what he used to do. I mean,
actually, when when motor Read sort of stopped, we especially in Europe,
and we sort of a lot of Motorate fans came to Saxon because you know,
we spent a lot of time together and toured together, and some of
our music's quite similar. You know, it's very energetic, fast, you
know, it's early early thlash metal style. So you know, the fans
between sax and Motorate are quite close. Did Motorheads start thrash rock, because
in my opinion, they did songs like twenty thousand feet and stuff like that.
I know it's hard, go ahead, Yeah, I think I think
we pumped me between Lemmy Made and Saxon, you know, motor Hits made
in Saxon. I think, you know, we were playing really fast stuff
as well as melodic stuff as well. It was a mixture of you know,
like heavy metal, Plumber, twenty thousand feet, Motorcycle Man, they're
all frantic, fast songs, you know, and you know, the most
did the same sort of thing. So yeah, I think you know,
guys in metallic, you know, and pant and bands, they were listening
to what was happening in the eighthes, and you know they wanted some of
it really so they you know, they created their own, you know,
flash metal movement here in the States. Well, I want to listen this
new record I've got to talk about because and you guys keep on putting out
great projects. Man, you had Thunderbolt, you had a Battering Ram,
all great records. But I love this new record. It's it's it's a
little dark, really heavy, but there's a song on there. One of
my favorite cuts is Madame Guillotine. Guillotine. Uh, what's the story behind
Madam guillotine. Well it's it's this thing they bought built in France only maybe
I were in America well back in the day. You know, this machine
they brought in to cut your head off, and uh, I mean the
French sort of loved it, you know, and it got to be a
little bit of a day out, you know, going to you know,
get some beers and some wine and some bread and cheese and go and watch
these you know, aristocrats have their heads got off all day, so you
know. And the most famous one was the Queen of France who and Marie
Antoinette, so you know. But I sing the song from the point of
view of the guillotine, you know, the guillotines like got no remorse,
no regrets, so you know. So it's it's a cool song. And
you know it's a little bit like a bit like an Alice Cooper song.
I think it's a bit you know, and please don't lose your head and
double on taundre and there, you know. But it's a big it's a
big favorite live, you know, I can't wait, okayt waits a big
favorite, you know, and listen. So Paul Quinn leaves the band,
and I hope there's no bad blood there. But Brian, he steps up
and I think he's doing an incredible job. I haven't seen this tour yet,
but I've seen video of it and it seems like he's crushing it.
And by the way, happy birthday to Brian. Uh. Yeah, we
had a big party last night. I saw that over today. We were
on the Jamaican Room last night, so all of it partied out this morning.
I was first up actually, so you know, they were all still
partying. I went to bed. I was like, forget it, I'm
going to bed. I've got introduced to you tomorrow. And they were still
partying. So yeah, he's done a great job Ran, you know,
and you know, people know him from from diamond Head. You know,
he wrote the big you know am I Evil track Metallica covered, so you
know, the few There's a lot of history there, so yeah, you're
doing a great job. And he wrote, you know, he co wrote
some songs with us for this new album. See, he brought a bit
of a heavier style to the band. I think as well, listen,
don't miss this show. It's Saxon. Well, hang on, Dave,
pull the music down again. Real quick, and Beff, I hate to
ask you to do this live, but could you give us one. It's
Bef Byfort from Saxon and you're listening to Tony and Dwight. Yeah, I
can do that for you. Go ahead. There's a big father of them
Saxon. You're listening to Tony and Dwight. It's found a lot, a
lot. Yeah, hey, listen. I bought the VIP experience, so
I will see you backstage, and I highly recommend if you're going to the
show, if there's any left, get the VIP experience. You won't regret
it. Beth has made a dream come true for this DJ. I can't
thank you enough, and I can't thank you enough for the music of Saxon
also your solo projects. And I will see you Sunday backstage with your riot
heat my friend. Okay, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, any
aboready thinking about coming to the show. Get yourselves down. Both bands are
on fire. It's gonna be great. Twenty eighth of April. Come on,
yeah, come on, come on. Be Bafer from the Mighty Mighty
Sacks and Beth I'll see you Sunday, and Meg I'll see you Sunday.
All right there you call me Wow. All right, my man, I'm
shaking. All right, I'm gonna take a shot at the key. Leve
come back. We'll wrap up the show News Ready to eight forty wha s