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I'm doing good, just track sounding
great on the radio. Hey listen,

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man, thank you for coming on. It's been going back and forth with

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your publicist for a while now,
but I'm great. I'm grateful to have

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you. I'm a super fan.
I'll try not to fan boy you too

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much, but I got to ask
you this. This new record, hell

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Fire and Damnation. The story I
get on this is the title comes from

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a saying that you heard quite frequently
in your youth. Is there truth to

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that? Yeah? My father used
to say, my dad here big you

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know it was Yeah, he used
to say all the time I got into

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trouble, it'd be like health,
fid damnation. Where we've been doing now?

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So instead of stuck in my head, you on. And I wanted

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to do a song about good and
evil, you know, the fight between

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good and evil. So it seemed
to fit really well with the song we

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were writing. Dwight just mentioned to
you about Arizona, so he flew out

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to Arizona and one of his friends
recorded this audio from from that night.

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This is fanboy. You're on stage
asking what they want to hear? Here

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we go, right, you want
to listen two songs that what was right

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back and win that. Okay,
stopping stop embarrassing me? In from bev

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Byford. Man, I'm in radio
for thirty years, thirty years, I

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finally land the interview of my dreams
with v Vifford and you embarrass me.

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Man, Hey, be you know
what, No, no, no,

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Beth Byford, I'm unapologetic. And
by the way, I'm stone cold sober

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in that audio clip. That's how
excited. That's how excited I get at

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the at a sack the show.
And if you've ever seen Saxon come out

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this uh this Sunday night. But
I gotta tell you, man, the

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energy is off the charts. When
you guys take the stage and stone coats

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over, I'm yelling and screaming.
I'm front row at the barricade there.

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You guys just bring so so much
energy to the stage is incredible. Yeah,

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we'll give it undred percent that we're
not you know, so you gotta

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do that, you know, you
gotta you gotta keep fit, you gotta

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go for it. If you're gonna
go for it, men, as we'll

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go for an hundred percent. There's
no point doing ninety percent. You know,

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we don't. We don't do the
ninety percent. We do one hundred

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percent. So yeah, we have
good fun and try, you know,

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the our audience that we you know, we try to include the audience in

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the stage, you know, on
the set list, we ask them what

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you want to hear. You know. It's a great fun really And by

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the way, that's a good point. I'm glad you brought that up.

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Bib Bifert from a Saxon is our
guest. If you have if you've never

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seen Saxon, do not miss this
opportunity. I doubt they'll be back to

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Louisville again because I want to talk
about the last time you all beat We're

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here in just a second. It's
a hell of a show. You'll be

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a you become a fan instantly.
But I want to talk about you say

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you get the fans involved. I
was a one show and you picked up

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the set list and you said,
you know it was Nashville. You picked

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up the set list, you're ripping
in half and there's your set list and

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you just did request. Is that
taxing when you do something like that,

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does the band pissed off at you? Or is it? No? It's

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pretty good. I mean they're great
boys. The band you know they're yeah,

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they're for it. Really. You
know, most of the songs that

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most of the songs that people request, we can play. You know,

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we have a we have a massive
repertoire. You sometimes get some obscure track

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that you know we haven't played for
like, you know, thirty years or

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something, and you know, sometimes
I have to cough and say, we

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can't play that one. So,
but not not very often. Usually usually

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we'll have a go at it,
you know, because we're not we're a

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live band. You know, there's
no no click tracks, some things running,

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so we can pretty much do what
we want really, So each concert

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is different for Saxon, you know, it's it's a different textperience every night.

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Well, I've only heard Ride Like
the Win, your version of Ryde

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Like the Wind one time. And
I've seen Saxon so many times. The

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wife and I we fly across the
country to see you all. But I

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want to talk about my very first
Saxon show. It was a brilliant triple

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bill. Here's the bill. It's
Saxon, it's Iron Maiden, and it's

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Fast Way. It's at Louisville Gardens
in nineteen eighty three. And then Saxon

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missed the stage and you play this
song. Dave hit this song real quick,

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Beth. I hear this song and
I'm staring at the stage and I'm

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saying, who the hell are these
guys. The very next day, the

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very next day, I cut school. I go to Phoenix Records on Dixie

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Highway and I purchased The Power and
the Glory, And the very next day,

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Dan and Leather, I've been fan
since nineteen eighty three, just from

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that very first performance. Yeah,
do you remember the show, because here's

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here's there's no way you're gonna remember
this. But some for some whatever reason,

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Saxon comes out when Iron Maiden is
on the stage and there's a pie

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fight. Does that ring a bell
at all? Oh? Yeah, it

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was the last show. It was
the last show the tour, and yeah,

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we were just doing stupid things to
each other. I think Maiden came

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out on our show, and I
think they all dressed like Adol Fitler.

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Yes, yeah, it was,
you know, pretty much last day of

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the tour, goofing around. Really, it's good for I think. I

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think I it's Adrian Smith on the
face with a with a peek on pie.

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Our guests Our guest is beff Byford. If you've never seen Saxon,

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I'm pleading with you go see this
band Sunday night. You won't regret.

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It's a great double bill Saxon with
your Raya Heap Mercury ball Room this Sunday.

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But Sacks but Beth, I'd be
remissed. And these are extremely late,

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but sincere condolences. I wanted to
say I'm sorry for your loss of

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your dear friend Lemmy from Motorhead,
because there was so many great tours with

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saxs and and Motorhead. So I
wanted to say I'm sorry because I know

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you and Limmy you were close,
very personally close. Yeah, we're very

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close, good mates and uh you
know we used to hang out together quite

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a bit and uh you know you
sang on a few of our songs and

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you know, it was it was
it was a you know, it was

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a rock rock and rock etgend Lemmy, and you know, everybody that knew

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him sort of liked him. It
was a nice guy. You know,

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he got this image of like,
you know, the hell raising rebel,

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you know, but actually it was
a pretty well read, uh you know,

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really interesting guy. Really to talk
to and a lot of the similarities

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between I think at least there's similarities
between Ween, Motorhead and Sacks and plenty

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of similarities. But one of them
I think is you get history lessons out

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of songs. I mean, you
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and Lemmy was a Motorhead. I
mean, Lemmy was a history buff.

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But a lot of your songs are
historical tunes, right, Yeah,

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yeah, I mean let me we're
always you know, we're into history and

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we you know, we talked about
history quite a lot. It was,

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it was really into it. So
yeah, I mean we're storytellers and that's

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what we you know, that's what
he used to do. I mean,

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actually, when when motor Read sort
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and we sort of a lot of
Motorate fans came to Saxon because you know,

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we spent a lot of time together
and toured together, and some of

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our music's quite similar. You know, it's very energetic, fast, you

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know, it's early early thlash metal
style. So you know, the fans

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between sax and Motorate are quite close. Did Motorheads start thrash rock, because

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in my opinion, they did songs
like twenty thousand feet and stuff like that.

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I know it's hard, go ahead, Yeah, I think I think

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we pumped me between Lemmy Made and
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in Saxon. I think, you
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as well as melodic stuff as well. It was a mixture of you know,

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like heavy metal, Plumber, twenty
thousand feet, Motorcycle Man, they're

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all frantic, fast songs, you
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did the same sort of thing.
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guys in metallic, you know,
and pant and bands, they were listening

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to what was happening in the eighthes, and you know they wanted some of

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it really so they you know,
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flash metal movement here in the States. Well, I want to listen this

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new record I've got to talk about
because and you guys keep on putting out

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great projects. Man, you had
Thunderbolt, you had a Battering Ram,

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all great records. But I love
this new record. It's it's it's a

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little dark, really heavy, but
there's a song on there. One of

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my favorite cuts is Madame Guillotine.
Guillotine. Uh, what's the story behind

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Madam guillotine. Well it's it's this
thing they bought built in France only maybe

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I were in America well back in
the day. You know, this machine

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they brought in to cut your head
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French sort of loved it, you
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little bit of a day out,
you know, going to you know,

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get some beers and some wine and
some bread and cheese and go and watch

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these you know, aristocrats have their
heads got off all day, so you

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know. And the most famous one
was the Queen of France who and Marie

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Antoinette, so you know. But
I sing the song from the point of

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view of the guillotine, you know, the guillotines like got no remorse,

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no regrets, so you know.
So it's it's a cool song. And

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you know it's a little bit like
a bit like an Alice Cooper song.

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I think it's a bit you know, and please don't lose your head and

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double on taundre and there, you
know. But it's a big it's a

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big favorite live, you know,
I can't wait, okayt waits a big

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favorite, you know, and listen. So Paul Quinn leaves the band,

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and I hope there's no bad blood
there. But Brian, he steps up

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and I think he's doing an incredible
job. I haven't seen this tour yet,

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but I've seen video of it and
it seems like he's crushing it.

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And by the way, happy birthday
to Brian. Uh. Yeah, we

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had a big party last night.
I saw that over today. We were

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on the Jamaican Room last night,
so all of it partied out this morning.

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I was first up actually, so
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partying. I went to bed.
I was like, forget it, I'm

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going to bed. I've got introduced
to you tomorrow. And they were still

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partying. So yeah, he's done
a great job Ran, you know,

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and you know, people know him
from from diamond Head. You know,

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he wrote the big you know am
I Evil track Metallica covered, so you

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know, the few There's a lot
of history there, so yeah, you're

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doing a great job. And he
wrote, you know, he co wrote

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some songs with us for this new
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of a heavier style to the band. I think as well, listen,

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don't miss this show. It's Saxon. Well, hang on, Dave,

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pull the music down again. Real
quick, and Beff, I hate to

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ask you to do this live,
but could you give us one. It's

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Bef Byfort from Saxon and you're listening
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can do that for you. Go
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Saxon. You're listening to Tony and
Dwight. It's found a lot, a

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lot. Yeah, hey, listen. I bought the VIP experience, so

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I will see you backstage, and
I highly recommend if you're going to the

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show, if there's any left,
get the VIP experience. You won't regret

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it. Beth has made a dream
come true for this DJ. I can't

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thank you enough, and I can't
thank you enough for the music of Saxon

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also your solo projects. And I
will see you Sunday backstage with your riot

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heat my friend. Okay, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, any

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aboready thinking about coming to the show. Get yourselves down. Both bands are

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on fire. It's gonna be great. Twenty eighth of April. Come on,

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yeah, come on, come on. Be Bafer from the Mighty Mighty

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Sacks and Beth I'll see you Sunday, and Meg I'll see you Sunday.

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All right there you call me Wow. All right, my man, I'm

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shaking. All right, I'm gonna
take a shot at the key. Leve

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come back. We'll wrap up the
show News Ready to eight forty wha s