 And here we go, we are, here we are, we're live, live, live with the one and only, Alan O'Reilly. The man who is infamous in the metal voice history is being our very first interview of all time. We had the pleasure of interviewing Biff on numerous occasions and here he is today. With a new album launch, Inspiration. Wait a second, a plug on the old album, look at this. Beautiful, if you wanna pick this up, I love it. Three CD set, there you go, live. A quick little plug there, all right. Biff, we're all over it, we're all over it, Biff. We're all over it like a rush. Inspirations, March 19th, 2021 on Silver Lining Music. 11 tracks that contain some of the most superb classic rock songs that influence Biff Beiford and the rest of the band, Alan. Yeah, just some really surprised, I mean Sax in the right Biff, you've always done a few covers throughout the years, like Ride Like The Wind. Not many, only three, four maybe. And now you've got a whole album's worth and some surprises, that's my concern, yeah. So tell us about it. Life's full of surprises. There's no point being too predictable where they wanted a few surprises, you know. Tell us about, how did you make the song selection? Like the band decision, one person, how was the song selection? No, no, no, it was, I asked the band to pick two songs. And we made a list of songs that people picked, some of them were really weird, so we didn't bother. But yeah, I think I picked about five of the songs, but we had more songs on the list than were recorded. But so I waited until we actually were playing them live and see what they sounded like, because some songs don't transpose. And yeah, so that's what we did really. I wanted a song from Sabbath Purple and Zeppelin. And we didn't really go with the easy ones on Sabbath or Zeppelin or Purple. I mean, the Black Sabbath ones are not choice, but I didn't really know what to do with Sabbath. So I went with the Crow's song, Evil Woman. Yeah, that's not an obvious choice there. And then you got some Beatles influence, Paperback Writer and the Stones. So going back to the 60s with Hendrix as well. Yeah, well, I mean, you've got to have a, I was born in the 50s, so the 60s was a big time for us growing up in the music, being surrounded by that type of music world. I mean, there's a lot of other bands that we could have done. But I wanted the big three in there. And the thing with the Beatles, and I saw the Beatles when they played on TV the very first time, in 1963. So I was like 12, 13 years old. So seeing a band on TV in my living room was a big first for me. So it did influence me a lot musically. And then obviously the Stones came a little later. But all that sort of, all that thing that was happening in the 60s was very sort of, we could have done, I can Tina Turner or something like that, but you know, I thought the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and particularly Hendrix were very sort of, you know, they're very quite, I mean, Hendrix and the Stones are quite rocky. So I think it influences definitely. I got a Def Leppard album here that's yay. And they try to stay as close as possible to the originals. What's your take on the inspirations? Is it you wanted to saxonize it or you wanted to kind of keep it the spirit true to the originals? Well, some things, some things we sort of changed a bit. Pepeback Riser, obviously. You know, see my friends, the Kinks. But other things, I thought it would be a bit of a travesty to start messing with them too much. So I wanted to keep them fairly, fairly simple to the original, but with a heavier, you know, we're able to give it heavier sounds now because obviously it's, you know, it's 50 years, 40 years further on, 60 years in some of the cases. But yeah, so, you know, give it an heavier angle. And obviously my voice is not, you know, it's completely sort of different to their voices. So I think my voice gives it a different angle anyway. So yeah, keep it fairly straightforward for most of the song, but just give it a powerful performance. For instance, Speed King, we played it faster than Purple did. Just because we, you know, we can. Just for the hell of it, yeah. And then, it's got Speed 6, Speed King. So I thought, you know, it's more like Motorcycle Man or one of those early saxon songs were definitely influenced by Highway Star and Speed King. I mean, people wanted us to do Highway Star where I said, no, it's been done too many times. I want to do Speed King. It's more my influence that singing was. Well, and another one, one of my favorite groups of all times, then Lizzie, you know, are there vast collections? You decided to go way back to their early days in The Rocker, one of my favorite songs from that. Yeah, again, I'll sort of one, I mean, I remember, you know, seeing that Lizzie back in the day was doing whiskey in the jar with Eric Bell. And, you know, I loved, I mean, a new pill quite well and some of the other guys in the band. And I think The Rocker for me, you know, because The Rocker for me is just like great chorus. Because that more rocker as opposed to a mod, right? Modern rockers, that's when it was basically written, that song, and that's what he's basically saying, you know, we're having a good time in a cafe, you know, and we're hanging out with the bikes and the girls, and, you know, some girls don't like rockers, so hey, fuck them, we'll take some other girls that do. So that's the sort of gist behind the song. Lyrically, it's a bit wacky these days, but I know exactly where it's, I know exactly where it's coming from, because I used to be a rocker, so it appeals to me, you know. The machismo of the time. ACDC problem trial, then, you know, I guess it's, you know, it's, it's one of those classics, those deep, I don't know if we'd call it a deep track, but yeah, it's not one of their popular ones, but one of their popular ones. They don't play, well, they don't play it very often, problem child, I think, I think they played it, I think they played it on the show where, you know, Robbo wasn't on, they're going from Rose Scout was on there, saying, I think they played problem child then, but I took, back in the 70s, must have been on the very early tour, must have been Dirty D's done, Dirt Sheep tour, I'd heard that album and I bought that album, and I took the band to see them at Sheffield University in a little bar, about 100 people in there, and I took them to see ACDC, and they played that song, and I thought that's a cool connection, because every one of the songs has a connection, you know, that we put on the album, and that's the connection with problem child, I took the band to the ACDC, and that's the song that I really liked. That's pretty cool, I mean, I guess this album is an album of bridging the gap, right, between the new album and, you know, the whole COVID-19 thing, right? Is that, was that the whole goal? Let's bridge that gap between the new studio album and sort of the pandemic, was that, is that the goal or? A little bit, just a little bit, yeah, well, I mean, a bit of fun, you know, getting the band together, you know, play some songs, and we did it very quickly, I mean, we recorded all the album, basically, in around 17 days, so it was a very quick album, you know, it was mixed in three or four days, so it's a very live album, not a lot of, in fact, I don't think there are any overdubs on there, really, but so it's very live, you know, it was in a big house, in a big room, doing it at the old days, you know, and it just was good fun, actually, and we just thought that it would be good to put something out because the album's been put back, nobody's got any idea what's happening with the vaccination things, and, you know, when we'll be getting back to the stage again. So, yeah, I mean, I mean, if people like it, we'll probably do another one next year, it's very, and it's good fun to do because there's no pressure, you know, somebody's already written the song, so we don't have to change, I don't have to write any lyrics or anything, so it's all about performance, really, you know, making the song sound great, like they did originally, but not trying to compete with the original version, you know, just doing our version. Yeah, what about, I mean, have you finished a studio album yet, or is it still in, last time we spoke, it was in progress? Like, yeah, most of the drums and guitars are done, some of the vocals are done, but the thing is I can't do the vocals, you know, I have to do the vocals all at once, so the vocals, I've already done, we'll probably trash them, and I'll start again. So I think probably Christmas, I'll be starting to do a fourth blues again on it. I mean, I might be writing, doing an album with my son, the next album I'm recording, but again, we'll be doing that pretty quick, you know, me and my son, Sebastian, written some songs together, so we might do an album, you know, a 7th, because our videos on YouTube are pretty popular, so I think people might like to hear it, you know. Is it going to be acoustic? Is that what you're looking for, an acoustic sound, you and your son? Oh, now it'll be full on rock. Oh, okay. Oh, now, full on band. Okay, all right, it's not, okay, great. Okay, that's cool, it's a nice project. But, I mean, you haven't stopped, right? You had your solo album this year, School of Hard Knocks, now we've got the covers album, we've got one with your son, an eventual Saxon album, but man, when do you get the time, you're busier than ever? Well, you have to be busy in this coveted thing, because there's not much else to do, is there, let's face it, you can't really go out much, there's no live music, you know, there's nothing really. So, yeah, you've got to, you know, keep yourself fit and active, really, and music. If you can't play live, then go in the studio, that's the, you know, I mean, there's, I think there's a lot of music being written now in this period, by, you know, established bands and by new bands, you know. I wish somebody'd write a Christmas song, I'm sick of hearing all those same Christmas songs over and over and over again. Well, a lot of bands do, a lot of bands do, a lot of metal bands, I don't tire of them, if you ask me, I'm just, I don't know. Yes. Well, how far has he done, he's done, what, two or three, so he's maybe due for a third, so. Yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe. How many times can you reinvent Santa Claus, that's what I'm trying, I don't know, I just, I don't know. Unfortunately, a good Christmas song has to be very catchy and poppy, otherwise it doesn't send it. I mean, my favorite is the slave, I love the slave song. Yeah, all right, came in and wants to know, do you have any particular favorite track off the inspiration sound? Like, if there's one track that you really enjoy doing, which one was it? I like doing, funnily enough, I like doing the immigrant song because I didn't think there'd be any way I could sing that. So, yeah, it was my choice, I mean, we had a lot of different suggestions, but I thought, let's go for the most difficult one. Yeah, you did hold back on that one, yeah. Because it's good fun, and yeah, I mean, we had a backup song in case I couldn't sing it, but yeah, I like doing the immigrant song. It's a style, I've never really been a, you know, I've never really been a, I've never really studied Robert Plant's style. You know, it's not in my sort of style. It's more of a, well, it's more like Janice Joplin type thing, very, very bluesy. And, you know, it bends a lot of notes in there now, but, you know, I've not really studied his style, if you know what I'm saying. So it was very new for me to sing that. So yeah, I got fun with that. I mean, I did all the vocals with, my son was in the studio with me, so I did all the vocals with him. So, you know, it was quite hard. You know, it's quite hard on me. You know, you can do it better than that, you know. I'm like, okay, okay. Yeah, exactly. Get your shit together, man, get their mind up, you know. This is Robert Plant we're talking about here. Quit slacking off. And then the nepotism continues because your daughter did the video, right? For Paint It Black. Yeah, my daughter does a lot of stuff for my son, and for us. I mean, she was there at the session, you know, so they'll be making an old video coming out with the album, I think. So there's a lot of, we've got a lot of footage of us, you know, climbing around in there and doing little interviews and things. So that should be interesting when that comes out. What about where you recorded it? Okay, it's a spooky house with full of paintings. Is that what it was? It was the Brockfield Hall. Was that what it was? Brockfield, yeah. Brockfield Hall. Yeah, I just wanted to add this mad idea. Yeah, because when we were younger, we used to see all these pictures in the, you know, in the magazines and in the newspapers about, you know, deep purple, renting a chateau down in Montreux that burnt down things. And the Zeppelin recording in a big house, you know, and different people, Rush used to record. So I thought, well, you know, let's try and do it. And a friend of mine, his family had this huge stately home that's been renovated and they took all the furniture out and there was like a two week break before the builders went in. So they let us go in there and record in there. And it was fantastic, actually. It was really great. Then the sounds were great. You know, Naz was in this huge sort of Italian Renaissance sort of style hallway with the drums that went up sort of, you know, I don't know, 20 meters. So it's a big, a big drum sound, you know. So yeah. I think that's really cool. So there's no ghost or anything like it. Just painting. Well, we didn't see him. Yeah, I think a few paintings fell off the wall. But I think that was probably due to the volume rather than the ghost. Yeah, I mean, we were playing in the library and he was playing in the hallway and we had headphones connected to each other, a microphone. So yeah, it was really good fun. I mean, I think it's probably unique. I don't think we'll ever be able to do that again. Did you film? Because he just like, you know. I guess paint and black, right? That was the filming of it, right? Yeah, I mean, yeah, well, the planets all came together at the right time. So we were able to do it, you know what I mean? Yeah, Stephanie, Steph, my daughter filmed everything. So, you know, there's everything in there, loading the gear in, loading the gear out, talking about this, talking about that, different interviews about why we show certain tracks and things, because every track really has a story, you know? What about like a live stream, like a Saxon live stream, has the band looked into that? It's a very popular thing now because of a pandemic? Yeah, people keep asking us to do it. Whether we will or not, I don't know. I don't know. The thing is, I like audiences, you know? I like to be live, if you know what I mean. So, yeah, we might do it. I mean, we could do it on a smaller scale, you know, like me and Seb have done, you know what I'm saying? But I don't think a full production, you know, running around on stage, you know, in front of like cameras with nobody in the room, that really doesn't appeal to me. But you know, never say never. Yeah, yeah, you never know, Alan. And don't forget, a lot of people, you know, are holding tickets for our big production shows. This year. So, you know, I think if we did something with the production online, people would think, well, you know, I might as well throw my ticket away now then. You know, we've already seen it. So, yeah, I mean, what's great news for me is ever since the call to arms, that was the test, the test album for the North American market. And we've had the pleasure of seeing you every, every album since almost. So I'm really glad that the finally, North America has woken up to the Saxon experience. So, yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of people, a lot of people knew about Saxon. A lot of people saw Saxon back in the day. But I think you have to be there really, you know, getting people's faces and get the reviews and the promotion going. So, yeah, I mean, we will be coming back. I think we're doing a cruise, actually. At some point, maybe next year, I don't know, see how the COVID thing goes. But usually, usually when we do a cruise, you know, one of the big rock cruisers, we usually do a tour at the same time because it's because we're already there basically. So that might work out. I think maybe they're looking at just touring America. I don't know, maybe early next year, I think. So we'll have to see. We'll have to see how this bloody plague goes. You know, see what happens with that. Are you guys going to get the vaccinations? Is it, are you, you know, or not? Yeah, I think I might be getting mine in January because, you know, I'm sort of obviously with my heart thing and everything. That's what I mean, yeah. It's a bit higher. But everybody above, everybody eight is already getting it there. I think they've already done about a quarter of a million people already in England and Scotland and Wales. So, yeah, so they're on it now. They're just waiting for this cheaper vaccine to come out. So they can function at the masses like me, you know, the working class. We get the working class vaccine on the cost of 50p, you know, on the dollar shop. Alan? No, I just hope your voice and the infection clears up and you'll be back at it soon enough. So. Yeah, it's not really a voice changing infection. It's more of a gland than, you know, what are my glands? So I was an antibiotic, so it should be all right. It just flared up today. It's probably because I knew you guys were coming on. Yes. I'm excited. I didn't know it was your reaction. Oh, I gotta talk. I have to talk to Canadians. My gland started swelling. Yeah, exactly, yeah. You can look at Canadians, man. My gland started swelling. Bloody colonists. Straight away, exactly. Any thoughts on that? I hope you think you are. I know this is a big question that all the rock stars are asked. Thoughts on Eddie Van Halen, you know, the passing, you were such a... Oh, as terrible as it was, really. You know, he went through a lot of... You know, he went through this once and then we thought he was cured and then he came back again. When I saw Van Halen a few times, I saw them... First time I saw them was at the Rainbow. They must have been 1978. 1979, when the first album. I think they just toured with Sabbath and then they came back and did a one-off show at the Rainbow in London. I saw that. And then I saw them again on the Tora Tora tour in Manchester. Yeah, I mean, I love the band. They were total... Total good time. Good time. Good time. Rock, metal. Definitely. You couldn't really go and see Van Halen and not like them, actually. It's true. It's true. Do you know what I mean? There was something there for everybody, really. Did you consider a Van Halen song for the inspirations? We did consider a Van Halen song. I wanted to do Running With The Devil. I love that. You know, you've got to be careful, really. But I don't know if... I suppose they did... I suppose they did influence the guitarists, in a way, because, you know, that style, one of the people, so Eddie playing in that style, you know, Paul and particularly Paul, you know, started hammering things, you know, hammering the fingerboard. So I suppose it might be... We are signed up to do another album, actually. So they do have an option. So that might be... I mean, we could really do a massively heavy version of Running With The Devil. Got down, got, be great. Make it more like a Sabbath version of Running With The Devil. You know, I've been trying to get, like, the Zoom link on the chat, and it just... People are saying, well, where's the link? And she's not going in there. It's not... Oh, maybe now it's working? I don't know, but it's just something... Technology. I just was trying something different. I thought I was bringing a few fans on to talk to you, but, you know, it is what it is, right? I know there's... Well, listen, guys, I'm very sorry, but with these two guys, what do you expect, you know what I mean? I mean... Because... They're not technically minded, man. They're just rock fans. We're just, you know... We're just... Can't you post the links in the chat I get? Hey, I did a great apology for you there, man, you should have gone with it. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're hit the nail on the head. What more is there to say? What other Saxon news is there in the camp? OK, so we have the new album, Inspirations, coming out in March. You have the studio album going to come out, I guess, in 2022, I guess. Is that... I don't know. They're talking about 2021, but it could come out. I mean, I don't know yet. The thing is, the whole music industry, in fact, the whole entertainment industry is like sort of, you know, gone and forgotten as far as the governments are concerned. But they don't even mention anything. I mean, they might mention ballet or the theatre, but nobody mentions anything about anything, you know? So we're all waiting to see if we have... Big shows lined up in May. They've not been rescheduled yet. So let's keep our fingers crossed. But, you know, if the vaccine starts to work, and people are able to mix together, then, you know, the album will come out. It's ready to go, you know? Yeah. Alan, do you have any... But we don't like putting albums out. We don't want to put the album out and not tour, because we like to tour on the albums. That's the thing. And that's what we've come to expect. So, yeah, hopefully we can get through this and then witness Saxon Live. It's one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. So just the power that comes off the stage, it's amazing. Thank you very much. Yeah, we do work hard at that, you know? How are the rest of the guys doing? How's Nigel? Good? Oh, there we go. Yeah, they're doing good. Okay, so we have Khalil. Okay, I think I got the link going here. We're going to bring him on here. Let's see what happens. Ready for this? Ready for this, Biff? I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm a little square in the corner breaking. And there's the man. There he is. Hello. Hey, you all right, mate? It's nice to speak to you, though. Yeah, what's going on? What's your question, then? I just wanted to say that would you ever consider covering any maiden stuff or priests or any bands that are like your contemporaries, you know? Well, yeah, the problem is, if you're doing an album like Inspirations and Influencers, I mean, maiden started the same time as we did. I mean, you know, we used to play with maiden in the club back in the day. So I don't think really maiden influencers or inspired us. But I think Judas Priest, you maybe get away with that because I used to go to see Judas Priest in the 70s. You know, my favorite Judas Priest album is Stain Class. So, you know, that's beyond the realms of death, you know, that type of stuff. I love that early priest. So that might be possible on the next album. You know, if we do another cover album to do a priest song. But, you know, the thing is with priests, they're very heavy. I don't know if we could get any heavier than them. And, you know, he's a hard guy to sing, Rob. I would just say that the last time I saw Saks, I thought you were heavier than priests. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, well, we work on it, you know, we just, you know, the boys of a lot of it comes from the guys on stage, you know, that we don't have any, we don't use any samples or any sort of, you know, anything running on behind us. So everything here is absolute massive volume. I mean, the guys are absolutely nuts. I mean, I wear in here headphones on stage, you know, for the volume. If I take them out, if I take them out while we're playing, they're about 10 times louder than they are in my headphones. So, you know, they just love it to Nigel's an animal. So when we all get together, I think, I think we're sacks and I don't think there's any sort of pacing going on. I don't think we hold back. It's like full on, it's full on all the time. Why we don't do, this is why we don't really do many ballads because, you know, we're not really a ballad band. We're more of a full on metal band, really. Even we're really fucking heavy. So, you know, we can't, we can't get away from it. It's just our style. I think you made Kimman's day today. I just, I think it's so cool. That's what's so great about the internet. You know what I mean? It's like growing up in Western here in Saxon songs all over the place. And then to be able to have a conversation with someone that you've seen on stage is just, it's great. But when did you see his live? I see, I've seen you a couple of times in Glasgow. I've seen you say in Donington. I always tell everyone, I didn't grow up with Saxon. You know what I mean? I discovered Saxon quite later on. And I've always like, I've known, known you for that. Like the hits. But I think what's more impressive is how you're able to stay so fresh and current. And you've really, I think it's so impressive the force that you use to have and the new material is unbelievable. Stuff like Night of the Wolf and Queen of Hearts and stuff like that is a sacrifice. It's just, it's brilliant. Like good on use for being able to kind of adapt and modify what you're doing. It's great. Yeah, that's great. Thank you very much. Not only that, like the classics are classic for a reason, but the fact you're able to stay really relevant is what it's all about. It really is, it's brilliant. I can't replace that enough. I think to summarize, you guys in Saxon have gone through multiple generations. You know, you had my generation, me and Alan's, right? And then K-man's generation. So I think the music speaks for itself as it transcends all generations. Yep. I think it's pretty impressive. Very impressive. Yeah, I think we worked hard at that over the last 10 years. And we have brought a lot of younger newer fans to the band. And a lot of these guys go backwards. If somebody got into the band in, say, 2000 or 1999, they tend to go backwards then back to the 80s, which is great, it's a great thing for them because they obviously they got into Saxon, say on sacrifice or call to arms. And there's so much legacy before that. And most of it's great. There's a couple of bombers in there, but you know, what can you say? For me, what it is, it's the production of the really early stuff like Motorcycle Man and Frozen Rainbow and stuff, like the songs themselves are great songs, but the time has moved on so much that they sit, they sound of the era, you know what I mean? They sound of the time. Well, I mean, they're done on a 24 track, totally live basically, you know, we back in those days, we used to just play the song live and we used to play and play and play until we got a great take. So we'd have like, you know, these big two inch tape, we'd have about 40 of them on the floor in the studio. And then we just pick a take, you know, so it was absolutely a nightmare. These tapes were about two tons of magnetic tape on the studio and we had to pick the best take, you know, because you couldn't go in and sort of replace anything. So you had to get the best take and then I'd do the vocals and a couple of guitar over jobs and that was it, out the door, finished, bye, see you later, next tour, you know, so. How do you get that? But what you do get with the other things is the music. It's sort of, you know, night, our first album, you know. What was always more important back then, Biff, was it getting the technical, the notes correct, or was it the feel of the song that you went with? Oh, we just got for a great take. I mean, once a bit revolved about the drums, you know, from him, but everybody had to play really great, you know, so, you know, we had to rehearse the songs over and over and, you know, if somebody felt, if somebody felt they didn't play great, we had to do it all again. So there's a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure on, you know, the guys in the band get it right, but the more you do it, the better you get, but there's a point when you go over, gain it right, where it just sounds too sort of, you know, stagnant because you're bored with the song by then. So you have to capture the moment when you're actually, everybody's on 100% sort of efficiency playing the song and that's the one you take, you know, because after that, you can get really bad. You know, it peaks, it starts off with it, okay, and then it peaks, it gets really fantastic, and then it goes off again, you know. So you have to try and capture that moment really quickly. Guys, I got so many comments, but I know that Biff, your voice, you know, you've had that sore throat and I was told, you know, just to ease up. We don't want to, it's up to you, you know, it's up to you, Biff. I mean, I don't know. We can go on for a bit longer. Okay, because I came in, I'm going to let you go. All right? I know what it is. Thank you for making your debut on the Metal Voice. Hi, how you doing, man? How can you, yeah, I'm the Humphrey. Hi. I'm going to, hold on, there we go. I got to remove him, sorry. All right, so solid ball of rock. Why, and this is, I got like all these tons of questions coming in. Why don't you play solid ball of rock live? We do, we do play solid ball of rock live. In fact, we're playing it on this 40th anniversary tour that started and then stopped. We're playing solid ball of rock. So we do play solid ball of rock. Maybe is it from America? Well, which country are they from? Does, okay, I'm going to ask you right now, where are you from? Roberto Soto. I have a question for Biff. Why do you guys barely play solid ball of rock? Well, we got a question for you, Roberto. Where are you from? What country are you from? And as we wait for his answer, thank you, Biff. You rule. Thank you for doing this. I'm just reading the other stuff. Witchcross released acts of the grind. I don't know what that does. Biff have a favorite Saxon record and that's from Cecil. So many to choose from. So that's a favorite Saxon record. I mean, it's difficult to choose really. You know, it changes. It changes because, you know, I mean, most people in bands like us, we don't listen to a lot of our own albums, you know, most, but occasionally we'll get an album out and listen to it, you know, on the tour bus and go back to that time. Because you get memories from making those albums. You have great memories. I mean, one of my favorites for a long time was Metalhead. Oh yeah, great album. Because we sort of moved, we moved to a more darker sort of songwriting stage. You know, it's the Saxon dark stage, that one. You know, it's our dark period. It's like Van Gogh, you know. So we have a dark period. You know, I like that because it's, you know, a lot of sort of guys that were into the heavy have still got into it with that album actually. Yeah, I agree. He's from Costa Rica, by the way, Costa Rica. He's from Costa Rica. Well, yeah, we've never played Costa Rica. So next, when we do come, we'll play a song in Baltimore for you. Okay, let's see what else. I'm just going through all these questions that I've ignored. No, I mean, just to go back to what Biff said earlier, I mean, you can see where there, you know, Sax is not doing wheels of steel version 20. It's always fresh material and it sounds as relevant today. And plus you got all the classics to fall back on. So it's just a great situation to be in, I would think. Yeah, well, also as well, you know, the way we play those songs have moved on as well. So the wheels of steel and plus things like that, they're all much heavier now, you know, because of the way we play and the voice of the equipment we use, everything's much heavier now. So, you know, those songs sound different to the way we play them in the ages. Chris says, how is the song writing different from your solo work then with Saxon? So I guess the question would be, how do you write differently between your solo album and a Saxon album? I mean, what's that? I guess, what's the difference? Well, I think with the solo album, because I'm singing everything with me or my lyrics very quickly, it's all about me, basically. And a lot of the songs are personal songs about my life. Not all of them, because they did a couple of songs with Fred from Opeth, but most of them are about me and my life. And so I think if you're gonna do things like that in a Saxon album, I don't think it's really fair because, you know, you're singing about yourself, what about the other guys? So yeah, I think, and I'm able to do a material that's probably considered too soft for Saxon, you know? I mean, I did- That's a great album, by the way, your solo album. Yeah, I love the album, it's very diverse and it actually just sums me up because that's how I am. I like all different styles of music, you know? I'm very sort of, you know, I'm not stuck in one pigeon hole. You know, I like all sorts of bands and all sorts of music. And I think that comes through on the solo album and that's what I wanted it to be. You know, there's a folk song on there, Scarborough Fair. You know, there's a song about my wife, me and my wife, me and you, you know, Black and White. You know, so there's a lot of different styles in there. I probably wouldn't write those lyrics on a Saxon song. Yeah, yeah. And again, like, you know, you're talking about all different types of music. On this Inspirations album, you also have Toto Hold the Line. There's one that makes the best guitar. Toto Hold the Line. Well, there's two reasons we put that in. One, we've made it heavier, obviously. And Doug really loves Steve Lukitha. You know, he likes his style and nothing. Steve Lukitha sort of really inspired and influenced Doug's guitar playing. And also, the way that he plays that riff, we should have ripped that off. And we used the same style and bands played on. Okay, there you go. And the bands played on riff and Hold the Line riff, although they're not the same musically, stylistically, they're very similar. And we did that. And I told him, actually, I told Steve, I said, actually, we ripped you off and we wrote bands played on. He went, well, I'm very pleased to have given it to you. So it was very, because they didn't ask for any money, so that was fine. That's always a good thing, yeah. I got from, I'm going to leave everybody off with this one here. No No says, no Saxon CD in Greece. I guess that would be more of a label thing than anything. It's not really a Biff question. That's more of a- Oh, for the inspiration, you mean? Yeah, I think so. Well, no, he's saying, yeah, that's what he's saying. No Saxon CD in Greece, but I actually have a question for you. What's with the Christmas card? Are you still doing that? Like a Christmas card? The cut-off. No, it's all finished now. Okay. So yeah, you can only get a Christmas card if you ordered the Special Vinyl in that, I think it was 38 hours, I think, of the original list. The album's not out for March anyway, so there wouldn't be any CDs of the album in Greece yet. Oh, yeah. So I'm sure in March. Yeah, you can pre-order it. Maybe it's saying there's no pre-order in Greece. Maybe. Okay, I'll tell you what, I'll ask the record company. As soon as we're off air, I'll give them some grace. Well, he's saying no all CDs. No all CDs. I guess he's meaning maybe there's no CDs in general. Okay, okay, well, I'll definitely look into that then. We'll get your people on that. I'm sure, and we do play lots of shows in Greece, quite big shows. So there must be some CDs from somewhere, but I'll talk the record company about that. All right, that's perfect on that note. Yes. March 19th, 2021, Silver Lining Music. You can pre-order now. You can pre-order inspirations now. Right, Ben? Yeah, you can. And you just go. You can pre-order the vinyl, the cymbal, you know, the single you can buy, obviously, the painted black, you can pre-order the album. You can get it on CD, coming out on cassette as well, special limited edition that I'm assigned. So yeah, I mean, we did have some test pressings, but they went in like two hours of test pressing. So yeah, it's all coming out in March. So there'll be another single, I think, coming out after Christmas. So yeah, we did a mountain song. Yeah, yeah. Mountain, everly influenced. I used to be a big fan of, because I was a bass player back in the day. So, Felix Papallari for me was a great bass player and singer. So we did a mountain song. And I think that's gonna be the best side of the next single. Corky Lange, a fellow Canadian, drawn drums for Mountain, right? Definitely, a fantastic drummer. And actually that, going back to Nonos, he's saying he can't get any CDs in Greece. And I don't mean to make fun. I'm just kidding around. And that's what he's saying. He's just saying in general, he can't find CDs of Saxon in Greece. I guess it depends where he lives too, right? You don't know. I'll look into it. It could well be that, you know, I don't know. I mean, I'd have to have a list of CDs that he can't get. I mean, I don't know if he's meaning all CDs for every band or just those, or, you know, or just he can't get the newest stuff. I don't know. Biff, it's been a pleasure. Always a pleasure. Yes, we wish you a speedy recovery and they can't wait to get this behind us so we can witness the Saxon experience live and listen to the album when it comes out. Yeah, yeah. Everybody pick one. Yeah, sounds great. I listen to it all the time in the car. In fact, I'm already fed up with it. I want to be the next one. Biff, it's a pleasure. We'll see you on tour. Yeah, brilliant. See you all there. Lovely. It's vaccinated, man. Come on, get it in your neck. Oh, it's your arm. Get it in your arm. Come on. All right. Have a nice day. Thank you.