SAXON Singer Biff Byford On The New York Big 4 Show - "We Should Have Been The Opening Act"
September 26, 2011, 13 years ago
Justin Tedaldi from Examiner.com spoke to legendary SAXON singer Biff Byford recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Examiner.com: After 30 years in heavy metal, how do you stay inspired when recording a new album?
Byford: "It’s just coming up with a great guitar hook and a great vocal melody, hoping that people will like what we do, really. It’s a bit of a gamble, making albums, because you never know who’s going to like it."
Examiner.com: How about playing onstage? Does it get more comfortable as time goes on?
Byford: "In some parts of the world. For instance, in America, down in Texas, we probably [play for] five, six thousand people, but then in certain towns in the world, it’s more like 900 people. So that’s never changed for us; we’re just as happy in front of 95,000 in Germany as we are in front of 200 people in New York, you know? As long as they’re into it, we’re happy."
Examiner.com: We had the Big 4 here in New York this month…
Byford: "We should have been the opening act."
Examiner.com: If there was a British Big 4, who else would you like to play with?
Byford: "We just did these dates in Spain; everybody called it the Big 3. It was JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD and Saxon. And we did about fifteen, twenty thousand people a night. So that was a great tour for the fans."
Read the entire interview here.
