BD: I have my arm twisted about selling Air-Raid back to Sanctuary. Sanctuary got way bigger overnight after they bought Castle and CMC. Suddenly from Air-Raid having a little cottage industry with a couple guys, those couple guys are suddenly running Halford, Megadeth and all these other artists for Sanctuary Records. So I felt Air-Raid would get shunted sideways unless it was part of this enormous thing, the label was originally a joint venture between me and Sanctuary anyway. What I really enjoyed doing was just listening to the music and maybe giving somebody a little nudge in the right direction, and I can still do that with Sanctuary. I'm still trying to get the English band Sack Trick (?) a deal. They're like a cross between Frank Zappa and KISS.
FH: Can you tell our readers a little bit about the Clive Burr Foundation and the benefit concerts you're doing for that.
BD: The only person in the band who had spoken to Clive in the last few months has been Steve. We found out about Clive's condition from the outtakes of the DVD that was recorded about the "Number Of The Beast" album. On the outtakes, Clive mentioned to the director that he had M.S. and that some of the answers to the questions his speech might be slurred on occasion. And that's how we found out, and we were pretty horrified, I mean, Clive is young, he's fit, and he was a drummer with great coordination and everything. So it was really tragic and we wanted to help him out. So, with his permission, we set up the Clive Burr foundation in order to help Clive. At the moment, we plan to raise as much money to help Clive, and if he wants to turn that into something else, to help others with M.S., than great. It started out as just one show we planned to do for Clive's benefit, but we realized one show wouldn't raise enough money, since there are a lot of costs for doing the show...obviously you have lights, P.A., road crew, stage hands, and people like that need to get paid. So, we ended up with three shows and seven days of rehearsals, which should hopefully get my pipes in working order. It will be basically the same shows we've done for the "Brave New World" tour.
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