Gregg Fox Interview

Greg Fox is a keyboardist who has worked with many famous musicians such as Billie Eidle, Toto, Yes and ACDC. His performances can be heard around the world, you might have heard Greg's performance at the Academy of Country Music Awards with Miley Cyrus for her song The Cline. One of Greg's most recent projects is called the Renaissance Rock Orchestra. The Renaissance Rock Orchestra is directed by Greg and includes other rock legends that have performed with fans like Queen, Pink, Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

This performance unites the sounds of metal and symphonic music. On December 10th, Renaissance Rock Orchestra will be live streaming worldwide their performance of Christmas Rocks. Tickets are available on the RRO's Instagram at Renaissance Rock Orchestra. I'm L.E.

Sadler and I'm being joined by Greg Fox. Music with the RRO as well as Louis Premon, Jr. and the Witnesses and the Moby Dicks can be heard on our station. Be sure to listen to Renaissance Rock Orchestra's three new Christmas singles that will be played during the holiday season this year and the year's forthcoming.

Welcome Greg. Hi Ellie, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Good, it's great to see you.

Hello to everybody in my hometown. I wish I was there with you in the studio. I know but you'll be in Washington soon, right? I will, yeah, I leave next Monday.

I'm down here in Las Vegas where I've lived for the last 10 years. I spent a while since I was actually living in Seattle. My career has taken me on some interesting directions, you know, L.A. and I'll tell you during the 90s when everything in Seattle was all grunge.

I was a pianist and a keyboard player. There wasn't a whole lot for me to do so I bought a sailboat and I sailed around the Bahamas for seven years. Oh my gosh, I must be so fun. Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Yeah, so I have a show called Broken Record which is like music variety show and on my show I talk about concerts and I love for live music. So I have three quick questions for you. First, what was your first concert? My very first concert.

Yes. My very first, it's been so long ago. I remember, but of course you'd think that you remember your first concert and I recall my very first concert as being Chicago, the band Chicago. Oh, fun.

Do you know Chicago? Yeah, my dad listens to their music sometimes when we're driving in the car. Chicago was a great, great band back in the day and they were a bit of a deal. They were a horn band.

Kind of like a blood sweat and tears thing back in the day. But of course they had so many hits over the course of the 70s and the 80s and the 90s. But back in the 70s when I went to that show, they were still a very organic band. They ended up with Pete Siterpiercetera, becoming a bit of corporate production hits.

They have a song, an outside songwriter, a song you bring in and you record it. It's beautiful and they're beautiful songs and he had so many hits that way. But in the early days, it was like this band of like 12 guys with trumpets and saxes and trombones and they wrote their own songs. So it was very personal to them.

I don't know. It was kind of like hippie music with it, I guess I would say. But a really interesting thing, I remember about the concert. So different how times have changed.

Back then we didn't have LED walls and lasers and shooting fire. So the big huge thing to show other than how great the band was was they had this gigantic blow-ups thing behind the stage that was like 30 feet tall and it took a long, long time for it to blow up with whenever it was pumped. So it was kind of silly because it was full of what it was their band name Chicago 40 feet tall and this big gigantic blow up balloon of Chicago that was like 60 feet wide 40 feet tall. That's what live concert special effects were like back then.

And I'm like gosh, that would be so cool. It was pretty awesome. You know, I know that back in the day too, I saw a bunch of doobie brother shows that were really good but I really think my second show was probably the band of bread. You ever heard of bread?

No. You should listen to bread. Some of the most beautiful music in the world is singer and songwriter David Gates. It's really kind of an iconic like 60s song singer songwriter guys.

But bread, yeah, they have a great great song called Guitar Man. You're going to love that. We can check it out. It's very, very cool.

That's so fun. I'll listen to them after this interview. And what was your most recent concert? Wow.

My first recent concert, you know, I go to concerts all the time here in Las Vegas. And so of course I perform most of the time. So really my most recent concert was me. So yeah, because I perform here in Vamp's a lot as owned by Danny the Count Coker who does the County Cars TV show on the history channel Danny and his wife Coriard Goodfriend So I know I play there a lot with a Led Zeppelin all-star band called the Moby X Dad.

It has like the bass player from the audience born from White Snake and Foreigner. And so a lot of cast of other really talented people. So we can play there a lot. We're doing the Whiskey in LA, Whiskey in GoGo.

On January 4th, we're coming back into Vamp's on January 6th and 7th. So you know, most of the shows I see are me. What was the last concert that I saw? Let's see, let me think about this because it just, you know, it tends to be of who's coming in town and who the tour manager is and whether I know them or not.

And of course I know a lot of them. So I think really my last show, well, I went out and saw a show in Vegas. It's great called Reckless in Vegas. It's a brand new show we have in town at the Sahara and all my friends playing it.

So I love going to see that. And since I get to get in for free because my agent manager Brian Towers for beats the entertainment is also a manager of that show. So I go out to that like every other week at least. But I've been so busy working on this tour and working on this worldwide live stream that we have this Saturday that I haven't been out to see a whole lot of shows recently.

But I think my last one was actually Chris Cornell. Yes. And my light guy Sam Raphael who lives up there in Bremerton. My sound guy, his brother Alex Raphael lives in Bremerton too.

And he owns Max RPM motorsports over there in Bremerton. But Sammy was running a vice for Chris Cornell and that was very, very cool. But you know, during the whole COVID and the whole pandemic and stuff, I'm a very social guy. And of course I stopped during all that.

Like we all did and didn't go out. But during COVID, I wrote a new record called A Song of Hope that I wrote specifically to try to inspire people and give them strength as they were alone. So it's inspiring music. It's happy music.

Things to try to make people feel like they're not alone and give them strength to make it through this. And you can hear that on Spotify and Amazon and Apple music. It's available on all streaming platforms. Great, great record.

Very proud of it. But I, you know, the second COVID opened up, I started going out to shows because it's what I do. Yeah. And so I have been out to see so many shows and so many concerts in the last year.

You know, I went out and saw Billy Idol here in Vegas. I went out and saw Kid Rock down in Loughlin. There was like 30,000 people there. And you know, the crazy thing is I got COVID back in November of 2021.

And I had, you know, I was kind of tired and sick for a couple weeks in a bed. I must have really developed some amazing antibodies because I haven't stopped going out at all since then. And I've never got sick again. Oh.

I also, I see, I also saw Mario Speedwagon at Red Rocks. And I performed with guitar player Dave Amato several times and on Fox 5 TV here in Las Vegas. So it was cool to see Dave. But you know, also during the summer, I rode my Harley from Las Vegas all the way up to Seattle.

Oh my gosh. We had just finished a video shoot for this Christmas Rocks tour promo shoot. And I worked so hard all year long writing the songs on this record and mixing the record and working on this video that I just needed to break. So I got on my Harley.

I rode all the way up to Seattle and it was cool because I was born and raised in Auburn. I went to Auburn High School, but I also went to Green River Community College. My mom was a secretary for years. And I got my associate of arts degree there at Green River Community College.

Then I went up to Seattle Pacific University. But my mom and dad's house was really close to Green River Community College. It was up on the builder. And so while I was there, I ended up having a friend of mine, Dean Rogers, call me up and say, hey, you want to go out to see a concert?

White River Amphitheater and the crazy thing is because I left Seattle so long ago as a young adult and moved down to Phoenix. And then I sailed my sailboat around the Bahamas. And now I've been in Vegas for 10 years. But I had never been to a concert at White River Amphitheater.

And it was so awesome because I've also never ridden my Harley into a festival like that. It was like three bands. It was who was it? It was a lover boy and a radio and sticks.

It was amazing. And so I know a lot of guys in the bands and have, you know, had worked with some of them. It was so fun because I took the background along the Green River Road on my Harley to sneak into the White River Amphitheater. And I had all this white shirt that had sparkles all over it.

My hair was flowing in the wind and I pulled into this big, this big rock vessel on my Harley. I had never done that before. It was so cool. It's like straight out of my movie.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, it was. That's so cool. Do you have a favorite concert you've been to?

Oh my. Well, that is very, very hard for me because I've been to so many of the course of my life. Back when I was a kid, the only fun thing to do was to go to concerts. And of course, you could go to a concert for five bucks.

Yeah. You could go to the Atlanta Zappling for five bucks. A lot cheaper. Crazy, right?

So, you know, it was pretty cool, of course. In some ways, the concert that I did for Miley Cyrus at the Academy of Country Musical Words was my favorite because I had never performed in front of 36 million people before I played this song, The Climbford or at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here in Las Vegas. And that was, in some ways, that was a very special concert. You know, as a musician and as an artist, we all have our favorite artists.

You know, things that just speak to us musically and connect with us. And as a pianist that started taking piano lessons at five, took 12 years of lessons and ended up to get my new music degree. I was really into very melodic and classical rock. I was also a violinist in high school and in college.

And so that's why my group, The Renaissance Rock Orchestra, I love strings and love symphonies and the sound of that. So I always incorporate that into every one of my songs and into my music. But as a pianist, and as, you know, I was also a church kid. So I really wasn't allowed to listen to rock and roll a lot in my home.

Although my, you know, my first record was, you know, I had the Beatles, Let It Be, that was a great record. And I was really into Neo Yang, you know, back then he had a huge album called After the Gold Rush. Back then Carol King was really popular with Capistery, was a super popular album. But bands that I loved were more kind of progressive rock.

They were more classical rock. And my favorite band of all time is Yes. And I love Yes, because of the Rick Wapeman keyboards and the melodies. And the music spiritually really speaks to me.

But I also really love Emerson, Lincoln Palmer, because Keith Emerson is a prodigy pianist. And so I got to meet him several years ago before he passed away a couple years back. And I was so heartbroken about that. But bands like Kansas, I love, you know, classical rock where they have the melodies.

It's very, a lot of keyboards. And also Jaffro Tull. I love Jaffro Tull a lot. So out of those four bands, it's going to be my favorite concert.

Which one is it going to be? I'm going to say my favorite concert. I never saw Close to the Edge by Yes. And everybody watching.

If you've never heard that or studied that album, please do. It's an iconic progressive rock song album that Si1 is a 30-minute song called Close to the Edge. And most people that like prog rock or progressive rock think that it will never be duplicated. There will never be another progressive rock record as good as that.

I did not see that concert live, but I saw Yes a number of times. And I'm going to say that my favorite concert was the album Relayer. Relayer. It's a beautiful, beautiful song down there.

When I hear this music, it's just heartbroken. But you know what? It has that rock power in groups that I like to. And they get crazy.

They get way outside the box in. And so I love that. That's kind of my white wheelhouse. Yeah.

Going back to Renaissance rock or Christian, what was the inspiration behind that? Let me do a group that would play these songs. Way back in the day in Seattle, I had a band called Icarus. I was always into mythology and things like that.

My first band was actually Pegasus. And then I had a band called Icarus. And we wanted to be like Yes in Kansas. And we wrote a lot of materials like that.

But we just didn't have skills yet as players or as engineers to report and produce our music well enough. We were trying to keep, come up with a theme of what our music was. So back then, we're talking back in the 80s. This was the late 80s.

We had a warehouse called Orange Recording Studios because we had all orange equipment, orange amps and orange amplifiers and things. And in that warehouse, a metal church has been rehearsed in every year, as I believe it is. I called our music and I came up with this Renaissance rock. So we had these cards made that said Icarus Renaissance rock.

So I've been carrying that with me for years as Greg Fox is. I wrote a lot of material we did back in Icarus back in the day. But when I got off my sailboat and I moved to Venice Beach, California, it was living in a mansion right on the Venice Canal. And it was starting to write a lot of music when the Renaissance rock works.

So this was like 2012, 2013. My buddy Mikey Bobo, I was in my bass player for years when I lived in the city Phoenix. Before I bought my sailboat and sailed around the Bahamas, Mikey had moved to Las Vegas. He said, Greg, you've got to move to Las Vegas.

Everything's happening here. All those rockers from LA are moving out of LA. They're moving to Las Vegas. We got to get showed together.

I said, yeah, yeah, let's do that. So I moved back to Las Vegas. And I don't think I was here even 90 days before my Cyrus asked me to play for the Academy for Musical Awards. So being here in Las Vegas, I've had so many opportunities.

I've played with so many rock stars. It's really opened up things for the Renaissance rock orchestra. But my first inspiration to do it was when I went out to the Sea Transciberian Orchestra. Are you familiar with Transciberian orchestra?

Yeah. Of course, they tour around the country every year for Christmas. And so they've kind of built this genre, this Christmas genre. That is, once again, I would say classical metal.

They're considered to be a metal act. But of course, the production is so huge with fire and shooting to fire and lasers and all the LED walls. It's just remarkable. And the music I love too.

Mikey Bones took me out. He knew the guys that were in Transciberian orchestra and he introduced me to them. And so over a course of several years, I saw the show three times every Christmas. And every time I'd see the show, I was thinking to myself, man, this is amazing.

I love this music. And I could do that. I know I could do that. I know I could write music like that.

So that was my inspiration. And of course, I was always, but also hoping that since they created this genre that didn't exist before, they had opened up this new world. And they're so successful at it that they go out and they play for about 60 days every year. And they make $90 million.

So I was hoping that investors were going to go, wow, there's only one TSO in the world. And this guy, Greg Fox, has built this new little TSO band. Although there is a difference. I'm not trying to be TSO.

I've never wanted to do the Christmas show thing. So even though we've recorded three records and my second record has 27 rock stars on it and nine famous drummers from bands like AC, DC, and Slash and White Snake and Foraner and Hart. It goes on and on and on. But I never wanted to be a Christmas show.

So this fourth record I wrote and recorded this year called Christmas Rocks is our first Christmas rock. And it's the first time we're really getting the wheels on the bus and taking it out onto work. But it was originally Transciberian orchestra that inspired me to start writing it. And it was amazing how the music came to me.

It seems to me some kind of divine, like it was the right time where God had said, you know, it's time for this to happen, for this to happen for you. When I was out on my sailboat, that experience changed me a lot. As a person and as an artist, it may be a lot stronger. It may be missed my musical watch because I couldn't have a piano on sailboat.

But when I got off the sailboat, I immediately moved to Venice, East California. I started taking my career a lot more seriously. Prior to that, you know, when I was up in Seattle, I was hanging on the coke tails of Fame spans, like playing with the guys in Hart's, you know, doing some things with the guys in Queens right here and there. The difference between, he has so in Renaissance rockworks, or his Christmas versus the classical metal, which is what I do it right.

You know, I've gotten to the point that I like to call it melodic rock because people get scared anytime you say metal. They get scared when you say metal. And some people don't understand this symphonic thing. They don't think they're going to like it.

So I started calling it just melodic rock. It has progressive rock influences, classical medical influences, progressive metal influences. But yes, please go listen to it on Spotify and Apple music and check it out. So my new model for Renaissance rock orchestra is take when people ask me what is Renaissance rock orchestra.

I say take Transciberian orchestra, take out the Christmas and add rock stars. Yeah. So that's kind of what my name is what we are. But this year we are going to go out.

We're going to do Christmas. We're playing three shows up in Seattle December 16th. We'll be in Everett at the historic Everett Theater and you can go to the historic Everett Theater website for just tickets there. Please come out and see the show.

We have some very fun things going on. I have recruited the bass player from famous bass players by the name of the audience and to play with us. He's going to do all our Seattle shows. He just came down here with us to do rehearsals.

We did it Studio 88A here in Las Vegas. We're going to do live stream on Saturday at 16. And so it's great to see when again and work with men. Lynn's played with about every band in the Northwest including the iconic bands like Bad Company and Paul Rogers, Paul Rogers, the singer from Bad Company.

So yeah, it's going to be great to have him there. But on let's see, that's Friday night, December 16th. On the 17th, we're going out to the Roxie Gator in Vermaten. So if you're out in that area, the Silverdale area, please come out and see us at the Roxie Gator.

That's going to be a very special night because my very first band that was really successful in the marketplace going out and it was a cover band mostly. And that band was called Ixtus. And I met this lead singer girl and started the band called Ixtus. And she lived at Vermaten.

So I moved out there. We started this band called Ixtus. And we were very successful. We ended up getting signed with Far West Entertainment Agency, Seattle Agency, and playing a lot of rooms in Seattle and touring around the Western United States.

And so it was very fun, very, very, very time. Things were crazy there. That's not, thank God there were no cameras. I mean, like iPhone cameras, right?

But yeah, I think other we know smartphones. But so yeah, so that the Vermaten Theater and the Roxie is going to be very just like because not only do I have so many friends there, and they're making a big deal a lot of it because a lot of people from back in the 80s really remember that band Ixtus. And us coming up out of that band. We ended up getting on the KZOK Best of the Northwest album with a song called Looking Out for Number One.

So that was pretty exciting for us. But I think this could be very cool out. It is the singer from my band Ixtus. And who is my girlfriend back in 80s, Laura Ly, who has an amazing voice.

She lives out in I think Montana now. And she's coming out as she's at all three shows, not only is she going to sing background both of us for us, but she's also going to do some solo spotlight stuff. She's going to do have yourself a merry look with Christmas. We do a Christmas medley at the end that she's going to be doing some singing on.

I think she I'm going to have her sing with John Lennon so on so this is Christmas too. So she'll get spotlighted. So that's going to be very fun in Bremerton. But she'll also be in every on Sunday the 18th we're going to be at the Spanish ballroom in Tacoma.

So go to the Spanish ballroom. I think it's McMenemans.com or just search for the Spanish ballroom. That's actually going to be a mat that show is 5 p.m. So kids are welcome.

This is a family friendly show. We've talked a lot about the important things about Christmas about family and making sure that you don't squander the time together. And I have a very fine to someone that I wrote for this album called the first Christmas day. This is the story of Jesus that that my niece Talia inspired me to write when I was up in the Northwest busy my family for the holidays about I think about four or five years ago now.

I started just playing the piano and she said oh that reminds me of baby Jesus in the major. I said really what's this next actually mind you. Oh that reminds me of the wise man. I said that's awesome.

I can see that. She said oh the section is the star of the sky and the shepherd see the star. So I've been working on this song for several years and a hard time deciding what I was going to do with it. But I decided that I wanted to throw it on the Christmas album and I wrote these lyrics about the story of Christ.

It's called the first Christmas day. And so of course when I wrote it I had to call her up and say well here's my lyrics. What do you think? She went oh my goodness I love it.

It's perfect. That's so smart of her. Yes. Yeah.

What would you say is like the biggest difference besides obviously missing people in the audience of performing like for a live stream versus performing for like an in-person audience. Yes completely different on so many levels. You know you have the biggest stages you have the big lights you have the big PA the big sound. So sound is completely different in the room.

Of course the feeling of the crowd is completely different. It's a lot different to try to learn how to work with camera. That's something that most of us might be on the band have had years and years of live performance experience. But you know not everybody has had a lot of camera work experience.

So it's hard to perform for the camera. Also you know building the show has been difficult or pre-production meetings and rehearsals. You know it's our first live stream and we're at a place that's never done a live stream before. They have a green screen in there.

So I've put together this video that goes behind us during the whole show that topically matches all the songs that we play. So we had production challenges trying to get everything miced well to get it to form live. Well when we do the shoot make sure that we have a good mix but it's going to sound very live. You know it's a challenge and it doesn't sound like really being in a studio.

It certainly doesn't sound like it does live. So you know there's a lot of room ambiance. So it sounds very very live. Very very live.

So that's the one thing I've noticed this. That's so different and different. And of course we had to produce our lighting and so there's been a lot of pre-production involved. We'll see how it turns out.

I expect it's going to be great. Bart Anderson over at Studio 88A has been just a real joy to work with building this. He worked out all the camera cues for all of our songs and pre-programmed them in. I think he pre-programmed over 200 camera cues for the right spots in the song where there's a guitar solo or the singer singing or I have a keyboard part.

Oh my gosh. And yeah I think in the 90s songs it will end up being like well over 2000 camera cues to get used back. So hopefully it comes off very professional. Very fun.

Another interesting thing we're doing not only for the live show but for the live stream on Saturday is we're trying to make it more like just a band playing in a studio. We've all seen that. We all kind of know what that's like. So we've tried to produce it at a higher level as well as we could.

I certainly don't have that transside period in order to budget which is $250,000 a week to pay for lights and planes and smoke. We don't have any of that. That's crazy. But we've tried to produce it in such a way so that we're going to introduce ourselves as people and talk about what's important to us for Christmas.

I ask everybody, I'm going to ask everybody what their famous, their most popular family Christmas tradition is. So we're hoping to let everybody get to know us a little and take a couple of breaks and talk a little bit about Christmas and make. So we're trying to make it a little bit more of a show than just a band in a studio. Yes.

And you bring up a question that I don't have to ask. What is your most popular family tradition for Christmas? Well, my family traditionally always opens up presents on Christmas Eve. I don't know why exactly that's the case because way we thought that was weird.

Like Santa Claus hasn't come yet. But we were more of a church family than a Santa Claus family. You know what I'm saying? So I don't think it concerned us too much to really think about Santa Claus.

That wasn't really the main issue of Christmas for us. So the entire family gets together and of course that's my favorite part. I see my entire family that they haven't seen all year long because of touring or traveling and this and that. So that's a favorite part to see and see in the family.

And of course, over the years, it's really been fun to see how they grow and everybody gets older. So that's great. But about, I don't know how many years ago now, 20 years ago, it could have been 30 years ago. My mom decided we didn't have enough Christmas traditions in our family.

They would need to develop our Christmas traditions. And so she decided that our Christmas tradition was going to be oyster stew. Oh my gosh. And I have come to just love oyster stew and of course it always reminds me of Christmas.

And if I can't be there for Christmas, I try to find some oyster stew somewhere about that road in whatever city I'm in. Or if I'm home here in Vegas or whatever reason can't make it. Because I have a show the next day or whatever it is. Yeah.

I take it myself and I certainly can't do it like mom does it because as you know, there's nothing like mom's home cooking. But you know, it's a great thing because we have a big huge table in the house. And so the whole family comes up for oyster stew and we have cheeses and meats and things that go along with the oyster stew. And there's some people in the family that don't really care for it so much.

But it's kind of become a great thing. I feel a little misboiled. I think I like it better than anybody. There's a few of us who definitely like it.

But I don't know that I could say that I'm the special one in the family. But yeah, I love it. The oyster stew and mom took me down. So that's my favorite tradition.

You should try it. Yeah. So it's cool. You know, I think it kind of comes from England and from Europe, you know, the oyster stew tradition.

It's kind of a Christmas thing. Yeah. So well, and we're English. So it kind of takes me back to that.

I love everything in English and Renaissance and old school type things. So that's what makes me feel like when I have oysters stew for Christmas. The only thing missing is is tiny Tim in the turkey. Yes.

All right. I have one last question for you. You have worked with so many people and been in so many different bands. Is there anything you always ask or always notice when you begin to work with someone new?

You know, it's different always. It's always such a special occasion. Particularly when you're working with somebody that you have admired your whole life and looked up to, you know, as kind of like a fan. Yeah.

And it's hard to take the fan way out sometimes, right? For instance, being a huge yes fan, I never thought in a million years that the drummer from Yes, Alan White would ever record one of my songs and on our second album, which is called In Times of Old, Alan played on a song called Secrets in the Sand. And that was a bucket list moment for me to have somebody in Yes on my record. And on my song.

And so, but you always notice different things when you work with people. Their take on music and their their technical ability and how they like to present themselves in the studio or on their tracks. You know, some people are perfectionists, you know, keep with the quality of perfectionists and when everything very precise, some people are very emotional and very feel. They want the music.

It doesn't matter if it's played perfectly. Does it express what I'm feeling? I'm saying, you know, that part doesn't seem quite right yet. I think it's a lot.

No, but it's got the right vibe. You know, it expresses the feeling that I had. I don't want it to sound like a trauma machine. Yeah.

I want it to be a real person and I want my feelings to come across that way. But of course, it's so interesting also when you get to know somebody personally when you're working with them, when I was doing the Miley Cyrus show, because that was 2009 now. But you know, she was still a kid. This was the pre-twerking.

It was her mom with still her chaperone. And she was obviously a famous, you know, not as famous as she is now, but a little bit of a diva. Very, very sweet. But she was talking about kid things about do this with your finger.

Try and do it. This is not weird. So that was kind of the interesting thing. But yeah, I've had so many bucket list moments working with Dave Amato on the TV show to play role with changes to the very, very famous Ario Speed, what I saw him on TV here in Las Vegas was great.

And he's such an amazing, amazing player to have Simon Wright from ACDC play drums for us on our second record and to work on those parts was brilliant. And I love the collaboration. So I love the collaboration of working with these people. These people working out the guitar parts, working out the bass parts, and it's been very, very fun.

And I'm very blessed to be in the position I'm in where these people here might music and say, yeah, I want to be part of that. That is awesome. So yeah, by the way, make sure to follow us all on YouTube also. I just started YouTube this year.

And I was working at it really, really hard all year long to try to build it up. I think we have 150 or so videos about everybody doing joint watch. And I've been so busy this year working on the Christmas record that I haven't put up as many videos as I have all year. So are you going to come out to the concert?

I'm going to try to. I definitely will watch the live stream. I might try to. I might try to.

It's going to be fun. Just remember when you see the live stream that it's a tough scenario to try to get the best sound. You know, studio is very expensive. So we're going in, we're setting up and we're playing.

I couldn't afford to like leave the gear there. You know, we had rehearsals this last week, but it's studio is very pricey. So we're going to go in, we're going to set up, we're going to play. So we'll see how it turns out.

So it might be a little bit rough here, there it is live. And it's a brand new album. So yeah, oh, I'm sure I'm great. So you patient and understanding.

I think that you'll probably enjoy it. But it's certainly going to have that vibe. There's that vibe of us all together and playing that it's going to be going to be very fine. But it's kind of hard to advertise where to go for a link like this.

We have an advertising, we have an event, right? Link for the paper view, of course, and it's $4.99. So it doesn't, you know, it's not like it's going to cost you a bunch of watches. But yeah, please share it on all your social media, everybody.

And share it with your friends and family. It's going to be very fun. It's going to be a fun event for people that like symphonic rock and they like TSO. If you weren't able to see TSO for any reason this year, this will definitely give you that TSO vibe.

There's no doubt about that. For a small studio, it won't be like TSO in the actual, but it'll be kind of like that. So I'm telling people that to all of these go to our Facebook and Renaissance Rockworks where we have the keyboard barcode. And of course I'll be posting that on Saturday.

That'll be my main post on Saturday. But also you can go to Vegaslifetv.us and the link will be there at Vegaslifetv.us also. Perfect. Oh, you know, one of the fun things about the show that I could tell you about.

First of all, what's the most popular Christmas song ever written? I don't know. All I want for Christmas is you about my right, Terry. Yes, baby.

Absolutely. Yeah, totally. So I did once again, I'm going to use the M word. Don't get scared when I say this.

I get a metal version of it. But it's really not metal. You know, it's rock pop, rock pop. But it's a great, great version.

And of course, our singer, Mark Boles, is internationally acclaimed. He has a brilliant version of the best singers in the world. Mark Boles has sang for Inve Malmsteen, for those of you that aren't familiar with Inge. He's one of the top 10 metal guitar players in the world, probably top three, honestly.

And Burn Magazine, everybody for years has said he's the best. And he's remarkable. He recorded a record called Trilogy. That is arguably his most popular record.

And Mark Boles sang that entire record. So I have that singer and he's just incredible. Mark actually sings with the opera here in Vegas. That's how good of a vocalist Mark is.

And he travels around the world that shows in Japan, South America. But yes. So to have him on this record, Mark's also sang with Ted Nugent, the band, Docking for your mom and dad. He's not there.

Maybe even your grandpa's a grandpa's at this point. Yeah, like Docking back in the 80s. Awesome. All right.

Thank you so, so, so much for doing this interview with me. Well, thank you too, Ellie. It was really a pleasure to meet you. Yeah.

Once again, I'm Emily Sadler here with Greg Fox. Greg Fox is a part of the Renaissance Orchestra that has multiple performances coming up. The most recent being this upcoming Saturday, a live stream performance where you can go on their Facebook or Instagram and purchase tickets. And thank you so much again for joining me.

Thank you so much, Ellie. We'll see you all in Seattle. Yeah. To come up.

Remington. Thank you so much. Thank you, Ellie. Bye.

Bye. This has been Ellie Sadler with 88 9 The Bridge.