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This vault release by McCOY is most notable for its historical significance in that the pairing of Paul Samson (SAMSON) and John McCoy (GILLAN), were two of the most important names of all that is hard and heavy in English music of the early eighties. The sound quality of this disc is a bit dodgy, a very good bootleg really, but the performances of the trio of musicians that were McCOY bleeds straight though any fuzziness. Here you can find protean version of what would later become SAMSON staples as well as bits and pieces of later McCOY works done live in a small pub in Reading England. The significance of having the recorded at this venue and in front of a handful of people is that it would only be a few years later that both John Mcoy and Paul Samson would, with different groups, be performing landmark concerts at the Reading festival just down the road in front of a few hundred thousand people. So, British Rock history buffs, here is a bit, 70 minutes and eight pages, of pre New Wave of British Heavy Metal nostalgia for ya everyone else, well, this is a good disc to own if you already have everything else by both McCOY and SAMSON.

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