Aside from the fact that
Rick Derringer seems to have lost the biggest part of his voice prior to this recording, the album serves as a rocking documentation of
Winter in Japan, where he is revered as a star of the highest magnitude. And why not? After all, it was
Edgar Winter who led that powerhouse rock & roll band called
White Trash in the early '70s. Here, he recreates the sound of that band with "Fly Away" and "Keep Playing That Rock and Roll." And who can forget "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride," both played live here.
Rick Derringer pulls out one from his All American Boy release, "Teenage Love Affair," and walks through his earliest hit with
the McCoys, "Hang On Sloopy." Not the best live work
Edgar Winter has ever commited to magnetic tape, but certainly worth the price of admission.