John Du Cann
[4] Upon departing Atomic Rooster he formed Daemon, later renamed Bullet, then Hard Stuff,[2] after discovering that the previous name had already been used by an American band, releasing two albums on Purple Records, based more heavily on aggressive guitar work.[3] As a result of being signed to the same management company, 1977 saw the pairing of Du Cann with Francis Rossi of the British rock band Status Quo.The session musicians for this album included Rossi on guitar, Andy Bown on keyboards, future Quo drummer Pete Kircher and bassist John McCoy.[3] The album, mostly made up of breakneck-speed garage rock and manic proto-punk, was described in Record Collector magazine at the time as sounding like "Quo mixed with the Sex Pistols".He was later active cataloguing and remastering his personal tape archive and compiling reissues for the label, for which he received full credit and royalties.