I wouldn't say better either way, but they were a very different group when MickyD joined up...much more polished, & in many ways more successful, but they lost some of that biker edge they had before...I once read that Patrick Simmons said that it was when McDonald sucumbed to record company pressure to go solo was what broke up the band...

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