As a consequence, Moxy was picked up by the larger Mercury Records label in the US and a national distribution deal was made and the album was reissued in 1976.
He had previously been the lead guitarist for the James Gang and would go on to replace Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple.
Bolin, being nearby, was asked by Moxy's manager Roland Paquin to fill in for Johnson.
Bolin was only in the studio for this album, contrary to popular belief that he appears on Moxy II.
Single (Yorkville Records 1974) Moxy's original catalogue of albums were again available starting in 1994 when Valerie Shearman (Buzz' widow) oversaw the release of all of Moxy's back catalogue of albums on CD through Pacemaker Records, and again in 2003, this time through Unidisc Music Inc.