WOOSTER, Ohio — The year was 1968. Rock and roll group Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels were scoring hit after hit across America, with singles like “Sock It To Me” and “Devil With A Blue Dress On” ...
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels are performing in Ohio this weekend. But instead of playing the Agora Theater or the Beachland Ballroom, the octogenarian Rock and Roller will be playing the ...
The Detroit of the late 60s and early 70s was a musically vibrant city, with diversity in abundance. Motor City was booming, and the likes of Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, The Stooges, MC5, Ted Nugent’s ...
The MC5’s Wayne Kramer also holds a torch for Ryder, an influence on his old outfit’s frontman Rob Tyner. Over 1973 and 1974, Kramer was in the Knock Down Party Band. Ryder was its singer. Bruce ...
Decades’ worth of Detroit rock ’n’ rollers are heading to the Cadieux Cafe for a tribute concert next Friday in honor of guitarist Robert Gillespie, who died on June 14 at age 68. A talented guitarist ...