Winona Ryder adopted "Ryder" as a stage name after seeing a Mitch Ryder album in her father's collection.
Followed by "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and ending with Mitch Ryder's "Jenny Take A Ride" (featuring original Ryder drummer Johnny "Bee" Badanjek).
The Tough Crazy Bastards name would later be used at CZW Redemption on March 10, 2007, when Zandig and Toby Klein teamed up to take on Mitch Ryder and DJ Hyde in a tag team No Rope Barbed Wire Match.
Ryder Cup | Winona Ryder | Mitch Ryder | Mitch Landrieu | Mitch Kapor | Mitch McConnell | Mitch Easter | Mitch Daniels | Mitch Miller | Ryder | Mitch Allan | Hurricane Mitch | Serena Ryder | Mitch Mitchell | Mitch Hedberg | Mitch Joel | Red Ryder | Ryder Hesjedal | Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88's | Mitch Williams (baseball) | Mitch Williams | Mitch Skupien | Mitch Green | Mitch Creek | Guy Ryder | Anna Ryder Richardson | Zack Ryder | T. Ryder Smith | Thomas Ryder | Shaun Ryder |
Amesbury's "Nothin' But a Fool" has been covered by Natalie Cole, and "A Thrill's a Thrill" has been covered by Long John Baldry and by Mitch Ryder with Marianne Faithfull and John Cougar.
This album boasted an impressive array of guest vocalists, ranging from hard rocker Mitch Ryder (on "Bow Wow Wow Wow"), heavy metal shock rocker Ozzy Osbourne ("Shake Your Head"), pop band The Knack's lead vocalist Doug Fieger (on "Betrayal" and "Smile"), Marshall Crenshaw ("The Party Broke Up"), and torch song vocalist/songwriter Mel Tormé (lead vocal on the closing song "Zaz Turned Blue").
"From a Buick 6" has been covered by musicians such as Gary U.S. Bonds, Mitch Ryder, Treat Her Right, Mike Wilhelm, Cryin' D.T. Buffkin & the Bad Breath, Alex Taylor and Johnny Winter.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ann Arbor was home to many influential rock bands, such as the MC5, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Brownsville Station, George Clinton, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Mitch Ryder, and The Rationals.
Josh Alan has recorded and/or played with Sara Hickman, Keb' Mo', Kinky Friedman, Bugs Henderson, Phoebe Legere, and was a perennial opener in Texas for dozens of rock and blues acts, including Johnny Winter, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, War, Huey Lewis and the News, Bad Company, Mitch Ryder, Michael Nesmith and Wanda Jackson.
Throughout his time as an author and editor, Herber played bass guitar for blues and rock bands across the United States, including Detroit's Progressive Blues Band, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Mitch Ryder, The Thunderbirds and opening for The Temptations, John Mayall, The Violent Femmes, and others.
Their second Album Summer of Love (1983) was also their last, they disbanded on 1 July 1984 in the aftermath of a concert in Linnich (with Mitch Ryder).