Mitch Ryder At The Whisky
Don Snowden, L.A. Weekly, 9 March 1979
AT HIS FAMOUS ROXY GIG of three-and-a-half years ago, Bruce Springsteen prefaced a superb encore of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels' greatest hits by shouting, "This was a hit on everybody's radio." Don't know about the rest of you but it sure as hell was on mine.
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