An ill-fated 1965 trip to Sydney foundered when the club they were to be resident at burned to the ground. Returning to Auckland, they won a resident spot at The Galaxie Ballroom, before moving to Hamilton in 1966 to play The Three Musicians club on Victoria street. Wrote Simon Grigg, "The band's star was fading a little by this stage and they moved from Auckland to Hamilton, which must be one of the oddest career moves of all time." While in Hamilton, The Rayders picked up Dave Miller & The Byrds' bass player Chris Collier and released two singles, including the storming Who-influenced ‘Working Man’ sung by Campbell. Clive Coulson, formerly of The Dark Ages, joined that year, and sang on the single ‘It's All Over Now Baby Blue’. 

But The Rayders split at the end of 1966.