Plan9 Music, Richmond, Virginia
Photo by Emaleigh Franzak
Neil Young showed his support of Vinyl & Independent Record Stores last year, doing some shopping at Plan9 Music, in Richmond, Virginia on 2011 Record Store Day.
Record Store Day is April 21st this year and The Mynah Birds have a special release: "It's My Time" b/w "Go On and Cry". The Mynah Birds were a short-lived mid-'60s group with Neil Young and Rick James. In 1965, they recorded tracks for Motown that
Rick James
Funk legend Rick James, the flashy Motown Records artist was best known for his 1981 hit 'Super Freak'.
While much is known about James' "Super Freak" period, relatively little is known about the period during the 1960's when he formed a band known as the Mynah Birds with Neil Young, Goldie McJohn (later of Steppenwolf) and Bruce Palmer (later of Buffalo Springfield). The name of the band Mynah Birds was apparently a takeoff of the well known folk-rock band The Byrds.
In an interview with Neil Young in MOJO Magazine in 1995, Neil was asked about a 1965 Mynah Birds album being recorded which never was released.
- YOUNG: "Yeah, there are tapes of me and The Mynah Birds also. After I arrived in Toronto I tried to keep my band going and then tried to work with several others. But it just never worked out for me there. I could never get anything going in Toronto, never even got one gig with a band. I just couldn't break into that scene. So I moved instead towards acoustic music and immediately became very introspective and musically-inward. That's the beginning of that whole side of my music."
More on The Super Freak and The Loner: Rick James and Neil Young.
I already knew about this : I'm soooo excited. Hope this isn't a uber-limited release and that I can get my hands on one at a decent price!
ReplyDeleteThe Mynah Birds were named by Toronto entrepreneur Colin Kerr who managed the boys in 1965 and renamed them after his beloved bird "Raja" (a Mynah Bird) and his swingin 60's Yorkville, Toronto Coffee House "The Mynah Bird". Note: A must read... Nicholas Jennings book "Before The Gold Rush: Flashbacks To The Dawn of the Canadian Sound". Cheers, Youngtown, Omemee
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ReplyDeleteNow who's that walking on the sidewalk next to the place the Toronto Coffee House 'The Mynah Bird' used to be, 114 Yorkville Avenue, TO?
ReplyDeleteTake a look at Google Streetview...
Do they are the same tracks released as Archives bd-live?
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