The Mynah Birds with Rick James & Neil Young is the Weirdest Rock Misadventure
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Before Rick James or Neil Young were famous they played in a band together in Toronto. The Mynah Birds also had future bassist of Buffalo Springfield, Bruce Palmer and future members of Steppenwolf Goldy McJohn and Nick St Nicholas.
Songs (in order of appearance)
Space Gators - Surfin’ Gator
The Squires - Aurora
Audionautix - Ticket to Nowhere Man (Creative Commons)
The Mynah Birds - The Mynah Bird Hop
The Mynah Birds - It’s My Time
The Mynah Birds - Cry If You Want To
Buffalo Springfield - Mr Soul
This video contains footage from the 2015 documentary "Yorkeville" about the famous Toronto neighborhood & music scene during the 1960s.
That’s pretty amazing: Manager steals the bands money, effectively gets them dropped from their label, then dies while all or most of the people he screwed over find success.
karma, its one hell of a drug
That's so Motown to drop them for complaining that their manager robbed them....
Had no idea their manager went all bat sh$t rip off on them...wow.
@@Microtonal_Cats I think they dropped the band because the manager ratted on James for draft dodging. That’s how I interpreted it.
It would have been better if he lived completely destitute watching their stars rise.
So as a 16 year old I snuck out a night to Toronto’s Yorkville village to go and see the Mynah Birds perform. The buzz about this group was huge at my school. Their closing song was Neil pumping out the Stones’ “Satisfaction”. Later that night I went to the Riverboat Cafe to hear Joni Mitchell. I was in luuuvvv with her. Anyway, fun times, I can’t believe it was 56 years ago.
@Tony Osborne that's a helluva story! You're a lucky man to have had those experiences.
you and my mom probably partied together in those days. crazy to see what yorkville has become.
…to have been there.
James Ambrose J. hanging out with Cher & an Allman Bro in our hometown after Neil f’n Young got Mynahs together. Love.
I'm from buffalo I was his drum Tek we did it
@@jerryrainey4658 Did you come up to T.O. often?
Somehow I just can't see Neil Young doing Motown choreographed dance moves in a velvet suit....!
@@youtubeillegallydeletesacc1525 the dance moves aren't hard, it's just the music neil would go on to make is aesthetically the opposite of that
@@youtubeillegallydeletesacc1525 go back and look at those performances, it's not cirque du soleil. with some proper choreography lessons, which those acts did receive, it should be no problem.
What are boy bands?
And they all did it well!!! Amazing sound!!
@@ya9thelatinogringo neil went on to make plenty of rock and roll and r&b music with deep soul influence. not only is the more folk stuff not that much of a departure from r&b he had plenty of projects that were a lot closer to this.
So no. not really.
I've been a Mynah for a Heart Of Gold, but it was gettin' old.
CZcams really ought to set up the emoji system. I would have used the laughing one for this comment.
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OK, that's the only way I'll ever sing that song again
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In a parallel universe the Mynah Byrd's are still touring
Where do we get tickets?
@@richorichards4655 Parallel Ticket Master but our universe has been cut off due to Covid 19
@@yseson_ there is np covid in parallel universe))
@@yseson_ Haha!
@@jamieflowers1493" Everybody's Rockin' "
Superfreaking in the free world.
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"I wanted to be Bob Dylan,
but Mr. James, he wanted to be someone alittle more funky..."
Oh, wow! Nice, obscure reference, and soooo relevant!
Seriously underrated comment.
@@bcubed72
Thanks 👍
Counting Crows reference, nice.
"...he wanted to be Mick Jagger".
@@StevenMW And the text says he was known as "the black Mick Jagger". Kinda strange when you think about how Mick was mostly imitating black artists.
This needs to be made into a movie.
Agreed. IMO, this is the most unlikely pairing in R&R history. Neil Young and Rick James, you literally could not make it up. And the crazier thing is, The Mynah Birds sounded great!
5:40 Neil Young rolls into L.A. in a hearse to begin his long, successful journey into music, fame, & fortune. He rolls into this new life the same vehicle most people leave this Earth in. The irony.
A hearse only gets you from the funeral home to the cemetery, it doesn't take you off of this earth. So far, only spaceships have been able to accomplish leaving this planet.
Rick James is underrated as an artist.
by who?
yea, I think he gets his props... his stuff in the 60s could have been ground breaking... but his popular stuff didn't really push boundaries, but was accessible funk/R&B... I remember covering 4 of his songs... and everyone got on the floor. someone always mentioned our playing RJ...
Are u high with that dumb comment
And overrated as a good guy! Lol 😂
Neil Young said in an interview that he and Rick James were also roommates. He referred to him as “Ricky”, which I just love
On a similar note, Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell were once in a band together.
You had me at Electro-Glitch, which was a wonderful story. Just finished with this video, as I had been watching the list from the bottom up. Excellent channel, well researched and assembled.
They were a Supergroup before they were super
Nice...
An early incarnation of the band had two members, Hudson and Helm, who would end up in the group The Band
Twist ending. Rick Neilson (Cheap Trick) and James Young (Styx), were also in the band.
Tricky Sticks is their new bands name..LOL
Never would I have known this. Thank you, sir!
Honest to goodness I am loving all your videos - they are left of centre and have introduced me to some incredible music. Thanks so much for making them and keep up the great work!
The history of rock and roll could've been very different. Say they stayed together, And Neil went along for the funk conversion. Folk rock of the csny wouldn't have as much sway, letting the Detroit proto punk scene get just a little more traction. Just imagine ever slightly less segregated scene, where funk and punk would've been an integrated movement, resulting on a more influential and organized counterculture in the late '70's. Ronald Reagan might not'tve become president,
It wasn’t a goofy project. Read Young’s last books and you’ll see that Mynah was a just a real band made up of great musicians, cut short only because James got deported,
Rick went to jail for going AWOL
Their druggie no class manager squealed on Rick dodging the draft.
Excellent content, thank you! I hope your channel grows and grows!
Could someone tell me where the "I did not know Neil Young was such a beloved white figure" is from?
That's Patrice O'Neal! Here's the full clip czcams.com/video/v1qKy4cMPUI/video.html
@@Bandsplaining awesome! Thank you
Patrice O'Neal in that same interview has a great bit about how Radiohead's Creep is the anthem for white loserdom 😆😆😆truly funny and the best RIP Patrice
Patrice O’Neal: race hustler extraordinaire.
@@wilsoncruz1952 maybe, but he made it so goddamn funny
Check out Mike Judge’s Tales From the Tour Bus Season 2. They go into all the crazy stories from the Funk music scene and Rick James gets a great overview.
By what standard was it a "misadventure"? Maybe it didn't work out, but it was good while it lasted and led to bigger and better things.
"It's My Time" - The Mynah Birds - Yeah! It was! Thanks, Rick, Neal and the rest of the band!
Would’ve been great if they got big but listening to Rick James and neil young solo is something special
...narrated by Harold Ramis.
Please tell me you are working on the rest of the Neil Young biography movie!! Wow this is great . We want more!!
They were on the same scene as the "Sparrows" when John Kay just joined them, bassist Bruce Palmer was with them first then they "traded" him for Nick St. Nicholas. Art Ayre was the keyboardist in the Sparrows until Goldy McJohn joined, surprised this wasn't touched on more here.
I always found this Rick James Neil Young combination "odd" like the rest of you!
Dude I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the good work!
Very cool. Didn't know about the Steppenwolf connections.
lmao im glad you put the paragraph on screen, i figured if it was a department store in downtown toronto in the 60s it HAD to be eatons
Thanks, Ray Romano.
Well hello Mr. Soul I just dropped by to pick up a reason.
Interesting. Explains that. In a Neil sortta way!
Very well put together documentaries! Keep it up mate I am learning a lot of interesting music history from you, so thanks x
Oh my gosh what an AMAZING channel. I can't wait for more!!
For anyone who hasn’t listened
It’s really fucking good , Rick James was a hell of a songwriter and his voice sounds really good in this
This video made me reflect on the tour Van Halen did where Kool and the Gang opened for them, now that was a nice mix. Hard Rock and Funky Soul.
that droning synth line you use in all these videos makes some of these clips sound so ominous lmao
Your videos are great! Well researched, informative, interesting, and nicely edited! Please keep making more!
Just found your channel, super interesting and informative! Keep making them!!!
This is awesome history and with great film clips and photos. You rock. Subbed!
Holy crap what a story! This just blew my mind!
Thank you for not having some preposterous ad at the end of your video
Lmao I was not expecting to see a clip of Patrice on here. Respect
Mind Blown, this is what the internets should be for. Thank you bandsplain away.
I thought that was Dave Chapelle in the thumbnail, then I saw the title.
Wow.. that's so cool! I learned something new today.
This Channel is Amazing
So when are you doing a video on Kaizers Orchestra? The Norwegian band that rose to fame through using oil barrels as percussives and singing in such a thick accent they could barely be understood in their own language yet sold out shows in Poland, Germany and Denmark where the full packed rooms all sang flawlessly along with them? Check out "Live at Vega", a concert recorded in Denmark. The crowd even took over one of the songs played and sang the whole thing without the vocalist joining.
Wish the dude woulda shut up for a minute so we could hear what they played.....alas
Love for Patrice O'neal!
"You corney "
Fantastic channel keep the content coming!
Wow, how have I not heard of this. Thanks for the video.
so glad I subscribed
Oh I'm sure there are much stranger Rock-N-Roll mishaps and weird style or personnel combinations.A lot of them are kept secure in secrecy by the participants and others just haven't made it to print yet.
This feels incomplete.
Good luck finding any Mynah songs out there.
Dana Moore I have a single they released a few years back. Two tracks, both with Neil. It’s actually the single shown at 3:26
Bassist Bruce Palmer and Neil Young left Toronto after that gig and went to California to join Stills and Buffalo Springfield and the rest is history.
Two early members Helm and Hudson went on to The Band
Rick James holding a Charvel. That's awesome
So many mindblowing connections,
I love a deep dive in up music history! Keep it up :)
What the hell!?! Rick James was a draft dodger who lived in Toronto for 2 years and played in a band with Neil Young!?! 🤯
That's pretty much everyone's reaction when I tell them this factoid 😂.
Judging by that one single they mad together, James, Young and the rest of the Minah Byrds would have been huge stars at Motown!! What a story though, their manager blowing all their money of drugs, Rick James beating up the Motown Record exec? What a mess.
Crazyhorse is one hell of a drug.
Anyone catch the Opie and Anthony clip with Patrice in the beginning? Nice touch. I remember that episode.
best content on CZcams! cheers
It’s really not that strange music is music and I’m fan of the music of both. People just are taught to be closed minded.
It’s always the manager like Jeffry
5:31 WTF happened there?!? Why did u end it just like that?!?
Mick jagger is the white Rick James
Strange bedfellows for sure
Why didn't Jimmy Fallon cover Super Freak as Neil Young. Or a
Wow thanks ..never knew this..what a band.
Wow! I learn something new everyday!
Some people are just made for stardom 🤩✨ And the universal shall conspire to such events⭐😉
I had no idea Rick James was a Buffalo native. That's pretty dope
You got to see "Tales from the Tour Bus" It tells the whole insane story of Rick James.
@@jabom99 is it on CZcams?
@@SoftDrinksOfChoice There are clips, but the whole series is on hulu, amazon,...some others I think.
Good video but when I saw the tittle I was thinking in Inki and The Minah Bird hehe
4:19 - If they were going to Detroit, why would they take the Blue Water Bridge?
Hah! Good eye. In my quest to find 60s public domain Canada bridge crossing footage I had to take some creative liberties.
Bandsplaining - Fair enough. At least you had them crossing from the correct side. lol
I suppose we really don’t know and it is possible that Shelman was already strung out and took a wrong turn in London. OK, that’s obvious BS, but it’s a rock & roll story. :-)
Why does he keep pronouncing it Neil Youn.
Is he supposed to say Neil Youn-GUHH or something? He's prounouncing it just fine
IA VH There’s a G on the end of Young dipshit and it ain’t silent.
The shot at 1:04 is Rochester, not Buffalo
Ray, is that you narrating?
I had no idea
Wow!
Rick James and Neil Young in the same band is like a bad SNL or Chappelle Show skit, only it's true.
5:36 The interviewer looks like David Bowie in the 80's!
It’s so odd how all that came together. Seemed planned
glitch & cursed, but the 7” rsd single of theirs i have is killer. NY4EVR
My mind is fuckin blown right now
Choreography school? NEIL YOUNG? 😜😂
Well fuck me, what a strange story. You could get a decent screenplay out of this story.
How did they get the name Mynah Birds
The club where they played in was the Mynah Bird. Saw them a few times around "65 or so
Nice going much Aloha 👍🏼
Jeez WoW what could've been?
What if....? I'll just leave that there.
Hey man loving your videos, been searching a long time for a channel like this
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Am I the only one who's hearing the narrator call him Neil Yun?
lol there's more Dave in this video than Rick.
So Neil Young was played by John Mulaney irl?
In '66 I was in a Blues Band. We actually did every tune off of 2 Buddy & Junior Wells LP's and lot of Muddy Waters and howling Wolf classics. We had a gig coming up at a club the Mynah Birds were gigging in. I remember my fellow band members laughing and saying after we checked them out. If this is the best they get here will clean up. Actually we did. We had line ups to get in. The mynah birds played a very insipid pop thing with a performance as exciting as watching paint dry!
Sooo weird that a white guy and a black guy who both write and have radically different styles did a thing together. WTF people. This is why we can't have nice things.
Not weird at all Rick wrote about all this in his book. He loved rock n roll and went on to front another rock band called White Cane.
Joni Mitchell Briefly performed with them too.
And Helm and Hudson from The Band
Keep on rockin in the brick house.......this is some kind of reverse mandella effect right?