{"id":1047,"date":"2007-12-09T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:07:44","slug":"for-all-you-rick-james-fans-out-there-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/for-all-you-rick-james-fans-out-there-th\/","title":{"rendered":"For All You Rick James Fans Out There:  The Mynah Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/TheMynahBirds.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Mod inquired whether any RTHers had actually heard the &#8220;legendary&#8221; trax recorded by <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> and <strong>Rick James<\/strong>, when they were in a band together in the mid-&#8217;60s.  Well, as it turns out, thanks to a generous RTH inter-library loan from townsman cjdawson, I have &#8212; and now you can, too!<\/p>\n<p>According to the liner notes found in <em>The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6:  1966<\/em>,  Neil (who had apparently only just joined the band, and had nothing to do with writing either of these tracks) said in 1984:  &#8220;We went in and recorded five or six nights, and if we needed something, or if they thought we just weren&#8217;t strong enough, a couple of Motown singers would walk right in and they&#8217;d just *Motown us*.   If someone wasn&#8217;t confident or didn&#8217;t have it, they didn&#8217;t say, &#8216;well, let&#8217;s work on this.&#8217;  Some guy would come in who had it&#8230; and an amazing thing happened&#8230; we sounded hot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge for yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Its_My_Time.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Its_My_Time.mp3\"><strong>It&#8217;s My Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Go_On_And_Cry.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Go_On_And_Cry.mp3\"><strong>Go On and Cry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mod inquired whether any RTHers had actually heard the &#8220;legendary&#8221; trax recorded by Neil Young and Rick James, when they were in a band together in the mid-&#8217;60s. Well, as it turns out, thanks to a generous RTH inter-library loan from townsman cjdawson, I have &#8212; and now you can, too! According to the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/for-all-you-rick-james-fans-out-there-th\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}