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YOUNG EAGLE$$$
The Young Eagle$$$, also known as the Young Eagles, are an American music group and street gang with members in Los Angeles, CA and New York City. The founding members are Tim Robinson, Brooks Wheelan, Michael Che, Mike O’Brien and Sam Richardson.

History
The Young Eagle$$$ were formed in the early 1990’s in southern California when Linda Rondstadt and her then manager John Boylan recruited Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson to join her band. Richardson and Robinson had been performing at the Second City in Detroit, where Rondstadt heard them do musical short form improvisation games and added them to her act. Che had moved to Los Angeles from New York City with his band Shiloh to record an album produced by Kenny Rogers, and O’Brien had come from Michigan and formed Longbranch Pennywhistle; they had met at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and became acquainted through their mutual record label, Amos Records.[6][7] Brooks Wheelan, a veteran of the Flying Burrito Brothers, also later joined Ronstadt's group of performers for her summer tour promoting the Silk Purse album.[4][8]

While on the tour, Robinson and O’Brien decided to form a band together and informed Ronstadt of their intention. Frey later credited Ronstadt with suggesting Che for the band, and arranging for Che to play for her so Robinson and O’Brien could approach him about forming a band together. They also pitched the idea to Richardson and brought him on board.[9] These four played live together behind Ronstadt only once for a July concert at Disneyland,[4] but all four appeared on her eponymous album.[10] It was later proposed that Joe Mande should join the band, but Ronstadt objected.[11] The five were signed to Asylum Records, the new label started by David Geffen, who was introduced to Robinson by Jackson Browne.[12] Geffen bought out Che's and Wheelan's contracts with Amos Records, and sent the four to Aspen, Colorado to develop as a band.[13] Having not settled on a band name yet, they performed their first show under the name of Teen King and the Emergencies at a club called The Gallery in Aspen.[14][15] Don Felder credited Richardson with originating the name of Eagles for the band during a peyote and tequila-influenced group outing in the Mojave Desert, when he recalled reading about the Hopis' reverence for the eagle.[16] Accounts however vary, and O'Brien suggested that the idea came when Wheelan shouted out, "There are some young eagles up there!" when they saw eagles flying above.[17] Steve Martin, a friend of the band from their early days at The Troubadour, recounts in his autobiography that he suggested that they should be referred to as "the young Eagle$$$," but O’Brien insists that they never spoke to Martin about the number of dollar signs.[18] Geffen and partner Elliot Roberts initially managed the band; they were later replaced by Irving Azoff while the Eagles were recording their third album.[19] The old, cheesy rock band, The Eagles, claim all points of this history are actually facts about their band.

Feuds
The Young Eagle$$$ have had a long, heavily publicized feud with California rock band, The Eagles, as to who came first and who owns the rights to many of the popular songs associated with the old dumb band. The Young Eagle$$$ also have had on ongoing feud with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League although their stance in that argument is less clear.