Angela Davis & The Mighty Chevelles
“My Love (Is So Strong)” b/w instrumental
scum stats: I bet they pressed 500
No, not the Black Panther revolutionary Angela Davis. The other one.
Apparently a grip of dead stock Flaming Arrow titles were uncovered in Detroit recently. Probably in a garage. So titles that for years had been extremely difficult to find are now just FLOODING the marketplace. I’d be surprised if there isn’t a shop or dealer in Detroit that hasn’t gotten their hands on some of this Flaming Arrow stock.
Boo hoo for anyone who tracked down/paid market for these copies before. Woo hoo for folks like me who are interested in upbeat, horn-accented funk as featured here but are not in the market to spend $1000 on it.
I feel like there’s never a shortage of stone cold bangers in this realm, from Detroit, that I am always being turned on to one or two of them a year, slowly assembling a collection that could, theoretically, make for a fun dance night.
The knowledge of a bulk find of something of this caliber has me hoping the fervor with which folks appreciate this record will be matched by the fervor for titles I released on Cass Records like Sagger, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and P.A., making the hundreds of copies of each of those in my basement a gold mine for whoever has to dig my corpse out from underneath them.
Side note: it appears that the album “The Answer” referenced on the top of this label was never released.
Side note: have you seen these liquid-filled 45 adapters for Greenway Records? Pretty cool stuff.
Love it! Horns FTW!
*Washington state. Olympia the city and Capital of WA ha
Finding stuff online is cool, I’ve done a lot of that, but surprises, random quick releases and finds like this is really what drives me to want to collect vinyl. It’s just rare as hell. Especially in my part of the US. As far as I know Third Man is the only company that does stuff like this, keeps us on our toes. K records out of my home state of Olympia who signed Chain and the Gang (they just played at TMR and have a live album with you guys) have some really interesting stuff on their store as well, 10 7” grab bags hand assembled by the founder/beat happening singer/Kurt cobains friend from before Nirvana/selector dub narcotic/etc Calvin Johnson, he just goes through his warehouse, you don’t know if you’ll get stuff from K or a demo from some band he got in 1990 or what, all wrapped up for $20, check it out. My pot of gold would be a ‘Go Team’ 7” or something, but a lot of very real hand painted stuff.
So someone found a load of these in a basement? I’m learning more and more about the record collecting market and when to buy and that, the problem is I’m a listener so I want to for example hear the vault 10 7” with Mark Lanegan on it, no copies for sale anywhere, it’s like they are there when they are there and then gone and then maybe someday way in the future I’ll find one like this and get to hear it. I’m going to buy a liquid filled adapter though lol. Greenway?